Luxury Cruise Line
Cunard Alcohol Policy
What you can bring aboard, the corkage rules, drink packages, and the drinking age on a Cunard cruise in 2026, verified against the official policy.
Quick answer
Cunard lets you bring some of your own alcohol aboard at embarkation. It sells a drink package. The onboard drinking age is 21 in US waters and 18 on international sailings.
Bringing your own alcohol
Allowed, with limits
Cunard allows one bottle of wine or champagne per person, no larger than 750 ml. A corkage fee applies if you drink it in a restaurant or bar.
Corkage fee
$25 per bottle
A $25 per bottle corkage fee applies to drink your own wine or champagne in a restaurant or bar. Wines bought through Cunard's Little Luxuries Collection are exempt.
Drink packages
Offered
Beverage Collection
- Price per day
- $76.50 per person Rates run $49.50 to $94.50
- Per-drink cap
- Not published
- Non-alcoholic package
- Alcohol-Free Collection $18 per day
- Everyone in the cabin
- Not published
The Beverage Collection runs $49.50 to $94.50 per person per night prepaid, depending on cruise length, or $55 to $105 bought on board. The Premium Beverage Collection (drinks up to $20 each) runs $63 to $108 prepaid. Booking a package on My Cunard saves 10%.
What's included and the rules
Cunard's A World of Drinks program has four collections: Beverage Collection, Premium Beverage Collection, Alcohol-Free Collection, and Premium Alcohol-Free Collection. The Premium Beverage Collection covers alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks of up to US$20 each, and guests pay the difference for drinks over US$20.
Prices are per person per night and vary by voyage length. The Beverage Collection costs $94.50 per night on 1 to 6 night sailings, $76.50 on 7 to 14 nights, $63.00 on 15 to 74 nights, and $49.50 on 75 nights or more when booked in advance through My Cunard, which saves 10% compared with on board prices. The $76.50 rate shown is for 7 to 14 nights. The Alcohol-Free Collection is $18.00 per night on every voyage length.
Minimum drinking age
21
Guests under 18 may not buy or drink alcohol on board. In US waters Cunard follows the US legal drinking age of 21.
Good to know
With the Premium Beverage Collection, you pay only the difference on drinks priced over $20. Duty-free alcohol bought on board is held and delivered to your stateroom on the last day. Spanish IVA tax of 10% is added to bar charges while in Spanish waters.
Frequently asked questions
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Sources
Facts, costs, and travel details in this guide were verified against the following sources. See our research methodology for how we vet and update data.
- Cunard: A world of drinks accessed 2026-10-02
- Cunard: Useful information accessed 2026-10-02
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