Can you put credit on card before Boarding?

[Nessa1dc]

Can you send money to be placed on your card, prior to your cruise. For instance, can I send my travel agent money and have her mark it as a credit on my account with the ship?

[Pumbaamd]

Call RCL direct at 1-800-722-5443. You can ask them to put credit on your shipboard account from your credit card. If you have the RCL VISA, it would count as double points.

[wannacruise655]

Unless you are doing this as a gift for someone, why rack up a charge on your cc before you have to. Am I missing something here?

[Murphy]

Yes you can do this directly thru RCCL or thru your TA. We've done it on several cruises for several reasons.

1) By charging it ahead of time on our RCCL Visa, we got double points for the charges before the cruise and could redeem another $50 free onboard credit for our cruise! We never carry a balance, so a little pre-planning didn't cost us anything and earned us an extra $50 we could use on this cruise, not towards our next cruise.

 

2) There's nothing worse for me than coming back from a relaxing vacation to a huge credit card bill! We often pre-pay hotels, etc. so when we come home there's not ticket shock. I realize we pay for it one way or the other, but it's psychological to me not to be in debt after our vacation!

[Nessa1dc]

Thank you.

 

 

Do you have to use a credit card? Can you send them a check?

 

I do this because I'm not the most disciplined person in the world. I would prefer this vacation to be all cash. I don't want to use my credit card at all. I just finished paying a couple off, and I'm trying my best to cut them up. I will use it, if I must, but hoping....