P&O drink package poor for wine drinkers

[Thejuggler]

P&Os drinks package  is severely flawed as the value can't be demonstrated.

 

They work on Celebrity etc as on board drinks are priced high to make packages look good value.

[jeanlyon]

That sounds even worse.  PAYG is definitely for us.  You might be ill for a few days and not drinking.

[terrierjohn]

4 hours ago, wowzz said:

Didn't realise that Somalia grew grapes! 

 

58 minutes ago, jeanlyon said:

Neither did I 😂

It's probably a very dry sunburnt red!

[AndyMichelle]

We thought we drunk a lot (for us) this cruise, cocktails during the day, posh coffees, bottle of wine every night with dinner and drinks before, as well as at least a couple of night caps and after discount our bar bill was less than £400. 

Certainly wouldn't be value for us but I'm sure others would make it work. 

Andy 

 

[wowzz]

32 minutes ago, AndyMichelle said:

We thought we drunk a lot (for us) this cruise, cocktails during the day, posh coffees, bottle of wine every night with dinner and drinks before, as well as at least a couple of night caps and after discount our bar bill was less than £400. 

Certainly wouldn't be value for us but I'm sure others would make it work. 

Andy 

 

Lightweights!

[AndyMichelle]

12 minutes ago, wowzz said:

Lightweights!

Oh definitely, we never claim to be big drinkers, but we had plenty for us. 

Andy 

[AmandaLMcL]

....and BOTH people in a cabin have to purchase the same package. As hubby is tee total, this doesn't work for me either. 

[Vampiress88]

On 11/14/2019 at 2:33 PM, terrierjohn said:

Nowhere near as environmentally friendly as refilling used ones and popping them in the fridge overnight either.

Where you refill them on the ship?

[wowzz]

11 minutes ago, Vampiress88 said:

Where you refill them on the ship?

Just refill them from the tap in your bathroom.

[Vampiress88]

18 minutes ago, wowzz said:

Just refill them from the tap in your bathroom.

I thought it tasted weird when we were on azura in May. Resorted to buying a bottle on board. We’d used all the ones we took. 

[brian1]

1 hour ago, Vampiress88 said:

I thought it tasted weird when we were on azura in May. Resorted to buying a bottle on board. We’d used all the ones we took. 

It does taste better after being in the fridge.At least we found that.

[Vampiress88]

49 minutes ago, brian1 said:

It does taste better after being in the fridge.At least we found that.

will try putting it in the fridge then. 
 

we did take bottles with us but it was mostly for the kids. The water I had in the bars etc didn’t taste bad. 

[Stokie33]

We didn't like the tap water on board but found we could buy a 1.5L bottle for cheaper than 2x500ml ones and just fill the complementary 500ml ones up. 

[wowzz]

33 minutes ago, Stokie33 said:

We didn't like the tap water on board but found we could buy a 1.5L bottle for cheaper than 2x500ml ones and just fill the complementary 500ml ones up. 

Still don't see the  need to buy water at all.

[newbie cruissy]

Of course if you get the drinks package that started off the thread you can have as much bottled water as you like ;) 

[Vampiress88]

3 minutes ago, newbie cruissy said:

Of course if you get the drinks package that started off the thread you can have as much bottled water as you like 😉

of course 

 

but I still can’t see the benefits of these drinks packages for I would guess 80% or more of people. 
 

I wonder if people get back and total up how much they spent and say oh yeah the drinks package would have saved us £X or oh no that drinks package cost us £X more. 
 

I’d love to know the stats. 

[Stokie33]

I definitely came out on top and never struggled to find something different to drink, I think I worked my way through the cocktail menu a few times. We never struggled to find wine to drink with our meals and found our glasses were kept topped up, my hubby possibly came in just below as he was mostly drinking pints but it levelled out with my cocktails, plus enjoyed a few costa coffee's and also the iced things they do (sorry don't remember what they were called) so with a few bottled waters per day we were quids in. On the other side we've done a couple of 2 nighters and our bar bill was about £60 as managed with the free coffee. So IMHO I definitely drank more as I knew I had the package than I would of done if I hadn't purchased it. 

[AndyMichelle]

1 hour ago, Stokie33 said:

I definitely came out on top and never struggled to find something different to drink, I think I worked my way through the cocktail menu a few times. We never struggled to find wine to drink with our meals and found our glasses were kept topped up, my hubby possibly came in just below as he was mostly drinking pints but it levelled out with my cocktails, plus enjoyed a few costa coffee's and also the iced things they do (sorry don't remember what they were called) so with a few bottled waters per day we were quids in. On the other side we've done a couple of 2 nighters and our bar bill was about £60 as managed with the free coffee. So IMHO I definitely drank more as I knew I had the package than I would of done if I hadn't purchased it. 

We have proved that we don't need it, but if we had purchased it, I would definitely make it work, pina colada with breakfast etc... 

Andy 

[AndyMichelle]

2 hours ago, Stokie33 said:

We didn't like the tap water on board but found we could buy a 1.5L bottle for cheaper than 2x500ml ones and just fill the complementary 500ml ones up. 

We do the same, but buy the 6 pack of the large bottles for about a tenner I think, then use our little squirty squash thing, lovely. 

I was staring at the squash for ages as it said 'concentrate'.... 😊

Andy