Does Drinks on Us in Casino Count towards 15 drinks/day for Cheers?

[land64shark]

So, if I have a drink of two while gambling, are they counted in my daily Cheers total?

[ray98]

Yes.

[land64shark]

So "Drinks on Us" counts against Cheers?

[mz-s]

You will only be served 15 alcoholic beverages per day, no matter how they're paid for.

[land64shark]

What if they were a couple of Cokes?

[kwokpot]

1 hour ago, land64shark said:

What if they were a couple of Cokes?

The 15 drink limit is only for alcoholic beverages. 

[land64shark]

Great! Thanks.

[knagl]

4 hours ago, land64shark said:

What if they were a couple of Cokes?

[skridge]

12 hours ago, land64shark said:

So, if I have a drink of two while gambling, are they counted in my daily Cheers total?

I was in the Casino and had drinks on us, but I was past my 15 drinks so the waitress said I couldn't get a drink.  It was probably for the best.

[dbrucern]

12 hours ago, land64shark said:

So, if I have a drink of two while gambling, are they counted in my daily Cheers total?

Correct regardless of how you obtain the alcoholic drinks either thru cheers, DOU or paying it is only 15 alcoholic drinks and about the 10th drink if you look on your receipt at the bottom you will see your count

[F27TW]

Another brilliant reason to smuggle booze on!   (

[CruisinCrow]

You can't even pay for a drink after 15?  Is that something new or has it always been that way?

[mz-s]

9 minutes ago, CruisinCrow said:

You can't even pay for a drink after 15?  Is that something new or has it always been that way?

 

Correct, you cannot be served more than 15 alcoholic drinks per day no matter how they're paid for. Fairly new, it's to prevent people getting so drunk they get belligerent or do silly things like fall off the edge of the ship. I am not sure exactly when this policy came into effect, maybe around 2019.

 

If you really want more than 15 alcoholic drinks, get your cruise partner to buy them for you, bring on a bottle of wine, or buy a bottle for the room.

[Cruise, J.D.]

Just curious, how do they count a bottle of wine? I thought in the past it didn't count towards a drink total.

[1kaper]

8 minutes ago, Cruise, J.D. said:

Just curious, how do they count a bottle of wine? I thought in the past it didn't count towards a drink total.

 

I don't think they do.  Same with ordering a bottle of liquor to your room.  So you can end up getting more than 15 but $$$

[CruisinCrow]

2 hours ago, mz-s said:

 

Correct, you cannot be served more than 15 alcoholic drinks per day no matter how they're paid for. Fairly new, it's to prevent people getting so drunk they get belligerent or do silly things like fall off the edge of the ship. I am not sure exactly when this policy came into effect, maybe around 2019.

 

If you really want more than 15 alcoholic drinks, get your cruise partner to buy them for you, bring on a bottle of wine, or buy a bottle for the room.

 

Thanks.  There's no way I could drink anything close to 15 drinks in a day. 🙂  I thought I remembered people talking about paying for drinks after hitting the limit, but it's been a few years since we've been on Carnival. 

[d12j28]

4 minutes ago, CruisinCrow said:

 

Thanks.  There's no way I could drink anything close to 15 drinks in a day. 🙂  I thought I remembered people talking about paying for drinks after hitting the limit, but it's been a few years since we've been on Carnival. 

People have paid for drinks before they hit the limit, but once you hit 15 you are done buying. 

[CruisinCrow]

23 minutes ago, d12j28 said:

People have paid for drinks before they hit the limit, but once you hit 15 you are done buying. 

 

So you really could have more than 15 drinks a day?  The paid drinks don't count towards the 15 if you pay for them up front?  Very strange policy.

[Cruise, J.D.]

15 minutes ago, CruisinCrow said:

 

So you really could have more than 15 drinks a day?  The paid drinks don't count towards the 15 if you pay for them up front?  Very strange policy.

 

That was the old system. You could avoid the 15 drink limit of Cheers by paying out-of-pocket. As far as I know, there was no limit on purchased rounds (other than being cutoff due to behavior). People would do this for themselves, but also to buy rounds for others.

