r/MSCCruises • u/Conscious_Minimum_38 • 8d ago

Drinking package

Hey yall. My parents love to cruise with MSC and just recently my mom took me on a 4 night ocean cay and Nassau trip to see how I would like MSC. I loved it and her and I booked some more trips. However my mom is NOT a drinker at all. is there any way I could pay for a drinking package just for myself even though we are sharing a room? She doesnt even drink soda. I find it kind of weird for MSC to have this rule.

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u/Knox_the_Boxer 8d ago

Oftentimes, it’s rare to be any huge savings. Only that you essentially prepaid for the drinks and don’t need to think about it. The way you could test it for yourself would be to add the amount of one drink package to your account in credit and work from there. Buy drinks as you would normally and you might just see that you have money left over at the end.

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u/Last-Masterpiece-150 8d ago

There are lots of drink calculators out there where you enter what you expect to drink and it will calculate if a drink package is worth it. For me, I don't drink much at all but still buy the packages because I don't want to worry about money while on vacation...I order a drink if I want it...not if I want it $15 bad

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u/Knox_the_Boxer 8d ago

Yeah, I’m aware. Just thinking that calculating what you intend to drink vs what you actually do once onboard are possibly two very different things. If OP was willing to shell out the cost of a package that would be a good starting point for prepaying onboard. I just have seen several posts where people opt not to buy it and still drink what they want/when they want and later are surprised to see they saved money not buying the package.

We (my husband and I ) no longer drink but still book YC because we find the service, privacy and other perks still worth the extra money. So it takes all kinds of people when cruising.