Is Have It All worth it?
For two guests who both drink, use the Wi-Fi and want a specialty dinner, yes. On a 7-night sailing the four components cost about $372 less bundled than bought separately, before the shore-excursion credit. Two things break that math most often: a stateroom where only one guest drinks, since both have to take the package, and Half Moon Cay, where the package doesn't work.
What does Have It All include, and what does it cost?
$60 per person, per day booked before you sail, or $70 added onboard. Four things: the Signature Beverage Package (drinks up to $12, 15 a day, with the 20% service charge already in the price), Surf Wi-Fi, one specialty dinner, and a $100 per person shore-excursion credit. The dinner and the credit are for a 4–9 day cruise; both scale up on longer sailings. Have It All applies to the first two guests in a stateroom only.
Does Have It All include gratuities?
No. Crew Appreciation is billed separately at $18 per person, per night, or $20 in suites. So is the 20% service charge on anything you buy outside the package. On a 7-night cruise for two that is $252 on top of the $840 package, so $1,092 before you buy anything else.
Is the bundle cheaper than buying the pieces separately?
Yes, if you were going to buy them anyway. The Signature package costs $67.14 per person, per day on its own, more than the whole bundle at $60. Drink four to five a day and the Wi-Fi, the specialty dinner and the excursion credit effectively come for nothing.
When should you skip Have It All?
Skip it if you barely drink, explore ports on your own (the credit covers HAL's own excursions only), need internet good enough to stream, or hold 4- or 5-Star Mariner status that already covers specialty dining.
Take the fare you've found, add your nights and guests, and the calculator works out what the cruise ends up costing once gratuities, drinks and Wi-Fi are on the bill. Holland America is already selected, and you can switch between paying as you go and adding Have It All.
Price this for my Holland America sailing →I've sailed Holland America on ships from the Maasdam in the mid-nineties to the Eurodam and Nieuw Amsterdam in the Signature class era. The line has always sat between mass-market and true luxury — more refined than one, less expensive than the other, with a guest list that leans toward experienced travelers. These are people who notice when something falls short.
Have It All is HAL's headline package. The name sets a specific expectation. Here's what it actually delivers, component by component.
Crew Appreciation rose from $17 to $18 per person a night, $20 in suites — quietly, with no announcement; guests found out by logging in to prepay and seeing a bigger number. The onboard service charge on drinks, specialty dining and spa went from 18% to 20%. Both increases land outside Have It All, so the gap between the package price and what you actually pay at the end of the week got wider, not narrower.
What Have It All includes
Have It All bundles four things: a drink package, Wi-Fi, specialty dining, and a shore excursion credit.
The package costs $60 per person, per day pre-cruise — $70 if you add it onboard. Two rules upfront: Have It All applies to the 1st and 2nd guests in a stateroom only, so third and fourth guests don't receive it, and it isn't sold on sailings of three days or less. It is also subject to HAL's standard cancellation terms and cannot be partially removed mid-cruise — if one guest wants out, both must cancel.
1. The Signature Drink Package
This covers alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages priced at $12 or under: cocktails, beer, wine by the glass, spirits, sodas, specialty coffees. The service charge — raised to 20% in spring 2026 — is included in that cap; most comparable packages add it on top.
In practice, the $12 cap goes further than it sounds. Classic cocktails — martinis, gin and tonics, mojitos — are priced at $11 fleet-wide. Beer runs around $7.75. Most house wines sit at $11 or under. Where the cap bites is on premium craft cocktails ($13–$15+) and better wines by the glass ($13+); with the package, you pay only the difference, not the full price. HAL's bar pricing runs noticeably lower than most comparable cruise lines — the same $12 cap goes significantly less far on lines like Celebrity or Norwegian, where standard cocktails typically start at $13–$15.
The tell is in the standalone price. The Signature package bought on its own runs $67.14 per person, per day — more than the entire Have It All bundle at $60. At HAL's bar prices, a $11 cocktail plus the 20% service charge is about $13.20 out of pocket, so the drink package alone pays for itself at roughly four to five drinks a day. Clear that bar and Have It All effectively hands you the Wi-Fi, the specialty dinner, and the excursion credit for nothing.
Two things to understand before you board.
First, the daily limit is 15 beverages per 24 hours — and that includes everything. Your morning espresso, your afternoon sparkling water, your evening cocktail all count toward the same 15. On a sea day at pace, 15 goes faster than it sounds.
