$63
Floor — about $441 a week (per person)
Drink Packages
Star of the Seas Drink Package Prices — What They Cost and When They Drop
Star of the Seas drink package prices swing from $63 to $120 — and the discounts land on a predictable day. Here's what it costs and when to buy.
Royal Caribbean's Star of the Seas has been sailing 7-night Caribbean loops from Port Canaveral since her debut on August 31, 2025. She's an Icon-class ship — the same class as Icon and the newer Legend — running Eastern and Western Caribbean itineraries with a stop at Perfect Day at CocoCay on every sailing.
We've tracked her Cruise Planner package prices every day since early 2026, across sailings booking into 2027. That daily history means we can tell you two things a single price quote can't: what the Deluxe Beverage Package has actually cost, and which day of the week it tends to drop.
This guide covers the Deluxe package, the cheaper non-alcoholic options, what's actually included, the break-even math, and the timing pattern in Star's pricing.
Quick Answer: Star of the Seas Drink Package Prices
TL;DR| Package (per person, per night) | Tracked low | Typical | List price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deluxe Beverage | $63 | $80 | $120 |
| Refreshment (non-alcoholic) | $27 | $31 | $42 |
| Classic Soda | $11 | $13 | $18 |
- The discount sometimes vanishes: Star's Deluxe has touched its full $120 list on some days — no discount at all.
- The cuts cluster late in the week: most price drops we recorded landed on a Thursday or Friday; early-week prices tend to climb.
- The floor is $63: about a third below the typical price — worth waiting for.
What the Deluxe Beverage Package Has Actually Cost
For Star's sailings, the Deluxe package has hovered around $80/night — but on its worst days it has cost the full $120 list price.
The Deluxe Beverage Package is the all-inclusive option: beer, wine, cocktails, and spirits up to $14 a drink, plus specialty coffee, soda, and bottled water. It's the package most cruisers actually weigh.
$80
Typical — about $560 a week (per person)
$120
Ceiling & list — about $840 a week (per person)
Here's what makes Star unusual. On most ships, the Deluxe package never gets anywhere near its list price — the "discount" is effectively permanent. On Star, the price has climbed all the way up to its $120 sticker on some days, meaning no discount at all.
What actually matters is the gap between the floor and the ceiling: a $57 swing per night for the exact same drinks, which adds up to nearly double the cost over a week. Which price you pay comes down to when you happen to buy — not anything about the package itself.
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When Star's Price Actually Drops
The price isn't random. In our daily tracking, Star's Deluxe firms up early in the week and gets cut late in it — the discounts cluster on Thursday and Friday.
Most advice on buying a drink package stops at "wait for a sale." But Royal Caribbean reprices constantly, and watching Star day by day shows a rhythm underneath the noise: Tuesday and Wednesday moves are mostly increases, while Thursday brings the most frequent price cuts and Friday the deepest. Weekends barely reprice.
The practical read: don't buy on impulse midweek, when Star's price is more likely climbing than falling. If you're watching for a dip, Thursday and Friday are where the cuts have landed.
This isn't a guarantee — the size of any given week's drop varies, and the $63 floor doesn't show up every week. But the direction is consistent enough that a few days of patience has a real shot at beating a midweek price. It also lines up with a pattern we see across Royal Caribbean's fleet: package prices tend to sit higher early in the week and soften toward the weekend.
What's Actually Included — and the Gratuity Nobody Quotes
The Deluxe covers any drink up to $14, plus a 40% discount on bottles of wine — but the number that trips people up is the 18% gratuity on à la carte drinks.
The Deluxe Beverage Package covers essentially everything you'd order at a bar, as long as the menu price is $14 or under: cocktails, beer, wine by the glass, spirits, specialty coffee, bottled water, soda, and fresh juice. It also includes a 40% discount on bottles of wine priced up to $100 — useful if you'd order a bottle at dinner rather than glasses.
Two things the sticker price doesn't show:
- The $14 cap. Drinks above $14 — a top-shelf pour or a premium cocktail — aren't free. You pay the difference, not the whole price, but the "unlimited" label has an edge to it.
- The 18% gratuity. Order drinks one at a time onboard and an 18% gratuity lands on every round, so a $14 cocktail is really $16.52. The package price already accounts for that — which is part of why pre-buying can win, and why the real break-even is lower than the menu math suggests.
There's also a rule worth knowing before you price this out: every adult (21+) in the same stateroom has to buy the package if one of them does, and you can't share it — each drink is tied to your SeaPass card. That's why the per-person, per-night price is the number that matters, not a single headline figure.
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The Break-Even: How Many Drinks It Takes
At a typical $80/night, the Deluxe pays off at about 5 to 6 drinks a day — fewer than the sticker math suggests, once you count gratuity.
The simple version divides the package price by the $14 cap. But that ignores the 18% gratuity you'd pay ordering à la carte, which makes each drink effectively $16.52. Using the real per-drink cost, here's where Star's Deluxe starts paying for itself:
| Deluxe price per night | Drinks a day to break even |
|---|---|
| $63 (floor) | ~4 |
| $80 (typical) | ~5 |
| $120 (high) | ~7 |
And "drinks" is broader than cocktails. Specialty coffees, bottled waters, sodas, and mocktails all count. If you start the day with a $7 latte, drink bottled water by the pool, have a soda with lunch, and a few cocktails at night, you clear the break-even faster than you'd expect.
Should You Buy the Deluxe? — by How You Drink
You'll have 5+ drinks a day — coffee, soda, and bottled water count
→ Buy the Deluxe. It breaks even around 5 drinks at the typical price, and it's a clear win near the $63 floor.
