Doing the math on a drink package for diamond plus member

[Auntiemomo]

4 minutes ago, Knee Deep said:

Buy a couple of koozies on ebay. That will help keep your Fosters cold.

I will for next time, but I've never seen Fosters on any of the Royal sailings I've been on.  I normally carry one for most bottles/cans, but not the "oil can."  😉

[John&LaLa]

2 hours ago, Scotty G said:

No

 

We rarely had a problem, just keep track on the app

[John&LaLa]

2 hours ago, grandgeezer said:

I buy it on sale around the major holidays, and get the 12 oz cans for about $.54, tax included. As far as bars, we go to a local sports bar and get a 16 oz. tap for $3 plus tip. This is during happy hour. 

 

Life's to shory for crappy beer

[John&LaLa]

32 minutes ago, Auntiemomo said:

On Harmony, Red Stripe was just about the only 16oz beer you could get.  Fosters was a 25oz pop top can.  Could only get it at the Solarium Bar.     We were up there a day or two before disembarking from the TA, and the bartenders were told by the F&B Manager not to sell any more Foster.

 

It was pretty much the best deal for your voucher if you drink beer, but half way through it would start to get warm in the heat and humidity unless you drank very fast.  I got a bucket of ice/water to set it in to keep it cold until I finished it.  

 

We were on Harmony post TA, and got Fosters at pool bar. 

 

You drink to slow🤣🤣

 

Oh, and you can get 20oz drafts with your vouchers as well. 😁

[restasured]

On 12/11/2021 at 1:10 PM, smplybcause said:

So let's say the drink package is $60. If you drink 5 $13 drinks the drink package is cheaper. So with your free D+ drinks you'd need to drink 10 $13 drinks a day for it to make sense. Because if you only buy 4 on top of your free 5 it's $52 so cheaper to pay as you go. 

And if you add the 18% gratuity for the drink package, of $60 the drink package is actually $72 a day, no matter how many drinks you consume.  A shore day may cut your drinks back to 2 or 3 and it costs you $72 a day for those 2 or 3 drinks.

[smplybcause]

2 hours ago, restasured said:

And if you add the 18% gratuity for the drink package, of $60 the drink package is actually $72 a day, no matter how many drinks you consume.  A shore day may cut your drinks back to 2 or 3 and it costs you $72 a day for those 2 or 3 drinks.

 

People get caught up in the gratuity portion, but it's a moot point because both the package and individual drinks have it. It only makes a difference if you have enough drinks to make the drink package worth it, and at that point the cost per drink has made the decision so the lower per drink gratuity with the drink package is negligible and no effect on the decision making. 

[Scotty G]

16 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

We rarely had a problem, just keep track on the app

My original point was that all her card alcohol purchases never showed up on her portion of the account but on mine. Similarly some bar staff only asked for our cabin number since they knew our C&A status. My observation is that they are allowing the total of our allowance vs  each individuals allowance for the day. I am not concerned about tracking this as it was never a problem. 

[George C]

3 hours ago, Scotty G said:

My original point was that all her card alcohol purchases never showed up on her portion of the account but on mine. Similarly some bar staff only asked for our cabin number since they knew our C&A status. My observation is that they are allowing the total of our allowance vs  each individuals allowance for the day. I am not concerned about tracking this as it was never a problem. 

Same here all drinks were listed for me , never exceeded the 5 drink limit.