Adventure Diamond Lounge - are drinks being limited to 3?

[The Sunset Glow]

Does anyone know what's going on in the DL on Adventure? Heard rumors (and hopefully that's all it is) that they are swiping your card and limiting you to only 3 drinks in the DL on this ship just like they do at the other bars. Anyone on board who can confirm or deny this?

Edited April 15, 2019 by The Sunset Glow

[Clarea]

While they may be swiping cards, there is currently no drink limit in the DL or SL.

[cruiseguy1016]

I was on Adventure 4 weeks ago. They never swiped my card and I was able to drink as many as I wanted.

[The Sunset Glow]

4 minutes ago, Host Clarea said:

While they may be swiping cards, there is currently no drink limit in the DL or SL.

 

Someone on board right now is saying they are limiting drinks to 3 - I think they may be assuming that because the cards are being swiped. Hope so.

[Biker19]

5 minutes ago, The Sunset Glow said:

 

Someone on board right now is saying they are limiting drinks to 3 - I think they may be assuming that because the cards are being swiped. Hope so.

There have been reports of swiping on some ships, but that is/was probably a data gathering exercise, not to limit to 3 drinks.

[The Sunset Glow]

1 minute ago, Biker19 said:

There have been reports of swiping on some ships, but that is/was probably a data gathering exercise, not to limit to 3 drinks.

 

Thant's what I was thinking. Just checking because she said they were being limited. I think that would cause a huge uproar though😯

[Clarea]

9 minutes ago, The Sunset Glow said:

 

Someone on board right now is saying they are limiting drinks to 3 - I think they may be assuming that because the cards are being swiped. Hope so.

 

Correct, I believe that is an incorrect assumption.

[Biker19]

2 minutes ago, The Sunset Glow said:

 I think that would cause a huge uproar though😯

Only by the few who go in there to pound drink after drink to get around the 3 drink limit - not sure how big that population is.

[The Sunset Glow]

8 minutes ago, Biker19 said:

Only by the few who go in there to pound drink after drink to get around the 3 drink limit - not sure how big that population is.

 

From what I've seen, it's high.

[Merion_Mom]

30 minutes ago, The Sunset Glow said:

 

Someone on board right now is saying they are limiting drinks to 3 - I think they may be assuming that because the cards are being swiped. Hope so.

 

If this is because of what someone wrote on a FB page, I think that it was just poorly worded and doesn't mean this at all.  🙂

 

[Ashland]

1 hour ago, Merion_Mom said:

 

If this is because of what someone wrote on a FB page, I think that it was just poorly worded and doesn't mean this at all.  🙂

 

Hmmm...."Poor wording" seems to be a common thread on how rumor's get started.

[SailingSal]

While we are on the subject of Adventure and Diamond Lounge - are they allowing D+ in the Concierge Lounge or is it too crowded?  Traveling on Adventure in May and just wondering.

[SG65CB]

5 minutes ago, SailingSal said:

While we are on the subject of Adventure and Diamond Lounge - are they allowing D+ in the Concierge Lounge or is it too crowded?  Traveling on Adventure in May and just wondering.

 

Adventure of the Seas now has a Suite Lounge instead of a Concierge Lounge, it's not available for D+.

[XSWABBY]

There is no concierge lounge on Adventure. It is a suite lounge now.

As far as the 3 limit drink in DL, not true (as of now) just off this Saturday.

Was told that the card scanning was for inventory purposes by the beverage manager.

Odd that they didn't scan cards in the casino when getting free drinks due to being a prime member.

 

Edited April 15, 2019 by XSWABBY

[robandana]

Celebrity recently changed to unlimited drinks at any bar for Elite and up during the daily happy hour 5-7.

 

You would think if this was such a costly program this would have never happened.....

 

 

[Beachammo]

7 minutes ago, robandana said:

Celebrity recently changed to unlimited drinks at any bar for Elite and up during the daily happy hour 5-7.

 

You would think if this was such a costly program this would have never happened.....

 

 

 

These drinks are costing Royal/Celebrity less than a dollar each. 5 drinks a day on a 7 night cruise = less than $30 per passenger. Plus in most cases more gratuities for the crew.

 

Royal probably has discovered that you give a passenger a few free drinks before 7/8 pm that it puts them in "the mood" to purchase drinks the rest of the night.