Second, the package does not work at Half Moon Cay. HAL's private island in the Bahamas is owned by Carnival Corporation, which operates the bars on the island separately. You pay out of pocket for every drink there, and you won't be warned about this prominently before you arrive. The shore excursion credit does work at Half Moon Cay — for activities and cabana rentals — which partially offsets it. But the drink package not working at the line's own private island is the most common complaint from Have It All guests, and it's a fair one. It is also not the industry norm: MSC states that all its drink packages can be used on Ocean Cay, its private island in the Bahamas, so a package that stops at the shoreline is the exception rather than the rule.
If any adult of legal drinking age in the stateroom takes the drink package, all others must too — including a partner who doesn't drink. Also excluded: minibar, room service beverages, and purchases at The Shops onboard.
2. Wi-Fi Surf Package
Surf covers basic browsing — email, social media, news — no streaming, no video calls. If you need more, you can upgrade to Premium. Pre-cruise through HAL's Navigator app, Surf runs roughly $18 per person, per day, Premium about $24, and Stream about $36; onboard the daily rates run $31–$47 depending on tier. Buy before you board — it's cheaper than adding it once you're aboard. For most leisure travelers, Surf is adequate. For anyone who travels with a laptop open, it isn't.
3. Specialty Dining
Included nights scale by cruise length:
- 4–9 days: 1 night (Pinnacle Grill, Rudi's Sel de Mer, Canaletto, or Tamarind)
- 10–20 days: 2 nights (one Pinnacle Grill or Rudi's Sel de Mer, one Canaletto or Tamarind)
- 21+ days (excluding Grand Voyages): 3 nights (one each at Pinnacle Grill, Tamarind, and Canaletto)
Which restaurants you can actually use depends on your ship. Pinnacle Grill sails on every ship in the fleet. Tamarind is on Signature and Pinnacle class ships only. Rudi's Sel de Mer is a dedicated restaurant on three ships — Koningsdam, Nieuw Statendam, and Rotterdam. Where a restaurant isn't aboard, HAL substitutes: on ships without Tamarind, a second Pinnacle Grill night takes its place.
Premium dining events are not included: A Taste of De Librije, the Cellar Master Dinner, Morimoto by Sea. These are one-off ticketed events rather than a regular night out, and they sit outside the package even when they're held in a restaurant your credit would otherwise cover. Elsewhere in the fleet, Sel de Mer also appears as a pop-up event in the main dining room; that form is an event, not the restaurant, and it is treated the same way. If you board expecting Have It All to cover the entire specialty dining category, it doesn't.
4-Star Mariners receive 50% off specialty dining surcharges; 5-Star Mariners receive complimentary specialty dinners. If you've reached either tier, the specialty dining component of Have It All may already be covered by your loyalty status. Remove it from the value calculation before deciding whether the package makes sense.
4. Shore Excursion Credit
The credit scales by cruise length:
- 4–9 days: $100 per person
- 10–20 days: $200 per person
- 21+ days (excluding Grand Voyages): $300 per person
This is per person, not per stateroom. It covers HAL excursions only — not independent operators, private tours, or transfers. If you habitually explore independently on port days, the credit is worth nothing to you.
What it doesn't include — and what that costs
Have It All does not include gratuities for US guests.
As of spring 2026, the daily rate is $18 per person for standard staterooms, $20 for suites. On a 7-night sailing for two guests in a standard stateroom, that's $252 added to your bill before a single drink is poured.
The increase appeared in spring 2026 with no formal announcement (first noticed in April) — guests discovered the change by logging in to prepay gratuities and finding the number had gone up. The onboard service charge on beverages, specialty dining, and spa services also increased in spring 2026, from 18% to 20%. Unlike crew appreciation, which guests can technically reduce at Guest Services, this charge is fixed.
Club Orange — HAL's third tier
Club Orange is a separate add-on.
It costs $25 per person per day on most ships, or $35 per person per day on Koningsdam, Nieuw Statendam, and Rotterdam — the three Pinnacle-class ships with a dedicated Club Orange dining room. On cruises longer than 13 nights, the rate drops to $15 per person per day on standard ships; verify with HAL whether the $35 Pinnacle-class rate also reduces on longer sailings, as sources are inconsistent.
What it includes: priority embarkation and disembarkation, a stateroom upgrade within your booked category, access to a dedicated or priority dining venue, an expanded breakfast menu, sparkling wine at embarkation dinner, upgraded bathrobes, and a souvenir tote bag.
