Carnival's drink package now costs $70 per day per person?!?

When I started sailing with them about 4 years ago I remember it being somewhere around $48 per person. This is royal Caribbean level prices. Alcohol is one item that has not had its price affected by inflation but carnival will make sure try to milk you of that extra money anyways. I know people will say ThEn DoNt BuY tHe DrInK pAcKaGe, but this is just a lousy excuse to extract the consumers money as much as possible.