ShamelesslyCruising Posted April 11, 2016 #1 Share Posted April 11, 2016 My Amex Offers: Carnival Cruise Line: Spend $250 or more, get $75 back Norwegian Cruise Line: Spend $500 or more, get $100 back This may be old news to some, but I just learned through a little experimentation that one can successfully double/triple/quadruple/... dip on the Amex offers for cruises. Disclaimer: This only worked for me when paying for a cruise, not on paying my onboard account balance or excursions. I have double-dipped for a couple years using non-cruise Amex offers, so I thought that I ought to give it a try with my new cruise Amex offers. So when the offers came up I opened a separate tab for each of my American Express cards registered to my Amex online account. I then added the offer to each card where it was available. Then I booked my cruises using one of the enrolled cards for the deposits. Then I made the smallest payments possible to qualify for the offer using my other enrolled cards. So far, I have saved $200 on my Norwegian cruise and $150 on my Carnival Cruise. I expect another $150 saved on my Carnival cruise as soon as the payments and offer redemptions clear my account. I am a very happy cruiser! :cool: What would I do differently? The initial deposits on the cruises were much larger than the minimum offer spending amount. I think I could have milked this deal even further by calling in and making my initial deposits split across multiple cards which were enrolled in the offer. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drerickson77 Posted April 11, 2016 #2 Share Posted April 11, 2016 If you don't mind me asking: What AmEx card is this on? I wonder if this would work with a Delta Skymiles card. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmptrwiz Posted April 11, 2016 #3 Share Posted April 11, 2016 If you don't mind me asking: What AmEx card is this on? I wonder if this would work with a Delta Skymiles card. Thank you. Any co-branded AmEx cards didn't get the offers. Sorry Sent from my iPhone using Forums mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShamelesslyCruising Posted April 11, 2016 Author #4 Share Posted April 11, 2016 If you don't mind me asking: What AmEx card is this on? I wonder if this would work with a Delta Skymiles card. Thank you. About 1 to 2 months ago I had the offers available on my Gold Rewards and EveryDay cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figdu Posted April 11, 2016 #5 Share Posted April 11, 2016 (edited) I got two Carnival offers plus an Amazon and Newegg last year. Amazon and Newegg both sell Carnival gift cards so all of it went towards the Vista cruise. Sadly I don't have a current offer. Edited April 11, 2016 by figdu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShamelesslyCruising Posted April 14, 2016 Author #6 Share Posted April 14, 2016 (edited) Update: I just checked my Amex accounts online and my final two payments on my Carnival cruise have both earned me the $75 back from the Amex Offer. This makes the total discount $300 ($75 x 4) on my upcoming Carnival cruise! :eek: As I said in the original posting, I could have taken the discount even further ($150 more) if: I had two additional Carnival Amex offers on two additional cards (this is very possible) I had called in was able to split the initial deposit of $750+ evenly across 3 credit cards. Nevertheless, I am quite satisfied that I was able to successfully get $300 off this time around. BTW: If you are wondering how one could have so many American Express cards here is the secret: Amex only allows a single person to have 4 accounts in their name. HOWEVER, there is no limit to the number of accounts for which you can be an additional card holder. So... if I have 4 cards and my spouse has 4 cards then I can potentially have 8 accounts on my Amex online account and therefore there are 8 different opportunities for just me to have Amex offers available to be added to my cards. My spouse would also have 8 opportunities. Factor in cards of other trusted/responsible relatives/friends and you can significantly grow your chances at getting a good offer on your cards (and hopefully on more than one of those cards). Some people prefer to have a separate online account for each card, and others prefer one account with all cards together. At the moment, both methods seem to work for multiple-dipping on Amex offers. Edited April 14, 2016 by ShamelesslyCruising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seacruisemomma Posted April 14, 2016 #7 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Any idea how often this is offered by AmEx? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShamelesslyCruising Posted April 14, 2016 Author #8 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Any idea how often this is offered by AmEx? As I understand it, this is a form of advertising which is mostly controlled by each company in the offer. I assume Amex Offers contacts the company and makes a case for doing an offer, but the company makes and funds the offer mostly. The offers can be fine-tuned to certain spending habits of each card or attributes of the card holder. This is why some cards get offers that others don't. As far as I know this has been offered twice: last fall and late Feb/early March. My offers (which I think I added in late Feb) for Carnival and Norwegian both expire in this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixie24 Posted April 14, 2016 #9 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I used 3 of the offers. One on my card, one on my sister's card, and one on my father's card. Just put $250 on each of their cards and wrote them a check for $175. Credit was posted the following day on all of our cards. Easy $225 savings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicia Posted April 14, 2016 #10 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I was able to take advantage of the offer from earlier this year and was able to use two cards. Nothing currently offered for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lele100 Posted April 14, 2016 #11 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I never get the Carnival offer on my Delta Gold Amex card, I get stupid offers like total wine, Nike, etc. :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saharaga Posted April 14, 2016 #12 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I have the same card. No Carnival offer. But the offer was on my Amex Blue card. I never get the Carnival offer on my Delta Gold Amex card, I get stupid offers like total wine, Nike, etc. :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ontheweb Posted April 14, 2016 #13 Share Posted April 14, 2016 I have the offer on my Blue card. It runs out tomorrow. I used it to get the offer today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Dear Posted April 15, 2016 #14 Share Posted April 15, 2016 I used it on 2 cards. Easy savings. Much easier than trying to catch the Verizon gift card fairy for a small savings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plane2port Posted April 15, 2016 #15 Share Posted April 15, 2016 This is indeed a great offer. We have used it twice to get a total of $150 off our next Carnival cruise. I had the offer on my AMEX Platinum card and used it to put a deposit on our cruise. That gave $75 off. I called back a couple of days later and put $250 more on the cruise with my husband's Premier Rewards Gold card for an additional $75 off. Before final payment I plan to pay off the balance with Carnival gift cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firemanbobswife Posted April 15, 2016 #16 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Would you be able to purchase Gift Cards directly through Carnival with this offer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistyinca Posted April 19, 2016 #17 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Update: I just checked my Amex accounts online and my final two payments on my Carnival cruise have both earned me the $75 back from the Amex Offer. This makes the total discount $300 ($75 x 4) on my upcoming Carnival cruise! :eek: OK so let me understand correctly. You are using your amex to make a payment on an already booked cruise and those payments qualify for the promotion? yes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saharaga Posted April 19, 2016 #18 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Yes OK so let me understand correctly. You are using your amex to make a payment on an already booked cruise and those payments qualify for the promotion? yes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistyinca Posted April 20, 2016 #19 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Thanks. How often does this offer come around. I don't have it in my offers list right now. Sent from my iPhone using Forums mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saharaga Posted April 20, 2016 #20 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) It's hard to say. I know there was another Carnival offer last year around November/December since I used that offer when I booked our Vista cruise. These are fairly new offers though. I had not seen a Carnival offer on my AMEX account before last year. Thanks. How often does this offer come around. I don't have it in my offers list right now. Sent from my iPhone using Forums mobile app Edited April 20, 2016 by saharaga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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