 

Which leads me to the question: How do they handle buying a round for friends under the current system?

Edited June 2, 2022 by Cruise, J.D.

[mz-s]

39 minutes ago, Cruise, J.D. said:

 

That was the old system. You could avoid the 15 drink limit of Cheers by paying out-of-pocket. As far as I know, there was no limit on purchased rounds (other than being cutoff due to behavior). People would do this for themselves, but also to buy rounds for others.

 

Which leads me to the question: How do they handle buying a round for friends under the current system?

 

I don't think they handle it at all. It's 15 drinks under a specific folio number and then that folio number is cut off. Life's hard get a helmet I guess.

[Eli_6]

Carnival now limits it to 15 drinks a day period so it really doesn't matter if you have DOU in the casino if you have Cheers. I think the only way to get around this is to buy liquor/wine ahead of time from the Fun Shops. 

 

John Heald just posted essentially making fun of someone complaining about the 15 days total limit...and a bunch of people were clutching their pearls at the idea of drinking 15 drinks in a day and suggesting the people who do this must be alcoholics. However, if you are a 250 lbs man, your BAC will be 0.0 within less than an hour of having a serving of alcohol...so, theoretically, a large man can drink all day long and so long as his drinks are spaced sufficiently apart, never even be legally intoxicated.

[mz-s]

3 minutes ago, Eli_6 said:

Carnival now limits it to 15 drinks a day period so it really doesn't matter if you have DOU in the casino if you have Cheers. I think the only way to get around this is to buy liquor/wine ahead of time from the Fun Shops. 

 

John Heald just posted essentially making fun of someone complaining about the 15 days total limit...and a bunch of people were clutching their pearls at the idea of drinking 15 drinks in a day and suggesting the people who do this must be alcoholics. However, if you are a 250 lbs man, your BAC will be 0.0 within less than an hour of having a serving of alcohol...so, theoretically, a large man can drink all day long and so long as his drinks are spaced sufficiently apart, never even be legally intoxicated.

 

I agree and get your point. But I acknowledge that Carnival has to set a limit somewhere to limit people being over-served and getting belligerent or passing out on the Promenade. And the only way to make it fair is to make it the same for everyone. Otherwise people will just go to another bartender and they'll let it slide in exchange for a tip. 15 drinks a day is fair because it is the same for everyone on every ship.

[d12j28]

17 hours ago, mz-s said:

 

I don't think they handle it at all. It's 15 drinks under a specific folio number and then that folio number is cut off. Life's hard get a helmet I guess.

All I can say is that this was not true on the Freedom 2 months ago. Bought enough buckets of beer one day (6 of us sitting by pool) that I would of been cut off quite early. None of the buckets counted against my Cheers (even though Carnival states 1 would count). Did hit my 15 limit later that night in the casino though. From what I have always seen the limit is 15 individual drinks. A bottle of wine, bucket of beer, etc have never counted against my Cheers. YMMV

[Pyxie]

16 minutes ago, d12j28 said:

All I can say is that this was not true on the Freedom 2 months ago. Bought enough buckets of beer one day (6 of us sitting by pool) that I would of been cut off quite early. None of the buckets counted against my Cheers (even though Carnival states 1 would count). Did hit my 15 limit later that night in the casino though. From what I have always seen the limit is 15 individual drinks. A bottle of wine, bucket of beer, etc have never counted against my Cheers. YMMV

 

I think buying buckets of beer is a loophole that kind of gets you around the 15 limit. But otherwise, it's 15 for everyone regardless of them being included or paid for.

[mz-s]

1 hour ago, d12j28 said:

All I can say is that this was not true on the Freedom 2 months ago. Bought enough buckets of beer one day (6 of us sitting by pool) that I would of been cut off quite early. None of the buckets counted against my Cheers (even though Carnival states 1 would count). Did hit my 15 limit later that night in the casino though. From what I have always seen the limit is 15 individual drinks. A bottle of wine, bucket of beer, etc have never counted against my Cheers. YMMV

 

Those are not single serve drinks. They have never counted. The point is though if you don't have Cheers or DOU and you buy 4 drinks at Alchemy, do those 4 count against your 15.