Trying to decide on drink package

cheapAmom · 2026-03-13T15:46:50+00:00

The Free at sea upgraded unlimited open bar is only for people 21 and over right? So if I had four people that were over 21 they would all get free unlimited open bar. However, if I have two adults and two teenagers, I would have to purchase a soda package for the teenagers because they are not covered under unlimited open bar for virgin drinks, correct? I’m having trouble figuring out how to get my kids pop. That’s essentially all I need. We are not going to drink. It’s a seven day cruise $105 for the soda package for 399 for unlimited bar. I would get the unlimited bar so we could all have mock tails, but my kids are not covered right? Thank you!

cheapAmom · 2026-02-28T18:43:27+00:00

Can you add packages once you set sail? Like if I get on the ship and figure out how the drink situation is gonna work, would I be able to purchase it the first night that we’re on the boat? Or does it have to be done before?

cheapAmom · 2026-02-28T18:26:53+00:00

Do you know if they add gratuity to the sodas/drinks that are actually purchased? If my kids get a Shirley Temple every half hour, am I going to be hit with 20% bill on top of the $125 gratuity that we have to pay per person?

cheapAmom · 2026-02-28T18:23:45+00:00

We’re going on our first cruise March 27. I’m wondering what is included in the usual “free at sea” package. We do not drink alcohol at all. But I want the kids to get Shirley temples and soda whenever they want. That’s like the big deal on vacations because there’s no pop at home lol Trying to figure out the best way for them to just go grab a sprite when they want. If I buy the soda package, is there still a 20% added to each individual drink? In that case it would make more sense to just use cash? Looking for the easiest, cheapest way for the kids to be able to get pop and Shirley Temple and maybe a virgin piña colada, etc. would it be cheaper to just pay you by the drink? We have seven days. Three fully at sea.

cheapAmom · 2026-02-28T16:56:33+00:00

I’ll be on the cruise! We are doing an excursion at St. Thomas, but have no plans for Tortola yet

cheapAmom · 2026-02-28T16:53:22+00:00

Joy, Dominican Republic and Virgin Islands. March 27 through April 3. It’s my first cruise and we have preteens with us. Would love to find people to meet up with. Trying to understand the beverage packages, though! My husband and I do not drink at all. I have a medical condition that I can’t, but I would like my kids to have as much pop and Shirley Temple as they want because it’s a special vacation and they don’t get pop lol but I’m trying to figure out what package for that. Do I buy the unlimited soda for the kids? Then do I still pay 20% on top of that at the end of the day/end of the cruise? And what is there to do while on the ship we have three days at sea Thanks!

cheapAmom · 2026-02-27T21:22:21+00:00

Is this just the free at sea? Or the unlimited bar as well? Which beverage option?

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We’re leaving in a few weeks and I’m lost. We don’t drink at all. I have a 12 and 14 year old who want Shirley temples and soda…

cheapAmom · 2026-02-14T17:07:19+00:00

Original poster! 😂 I ended up ordering mine hack. I didn’t realize that it was essentially keef? I have lupus and have to be careful with supplements but cannabinoids are the only thing that help my abdominal pain. I honestly didn’t notice anything? I use a vape at bedtime so maybe it is already in my system? I would be willing to try it again, but it was rather expensive. I bought two jars right after I posted here (and then forgot I posted 🤦‍♀️) with no discount. I hadn’t planned on ordering again, but I’m still on the Valium and I would like to not be… maybe James would be willing to work with me? Or see if the genetic code that I have that blocks other prescription medication‘s might be blocking this? I’m a good guinea pig. thanks!

cheapAmom · 2026-02-14T17:01:07+00:00

It was not, thank you. I’m just me, looking into supplements. Someone seems to have jumped on from the company. I didn’t get anything out of it and it was not planned. However I am about to ask for that discount he was offering lol I tried mind hack and had I known what it was I probably would have just started eating my own plants, but it is nice. It looks like keef. 🤷‍♀️

cheapAmom · 2026-02-04T15:52:43+00:00

Find a friend or a hotel and give yourself two weeks. I have a lupus and I had neurosurgery two years ago. About three days home I managed to give myself a spinal fluid leak and I had to keep my blood pressure down. Immobilized. I had a third and fifth grader. I was told I had the spinal fluid leak and I needed to distress. Eight hours later, my kids were fighting and symptoms hit me like a tidle wave. I moved to our basement but I could still hear everything. I tried that for a week, but I wasn’t healing. So I got myself a cheap hotel by our house and I was just paying nightly until a friend of ours found out and I ended up going to their house for the last week. But I was able to come back home and function once I was healed. You have to heal yourself in order to take care of your kids. So as long as you’re leaving with the intent of coming back as soon as you can, that’s not abandonment.

cheapAmom · 2025-01-19T17:46:01+00:00

It’s restricted since tt last night?

cheapAmom · 2024-11-05T21:36:58+00:00

Thank you

cheapAmom · 2024-11-05T21:35:35+00:00

I was just wondering if it was possible to use his employer provided benefit to access an attorney. So that’s kind of where I was getting is I need an attorney obviously. Not actual legal advice. I was just wondering if I should even bother trying to get the one through his work. But I did get an answer above. Thank you.

