Celebrity Drink Package Calculator
Is the Celebrity drink package worth it? Choose your exact ship, date, and drinks and we’ll give you a definitive answer.
Which cruise are we pricing?
We pull nights, itinerary, sea days and the line’s package rules straight from the gangwaze sailing database.
Actual Celebrity drink package cost
Celebrity adds 20% gratuity to the Classic Drink Package at purchase and it is not optional. That gap, $13.90 a day, is the single most common surprise on the folio. Everything below already includes it.
How much are mixed drinks on a Celebrity cruise? $15.00
That is the median of 45 individually priced cocktails, from real onboard menu photographs. Every category below is the same: counted, not estimated.
Alcohol categories first, then everything else. Prices are as printed on the menu, before the 20% bar gratuity. The $12 cap is the Classic Drink Package's per-drink ceiling: above it Celebrity covers $12 of the drink and you pay the difference.
All 166 Celebrity drinks, priced individually
Searchable, filterable by category, and flagged against the package cap. It lives on its own page so this one can stay about the decision.
The Classic package covers 35% of the bar
46 of the 130 priced alcoholic drinks on Celebrity sit at or under the $12 cap, so the package pays for those in full. On the other 84 you pay only the difference, not the whole drink.
priced alcoholic drinks
84 drinks sit above the $12 cap
Merlot, Shafer Excellence at $40.00, Grey Goose Altius at $30.00, Cabernet Sauvignon, Opulence by Celebrity at $25.00, Chardonnay, Opulence by Celebrity at $25.00, Champagne, Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label at $24.00, Rose French 75 at $21.00. On these Celebrity covers $12 and charges you the difference, not the full price. Everything else on the alcoholic list is paid in full.
Does the Celebrity drink package ever go on sale?
4 observations from Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, ranging $15.00 to $115.00.
Drink Package price drop alerts
Finish the calculator at the top of this page and the result comes with a price alert. Pick your ship and sail date, confirm your email with a six-digit code, and we will write to you when the Classic package is reported at least 5% below the price you were quoted.
- ·Drops only. A rise never triggers an email.
- ·Tied to your sailing, and it stops on your sail date.
- ·Triggered by reports that agree, not by one anecdote.
4 points today, more as people report.
Prices people actually paid are collected in the calculator at the top of this page, not here. Reports are held until three independent observations agree for a ship and month, so nothing arrives on this chart as a single anecdote.
Report what you paid in the calculatorEvery drink package rule, in plain language
5 apply on every Celebrity sailing. 2 depend on your cabin, your homeport or what you order, and those are the ones that change the answer.
Gratuity
Celebrity adds a 20% gratuity to the package price, so the figure you see when you book is not what you pay. Enter the advertised daily rate below and we will add it for you.
Price varies
Celebrity does not publish one daily price: it moves with the ship, the itinerary and the length of the sailing. Pre-cruise tracking puts Classic around $58–$81 a day and Premium around $72–$99 before the 20% gratuity, and Premium typically runs $13–$20 a day above Classic. Onboard is dearer than booking ahead, and Classic comes bundled with All Included fares. Use the price in your own cruise planner, the only figure that is actually yours.
Max drink value
Order above your package cap and the drink is still poured: you pay the difference, plus 20% on that difference. Classic covers drinks up to $12, Premium up to $19. Both caps rise on UK and Australian sailings, to $14 and $23.
Daily limit
Neither package limits how many drinks you can have in a day. Celebrity applies the usual pacing rules at the bar, but there is no 15-drink ceiling like Royal Caribbean or Carnival.
Not included
Wine by the bottle is not covered but comes at 15% off on Classic and 20% off on Premium. Mini-bar, room service and anything from the shops are excluded outright, and packages cannot be shared. Premium also upgrades sodas and bottled water to premium selections that Classic will not cover.
Pre-purchase
You can change or cancel a package up to 48 hours before you sail. After that it is non-refundable, so the decision is effectively made two days out.
Cabin purchase rule
Every guest of legal drinking age in your stateroom on the same booking has to buy the same alcoholic package. One light drinker in the cabin can sink a deal that works for you alone.
Find yourself on this list
The Classic package pays for itself at 5.9 alcoholic drinks a day, with the $12 cap already counted. Ignore the cap and it flatters itself to 4.6.
Break-even is the package price with gratuity divided by the average value it actually delivers per drink, so the $12 cap is inside the number rather than assumed away.
How the calculator works
Two totals, honestly compared. What the package really costs once the line has taken its cut, against what your drinks would ring up one at a time.
Frequently asked questions
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