27/06/2025
If you are travelling with us on Marella Discovery 2 out of Limassol this summer, just a reminder about the small change to the inclusion of Bottled Water in the Premium Drinks Package!
From the start of May 2025, we’ll no longer be including bottled water in our Premium All Inclusive
package.
There’s a really important reason why…
We’re committed to ambitious sustainability targets and measuring our impact on the environment is something we take very seriously. It’s an essential part of understanding how we can make sustainable improvements. Since 2019, we’ve been auditing our consumption of plastics and making big reductions – we’ve already avoided over 9 million pieces of single-use plastic by using alternatives or removing things completely.
There’s still room for improvement.
We’ve been trialling ways to bring this number down further. If you sail with us frequently, you might even have seen one of these trials in action. Over the last year, we’ve been monitoring how much bottled water we use onboard. For Premium All Inclusive alone we get through more than half a million bottles of water a year.
So this simple change makes a huge difference.
Of course, it’s important to stay hydrated – especially in high temperatures. We have water stations in every stairwell on the cabin decks. If they're not on your deck, they'll be one up or one
down. The water is double filtered, through our water plant onboard and again through the fountain, to give you the perfect glass. You can bring a reusable bottle from home, fill the carafe in your cabin or you can purchase a bottle once you’re onboard from Broad Street Shops. You can also get water by the glass, free in all our bars and restaurants.
We appreciate that any change to your holiday booking can be frustrating but we do hope you understand the important reasons behind this change. Making sustainable improvements is a continuous process and we are planning to remove plastic bottles from our bars and restaurants in the future too.
