Which is better?

I was talking to one of my regular cruisers the other day and we were discussing the various merits and differences of the six star luxury cruise lines. As you can imagine, the service and quality you'll get from any ship that labels itself as six star will always be excellent but the one thing we couldn't agree on was onboard credit compared to free drinks and excursions onboard.

If you've never travelled on one you may not have realised but different six star luxury cruise lines have different ways of doing things.

Some of the lines will offer their guests all inclusive drinks onboard and unlimited free shore excursions. Others will offer free drinks at dinner but you have to purchase your own shore excursions. Still more don't offer any free drinks or shore excursions but will give their guests large amounts of onboard credit to purchase what they want.
The point of todays post is to ask the question, "Which is better?"

I know a lot of people, for obvious reasons, are fans of the free drinks and free shore excursions. Once you get onboard there's no bills to pay and you can relax in the comfort of knowing it's all taken care of. The problem is though if you're not a big drinker or prefer to do your own thing on shore then you're really just subsidising other peoples cruise with your cruise fare and spa treatments will still need to be paid for.
That's why some cruise lines think it's a lot fairer to offer on board credit to their guests. You can then spend your money on what you want; if you're a big drinker you can spend it on your bar bill; if you're an explorer you can spend it on excursions and if you just want to relax you can spend it on the spa treatments.

So which would you prefer, the stress free, no worries approach where you know everything is included?
Or the pay as you go, but spend your money on what you like rather than what the cruise line wants you to option?
Let me know here

Happy cruising.