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Our fridge actually did get cold enough. It took a few days to get there though. Definitely not ice cold by any means. If I was craving a beer and I was in for the night it was nice having a few right there in the room.

I just got off the Liberty and had the drink package for the first time. I was able to take unopened beer back to the room. One at a time of course but my bartender didn't have a problem with it at all. I was tipping so that may have helped. Had a nice collection in the fridge. I found that the pub (Hoof and Claw on the Liberty) had the best service out of all the bars. That became my home base because it was never crowded and the service was just so darned good.

On the Liberty the coffee being served at Cafe Promenade was - Starbucks! Not sure what brand the free coffee was.

HERE is the Liberty MDR menus from July.

Me and the family will be on the Liberty on the 11th as well. Man Sunday needs to hurry up and get here!

We will be on Liberty on the 11th as well! 1 more week to go!

Watch out for the Black Friday sale in November! Some of the best deals on all of the drink packages happen on that day.

The Yeti cup idea would most likely work. Just go to a different bar when you order that second drink. There is no safeguard in their ordering system that would prevent you from doing it (like a wait time).

They are confusing Carnival with Royal. Carnival has a 15 minute wait between drinks - Royal has no minimum wait time. However, you cannot order 2 drinks at the same time. You'll have to order one, drink it, and order the next one right after. I think they are a little more lenient when asking for a side of water with your alcohol though.

It's being offered for $79 on my next sailing. Liberty of the Seas (August 11) 7 day cruise.

I'm pretty sure it's offered every evening and there is a very small time window where they serve it, like from 6:00 to 7:30 or something close to that. If I find the exact times I'll update my post.

Izumi Sushi is also available for free in the Windjammer buffet at the Jade Cafe section during dinner. You can spot it HERE at the 1 minute mark (and again at the 4:22 mark). I think it is only available for a limited time during dinner and is most likely the same pre-packaged sushi that is used for the Izumi Sushi Express.

He probably died on the ship!

No cap, the drink will be "free" at $13 or under. You pay the difference on anything over $13 plus 18% gratuity. So I guess a coffee drink can be added to and "built" all the way up to $13 for no charge.

HERE is a primer how to do it right!

Forgot to mention that if you buy the Deluxe Drink Package at $49 then your break even point is about 4 cocktails (@ $13 ea) per day. 5 cocktails if you are including gratuity. Anything over that is gravy!

Ah! I see what you are saying now. You are absolutely right! I never really thought of it that way. I'll be on the Liberty in august and I plan on crushing that drink package. Between the foofoo coffee, smoothies, wine at dinner, cocktails throughout the day and bottles waters for the cabin they are gonna lose money on me.

True, I was mentioning the 18% gratuity for the people who might think that the $49 per day was all they would have to pay when buying the Deluxe Drink Package. So the actual math for one day would be $49 + 18% grat ($8.82) = $57.82 Divide that by the average cost of a cocktail ($13) and you would have to drink 4.5 cocktails to break even.

Don't forget that there is an 18% gratuity added onto the $49 per day base charge. Makes the total almost equal to 5 $13 cocktails.

Royal LOVES to play games with their beverage "sales" (B1G1 half off, 30% off, etc). No matter what sale Royal is advertising just remember the magic number is $49. If you see the base price at $49 or slightly below then that's about as good as it gets and is significantly cheaper than buying the Deluxe Beverage Package on the ship. Also, if the price drops further then you can cancel your previous purchase and buy it at the lower price.

Yes. Only the Deluxe Drink Package carries the mandatory buy for everyone over 21 in your cabin. The Refreshment and Soft Drink package doesn't have that requirement.

Just as an example. If you bought the drink package at $49 then after the gratuity you would have to consume 5 - $13 cocktails to break even and that's for one person. Of course there are other drinks that cost less that would add up towards the break even point but I was trying to just keep it simple. The nice part about the package is that you can buy drinks above the $13 limit (think wine) and you will just pay the difference plus gratuity. So a $15 glass of wine after the $13 discount will come down to just $2.36

If you upgrade to the Deluxe Drink Package at any time then anybody that is over 21 in your cabin must buy one too.

Very good point. I guess if you are not doing any bandwidth intensive things (like Netflix/YouTube streaming) then splitting a single connection would work. But yes, I agree Royal is most likely making a killing on the Voom packages.

I don't understand why they would crack down on travel routers. It's not like you get more speed out of your VOOM plan. If you top out at 15Mbps and you have 5 devices on your router you will be sharing that 15Mbps divvied up across all 5 devices. Maybe it's from a security standpoint?