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AMEX Offer - for those looking to cruise new offer $400 off $1500 - Carnival, Princess, Holland, Seabourn, & Cunard

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New AMEX offer for those looking to cruise (yes I know about the Royal and the new Celebrity one) this hit my AMEX sheet today

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Get a one-time $400 statement credit by using your enrolled Card to spend a minimum of $1,500 in one or more transactions on cruise line sailings with Carnival, Princess, Holland America Line, Seabourn or Cunard by 12/31/2021. See wlcl.com/amex. For reservations only. Terms and exclusions apply.
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Enrollment limited. Must first add offer to Card and then use same Card to redeem. Only U.S.-issued American Express® Cards are eligible. Limit 1 enrolled Card per Card Member across all American Express offer channels. Your enrollment of an eligible American Express Card for this offer extends only to that Card. Offer valid only for reservations booked between 10/18/2021 and 12/31/2021 with (1) Carnival Cruise Line at Carnival.com or phone 1-800-764-7419, (2) Princess Cruises at Princess.com or phone 1-800-774-6237, (3) Holland America Line at Hollandamerica.com or phone 1-877-932-4259, (4) Seabourn at Seabourn.com or phone 1-866-755-5619, or (5) Cunard at Cunard.com or phone 1-800-728-6273. Valid only on purchases made in US dollars. Must be booked on the respective cruise line's US website only. The respective cruise line's standard booking requirements, policies, restrictions and ticket contract apply. Cruises are subject to availability and capacity controlled. Excludes onboard purchases, transfers/transportation to the ship, gift and services, gift cards, charters, Base Camp at Denali Park, McKinley Chalet Resort, Worldwide Emergency Assistance Services, special events in culinary arts, digital workshops, special entertainment venues, cancellation protection plan, formal wear rentals and charitable donations. Excludes 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. Please note that hotels, car rental companies, cruise lines do not accept prepaid cards for charges authorized in advance, although prepaid cards may be used to settle the final bill. Check to make sure prepaid cards are accepted before attempting to use your prepaid card to take advantage of offers for these merchants. Offer is non-transferable. Limit of 1 statement credit per Card Member. You may not receive the statement credit if we receive inaccurate information or are otherwise unable to identify your purchase as qualifying for the offer. For example, you may not receive the statement credit if (a) the merchant uses a third-party to sell their products or services; or (b) the merchant uses a third-party to process or submit your transaction to us (e.g., using mobile or wireless card readers); or (c) you choose to make a purchase using a third-party payment account or make a purchase using a mobile or digital wallet. Purchases may fall outside of the offer period in some cases due to a delay in merchants submitting transactions to us or if the purchase date differs from the date you made the transaction (for example, the purchase date for online orders may be the shipping date). Statement credit will appear on your billing statement within 90 days after 12/31/2021, provided that American Express receives information from the merchant about your qualifying purchase. Note that American Express may not receive information about your qualifying purchase from merchant until all items/services from your qualifying purchase have been shipped/provided by merchant. Statement credit may be reversed if qualifying purchase is returned/cancelled. If American Express does not receive information that identifies your purchase as qualifying for the offer, you will not receive the statement credit. Limit 1 enrolled Card per American Express Card online account. The enrolled Card account must be active, not past due, canceled, or have a returned payment outstanding to receive the statement credit. Any benefit earned from this offer is in addition to the rewards (i.e. Membership Rewards or cash back) earned as part of your existing Card benefits, but your ability to earn spend-based rewards for the purchase will be based on the amount after any statement credit or other discount is applied. Amex Offers are dynamic and personalized, so the offers you see may change. For questions regarding your Card Account, please call the number on the back of your Card. By adding an offer to a Card, you agree that American Express may send you communications about the offer. POID: K2TT:0002



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Created 10-18-2021 at 06:42 AM by GCS
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MistaClean
10-18-2021 at 07:53 AM.
10-18-2021 at 07:53 AM.
Hmmm, don't see it on my cards yet (ironically cleared out my offers last night too to trigger more). I did get a $150 off 500 (or 15000 Membership Rewards points for my MR card) off Celebrity Cruises though.
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Keithy
10-18-2021 at 08:28 AM.
10-18-2021 at 08:28 AM.
This one is not on mine. I did use a Princess Amex offer 2 years ago so I wonder if they don't include me this time around. Totally bummed because I'm taking a princess cruise in spring 2022
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ctr11
10-18-2021 at 08:35 AM.
10-18-2021 at 08:35 AM.
Quote from Keithy :
This one is not on mine. I did use a Princess Amex offer 2 years ago so I wonder if they don't include me this time around. Totally bummed because I'm taking a princess cruise in spring 2022

Yeah the OP should probably add YMMV to the title
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Zoozie
10-18-2021 at 09:33 AM.
10-18-2021 at 09:33 AM.
Quote from clipz98 :
Hmmm, don't see it on my cards yet (ironically cleared out my offers last night too to trigger more). I did get a $150 off 500 (or 15000 Membership Rewards points for my MR card) off Celebrity Cruises though.

