It is interesting to see all the different opinions regarding this issue, and everyones take on the matter, the fact of all inclusive to me would not change my decison to cruise Radisson, but I feel there are some facts that people should know about, I am not saying that Mark Conroy does not know his business, but to say they would lose 4mil a year, I dont know about that. The hotel industry for most functions has eliminated cash bars, and gone with open bar, for one: it almosts elimates theft, and it is proven that people drink less when they have liquor accesible to them for a entire event. Statistics show that if people have open bar for 1 hour, they will drink more than if they had an open bar for 4 hours, they feel they need to load up or they will miss out. The liquor cost is so incredibly low for these cruise lines that a drink can cost them less than 60cents per drink, so are you telling me that if you were to charge someone $100 per person extra for all inclusive they would have to drink over a hundred drinks per cruise to cut into liquor cost, and really who is doing that: I truly feel that people really do not know the profit in the liquor, and when your buying it in tax free ports it gets even better. Maybe Carnival cruise lines might lose millions with open bar, but if they adapted some of the policies like Superclubs, and Club Med these people know the margin when you bill liquor into the equation and it is HUGE! they want you to pay all up front, because unless your drinking 24/7 and the majority is not, they are cleaning up: but with Radisson passenger base I think it would make the experience better and utilize some of the wonderful lounges that seem to never get used:

Frank