The Holland America
Have It All Evaluator

It depends heavily on what you'd actually drink and book, which is exactly why we built this tool instead of giving you one number. Have It All costs $60 a person a day on cruises departing before Summer 2027 ($65 after) and folds in a Signature Beverage Package, Surf Wi-Fi, one to three specialty dining nights and a shore excursion credit — but every guest in the cabin has to buy it, and it doesn't include gratuities. Someone who has one drink with dinner and skips the specialty restaurants is usually the case where paying as you go wins; a couple ordering three or four drinks a day each and booking a specialty dinner is usually the case where the bundle wins. Run your own numbers above rather than trust a generic answer.

No — this is the biggest thing people miss. Holland America's Hotel Service Charge runs $18 a person a day in standard staterooms and $20 a day in suites, effective June 1, 2026, and it's billed identically whether or not you buy Have It All. Some other lines, like Princess with its crew appreciation, fold that daily charge into their drink-package bundles; Holland America doesn't. Because the charge is the same either way, it doesn't actually affect whether Have It All is worth it — but it does mean the $60 or $65 daily bundle price is never your full daily add-on cost.

Exactly four things, and nothing else: a Signature Beverage Package (not the higher Elite tier) covering drinks up to $12 each, up to 15 a day; Surf Wi-Fi, the basic browsing-and-messaging tier, one device per guest; specialty dining that scales with your cruise length — one night on 4 to 9 nights, two on 10 to 20, three on 21 or more (Grand Voyages excluded); and a shore excursion credit that scales the same way, from $100 to $300 per person. It does not include gratuities, and it must be purchased individually by every guest in the stateroom — you can't buy it for one person and skip it for their cabin-mate.

If your typical drink order stays at or under $12, Signature is the right call at $50.95 a day and there's no reason to pay Elite's extra roughly $5 a day for a $16 cap you won't use. If you regularly order something in the $12 to $16 range — many specialty cocktails and higher-end wines land there — Elite at $55.95 a day is usually the better buy, because Signature would leave you paying the difference at the bar on every one of those drinks. The threshold is really about how many $12-to-$16 drinks you'd order in a day; our tool below works out your own break-even rather than guessing.

Holland America's own site says yes, but it doesn't agree with itself on the number: one FAQ page states 18%, another states a 20% service charge is included in the beverage package purchase price. We treat 20% as the better-supported figure, because it lines up with Holland America's own June 2026 announcement that moved its beverage and restaurant service charges from 18% to 20% — but we're telling you plainly that the two numbers coexist on Holland America's own site rather than picking one and hiding the conflict.

Up to $100 per person on a 4 to 9 night cruise, up to $200 on 10 to 20 nights, and up to $300 on 21 nights or more, excluding Grand Voyages. It's real credit toward a shore excursion, applied per person, not a discount code with restrictions we could find published. The catch is the same one every line's excursion credit has: if you were going to book an excursion anyway, it's straightforwardly free money; if you tend to explore ports on your own, the credit doesn't come back to you in cash, so it shouldn't be counted as savings if you wouldn't have spent it.

By cover charge, Canaletto is the cheapest by a wide margin at $25 plus service charge, with one entrée per guest included and extra entrées at $10 each — a strong pick if you want the credit to stretch further. Tamarind runs $39 plus service charge with Asian-inspired dishes, though its specialty beverages cost extra. Pinnacle Grill is $52 plus service charge (about $62.40 all in) for Holland America's steakhouse, and Sel de Mer, its seafood brasserie, lists at $55 a person. All four accept the Have It All dining credit equally, so the honest answer is to pick the restaurant you'd actually enjoy — the credit is worth the same cover-charge value at any of them.

No to both. Holland America requires every guest in the stateroom to purchase Have It All individually — you can't buy one package and split it, and you can't buy it for one guest while their cabin-mate opts out. The same all-or-nothing rule applies to the standalone beverage packages: every alcohol-drinking guest sharing a cabin has to buy the same package tier, so you can't put one person on Elite and leave another on nothing.

Effective June 1, 2026, Holland America raised its Hotel Service Charge by $1 a person a day at every cabin tier — to $18 in standard staterooms and $20 in suites — and, by the same announcement, moved the service charge on individually purchased beverages and specialty dining from 18% to 20%. If a guide or a screenshot you're looking at still shows $17, $19 or an 18% figure for drinks, it predates that change.