He probably bought the drink package and wanted to get his money’s worth.
Cruise drinks are very, very weak.
Many years ago in the Bahamas (1984) I purchased a ticket to a beach party where they took the opposite approach. They took you out to a little island, and you couldn’t bring any refreshments with you.
Hard liquor drinks were free, and you paid out the nose for beers or soda.
Well.
I thought that would be fine, but when I ordered a rum and coke, they filled the entire cup up with rum and put some of that coke “syrup” in it. It was completely undrinkable. But, since I didn’t have much money, I tried.
That was a mistake, I can tell you.
But I look back on it and thought that was a fascinating approach to the “all you can drink” part of a ticket...