skwak

It is served on embarkation day. For example this morning when I left Explorer the Windjammer was open from 6-830 and the Main Dining Room was open 6-8.  The list of luggage tags had the latest numbers being called at 9:15. They asked that you vacated your rooms by 8am and wait in your assigned departure lounge til your luggage tag is called.

Will do SpeedNoodles!

This very accurately sums up Nassau, although we pretty much bypass the whole part involving stepping foot on land and fast forward right to lunch at Chops! 

Nassau is the price you pay......for CocoCay.
Here's our typical Nassau routine.  Out of guilt, we need to make an effort....off we go to observe the progress of the new piers, pretty views of the waterway, how much larger RCCL boats are over the other ones in port (walk a little taller because of it), watch people losing themselves in selfies and missing the experience trying to capture it, look at the progress of the new cruise port terminal, walk past a dry version of what appears to be a Wet Market feel gathering, walk into Nassau, avoid cars, listen for horns, walk the town, say no to 100 people, begin to feel the need for a beverage, circle back around to the dock area and see the progress made, tell ourselves someday this will be nice when everything is built up, really feel the need for a beverage.....walk 20 minutes back to the boat......go to Chops for lunch and Wonder why we left.  It's the price you pay for CocoCay.

Hi @skwak!
Except for the naughty room reference 😆 ... here is the exact policy @Ampurp85 cited from RC's website:
https://www.royalcaribbean.com/faq/questions/food-drink-onboard-policy

No liquids in the form of energy drinks, wine, soda and water are allowed to be in your checked bag. It will automatically send your luggage to the naughty room. 
You are allowed to bring up to twelve, 17oz cans/bottles of non-alcoholic beverages such as soda, water, juice or energy drinks in your carry-on.

I would treat it the same way as soda and pack it in carryon.  I have no experience with it.

Just to tie out since everyone has been so helpful in responding:

We decided that honestly only my middle son (age 26) and I likely will drink to a great extent.  My dear wife is kinda a 2 drink max (3 would be the most ever unless she wants the boat to spin) and my oldest son (age 28) is not much of a drinker.  Son #3 is 20 years old so at least officially cannot drink.

We shuffled the room occupants to put Son #2 with me and ordered the drink package for us.  Everyone else can just order what they want when they want it.

All good.  😃

Just to tie out since everyone has been so helpful in responding:

We decided that honestly only my middle son (age 26) and I likely will drink to a great extent.  My dear wife is kinda a 2 drink max (3 would be the most ever unless she wants the boat to spin) and my oldest son (age 28) is not much of a drinker.  Son #3 is 20 years old so at least officially cannot drink.

We shuffled the room occupants to put Son #2 with me and ordered the drink package for us.  Everyone else can just order what they want when they want it.

All good.  😃

Just to tie out since everyone has been so helpful in responding:

We decided that honestly only my middle son (age 26) and I likely will drink to a great extent.  My dear wife is kinda a 2 drink max (3 would be the most ever unless she wants the boat to spin) and my oldest son (age 28) is not much of a drinker.  Son #3 is 20 years old so at least officially cannot drink.

We shuffled the room occupants to put Son #2 with me and ordered the drink package for us.  Everyone else can just order what they want when they want it.

All good.  😃

Just to tie out since everyone has been so helpful in responding:

We decided that honestly only my middle son (age 26) and I likely will drink to a great extent.  My dear wife is kinda a 2 drink max (3 would be the most ever unless she wants the boat to spin) and my oldest son (age 28) is not much of a drinker.  Son #3 is 20 years old so at least officially cannot drink.

We shuffled the room occupants to put Son #2 with me and ordered the drink package for us.  Everyone else can just order what they want when they want it.

All good.  😃

Just to tie out since everyone has been so helpful in responding:

We decided that honestly only my middle son (age 26) and I likely will drink to a great extent.  My dear wife is kinda a 2 drink max (3 would be the most ever unless she wants the boat to spin) and my oldest son (age 28) is not much of a drinker.  Son #3 is 20 years old so at least officially cannot drink.

We shuffled the room occupants to put Son #2 with me and ordered the drink package for us.  Everyone else can just order what they want when they want it.

All good.  😃

Just to tie out since everyone has been so helpful in responding:

We decided that honestly only my middle son (age 26) and I likely will drink to a great extent.  My dear wife is kinda a 2 drink max (3 would be the most ever unless she wants the boat to spin) and my oldest son (age 28) is not much of a drinker.  Son #3 is 20 years old so at least officially cannot drink.

