Celebrity All Included Explained! Drinks, Wifi & Tips included! Is it worth it?

Celebrity Cruises all included package is it worth it let's take a look at the perks and do the math today on Seymour C's [Music] hi everyone and welcome back today we are going to talk about Celebrity Cruises all included fair this is celebrities attempt to inch ever closer to that luxury segment and pull away from some of their premium competitors this includes the drink package Wi-Fi and all tips and gratuities so they were basing their standard fares on this all-inclusive package but now you have an option in different categories to do a cruise only or a all-included offering so we're going to take a look at that today and see if the math works for you hi if you're new here I'm Doug and this is Seymour C's a cruise tips and planning Channel where I hope to help you and your family pick plan and enjoy your next Cruise vacation if you find this video helpful in any way please do give it that thumbs up and if you haven't done so already please subscribe it helps my channel grow and I'm trying to reach that 1 000 subscriber Mark so thanks so much and let's get started I'm going to be using celebrities website to show you the all-included fare and what it contains we'll go through the different packages we'll go through a sample reservation and we'll see if the math works for you and your traveling party so let's hop on to the celebrity website and let's take a look at the all included drinks Wi-Fi and tips that they will include in your base Cruise fair for certain uh cabin categories so what they do is that they will for one flat price include a basic drinks package the standard surfing Wi-Fi as well as tips and gratuities for not only your room Steward the wait staff but also that's including all of the tips for each of the drinks that you get as well so all of that is rolled in to one another and it says here that this is up to a value of a hundred and fifteen dollars per person per day so that's about uh sixteen hundred dollar savings um when you look at a seven day cruise at Double occupancy for both people so that on paper looks pretty good so let's go ahead and just do a pricing scenario to see what our options are as it relates to that so let's jump over to the main page of the celebrity website and we will see here that we still have the Cyber Monday sale going on with 75 percent off the second guess some dollars off each state room and then depending on the level of The State Room you've got some onboard credit so let's price something out say for uh spring break time around maybe March or April of next year to see what availability and our options are for this all included Fair so if we select March and April we hit apply I know that most of the celebrity ships in that season goes out of Fort Lauderdale so let's go ahead and do a search on that to see what we get I know that we're going to get a combination of The Edge class ships which is the edge the Beyond and the Apex as well as a couple of the solstice class ships with the reflection and the Equinox so here we've got a couple uh Edge class with the celebrity Beyond we've got the celebrity Apex you can see that the sales have been applied here we've got another seven night most of these are all going to be seven nights by the way here's a solstice class the reflection let's choose this reflection itinerary we've been on this one a few times so if you take a look at this itinerary yeah this one stops in Nassau but you can find them that also um we'll stop in San Juan Puerto Rico as well with a few days at sea so let's go ahead and choose this one book now we want one state room there'll be two of us and it will come down with a few of the different categories so it will start with the Suites which is the retreat class and you'll see if we select those that there's a number of different types of suites available all will include premium drinks premium Wi-Fi tips and onboard credit we're not going to go on the retreat this time so let's go back to the categories and let's take a look at the standard Veranda State rooms so we have and this is something that I've noticed on the celebrity website that has changed you see that drinks Wi-Fi tips are included for the all-included fair in all of the Suites that's pretty standard and they are the premium package and the surfing Wi-Fi if you go into the aqua class staterooms which is on a higher deck you get blue as a restaurant It also says drinks Wi-Fi tips included so this is the all included that is put into the base Fair automatically but when you look now at the concierge class or The Veranda State rooms and even in the ocean view and inside staterooms it starts with a cruise only rate let's take a look at a veranda stateroom and see what our options are they'll either pick the room for you which is a guarantee I don't like to do this specifically if it is the same price 792 to 792 I want to go ahead and select my own stateroom it will come up with a suggested stateroom for you and this is on the sixth floor uh the fifth floor below um is a public area so I normally like to go a little higher deck let's take a look at eight and you know I like to look at the deck plan based on all of the different deck plan key if you look you've got uh connecting staterooms here with a sofa bed that means there's going to be a lot of people in these rooms right here so I'm going to stay away from those and this looks like more my speed up here so let's go 80 to 45 you'll notice that our price went up slightly because we're on a higher floor but we're going to go ahead and select this state room and then as we look at our next options this is where they started with that cruise only fair before you had to choose this after the fact but I believe they got some pushback on that and so they're defaulting to the just standard Cruise only fare without the all-included option as uh displayed on the base price so if we take a look at this option or if we were looking at getting a basic classic drink package your basic Wi-Fi and all the tips on those drinks as well as for all of the service Personnel that are assisting you on the cruise it's a 1241 per person um price for that particular room so I'm going to choose that one and let's take a look at see what we get you can go ahead here and go with their travel protection and cruise insurance I normally like to get this through my travel agent and let's see I like the anytime dining so we'll keep that and let's just say that we're locked in to this trip so let's not spend any additional money to get a refundable deposit so let's go in and look at the price of this particular cruise and what it includes so we've got a veranda State room we picked the location you've got all of the different discounts for the promotions that are going on right now oh and we even get two hundred dollars to spend on board credit this includes the basic Wi-Fi the basic drinks package and tips and gratuities we have any time dining and the