MisterBill99

Has anyone seen it on ANY Delta card? Or any other travel partner card? They generally do not get offers from other travel companies, even though Delta and Celebrity are not competitors.

Thanks for mentioning that it showed up for the AU card. What type of AMEX was it? I just checked my AU's cards and they still did not get it.

Not an issue. They don't care what cruise you're using it on, just so long as it posts from Celebrity.

Is it actually worth $60 a year?? I have no problem adding the offers myself, and a I posted earlier there is a Javascript that I have stored as a shortcut, so I just have to click to load all available offers.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence, since the offers are not unique based on purchases like that. You may have a slightly different offer, or not get it at all, but it would not just show up because you made a purchase unless it was new for everyone. How often do you look for new offers?

Did you try this? I just logged into one of my AU's accounts (where I do not load all offers because he has his own card and login) and it showed 100 offers. I loaded four and it now shows 99. There have not been any recent comments and some people said it had stopped working, and the post itself has "(Note 11/8/22: This doesn’t work anymore for me)" at the top.

I've used the offer before and got it this time. What cards do you have that you're not seeing it on? Is it the primary card or an authorized user? And loading many offers isn't all that difficult, especially if you use the Javascript that I posted earlier. Even if you have to do it by hand, my experience was that you can keep clicking in the same place on the screen as offers are loaded. I've posted this before, but if you are expecting a refund from excess OBC, you really don't want it going on any credit card that gives you points or cash back, since you will get negative rewards on the return. Either get the cash the last night, or use a debit card or some credit card that has no rewards program (if you have one, I don't think that I do).

I'd just wait a few days and hopefully someone will report that buying the OBC through the gift site works, and do that. Or wait until they hopefully have a July 4th sale on excursions and other stuff and use it then.

Reading fine print on Amex offers is rarely a good idea, especially when you misinterpret it. Gift cards are not included because they're often sold by a third-party company (but if the charge posts from the store with the offer, you'll still get credited for the offer). And you're not buying a gift card, nor are you buying a certificate.

You won't get the Amex credit until a couple of days (or more) after your charges post. If you just made the purchases, you certainly won't see it yet. Check the offers section, it will disappear from the list of offers added to your card first, then it will show up under earned, then you'll see the money in your account. You may receive an email from Amex saying that you redeemed your offer. It sometimes shows up immediately but can appear hours later, or never.

The offer says "Get a one-time $100 statement credit by using your enrolled eligible Card to spend a minimum of $500 in one or more purchases" so buying more in another transaction should trigger the offer once you hit $500.

Not specific to Platinum. I had it on my free Blue Cash card, my wife had it on her Blue Cash Preferred.

They only show 100 available offers. If you have more than that, you need to load offers before they show you more. I have a script (not mine) bookmarked to load all offers with the following: javascript:btns=[...document.querySelectorAll('.offer-cta')].filter(b => b.textContent === 'Add to Card');c=()=>{ b = btns.pop(); if (!b) return console.log('added all!'); b.click(); setTimeout(c, Math.random() * 1500 + 300) };c(); Or just load a bunch manually, reload the page and see if it shows up. Also, what card do you have? It may not be available on co-branded cards from other travel companies (like Delta). I had it on my wife's card and mine, but I do not see it on my kid's authorized user cards. I am not sure if it was only available on the primary card because I didn't think to look before loading it on our cards last night. It's also possible that it's no longer available, but that is unlikely so soon after it showed up. I actually just made final payment on a cruise last week, and it was actually sooner than Celebrity's final payment date because my TA sets it a couple of weeks earlier (I could have asked to have it extended, but never expected the offer to show up now). Fortunately, it appears that I can just purchase refundable OBC and take advantage of our offers that way. Here's the link to purchase OBC, BTW. It's basically their site to purchase gifts for others who are cruising. It won't be available to use before you board, but if you wanted to spend it now, you could just purchase what you want in the Cruise Planner. Celebrity Cruises

Actually, since the charge will appear different than the purchase (given that it's not valid for on board purchases), it's unlikely that they will. But as I posted, it makes no sense to take the refund on a card that will charge back a percentage of your refund. Either get cash or use a debit card.

They're not going to catch the refund because it's going to post as an on board account transaction, which the offer isn't even valid on. Plus you could get the excess OBC as cash if you wanted. Or just register a different card for your on board spending. While I don't like using a debit card normally, I do it when I am expecting a refund of excess OBC. IF you use a credit card and it gives you rewards for purchases, you'll get negative rewards for the refund portion.

Well, if they start seating people at 6:30, we can get there early. We're doing specialty dining at least 3 of the 7 nights, since we got a free meal from our TA and now that we're D+ thanks to the changes announced last week, we'll get 2 BOGO meals. Will see if I can get a discount for other nights, too. A friend who's on Anthem in the UK said that last week they were offering 50% off. So I don't expect to be in the MDR most nights, anyway.

We're sailing from NJ, so maybe dining starts 15 minutes earlier in Florida sailings. It's also possible that the 6:30 slots got taken on my cruise. We just booked, and I had not looked until now. But it seemed odd not to have 6:30 for any night.

Exactly. It used to be that they had separate dining rooms for fixed and MTD. It seems like they're now treating MTD customers as an afterthought, they'll let them eat when they have room for them. Funny, since I thought that they were trying to push people to do that instead of fixed seating. Or are they just trying to get by with less staff and having them serve both fixed and MTD guests?

I just booked MTD reservations for an October cruise on Symphony and the earliest I saw for any of the days was 6:45. I wonder what happens if you show up earlier? My experience in the past was that it didn't really matter, so long as you had a reservation, unless the line for people with reservations doesn't open until 6:45.

Actually, Celebrity will have Equinox sailing out of PC starting in November. View All Cruises | Find the Best Cruises for 2024 & 2025 (celebritycruises.com)

So does that mean that you could have used the BOGO all week if you wanted to, and not just twice? I just got Diamond+ as a result of the new status match change and am looking forward to using this on Symphony in October (which I just booked this week before the announcement, good timing).

The terms often (usually) do not reflect how the offer actually works. That's why it's unfortunate that this is a new thread and not a continuation of an old one, which would have explained how it REALLY works. I have used this offer in the past to purchase OBC, and make additional payments after the initial reservation, and it worked fine. All that matters is that the charge posts as Holland America.

Sure it will!

I'm the OP and wanted to post an update. Last week, I got an email from Google Flights saying that the price had gone down (basically to what I had originally paid) so I called to book through Celebrity. I cancelled my reservation with Delta and paid for the new tickets so they could be ticketed, but I was told that would take 24-48 hours to happen. I still wasn't able to do paid upgrade seats at 48 hours so I didn't check for another couple of days. I finally checked again this morning and not only was I able to upgrade to the exit row seats that I wanted, there was no charge to do so! I had originally paid $135.99 per person to upgrade to row 42 on the A330-900neo, so I ended up saving close to $1,000 on the tickets (which was mainly the extra charge to make them refundable), plus over $500 on the seat upgrades. I've seen this before, not being charged for a coach seat uprade when booking through Celebrity. Not sure why, maybe the fare code they use, but I'll take it! I know people have concerns about booking air through Celebrity as opposed to direct with the airline. Hopefully I won't have a problem, I haven't in the past.

It should be fine with any TA so long as the charge comes from HAL. I think the odds are very slim that it won't work, but you could always confirm what the initial deposit looked like.