Royal Caribbean Cruises are all-inclusive? What should I pay once on board?

You actually pay cash for nothing, everything goes onto your sea pass account. Except for the casino, you cannot give them cash if you wanted to, they will not take it. You will have to pay for any alcoholic drinks you buy. You will have to buy a soda pass or pay for sodas. You will pay for bottled water, but not fountain water or water by the glass. Anything you buy from any of the onboard ship stores like the Duty Free store, jewelry store, gift shop etc. are charged to your sea pass card. Certain food items you will have to pay for seperately like a Ben and Jerrys ice cream on the promenade. If you want to dine in the specialty restaurants like Chops, Johhny Rockets or Portofino’s, they will charge you a seating fee, you pay for that. Any excursions you buy either before you leave, or during your trip you will be charged for. Gambling in the casino is the only place you can spend cash, but you can charge a cash advance to your sea pass card. You will pay extra for special services like having a suit dry cleaned or a shirt pressed at the ships laundry. Some events are extra as well such as the Bingo games and other specialty events. If you want a massage, you pay extra, if you want to use the golf simulator, you pay extra. You also pay extra for any photos they take that you want. You pay extra to use the internet. The all inclusive means you get your room and free room service, you get all of your meals for free except the special seating charge for the specialty restaurants, you get water, juices, coffee, tea for free. You can use any of the other ships facilities and see the shows, use the pools and gym etc those are all included. For a 7 day cruise, plan on spending an extra $700 per person on extras charged to your room. Also, any shoping you do at any ports of call are paid for by credit card or American Dollars, you cannot use your sea pass in those shops. Tips are also not included. You will be given the option to charge their recommended tip amounts to your sea pass card or use the envelopes provided to give a CASH tip in the appropriate amounts. Typically, $50 for your room conecier, $50 for your main watier, $25 for assistant waiter, and $10 for the head waiter. If you liked your liqour conecier from the sit down dining room, you can add a few bucks gratuity on the last day to his bill. The same applies for any bartenders you liked and wanted to tip. A mention about tips…. Everything service related you buy or do will include a gratuity of 15%, you cannot remove this. This gratuity goes into a general gratuity fund and is distributed equally amongst that group of staff. IE: Bartenders, Room stuarts, waiters etc. Each tip automatically appled to a bar type purchase is pooled into the bartenders pool and distributed amongst all bar tender staff at the end of the cruise. However, if you liked Samauel who served you your drinks at dinner each night and wanted to tip him, you can slip him a $20 or, add $20 to that last receipt and he will get ALL of that $20. Additional gratuities given all go to that person specifically not into the pool.