Drink Packages

[anna f]

This will be my first cruise with HAL (Noordam August 7th)and I would like to know if this company offers drink packages for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks

Anyone have experience with this?

Thanks / Anna

[Krazy Kruizers]

HAL has:

Soda card -- $20.70 for 20 glasses of soda -- this is about 1/2 can of soda.

Cocktail card - $64.69 for 10 cocktails -- made with house alcohol. Premium brands -- there will be an extra charge.

House wine card -- 10 glasses for $41.40

House wine card -- 20 glasses for $77.63

Coffee card -- 10 speciality coffees at the Exploration's Cafe.

All prices above include the 15% gratuity.

[hartjanet]

We love the cards. You can use them anywhere and like prepaying, not having to sign, etc. We've heard of others having restriction on the coctail card, but we just order off the coctail menu and have never been told that what we've ordered is more "premium" so we can't get it. If you are a wine person, you may not be happy with the house wines, but they were just fine for us and we also liked not having to choose a brand, etc. In short, you may or may not save much money, but they make things very easy. Just be careful to not lose them as it's just like losing cash.

[Krazy Kruizers]

We also like the wine cards -- the house wines are fine for us.

 

Soda cards -- we don't drink sodas.

 

Cocoktail card -- we just like our drinks on the rocks -- nothing special -- so it is not good for us.

 

Coffee card -- DH gets all the special coffees he wants in the Neptune Lounge.