6 days to go and still questions

[mnlovesdisney]

We leave in 6 days and I still have some beverage questions.

1. My DD is wondering what the smoothies cost and if there is tax and/or tip added to the cost.

As we are debating the pop issue, I was wondering:
1. What types of juices are at the free bevage stations. My kids favorites are apple and grape (I somehow doubt that grape is an option, but hopefully they have apple).

2. I assume they have water at the free beverage stations, but how does it taste?

3. How much does pop cost if you get it by the glass vs. buying a mug. I just do not see my kids drinking $40 worth of pop between them in 4 days.

Thank for the help. Just 6 days left, I feel like the Disney commercial from awhile back where the kids say, "I'm to excited to sleep"!

 

[jlawall]

I can't answer all your questions because I haven't cruised since last summer. We do buy the unlimited soda package for my DH or I, but the kids really didn't need it. You do get free soda at sit down meals. The beverage station has iced tea, coffee and I think lemonade or some other juice. Wow, best wishes for great weather next week!!!

 

[tevagirl]

Have fun.....I hope the next 6 days go very fast and the following four are very slow!

 

[seamist]

Don‘t do it!! It was a waste of money to get the mug. There is tea and lemonade plus juice at the free bar on deck, you get water free also, ice-cream is free and in a short time becomes a milkshake. The kids can get soft drinks at the meals free. The only time we really used the mug was on Castaway Cay. And I know we didn’t drink $40.00 worth. If you think that the kids just have to have soda on deck take a 6 pack in your suitcase and get ice from room serve or the free drink bar and pour a can over it. Have fun on your trip!

 

[fredms]

I'd agree with the poseters above. - you don't need it. The water and lemonade was nice at the beverage station. Plus whenever I had room service (multiple times a day) I'd ask for a pitcher of ice water which they brought.

The only thing I'd tell you to consider bringing is the "sports bottles" because the cups at the beverage station were small and I found myself walking back and forth from the adult pool to the beverage station. I considered that my "exercise".

Have a great trip and try to enjoy every minute.

 

[jrabbit]

I agree with the above posters. I would only consider getting 1, count um, ONE soda mug for the family (unless your family has serious sharing issues in which case I would skip the sode mug).

THere is plenty of water (tastes great, less filling ... opps to much tv in my younger days). I really does taste pretty good. They make it themselves. You know they have a large supply of powered water on board and all they have to do is, is, um...just add water There really is a desalination plant on board. They make a lot of fresh water every day (250,000 per day if my failing memory serves me right). It's used for cooking, cleaning, drinking AND filling the swimming pools (yes fresh water, not salt water like most other ships).

The lemonade is pretty good.

I remember apple juice on the ship along with a fruit punch. My 40+ year old taste buds thought that they punch was yucky, but it seems like the kids love it - go figure!

 

[Kimnicki]

We are a big soda drinking family and we did NOT purchase the mug or soda sticker. We did just fine. We had soda at dinner and drank either lemonade, water or iced tea the rest of the time. We did maybe purchase 3 sodas at the pool during the 7 days and they were about $1.50 a cup. I drank the water (I'm a picky water drinker, I taste everything in it!) and I thought the water at the beverage station was just fine.


Kim