Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 240.

This week's episode is all about the basics of Royal Caribbean's unlimited drink packages.

What are the packages?

How do they work?

And are they worth it?

There's a lot that goes into deciding if a drink package makes sense for you.

And so this week's episode serves as a starting point for what you need to know about the unlimited drink package offerings.

Here we go.

If there's one topic I get a lot of questions about from new cruisers and even veteran cruisers is about Rollerlequin's unlimited drink packages.

They're very popular. In fact,

they've ever been more popular. But this week, I wanted to go over the basics of Royal Crimean's

drink packages, what they entail, and kind of take a Royal Crimean drink package 101 approach to

the offerings that are available to you. So you should be aware that Royal Caribbean offers unlimited

drink packages. There are a couple of them. Some include alcohol. Some do not. And the basics of it is that you pay a

daily fee for the drink package. And in exchange, you get unlimited amounts of the beverages

included in the particular package you purchase. Now, there are currently, at least at the recording

of this podcast, three basic types of drink packages.

There is the Royal Refrreshment Package, which is a drink package that allows for non-alcoholic beverages.

This includes juices, sodas, virgin cocktails.

So that includes, like, you know, virgin dafferies and peanut coladas, basically no alcohol in them.

Soda, premium coffees, premium teas. There's also the classic soda package, which offers just soda.

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