The ship-dependency matters more than the marketing implies. On Koningsdam, Nieuw Statendam, or Rotterdam, Club Orange guests dine in a separate, quieter room with an expanded menu — a meaningfully different experience from the main dining room. On every other ship in the fleet, the dining benefit is priority seating with a marginally enhanced menu option. The first is a real upgrade. The second is a convenience.
Check your ship before deciding. Neptune and Pinnacle Suite guests receive Club Orange benefits as part of their booking — everything except the stateroom upgrade and special onboard event — at no extra charge.
The real number — 7 nights, two guests
The comparison below covers package components only. Gratuities are shown separately — they apply whether you take Have It All or buy everything individually.
One line needs explaining. Holland America grants dining nights, not dollars, so there is no published value for an included dinner. We price it at $52 per person, the published Pinnacle Grill cover charge — the restaurant on every ship in the fleet. That is our reference figure, not a HAL one: Canaletto runs $25, Tamarind $39, and Sel de Mer $55, so what your dinner is actually worth depends on which restaurant your ship has and which one you choose. How many nights you get depends on the length of your cruise — one on a 4–9 day sailing, two on 10–20, three on 21 or more.
| Option | Components | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Have It All | $60 × 7 nights × 2 guests | $840 |
| Signature Drink Package (standalone) | $67.14/day × 7 × 2 guests | $940 |
| Surf Wi-Fi (standalone) | ~$18/day × 7 × 2 guests | $252 |
| 1 specialty dinner each | $52 per person × 2 | $104 |
| Shore excursion credit | $100 per person — not available separately | $200 value |
| A la carte total | Before the $200 excursion credit | $1,212 |
| Gratuities — both options | $18 × 7 nights × 2 guests | $252 |
The saving on components alone is about $372 for two guests, before the shore excursion credit adds further value. For two guests who drink regularly, use Wi-Fi, and book at least one specialty dinner, the package does what it says it will do.
Put it together and your fixed add-on for two over seven nights is $1,092 — $840 for Have It All plus $252 in gratuities. That's the floor, before any premium pours.
During major HAL promotions — Wave Season, Black Friday — Have It All is sometimes bundled into the fare at no additional daily charge. If it's already included in your fare, the calculation changes entirely. Check before running the numbers.
When it works — and when it doesn't
- Both guests drink at a moderate pace — four to six beverages a day
- You book at least one HAL shore excursion per port
- Basic Wi-Fi covers your needs
- You plan a specialty dinner and aren't focused on the premium dining events
- One guest drinks regularly and one doesn't — both must take the package
- You explore independently on port days — the credit is worthless
- Your itinerary includes Half Moon Cay and you plan to spend the day there with drinks
- You need streaming-quality internet
- You're a 4-Star or 5-Star Mariner — recalculate the specialty dining value first
Is Have It All worth it? The verdict
Have It All covers a lot for a premium cruise line.
Four components, scaled by cruise length, with the service charge on drinks included — that's more than Celebrity offers at a higher daily price. For the right guest on the right sailing, the value is there.
Where it stops short is easy enough to list. Gratuities aren't included — and increased in spring 2026 without announcement. The drink package goes dark at the line's own private island. Club Orange is a different product on different ships.
None of this makes Have It All a bad package. It makes it a good package with a name that does more work than the fine print can support.
How it compares to Celebrity All Included
Celebrity occupies the same premium tier as Holland America.
Their bundled offer — All Included — is simpler: drinks and basic Wi-Fi only. No specialty dining credits, no shore excursion credit. The price is higher: approximately $90 per person per day for the Classic tier (before its 20% service charge). Celebrity also excludes gratuities for US guests, and raised its rate to $19.50 per person per day on 29 July 2026 — $1.50 above HAL's.
HAL's Have It All is the more comprehensive product at a lower daily rate. Celebrity's All Included is cleaner: two components, no scaling by cruise length, no exclusions by ship or island. Both lines leave the same gap between the package price and the total bill once gratuities are added.
If you're choosing on package value alone, Have It All offers more. If you're choosing on simplicity and fewer moving parts to misread, Celebrity's offer is harder to get wrong.
Before you book either, it's worth running the full numbers on your specific sailing — including gratuities, which neither package covers. The CruiseClarify calculator handles that in about 30 seconds.