Royal Caribbean is beginning to raise the prices of its popular unlimited alcohol packages on select sailings.
We ran spot checks across a variety of Royal Caribbean sailings in 2016 and 2017 and found in more than half the cases, the drink package pricing has changed as follows:
- Select drink package: $46.02 per day (old price $42)
- Premium drink package: $57.82 per day (old price $57)
- Ultimate drink package: $69.62 per day (old price $67)
The increase has also affected the non-alcolohic drink packages. Most notably, there is now no longer a change in price between children and adults for the Royal Refreshment package.
- Royal Replenish package: $22.42 per day (old price $22)
- Royal Refreshment package
- Adults: $9.44 per day (old price $8)
- Children: $9.44 per day (old price $5.50)
Interestingly enough, the Evian bottled water package went down in price
- Evian bottled water package: $46.02 (old price $47)
The new pricing does still include the service charge.
The change in pricing is not reflective of all Royal Caribbean sailings we have seen. Some sailings still reflect the old pricing, and it is unclear as of yet if or when this new pricing will spread fleetwide.
Royal Caribbean has not increased the base price of its drink packages since they debuted in 2012, although they have played with service charge pricing, as well as increasing the service charge to 18%.
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