re: Carnival Cruise Line to ban bringing bottled drinks onboard

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How about they stop being a-holes and charging $8 for a beer and maybe people will be willing to buy the booze on the ship.

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Well maybe if you want to pony up more than $499 for a 5 day trip, they could do that.

You do understand the concept that a business is in it to make money, right?

Do you understand that the ship you are on probably cost around $400,000,000 to build?
The loan on that has to be paid back...with interest.
That ship uses an assload of fuel cruising around the seas---$$$.
...and insurance, and staff, and crew, and food, and maids, and boat maintenance, and tariffs, and legal fees, and port fees, and on and on...

That all costs money.

Let's say you put 4000 people on a boat for a 4.5 day run at $499 a head...that is just under $2,000,000---or $444,444 a day.

I promise you that all the above stated expenses eat up all that money. They rely on things like alcohol, pay restaurants, Internet, photographs, etc. to make a profit.