Carnival Cruise Is Switching To Pepsi Drink Products: Effect On Bottomless Bubbles and Cheers Beverage Programs

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         Today Carnival Cruise Line announced starting in January 2020 Pepsi products will be sold on Carnival's ships. A variety of PepsiCo products will be sold including Bubly, Pure Leaf, Naked Juice, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Starbucks, Pepsi, Pepsi Zero Sugar, Sierra Mist, and Sierra Mist Zero Sugar. A full list of the PepsiCo products planned to be sold & served onboard can be found below.
                The full variety of PepsiCo beverages will be available as Carnival ships deplete inventories of Coca-Cola products and receive shipments of the PepsiCo beverages. Carnival's website states for some time ships may have a mix of Coca-Cola and Pepsi products onboard until the Coca-Cola inventory is sold out. 
                  Through this change in beverage suppliers, Carnival will be taking an additional step to reduce single use plastics on the ships. Carnival's website states more aluminum and glass bottling will be used, but soda dispensers will be used when space allows. It is unclear which ships or bar areas will receive soda dispensers. 
                 There will be an impact to Carnival's beverage package programs, Cheers and Bottomless Bubbles. Some of the newly offered beverages will be available under one program but not the other, both, or not included in the program for either. Carnival's website notes that the change to PepsiCo products is not changing the price of Cheers or Bottomless Bubbles. 

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PepsiCo Beverages That Will Be Served On Carnival's Ships:
               Once the roll-out is complete the following PepsiCo beverages are expected to be on the menu for Carnival's ships (per Carnival's website). I have also included information about whether the PepsiCo beverage is eligible for consumption under Carnival's Cheers or Bottomless Bubbles beverage packages:

Beverage Name	Included In Bottomless Bubbles?	Included In Cheers?
Pepsi	Yes	Yes
Diet Pepsi	Yes	Yes
Pepsi Zero Sugar	Yes	Yes
Caffeine Free Pepsi	Yes	Yes
Diet Pepsi Caffeine Free	Yes	Yes
Sierra Mist	Yes	Yes
Sierra Mist Zero Sugar	Yes	Yes
Mug Root Beer	Yes	Yes
Diet Mug Root Beer	Yes	Yes
Mountain Dew	Yes	Yes
Diet Mountain Dew	Yes	Yes
Bubly Lime Sparkling Water	Yes	Yes
Bubly Grapefruit Sparkling Water	Yes	Yes
Bubly Orange Sparkling Water	Yes	Yes
Naked Green Machine	No	No
Naked Mighty Mango	No	No
Naked Strawberry Banana	No	No
Half Naked Lively Greens	No	No
Half Naked Peach With Ginger	No	No
Pure Leaf Honey Green Tea	No	Yes
Pure Leaf Tea & Lemonade	No	Yes
Pure Leaf Unsweetened Black Tea	No	Yes
Pure Leaf Sweet Tea	No	Yes
Gatorade Lemon Lime	No	Yes
Gatorade Fruit Punch	No	Yes
Propel Electrolyte Water	No	Yes
Propel Strawberry Raspberry	No	Yes
Propel Peach Mango	No	Yes
​Starbucks Frappuccino	No	Yes
​Starbucks Double Shot Espresso	No	Yes

             If you are a beverage package user (Cheers or Bottomless Bubbles) I recommend checking onboard to make sure you desired drink is included in the package you selected. Please keep in mind beverage availability and inclusion in a beverage package is subject to change. I compiled this list using Carnival's website on 11/13/2019, but information could have changed since this time.

Carnival's Press Release:
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Carnival's Beverage FAQ Section Over The PepsiCo Product Change:
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