P&O Cruise Drinks Package - Is It Worth It and How much we spent!

Let's talk cruising and drinking! More specifically the P&O Cruise Drinks Package - Is It Worth It? We'll let you know what our experience has been after cruising with and without the drink package and how much we spent! Drink prices in the pinned comment. The prices are from the P&O Encounter Cruise ship that sailed from Brisbane.

10 January 2023

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[alandeb]

Rough prices onboard 🍺 Soft Drink: $3.50 🍹 Coffee: from $4.00 🥤Mocktails: $5.50 🍻 Beer and Cider: $8.50-$10.00 🥃Spirits with mixer: from $11.00 🍾Wine: glass $9.00-$14.50 bottle from $36.00 🍹Cocktails: from $16.00

[ashtonskye]

Thanks for an informative video for Aussies with prices! You two are super cute ❤🎉

[nikkitaylor-wherewegoasafa]

You guys are so cute and make me laugh... I've never been on a cruise and this was so handy to know... Keep up the great work. Love you both, so gorgeous✨😍

[chrischand]

Great video guys, very helpful and informative, thank you, keep up the good work 👏

[Astrogak]

Can you buy just 1 drink package and order a drink to share between 2?

[theimperfectscrapper]

I’m a big mineral water or soda water drinker. Do they have this option on P&O

[nathgreen]

Thanks for the video. Does the 15 drinks limit vary depending on the type of drink (i.e. limit of 15 softdrinks vs 15 cocktails)?

[mhaskard]

About to go on a 10 day trip and as you suggested $99 a day will be approx'ly $2000 which is quite a lot of money and would not even come near drinking 15 drinks a day.

I/we have decided to pay as we go. As suggested on port days half the day is gone and won't even come close to drinking 15 let alone 7 drinks a day. We are going with a group of friends, and we are not in our 20's or 30's anymore although we may give it a bit of a nudge.

Great video on PO's very expensive drink packages, going on a Holland America trip and their similar package "Have it All" (internet drinks etc) worked out to be $60AUD a day and a lot more food etc such as pizza's are included in cruise price. PO nickel and dime you on everything but give you cheap cruises but more than make it up on everything else that is not included. Will do a review after doing both trips.

[CyeOutsider]

I bought my son the soft drink package but us adults went pay-as-you-go for alcohol on our last P&O cruise which was 5 days.

It worked out fine.

We aren't big drinkers and we had 3 port days, so it wasnt worth it for us.

[sarahhardie]

Loved your video, nice to see people who are down to earth :) We are heading on our first cruise in a few weeks. P&O haven't mentioned anything about being able to take drinks on board (soft drinks), do you know if this is still available :)

[Jackson-ogmu]

Do you need to buy the package for the entire duration of the cruise or can you just like buy it for say 1 or 2 days only? Thanks

[mikeoxmaul]

Would you reccomend bringing anything i.e cards, downloading movies? Anything for spare time? No idea what to expect..thanks

[janread]

Yep i stopped doing the drink packages last few cruises as they are not really worth. I did buy a bottle of wine for dinner on my last p and o cruise BUT if you don’t finish it that night they NO LONGER put it in the fridge at the restaurant for you for the next nights, so you have to take it back to your room…walking through the areas with an opened wine bottle was embarrassing for me.

[OmnivorousReader]

I have never been on a cruise and it seems a bit confusing that you have free meals, but have to pay for coffee and water.

[TreasureHuntingNana]

Just been on the explorer, freo to cains. I got the $25/day coffee etc package WELL worth it. My hubby got the top package $150/day NOT worth it