Interesting, mine was $15k points on a $500 celebrity cruise.
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GCS
10-18-2021 at 09:59 AM.
10-18-2021 at 09:59 AM.
Oddly enough I have this one and the new $150 off Celebrity one on 2 of my cards. The other cards either have neither one of these offers or the 15k points offer mentioned above.

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MistaClean
10-18-2021 at 10:12 AM.
10-18-2021 at 10:12 AM.
Quote from Zoozie :
Interesting, mine was $15k points on a $500 celebrity cruise.

Yep, what I meant is that I have it on all 3 of my current Amex cards with basically $150 value off, either in cash or 15k MR points depending on the card I use it on.
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Dr. J
10-18-2021 at 10:23 AM.
10-18-2021 at 10:23 AM.
Quote from Zoozie :
Interesting, mine was $15k points on a $500 celebrity cruise.
Quote from GCS :
Oddly enough I have this one and the new $150 off Celebrity one on 2 of my cards. The other cards either have neither one of these offers or the 15k points offer mentioned above.
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Yep, what I meant is that I have it on all 3 of my current Amex cards with basically $150 value off, either in cash or 15k MR points depending on the card I use it on.
FWIW, AE MR pts are generally considered more valuable than 1 cent, although of course that depends on what you spend them on. TPG values them at 2 cents [thepointsguy.com], so that 15k pts is more like $300.
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10-18-2021 at 10:40 AM.
10-18-2021 at 10:40 AM.
Quote from Dr. J :
FWIW, AE MR pts are generally considered more valuable than 1 cent, although of course that depends on what you spend them on. TPG values them at 2 cents [thepointsguy.com], so that 15k pts is more like $300.

Yeah which is why I'd use my MR card over my cash back one honestly. I don't have direct plans to go on a Celebrity ship next year so I won't have use for it, but still did it on my MR card anyway. Never know!
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10-18-2021 at 11:57 AM.
10-18-2021 at 11:57 AM.
Carnival also has a $150 back on $500 spend. I got the $400/$1500 on three people's card and then the $150/$500 on the other 2. Everyday and Blue $0 annual fee cards had them but Hilton, Marriott, etc. didn't. Honestly I wish I would of got the $150 on all them since it's so hard to spend $1500 on a reservation right now with the crazy low prices. Unfortunately GCs, fun shoppe, etc. hadn't counted in the past since those get charged differently.
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thumper1
10-18-2021 at 02:55 PM.
10-18-2021 at 02:55 PM.
I added 150 offers to my account and none of the new offers were for cruises. At first, I could refresh the page and new offers came up until there were 100, but now I can't get past 49 offers. Mad
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geek_76
10-19-2021 at 10:56 AM.
10-19-2021 at 10:56 AM.
Quote from rapidfire94 :
Carnival also has a $150 back on $500 spend. I got the $400/$1500 on three people's card and then the $150/$500 on the other 2. Everyday and Blue $0 annual fee cards had them but Hilton, Marriott, etc. didn't. Honestly I wish I would of got the $150 on all them since it's so hard to spend $1500 on a reservation right now with the crazy low prices. Unfortunately GCs, fun shoppe, etc. hadn't counted in the past since those get charged differently.
I read the terms of the offer, and it states "new bookings" between 10/18/21 and 12/31/21 - but how strict is it? Example: if I used my AmEx card w/ the $150 back for spending $500 offer activated to pay down an existing booking, would I receive the $150 credit back? Thanks!
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10-21-2021 at 07:03 AM.
10-21-2021 at 07:03 AM.
Quote from geek_76 :
I read the terms of the offer, and it states "new bookings" between 10/18/21 and 12/31/21 - but how strict is it? Example: if I used my AmEx card w/ the $150 back for spending $500 offer activated to pay down an existing booking, would I receive the $150 credit back? Thanks!
Amex doesn't know if it's a new or existing booking. The day the offer popped up I added it and then immediately pre-paid grats on existing bookings (3 cruises) and already received the credit this morning. Unfortunately my 3 cruises had final payment due a couple weeks ago so I couldn't use it for that but have done that many times in the past and it always worked. What you're looking to see is that the charge comes across with this: CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE RSVR

On my savings tab it stated this within a day: CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE RSVR

REDEEMED
10/18/2021
You saved $150.00

Activity page states this: -$150.00

Will appear as a credit on your Nov 8 statement as CARNIVAL CRUISE LINEMIAMI

I was nervous since the initial charges displayed as RSVR which is what you want but then it changed the next day to LINEMIAMI, but it still credited. Please note in the past buying from funshops or gift cards did not work since those are not reservations.
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10-21-2021 at 07:04 AM.
10-21-2021 at 07:04 AM.
Thanks!
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mland0821
10-24-2021 at 07:15 PM.
10-24-2021 at 07:15 PM.
I do have these cruise promos on some of our cards.
I've never taken a cruise but I am in south Florida and was considering taking a last minute cruise to check it out. Any suggestions on which cruise line and is there a good site for booking last minute promos?
Other than the AMEX offer, are there advantages to book direct w/the cruise line vs some of the last minute sites? I do prefer booking directly w/airlines vs other sites.
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