As I have posted before cruisers have abused the policy, my cruise 7/22 had adults drunk on English alcohol and Russian alcohol in the early morning hours say 2 am to 3 am. As well as being blind drunk on booze they were not used to the strength of, ie Vodka purchased locally mixed with other brought on drinks. They cussed disruption so officers and security were involved, they caused mess to D Lounge after the closing hours and deck 9 pool deck, they left all the empties and trash there and the poor cleaners had a mammoth task, to clear up where the booze was not sold by
DCL and therefore no profit and therefore extra cost.
Anyone vomiting from being drunk would cause health and safety issues, we know how quick bugs can transfer in ships, what's the point of having wipes before dinner or getting on the ship, if people are doing this as they can't handle their booze.
This has occurred on a number of cruises, the policy has been abused by a few for a long time often in a very organised way.
Now to make it clear the majority who brought their own on, we're responsible and kept to the rules of not brining it into public areas and drinking responsibly. I feel sorry for the responsible drinkers who suffer for the mindless few.
If this was profit they would have brought this in long ago, say when smoking rules changed, a mid season mid release change indicates a quicker response to a problem, then an upscale in profit targets.
People like a target and often go for the easy target, like someone posting an opposing view, or blaming a conspiracy on profit increase. Actually if they have this policy and people did buy more booze they have to increase purchases, deliveries, stocking, transfer in ship of the booze that increases costs wiping out a lot of profit and they have limited space to hold all of this.
Question, how many people who brought on drink cleaned up after themselves? Who took the bottles cans etc back off, and who has seen the skips of rubbish going off the ship? DCL has to pay for cleaning the ship and the rubbish disposal of all of that, and disposal of trash nowadays is expensive.
I know loads will not believe this as they have made their minds up its Disney, A few will see it's not as cut and dried as that, and that a few who abused it caused this. There us a history of cruisers here on these boards abiding policy causing DCL to change policy. The unlimited internet package went when people here on cruise meets threads originated and grouped people up to share log in and passwords. There was a REAs package for weddings, this romantic escape at sea package included advance booking if palo and spa and shore trips, some worked out you could book it, without paying the fee upfront, then book thief palo, spa and shore trips before anyone else, then after your normal booking window, cancel REAs so not paying for it but keep the palo shore and spa without cancelling.
