My Mum and Dad are due to cruise for the first time in April. They are doing a 12-night sailing around Spain and the Canaries with P&O on board the Ventura. If you didn’t already know P&O have now launched a drinks package, So my mum calls me a few days ago asking is it worth taking ??? This is a hard question I told her, it really depends on how much you would drink? So we decided to take a look at the package and weigh up the options.
The package is called the Ultimate Drinks Package.
What is Included
• The Ultimate drinks package is £39.95 per person, per day and includes an incredible array of beers, spirits, cocktails, liqueurs and wines by the glass retailing up to £6.95 per serving as listed on our menus, Spirits will be served in single measures only with a draught soda or long life juice mixer.
• The package includes bottled water (500ml only), draught soft drinks, long life juices, primo Costa coffees, teas, hot chocolates, nonalcoholic cocktails.
We then took a look at the cost of drinks to buy individually.
| Regular Pepsi | £1.95 |
| Pint of Peroni | £4.75 |
| Pint of John Smith | £4.10 |
| Sauvignon Blanc | £4.75 a glass |
| Merlot | £4.50 a glass |
| Prosecco | £4.95 a glass |
| Prosecco | £20.50 a bottle |
| Tattinger Champagne | £7.85 a glass |
| Tattinger Champagne | £39.95 a bottle |
| Mojito | £6.15 |
| Single measure of spirit plus mixer | £4.55 |
| A spirit on its own | £3.25 |
| G&T | £4.60 |
So Say Mum was off the ship and returned in the late afternoon, she may have a Mojito priced at £6.15 before she heads back to the cabin. Then onto dinner, she would probably have 2 glasses of wine at £4.75 per glass. Evening time she thinks she could probably have around 4 vodkas priced at £4.55 each, so this gives us a total of £33.85 – She doesn’t just drink Alcohol of course! so say we add on a Costa coffee and 2 soft drinks and 2 bottles of water, this would probably take us to approx £45.
So really yes if she was drinking all of the above on a daily basis it would be worth it, they also have a few sea days so will naturally drink more. In the end she decided she will go ahead with the package which will cost her £479.40 per person !!
If you dont drink alcohol you can go for the Non-Alcoholic drinks package.
What is Included
• The Non-alcoholic drinks package is £19.95 per person, per day and includes an unlimited array of non-alcoholic drinks
• The package includes bottled water (500ml only), draught soft drinks, long life juices, primo Costa coffees, teas, hot chocolates, nonalcoholic cocktails.
• In addition, the non-alcoholic drinks package provides a 20% discount on the following excluded items: large bottles of water (750ml/1.5l),
canned or bottled premium soft drinks or juices and smoothies, large/medio sized coffee and hot chocolate.
Will you be purchasing the drinks package on your next P&O cruise ??