taxes and fees are included here and our total cost is 27.74 this is actually a pretty darn good rate and so we can lock it in here and pay our 500 deposit but let's go back and take a look at the difference we're going to keep the same room but let's take a look at the difference what it would be with the cruise only fare so if we look at the cruise only again we're going to get our travel insurance from our travel advisor we have the same dining time and this time 245 dollars in tips is not going to be included in this cost and then again we're going with the non-refundable deposit here so as we review and pay we're going to now see that we've got the same discounts and the same promotions applied and our deposits the same and our price went down to let's just say 2000 1999 so that is a 774 dollar difference so that's pretty interesting if we take a look at that now if we take a look at if we were going to add any of those different packages on such as the Wi-Fi or the drink packages let's take a look at what the different packages include let's start with the drink packages and as you can see when we're looking at the two different packages the classic package is 69 per person per day and the premium package is eight eighty four dollars per person per day so if we just take the 69 dollar package which is 69 per day uh seven day cruise that is a hundred ninety two dollars I'm seeing sorry that's 483 dollars uh double that times two is nine hundred and sixty six so uh you take the 774 dollars that you saved by going with the all included package just with the classic drink package you're saving 192 dollars by just going with the all included option in that pricing scenario hey guys future Doug here I went back and I looked at this and that was very confusing so you're saving the money by going with the cruise only package and if you take that package and add on the classic drink package you've already surpassed what it would have been for the all-inclusive so let's get back to the video now if you add Wi-Fi to that that is a little bit different Wi-Fi for the standard Wi-Fi is twenty dollars per day the streaming Wi-Fi is 35 today so just by doing the standard surfing Wi-Fi that's another 280 dollars for the cruise for both people and so now you are saving 472 dollars per um not per person but for the entire fare by going with the all included we haven't even talked about tips remember when we were at that other pricing scenario of adding the tips for this particular option if we go back and look at that if we're not including the tips those tips were 245 dollars so you add that in now you are now saving um an additional 717 dollars by going with the higher cost all included package but if you take a look at the two different Wi-Fi packages for twenty dollars for the basic and 35 for the premium you can see that on the basic it does do a good job of web browsing text messaging accessing your emails you can also access Facebook and Twitter and you can upload some very basic pictures it's going to take a little while but with the premium Wi-Fi you can actually stream videos you can upload documents you can upload larger photos or groups of photos so when we cruise we normally at least one of us will upgrade from the basic Wi-Fi to the premium Wi-Fi let's take a look and compare those drink packages so if we take a look at the drink packages now comparing those two packages this is pretty significant difference and the price of them is uh significant as well but if you look at the classic package there's going to be a lot included actually in the classic package for your Gins you've got your standard Beefeater and Gordon's but if you're going to look at a premium you've got your Hendrix and your Bombay with the different Liquors liqueurs and cognacs you have quite a few to select from your rums are going to be your basic Bacardi Captain Morgan's Malibu Myers and then you can get into your higher level rums as well Tequilas to get Patron you're going to have to have the premium package vodka if you're into vodka martinis you'll probably want the premium with the Belvedere The Gray Goose Kettle One um standard vodkas are your absolute Smirnoff or Cheetos whiskeys you've got a big difference here and one of the rules of thumb to look at is that when you're looking at comparing these drink packages if you go down to the wines the wines and other cocktails are only up to nine dollars per glass of wine or nine dollars per cocktail for the premium it's 115 um 115 I'm sorry 15 per glass so most times when I'm looking at the wine list the wines that I normally choose are going to be between I would say 12 13 to 15 dollars per glass this is probably the biggest reason why I upgrade to the premium package is because the selection of wines is much greater now on the classic package if you are not drinking alcohol you can still have a wide variety of options with bottled water with juices all of the sodas and all of the premium coffees are included there as well so as we take a look at that you're going to find that depending on which one of these packages that you decide on you're going to have the option to upgrade once you pay the base price but if you are looking at getting that classic drink package or the premium package as well as Wi-Fi it really makes a lot of sense to go to the all-included fair I hope that you didn't get lost in the math there but as you can see it makes a lot of sense if you are interested in any of the drink packages or if you're going to be utilizing Wi-Fi most often than not you're going to save money by going with the all-included fare instead of purchasing those different packages separately once you've booked and definitely before you get on board the ship another tip that is not widely known is that if you have purchased the classic drink packages for both members of the stateroom you may be able to contact celebrity directly and get one of those packages downgraded to a non-alcoholic package if for instance for medical reasons that individual does not want to partake in alcohol they might be in recovery and they will be able to downgrade that second passengers package to a classic non-op alcoholic package now if you've purchased the all included fare you may or may not get a cost benefit from this downgrade if you've purchased these packages a la carte after booking then there is a strong possibility that you will get a financial incentive and discount based on that downgrade as a reminder for the Wi-Fi if you've gone with the all-included package that includes the surfing Wi-Fi for both individuals in the stateroom one of those individuals can upgrade to the streaming Wi-Fi both individuals do not have to we do this often so thank you so much for stopping in today I hope you found this helpful if you did please do give it that thumbs up and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to the channel thank you so much and as always I'll see you again soon

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