[The Sunset Glow]

1 hour ago, Beachammo said:

 

These drinks are costing Royal/Celebrity less than a dollar each. 5 drinks a day on a 7 night cruise = less than $30 per passenger. Plus in most cases more gratuities for the crew.

 

Royal probably has discovered that you give a passenger a few free drinks before 7/8 pm that it puts them in "the mood" to purchase drinks the rest of the night.

 

Yes, or shop or gamble....

[The Sunset Glow]

20 hours ago, Merion_Mom said:

 

If this is because of what someone wrote on a FB page, I think that it was just poorly worded and doesn't mean this at all.  🙂

 

 

Just got an update on the FB page - Just as we suspected, you are not limited to 3 drinks in the lounge they are just swiping cards for alcoholic drinks. I wonder what they want to know 🤔

[memoak]

34 minutes ago, The Sunset Glow said:

 

Just got an update on the FB page - Just as we suspected, you are not limited to 3 drinks in the lounge they are just swiping cards for alcoholic drinks. I wonder what they want to know 🤔

They are probably concerned about bartenders over-pouring.  They know how many drinks should be made from a bottle.  When they swipe they have a record of how many drinks came from which bottle.  Then they can calculate if the drinks are being poured as they wanted them to be poured

[Ourusualbeach]

38 minutes ago, The Sunset Glow said:

 

Just got an update on the FB page - Just as we suspected, you are not limited to 3 drinks in the lounge they are just swiping cards for alcoholic drinks. I wonder what they want to know 🤔

Since someone else reported that they were not scanning free drinks in the casino for Prime members I would suspect that they have had bottles mysteriously go missing from the DL and they are making sure that what’s being used is actually what’s being served.

[Ourusualbeach]

5 minutes ago, memoak said:

They are probably concerned about bartenders over-pouring.  They know how many drinks should be made from a bottle.  When they swipe they have a record of how many drinks came from which bottle.  Then they can calculate if the drinks are being poured as they wanted them to be poured

 

I’m thinking this goes beyond overpouring.

Edited April 16, 2019 by Ourusualbeach

[robandana]

12 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

 

I’m thinking this goes beyond overpouring.

 

I agree....

[gatour]

12 minutes ago, memoak said:

They are probably concerned about bartenders over-pouring.  They know how many drinks should be made from a bottle.  When they swipe they have a record of how many drinks came from which bottle.  Then they can calculate if the drinks are being poured as they wanted them to be poured

 

7 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said:

 

I’m thinking this goes beyond overpouring.

After working in the restaurant business, this could be very well be a way to check for over pouring.  A half/ounce to one ounce over pour can significantly affect your margins if it is repeatedly done.  While these are "free" drinks, there is a cost center that these drinks are being charged to, so I would think they would want an accurate drink count.

 

Now if they think bottles of liquor or wine are being "walked" out, then it would be a simpler matter of double checking out what is going on.

 

In past days, I worked in a resort.   I would have to fill out a "pull" list and submit it to the powers that be whenever I retrieved anything from "central store".  During the reorder process from suppliers, it would be apparent if things seemed to be out of whack in relation to amount of people staying on property.  They could then go through the receipts and see oh we had a bachelor party that ordered tons of shots or whatever, so that would explain the spike in usage.

 

On the other side if there was no reasonable explanation they would start to track particular employees and see if there was a trend.  

 

[Cruisin4beaches]

Just off AOTS 3/16/19 I saw cards picked up but it was to pay for drinks that were not on the limited free drink menu. The diamond concierge was was very caring and even called my cabin to make sure I was having a good time on the cruise because I only went to lounge twice. I told him I'm o.k. but the lounge hours don't fit my schedule. Plus I had the drink pkg.

 

[Clarea]

2 minutes ago, Cruisin4beaches said:

Just off AOTS 3/16/19 I saw cards picked up but it was to pay for drinks that were not on the limited free drink menu. The diamond concierge was was very caring and even called my cabin to make sure I was having a good time on the cruise because I only went to lounge twice. I told him I'm o.k. but the lounge hours don't fit my schedule. Plus I had the drink pkg.

 

 

Are you saying that they served drinks in the DL that were not on the free drink menu?