Alcoholic Beverage Package on Short Cruise

[Phamer55]

Hi everyone...Does HAL offer the alcoholic beverage package on a short cruise? I'm thinking on a pacific coastal cruise of 3 days or less. Would be nice if offered.

[Slarty]

Hi everyone...Does HAL offer the alcoholic beverage package on a short cruise? I'm thinking on a pacific coastal cruise of 3 days or less. Would be nice if offered.

 

Don't bother travelling on a Holland America ship if you're planning to be/get ripped in a crowd. You'll be alone during the wee hours; at happy hour you'll meet loads of similar spirits But by 22:00, it'll be like a ghost ship. They used to have a late-night disco called "Northern Lights" on the ships (adjacent to the casino). Been on dozens of cruises, and it was always empty, except once, where there was 2 young women flirting out in a booth (they invited me to join them, but I'd just blown my daily wad in the casino). Holland America ships are charter members of "the passenger line that fun forgot". 3/4-day Carnival cruises are notorious 24-hour booze-ups along with lots of marital infidelities, 3-somes, 4-somes (N-somes in the jacuzzi), bar fights, cat fights -- with loads of hair pulling, public vomiting, etc. It's a bit of a spectacle, especially in rough seas.

 

Cost-wise, certainly, buy a booze package if you can. If not, the next best deal is in-room liquor bottle service. The worst is the ad-hoc a la carte drink service at a bar.

[OVgirl]

Don't bother travelling on a Holland America ship if you're planning to be/get ripped in a crowd. You'll be alone during the wee hours; at happy hour you'll meet loads of similar spirits But by 22:00, it'll be like a ghost ship. They used to have a late-night disco called "Northern Lights" on the ships (adjacent to the casino). Been on dozens of cruises, and it was always empty, except once, where there was 2 young women flirting out in a booth (they invited me to join them, but I'd just blown my daily wad in the casino). Holland America ships are charter members of "the passenger line that fun forgot". 3/4-day Carnival cruises are notorious 24-hour booze-ups along with lots of marital infidelities, 3-somes, 4-somes (N-somes in the jacuzzi), bar fights, cat fights -- with loads of hair pulling, public vomiting, etc. It's a bit of a spectacle, especially in rough seas.

 

Cost-wise, certainly, buy a booze package if you can. If not, the next best deal is in-room liquor bottle service. The worst is the ad-hoc a la carte drink service at a bar.

 

Huh?

[OceanTraveller4ever]

HAL offers drink packages on all cruises. It is about 55 bucks a day. 15 drinks per day.

An ordinary (weak) drink is 9 bucks, then a package is worth it.

[OVgirl]

HAL offers drink packages on all cruises. It is about 55 bucks a day. 15 drinks per day.

An ordinary (weak) drink is 9 bucks, then a package is worth it.

 

I seem to remember (could be wrong) that someone on a short coastal said that a beverage package was not offered. Hopefully someone with first hand experience will post here too.