Where do you have to pay for liquor and where not

[stuNYC]

I understand the wine is served with dinner. Can you also order mixed drinks or champagne and after dinner drinks in addition to the wine. gratis. Other than parties, do you have to pay for all cocktails in lounges, at shows, by the pool, at lunch, etc. Do they add a tip like on otherlines or is the no tipping policy apply to drinks as well.

[Chat Kat]

Yes, you can order mixed well drinks in the dining room with dinner. Premium drinks are supposed to be charged for, but, may depend on who is serving you. Some cocktail parties only have specialized drinks - like we had rum swizzles on the way to Bermuda and some other rum punch at sailaway on the way to Boston from NYC. It was not open bar. They do not add tip to the charge slip. You can expect to pay for drinks in the showroom, lounges, casino, pool area. Soft drinks and other beverages are yours for the asking all over the ship!

[canadagal]

Also wish to point out that you can order complementary drinks in your cabin if it is during the normal lunch hour and dinner hour..............then they will come free with your room service meal. However, outside of these times you will be charged for them.

[jhp]

Cocktails/wine are not included with lunch on any Radisson ship except for the PG.

[2417rocky]

When we sailed PG in Sept. 2004 cocktails were not comp. at lunch time. I tried it and had to pay. Beer and wine flowed like water, but I don't drink either one. Happy sailing, Rlf

[poolechick]

We were on the PG two weeks ago, and we didn't order cocktails at lunch, but we were served free beer several times.

[Charsie]

Unlike the PG, on the Diamond (Sept 2004) there was a charge for all cocktails/wine/beer etc at lunch. The Captains Cocktail Party, Amex Party, Society Club Party etc. however did give you options (wine, beer, champagne, cocktails). The "Welcome Aboard" party, oddly enough, charged for everything!! A lot of us mistook it for a "Welcome Aboard, have a drink" party. Sadly, it was a get-together where you could pay for drinks, LOL.

 

The fabulous thing is, though, on a port-intensive cruise like we were on (out and about every day in various European ports) we really were only drinking aboard in the late afternoons and evenings, for the most part. And we sat in the dining room wining and dining endlessly, never pressured to leave....even given "go cups" of port or wine or whatever to enjoy up on the top deck afterward. And then we had to try to fit in the cabin supply. We never managed to do it! So while we did buy a few drinks on board, mainly at sail-aways or in the late afternoon, it didn't add up to much in the end.

 

And it was SO worth every cent anyway!

 

Charlene

[JoAnne B]

I actually sailed the Diamond transatlantic and a 4-day add-on in the Caribbean and had a bar bill of $zero! Between the two bottles of champagne, two bottles of Absolute, and two bottles of wine in the cabin plus wine and port with dinner....Oh, yeah I also brought on a bottle of white port for apertif's....and then the cocktail parties, sail-away, and bloody mary party when it rained in St. Kitt's...I don't know when I would have found any opportunity to buy a drink.

 

PS..just to clarify, I did carry some alcohol home! Even I could not finish off all that cabin stock in 13 days!

[canadagal]

Well, then we must have been lucky as we received beer and a manhatten at lunch both in the dining room and in our stateroom onboard the P.G. and the Navigator to Bermuda this past May. We had no charges for drinks on our shipboard account either at the end of the cruise. Very strange but nice!