Would you spend over £900 on drinks ??
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 ??
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More expensive than other cruise lines
Cunard are vey expensive we won’t be sailing with them again it’s a rip off.
Do you really want to pee 400 pounds plus down the toilet
I agree with Jacqui above. There should be a lower priced option for more moderate drinkers.
Why encourage people to get there monies worth and risk people being drunk. Not nice for
anyone.
We wouldn’t buy the drinks package because we buy a bottle of decent wine at dinner , my husband has a Malt whisky & I drink a Cognac, none of which are included in the drinks package. It would be a waste of money. On Princess cruises we buy soft drinks packages , they are only 25% 0f the cost of the P&O package so well worth it.
This package would be ok for my partner but as I don’t drink alcohol and I have been informed that you have to pay for it for everybody in the cabin my partners drinks package would in effect cost almost £80 per day. Therefore not a good proposition as he would not drink that value of drinks per day.
You don’t say how much your dad would drink so is this really worth it? I think it would be really hard to drink this much every day especially if you are off ship. We don’t buy a drinks package as neither of us drinks anyway but even the soft drinks package and coffe package on P&O is not worth it for us this time. We normally get these on other cruise lines especially if it is per cabin and it is worth the saving. Maybe P&O could learn from other cruise lines on this. Don’t know if you Mum has paid for this yet but I would advise her to forget it. It may be a better idea to take a note of how much they both drink on this cruise and use it for future reference to determine if it is a viable purchase for them. I have friends how are going on their first cruise in June and initially they took the drinks package but when they realised how much they would have to drink to make it worth their while, they cancelled it and took the car parking instead. Hope your parents enjoy their cruise and have many more years of happy cruising ahead.