You skip alcohol but love specialty coffee and soda
→ Skip the Deluxe — the Refreshment Package (~$31/night) covers you for about a third less.
A glass of wine at dinner and not much else
→ Pay à la carte. Below about 5 drinks a day, the package costs more than you'd actually spend.
You've already decided to buy it
→ Wait for the Thursday–Friday dip — midweek, Star's price is more likely climbing than falling.
For the full fleet-wide break-even breakdown, see our Royal Caribbean Deluxe Beverage Package guide. To run the math on your exact sailing, our cruise drink package calculator pulls the live price for your ship and shows the number of drinks a day you'd need.
The Cheaper Options: Refreshment and Soda
If you don't drink alcohol, the Refreshment Package costs well under half the Deluxe — and the soda package is cheaper still.
Not everyone needs the full bar. Royal Caribbean's two non-alcoholic packages cover most of the same coffees, sodas, and bottled waters without the spirits.
| Package | Tracked low | Typical | List price | Covers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refreshment | $27 | $31 | $42 | Mocktails, specialty coffee, soda, fresh juice, bottled water |
| Classic Soda | $11 | $13 | $18 | Fountain soda and refills |
The Refreshment Package is the quiet middle option. At a typical $31/night, it makes sense for a coffee-and-soda drinker who skips the alcohol — a few specialty coffees and a couple of mocktails a day and it pays for itself.
The Classic Soda Package is the budget floor. At around $13/night, it only earns its keep if you genuinely drink several fountain sodas a day; for most people, paying per soda is cheaper.
How Star Compares to Its Sister Ships
Star's Deluxe sits mid-pack among Royal Caribbean's biggest ships — the same as Icon, cheaper than Legend.
Star shares her Icon-class design with Icon of the Seas and the newer Legend, and their drink package pricing tracks closely — but not identically.
| Ship | Typical Deluxe (per night) |
|---|---|
| Wonder of the Seas | ~$72 |
| Utopia of the Seas | ~$78 |
| Icon of the Seas | ~$80 |
| Star of the Seas | ~$80 |
| Legend of the Seas | ~$88 |
Star and her identical twin Icon price the same, which is what you'd expect. The one to note is Legend: as the newest ship in the class, her Deluxe package runs about $8/night more than Star's — roughly $56 more per person over a week. See our Legend of the Seas drink package guide for that ship's full breakdown.
How We Track This Data
Every figure here comes from All Aboard Deals' own price tracking. Star of the Seas entered service on August 31, 2025, and we've monitored her Royal Caribbean Cruise Planner prices every day since early 2026, across roughly 70 sailings booking into 2027.
That spans about 49,000 tracked beverage prices across 14 products. All figures are per person, per night, and reflect the lowest adult price we recorded each day. As our tracking window grows, we'll keep this guide current. For the full cabin, season, and booking-window picture, start with our Star of the Seas pricing guide.
Beverage is one of the two big pre-buys; specialty dining is the other, and we break down what Star's dining packages have actually cost in a separate guide. (WiFi and The Key are covered in our fleet-wide Royal Caribbean WiFi package prices guide.)
Our Cruise Price Tracker scores every Star of the Seas fare 0-100 against 8.6M+ tracked price snapshots — so you know whether the cabin price is fair before you start adding packages. For real-time package price alerts on your exact sailing, All Aboard Deals Pro does the watching for you — and if you book in CAD, GBP, EUR, or AUD, you can track Star's packages in your own currency so a drop alert reflects a real price move, not the exchange rate.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Deluxe Beverage Package on Star of the Seas has tracked as low as $63/night, with a typical price around $80/night and a high of $120/night — matching Royal Caribbean's $120 list price on its priciest days. The Refreshment Package runs about $31/night and the Classic Soda Package about $13/night. All prices are per person, per night.
In our daily tracking, Star's Deluxe price tends to firm up early in the week and get cut later in it. Thursday saw the most price drops of any day, and every Friday change we recorded was a drop — averaging about $17. Early-week moves (Tuesday and Wednesday) were mostly increases. There's no guarantee in any given week, but the discounts have clustered around Thursday and Friday.
At a typical $80/night, the Deluxe package pays off if you'd have roughly 5 to 6 drinks a day. Because à la carte drinks carry an 18% gratuity — a $14 cocktail is really $16.52 — the real break-even is a little lower than the sticker math suggests. If you have a glass of wine with dinner and not much else, paying per drink still wins.
The Deluxe covers any drink up to $14 — beer, wine by the glass, cocktails, and spirits — plus specialty coffee, bottled water, sodas, and fresh juice. It also includes a 40% discount on bottles of wine up to $100. Drinks priced above $14 aren't fully covered; you pay the difference.
Yes. Royal Caribbean requires all adults (21+) in the same stateroom to buy the Deluxe Beverage Package if any one of them does. You also can't share a package — each drink is tied to the buyer's SeaPass card. That rule is what makes the per-person, per-night price the number that actually matters for your budget.
Almost always cheaper before, through the Cruise Planner. The onboard price sits at or near the $120 list, while the pre-cruise price has ranged from $63 to $120/night. The catch is that the pre-cruise price itself moves daily, so the day you buy matters as much as buying early.
About the author
Graham H — Founder, All Aboard Deals
Graham has been cruising for over a decade and has sailed on 15+ cruises across Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Norwegian, and Virgin.
He built All Aboard Deals to track cruise prices the same way traders track charts — monitoring 29,000+ sailings and spotting fares that fall well below their recent averages.
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