We were concerned by the alcohol intake too. We were too uncomfortable to question any of this with them directly, particularly without knowing what is customary and what isn’t. And mid trip we didn’t want to piss them off. Our instincts told us it was off, but they’ve been chartering many years so we just trusted it was the norm.

At Willie T’s for example, they came aboard with us. Before we ordered lunch they approached the restaurant and gave the name of our charter before we all ordered. They did the same with the bartender. They had lunch and several rounds of drinks on our charter “tab” with no offer to pay their portion.

There are differences between our charter and most others they do. We went directly through them and it sounds like most book them through a broker/third party. And they said most do full board but we requested half board when it was offered. But this still wasn’t an inexpensive trip, and we still paid their website’s advertised rate for a direct booking, half board.

Sounds like they just took advantage of us? Very frustrating. Today is our final day.