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The Offer
- Get a $100 statement credit after you use your enrolled American Express® Card to spend $500 or more booking a cruise with Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, Cunard or Seabourn between July 5, 2017, and December 31, 2017.
The Fine Print
- Offer valid only for reservations booked between 7/5/17 and 12/31/17 with (1) Carnival Cruise Line at www.carnival.com or via phone 1-800-764-7419; (2) Holland America Line at www.hollandamerica.com or via phone 1-877-932-4259; (3) Princess Cruises at www.princess.com or via phone 1-855-288-8083; (4) Cunard Line at www.cunard.com or via phone 1-800-728-6273; or (5) Seabourn Cruise Line at www.seabourn.com or via phone 1-866-755-5619; or (6) through your Travel Professional between 7/5/17 and 12/31/17.
- Excludes the following brands: Costa, P&O Cruises, P&O Australia, Aida and Fathom.
- Excludes onboard purchases, transfers and transportation to the ship, gift and services, full ship charters, Base Camp at Denali Park (Holland America), McKinley Chalet Resort (Holland America), Worldwide Emergency Assistance Services, Special events in Culinary Arts, Digital Workshops, Special Entertainment Venues, Cancellation Protection Plan (Holland America), formalwear rentals and charitable donations.
- Excludes gift cards.
- Excludes the following if not booked at time of reservation: airfare booked through cruise line, excursions, prepaid food/beverage programs, prepaid gratuities, prepaid wi-fi packages, spa packages, photo & video packages, onboard celebrations, luggage valet services, Travel Insurance, Vacation Protection, motorcoach program, charters, meetings and incentive bookings.
- An “eligible Card” means a valid American Express® US Consumer or Small Business credit or charge Card that is issued by a US banking subsidiary of American Express.
- Prepaid Cards and products, Corporate Cards and American Express-branded Cards issued by other financial institutions are not eligible.
- Must add offer to Card and use same Card to redeem. Limit 1 statement credit(s) per American Express® Card across all American Express offer channels. Statement credit will appear on your billing statement within 90 days after 12/31/2017, provided that American Express receives information from the merchant about your qualifying purchase.
Our Verdict
I’m not a cruiser so I have no real idea if this is a good idea or not. Not exactly clear if you can combine this with other discounts as well or not. This comment says it works towards the CHEERS program and on board credit even though the fine print says that that’s excluded. Doesn’t work on gift cards.
Hello guys. I used offer on my cards (credit posted alredady), but now I need to cancel the cruise. Any idea if I can cancel the cruise and then rebook another one and keep the $100 from the offer?
Thanks
Is this a targeted offer? None of my 5 cards show this offer. Please advise.
Yes targeted, added to title to make clearer.
I wonder if this is like previous offers in the past where you can pre-purchase onboard credit directly from the cruise line and it still counts as the charge will show that it came from the cruise line.
Hello guys. I don’t get it… do I need to enroll the card somewhere under AMEX offers? Or any AMEX issued card is eligible? Thanks
so how do you enroll?
Can you add this via twitter ?
Don’t think so
I have used this deal in the past and it was worth it (although it came with some headaches). I spread the total spend across 6 different cards for 3 separate rooms booked and used it to pay for the Carnival cruise, prepaid gratuities, on board credit, and the cheers program. The cards that went towards the cheers program did not automatically trigger the offer as the charge came through as “Bon Voyage” and not “Carnival.com”. I followed all rules and booked the beverage package at time of booking the reservation so I had a case to have AMEX honor it. I was able to get them to honor the deal, but it took multiple phone calls, chats, and direct messages. All the other purchases automatically triggered the AMEX offer.
Trying to book a 8k cruise with Holland, we have 10+ plus cards. Wonder if it will work with multiple $500 charges…
It did for me when we spread $3000 over 6 cards.
holy crap. the website lets u split payment? I feel so stupid…
Not that I am aware of. I used a travel agent to do it and they talked to a rep.
After the interface change I don’t see the AU that I added in Amex card.
Try using the old interface: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/hate-new-amex-login-interface-much/
Thanks will
Considering on most cruises you can charge casino credit on your cards, if the cruise line lets you use multiple cards(not sure if they do), you could potentially make hundreds by simply taking credit, then cashing out at the cashier
Too bad I’m cruising on Royal this year, or I could have taken advantage
“Excludes onboard purchases, transfers and transportation to the ship, gift and services, full ship charters, Base Camp at Denali Park (Holland America), McKinley Chalet Resort (Holland America), Worldwide Emergency Assistance Services, Special events in Culinary Arts, Digital Workshops, Special Entertainment Venues, Cancellation Protection Plan (Holland America), formalwear rentals and charitable donations.
Excludes gift cards.”
‘Course, that’s no guarantee that casino loads wouldn’t trigger the offer anyway, but my guess would be no.
Based on my experience with Amex Offers, and the verbiage used, I would bet as long as it lists the cruise line then amex will credit you.
But obviously no guarentees…
do u keep it under 10k cash? or u fill out the IRS form? dont want the IRS having any shit on me so I just do 9k.