Celebrity Moving Down Market??

[wallie5446]

The genius of marketing cruises with drink packages is that it negates one of the more expensive perks given to Elites and Elite Plus. The daily free cocktail hour! It has now become somewhat irrelevant to those of us with Classic or Premium drink packages. We used to attend the daily cocktail parties and take advantage of our free drinks. But now, we seldom bother going to those cocktail parties since we have either of the drink packages. And must admit that being at the packed Martini Bar in late afternoon/early evening is somewhat more fun then the oft sedate Elite cocktail hours. On our last couple of cruises, because of so many Elites, we received our free drink coupons. But with the drink package, they remain unused.

 

So rather then taking a benefit away from Elites, Celebrity has found a brilliant solution to mitigate the problem of too many Elites.

 

Hank

 

Same here Hank. Last Nov on the Equinox there were over 500 Capt Club members on board, and were told by the Hostess that 300 were Elite or above. We only went to the HH 1 time, there were less than 25 people there. The limited drink choices sent us to the Martini & GastroBar real quick.

EW

[grandgeezer]

The genius of marketing cruises with drink packages is that it negates one of the more expensive perks given to Elites and Elite Plus. The daily free cocktail hour! It has now become somewhat irrelevant to those of us with Classic or Premium drink packages. We used to attend the daily cocktail parties and take advantage of our free drinks. But now, we seldom bother going to those cocktail parties since we have either of the drink packages. And must admit that being at the packed Martini Bar in late afternoon/early evening is somewhat more fun then the oft sedate Elite cocktail hours. On our last couple of cruises, because of so many Elites, we received our free drink coupons. But with the drink package, they remain unused.

 

So rather then taking a benefit away from Elites, Celebrity has found a brilliant solution to mitigate the problem of too many Elites.

 

Hank

 

The genius of the plan is they have more people paying for the drinks rather than having free ones. Everyone knows the packages aren't free. We are not drink snobs so we like the choices during the happy hour. The last cruise, even though we had the drink package, we still went to Skye for the free drinks. It's nice to be around the other common people rather than going to the Martini Bar or other ones.

[Gracie115]

It isn't unusual to have a large number of Elite and Elite Plus passengers on TA's. Usually, if there is a large number, they will issue vouchers, that can be used in other drink venues. This opens up the Sky Lounge and other areas as well.

 

I know this....as I said they were using their 3 coupons(vouchers) each night....they were honored in most lounges on the ship.....but the Ensemble Lounge got the brunt of the traffic....

[Gracie115]

The genius of marketing cruises with drink packages is that it negates one of the more expensive perks given to Elites and Elite Plus. The daily free cocktail hour! It has now become somewhat irrelevant to those of us with Classic or Premium drink packages. We used to attend the daily cocktail parties and take advantage of our free drinks. But now, we seldom bother going to those cocktail parties since we have either of the drink packages. And must admit that being at the packed Martini Bar in late afternoon/early evening is somewhat more fun then the oft sedate Elite cocktail hours. On our last couple of cruises, because of so many Elites, we received our free drink coupons. But with the drink package, they remain unused.

 

So rather then taking a benefit away from Elites, Celebrity has found a brilliant solution to mitigate the problem of too many Elites.

 

Hank

 

Same here Hank. Last Nov on the Equinox there were over 500 Capt Club members on board, and were told by the Hostess that 300 were Elite or above. We only went to the HH 1 time, there were less than 25 people there. The limited drink choices sent us to the Martini & GastroBar real quick.

EW

 

True enough...but not for TA or other repositioning cruises when those beverage packages are NOT included in the prices...