Angelstar:
Soda is included with your meals in the restaurants. There is no soda offered in the Beach Blanket Buffet (juices, teas, coffee). However, if you have a soda mug, you can go across to the bar for the soda before you enter the buffet. Soda is also not provided at Cookie's Barbeque on
Castaway Cay. But again, if you have a soda mug, you can go over to the bar on the island and get it filled.
On Deck 9 there is a beverage station which is free. It includes purified water (very good and safe), juices, tea, coffees and lemonade. That opens early in the morning and stays open until around 11 p.m. On some of our cruises, they have put danish up there first thing in the morning.
There is a cooler in every room (like a fridge, but things take longer to get cold). We usually bring a six pack of coke and a six-pack of diet coke and a six-bottle water pack. We just refill the water bottles on Deck 9 at the beverage station and put them in our fridge. If you and your family are not big on soda, then all the juice, coffee, tea and lemonade are free.
Any other questions, just PM me or email me if you want.
Have fun planning....
Cathy