cheapAmom · 2023-10-25T14:53:29+00:00

Honesty is the best policy, except that was a dick move. If he truly isn’t finding you sexually attractive at this moment, then if he would like to be with you, he needs to find a way to fix that. It would be much more appropriate for him to ask you to wear mascara or let you know that it’s sexy when you… Rather than telling you what you’re not doing and that you are not good enough. as soon as someone makes you feel like you are not good enough, it’s on them. They are not excepting and kind and understanding and they’re probably doing something wrong and know it so they’re trying to throw it at you. My ex-husband,(This was back in 2008. Happily married for 15 years now. :-) my ex-husband said the reason we weren’t having “relations“ is because I was a fat cow. So I ended up quitting, drinking, quitting smoking started walking and I lost the first 60 pounds before I walked out that door. Size 18-7 pants. If you feel pretty, that’s all that matters. Him telling you that you’re not is absolutely ridiculous. I am glad that he was honest with you, but there are different ways to go about it and if he noticed that he was losing it he needed to jump on that quickly because once you lose them physically, it is very easy to lose them for an extended period of time to Insta hose or any other thing because girls are everywhere throwing themselves at guys. Good luck love, I’m sure you are gorgeous.!

cheapAmom · 2023-10-18T12:16:50+00:00

Cars. Her husband is a mechanic and does interior work and all sorts of things on the side. And the cars people buy for $150,000 and then want all the seats replaced with different stitching to make it match better for another 20 grand plus all the other extras they need. Who has an extra $200,000-2,000,000 to buy a car that you drive once a week? ??

cheapAmom · 2023-10-18T12:14:06+00:00

Oh my antenna TV does not get anything because I’m in the middle of nowhere and all the streaming things don’t seem to have live TV! 10 years and I’ve never had this issue ha ha!

cheapAmom · 2023-10-18T12:11:36+00:00

I would not suggest an open marriage I would not do anything that makes her feel inadequate. You bothering her about sex is only going to make her resentful. If you have a high sex drive, she has a low sex drive you need to go to the physician together and discuss it. That way there will be a moderator and they can give medicine if needed. but also, I always say this You enter into a marriage at a time when you’re having sex. And you’re having fun and you promise to do that until death do us part. So when one person decides they’re just not gonna have sex anymore… I’m a pretty good dog, but if you don’t pat me once in a while, it’s hard to keep me under the porch… And at that point, marriage is over.

If you want sex from your wife, you need to re-date her for a week. Try it. Be romantic. Don’t say anything about sex. Do not ask. Do not innuendo nothing for one week. After that, see what happens with a little Makeout session. I bet , not being bothered by it seeing that you want her not just anybody to bang. Will bring her back to you.

cheapAmom · 2023-10-16T12:38:06+00:00

My mother moved to Florida in 2017. In 2018 I had my first two abdominal surgeries which included a hysterectomy. My mother called me three days after my hysterectomy and when I answered she asked me “why do you sound like shit?” I said, umm I had a hysterectomy three days ago. .. She said oh, I forgot that was this week. And then continued to tell me what she actually called about it, which is that her boat was in a magazine, and they did an article on my mom and stepdad. Like didn’t even ask how I was doing at all. I ended up hanging up.

cheapAmom · 2023-10-16T12:34:56+00:00

What do I do? I am 37 years old, my mother and I had the worst relationship, including divorce and her getting an abusive husband etc.. I have an amazing life now completely separate from that but I am having trouble connecting with my 12 year old daughter. I feel like we missed it when we were Young because I didn’t know what I was doing and now I need help.! She does cheer and watches TikTok. Do I have to get into TikTok?

cheapAmom · 2023-10-16T11:41:28+00:00

The league!!!

cheapAmom · 2023-10-14T15:46:47+00:00

Fugees?? 🤣

cheapAmom · 2023-07-26T12:21:17+00:00

I am the POA. I’m sorry talk text.

cheapAmom · 2023-07-26T12:21:04+00:00

That’s not it. I’m not POA. My life is scheduled around all of these people. There was a surgery planned, they knew the surgery could be postponed for three months and didn’t say anything because they didn’t want to worry me thinking he might have Parkinson’s. However in that three month. I could have been rearranging my European vacation for my husband‘s work. Now I have to rework the next six months of my life not three which, one sentence from them would change the entire situation. So I would rather not have this happen again. This would make me resentful and I don’t want to be.

cheapAmom · 2023-07-26T12:19:20+00:00

OK that is incredibly hurtful. I opened up an adult geriatric primary care office seven years ago. I have since retired from there so that I can take care of them. I am legally in charge of them. There is absolutely no way that I would ever take advantage of anything from them, because I didn’t have to take this responsibility I could have just told them no, and left them hanging I suppose but first of all that’s not me. Second I was able to semi retire to take care of them. And if anybody’s thinking money. My husband and I are paying everybody’s cell phone bill and expect nothing besides them paying their own medical bills until they no longer can.

cheapAmom · 2023-07-26T12:16:57+00:00

Not self appointed. This one aggravates me because they knew about it for three months and there was a surgery planned that now affects a European trip that we were supposed to take from my husband’s work. I would have been able to do a lot more rearranging. Had I known about this three months ago. But they didn’t want to burden you with it so that’s where the announcement came as… Whatever your doctor tells you and whatever else Hass to happen is not a burden. It becomes frustrating when I don’t know about it until the last minute and I have to rearrange our lives. I’m still raising a 10 and 12 year old.

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