We shuffled the room occupants to put Son #2 with me and ordered the drink package for us.  Everyone else can just order what they want when they want it.

All good.  😃

Just to tie out since everyone has been so helpful in responding:

We decided that honestly only my middle son (age 26) and I likely will drink to a great extent.  My dear wife is kinda a 2 drink max (3 would be the most ever unless she wants the boat to spin) and my oldest son (age 28) is not much of a drinker.  Son #3 is 20 years old so at least officially cannot drink.

We shuffled the room occupants to put Son #2 with me and ordered the drink package for us.  Everyone else can just order what they want when they want it.

All good.  😃

that's what I said we are doing, at least for the March cruise.  DH will then decide if he wants to do refreshment with the occasional alcohol purchase, or get the DXB again for himself.

Ditto to what @FloatyBoatysaid.  She just beat me to the answer.  That is what my sister did and it does work. 

If you can't get the DBP for health reasons and your husband wants it, you do not HAVE to - call Royal and explain and they will create an exclusion for you. You will have to purchase the Refreshment package though instead

Due to health reasons, I will no longer buy the DBP - really can't have that much alcohol. I do get the refreshment package, even though I'm not going to have too many mocktails - again, health reasons, too much sugar - but will drink soda, sparkling waters & specialty coffee. Thinking about bringing on wine for dinner. Plus, if DH wants the DXB, I have to get it, and during the Black Friday sale, the price differential between that and the soda package wasn't too much.  We have a cruise in March, & DH will use that experience to see if he wants to upgrade from Refreshment to DXB for our Oasis B2B in August.  We were hoping to be Diamond by now, but Covid & other problems cancelled too many cruises, so not there yet.
 

On my last cruise me and my partner got the DBP that was coupled with the surf+stream wifi, and we enjoyed it. We have paid for it again for our upcoming cruise and the price comes to about $2000.00CAD for both of us to have the DBP and the surf+stream for a 7 night cruise. I know that sounds ridiculous, but you need to think about how much use you will get out of it. My and my boyfriend are both in our early 20's, thus we like to drink and can drink because we are still young lol. We also use our phones lots for things like school, and talking to our parents who we both still live with, or even watching our Netflix shows together. We get good use out of it especially if you consider that the average price of a cocktail with gratuity on board is about $23CAD. Not to mention the convivence of being able to walk up to any bar or have an extra glass of wine at dinner and not worry about cost is nice.

Last Feb we bought and brought a couple bottles of booze on board after a shore excursion (stuff we couldn't get back home) fully expecting it to be confiscated. They didn't. That was in St. Maarten.
When we sailed with our adult kids last Dec, they flew in so we picked up a couple extra bottles of wine for them to carry aboard as we were meeting them on the dock.  I had a couple bottles and my wife forgot to give them theirs so she carried it aboard. We weren't stopped.  Though not encouraged there are other ways to imbibe on board.
We are D's and not big drinkers so don't really need extra booze. In fact on our last cruise we didn't even open the wine we took aboard.

Most replies to these types of question comes down to straight economics.  
However, I don't think in strictly those terms.  When you dine at a restaurant, you are paying a HUGE mark up on dishes.  For example, a steak that is listed on the menu as $60.00 likely cost the restaurant no more than $10.00 a pound (wholesale).  So what are you paying for then?
The drink package has always been satisfying for my family on every cruise line we have traveled on.
Our opinion is that you are paying for the drink, the service, the variety, but for us, the most important thing is peace of mind.  We are on vacation.  We don't want to be taking out our smartphone calculators and doing math or going to guest services to pay daily expenses.
Having said that, don't forget that every time you go to the bar, you can ask for 2 bottles of water and the package includes specialty coffee drinks.
If you want to run numbers, 4 cocktails, 1 glass of wine, 4 bottles of water, 1 soda, and 2 lattes a day is what we averaged and the math comes out in our favor.  

I always get the drink package. Do I always break even? I'm not sure. However, I definitely come close. I do drink several specialty cocktails and when I'm not drinking those, I'm drinking soda or bottled water. Whatever amount I don't "break even" for, I simply write off as a convenience fee. It is so nice to not have to worry about it. Bonus points towards the drink package if you're stopping in Labadee or Coco Cay, since drinks are included with the package there as well.

Hi Mom and Dad!!!  

Not an issue for us this trip as the Bank of Mom and Dad is paying for everything in both rooms.  🙂

Not an issue for us this trip as the Bank of Mom and Dad is paying for everything in both rooms.  🙂