Amex offer (10/19/21)spend $1500+ get $400 back exp 12/31/21

[wen_c82]

I just saw this on mom’s blue cash card yesterday, maybe others already have this offer?

Happy cruising! 

WORLO"S LEADING
CRUISE LINES
Spend $1,500 or more, get $400 back
Carnival, Princess, Holland America Line, Seabourn,
Cunard
EXPIRES
12/31/2021

[roxybear135]

Does this have to be spent on a new booking or can you purchase gift cards for the deal?

[drowelf]

50 minutes ago, roxybear135 said:

Does this have to be spent on a new booking or can you purchase gift cards for the deal?

From the T&C's 

 

Offer valid only for reservations booked between 10/18/2021 and 12/31/2021

[Gretchendz]

Thanks for posting!  Not showing on Delta reserve Amex 😞

[Andi Land]

Not showing on my Amex either. But it’s good news that the offer is back. I’ll be on the lookout for it. 

[PigsCanFly]

22 hours ago, drowelf said:

From the T&C's 

 

Offer valid only for reservations booked between 10/18/2021 and 12/31/2021

DW got the offer on our amexBlue card.  I agree that it implies a new reservation, but decided to go  ahead and make a payment on our already booked August 2022 HAL cruise.  As soon as the payment went is this morning, we got an email from Amex "Great news! You recently used your Amex Offer at HOLLAND AMERICA RES" .  If it did work, Amex will have contributed $400 to our Iceland/Greenland cruise next summer.   If the statement credit does not show up, the payment was still needed.  The offer details state that the statement credit would arrive within 90 days after 12/31/2021.  

[zgscl]

On 10/20/2021 at 10:03 AM, PigsCanFly said:

DW got the offer on our amexBlue card.  I agree that it implies a new reservation, but decided to go  ahead and make a payment on our already booked August 2022 HAL cruise.  As soon as the payment went is this morning, we got an email from Amex "Great news! You recently used your Amex Offer at HOLLAND AMERICA RES" .  If it did work, Amex will have contributed $400 to our Iceland/Greenland cruise next summer.   If the statement credit does not show up, the payment was still needed.  The offer details state that the statement credit would arrive within 90 days after 12/31/2021.  

Please let us know, might be worth opening one just for this promo. 

 

On 10/19/2021 at 6:01 PM, Gretchendz said:

Thanks for posting!  Not showing on Delta reserve Amex 😞

Sadly not on mine either 😞. Fingers crossed they will add it later. 

[mcrcruiser]

We see on our AMX Blue Credit Card benefits spend $500 booking a Holland ,Princess or Carnival cruise before Dec 31,2021 & get back $150 statement credit 

[wesport]

Amex only downloads 100 offers per card. If you want more, add many of the offer to your card even if you don’t use them . This will add more offers to the card. 

[Gretchendz]

3 hours ago, wesport said:

Amex only downloads 100 offers per card. If you want more, add many of the offer to your card even if you don’t use them . This will add more offers to the card. 

 

 

I never knew this--thanks for posting!

[habenicd]

Figures.  We just paid our own, and both sets of our parents, final payment 2 weeks ago. 😪

Edited October 22, 2021 by habenicd

[wen_c82]

I’m sorry I was having problem posting 

 

@roxybear135we have used Amex offer to pay for existing booking without any problem before. Most recently in Sept for a NCL cruise. Once you use it to pay you should get an email from Amex stating you have use this offer. 

[roxybear135]

1 hour ago, wen_c82 said:

I’m sorry I was having problem posting 

 

@roxybear135we have used Amex offer to pay for existing booking without any problem before. Most recently in Sept for a NCL cruise. Once you use it to pay you should get an email from Amex stating you have use this offer. 

Thanks for letting me know. We actually booked a casino rate cabin so we don’t owe anything on it but I wanted to buy beverage packages and spa passes. Any idea if that would work if I purchase those with my Amex?

[ontheweb]

1 hour ago, roxybear135 said:

Thanks for letting me know. We actually booked a casino rate cabin so we don’t owe anything on it but I wanted to buy beverage packages and spa passes. Any idea if that would work if I purchase those with my Amex?

I once bought OBC with an Amex offer after the cruise was paid off, and I did get the Amex credit.

[PigsCanFly]

Update.  The $1500 I paid on a previously booked cruise on Oct 20th showed up as a $400 credit on by Amex Blue statement on Oct 21st.  So...  the 90 days after Dec 31st and the booking window did not cause an issue.  Now I just wish that one of our other Amex cards had the same offer.

[zgscl]

2 hours ago, PigsCanFly said:

Update.  The $1500 I paid on a previously booked cruise on Oct 20th showed up as a $400 credit on by Amex Blue statement on Oct 21st.  So...  the 90 days after Dec 31st and the booking window did not cause an issue.  Now I just wish that one of our other Amex cards had the same offer.

That is great to know. I will have to think about opening an account. Too bad it doesn't appear on my Delta Reserve card. 

[SFO Peter]

On 10/19/2021 at 9:40 AM, wen_c82 said:

I just saw this on mom’s blue cash card yesterday, maybe others already have this offer?

Happy cruising! 

WORLO"S LEADING
CRUISE LINES
Spend $1,500 or more, get $400 back
Carnival, Princess, Holland America Line, Seabourn,
Cunard
EXPIRES
12/31/2021

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can you post link to add promo please?

looked all over Amex Blue and even added promos not needed.   Did not pull in more promos and cannot find offer.

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I take it back.   you have to sign out then sign back in for more promo "loads".

still looking for promo...

 

Peter

Edited October 30, 2021 by SFO PETER

[SFO Peter]

called Amex.  say for Platinum members only.

 

Peter

[roxybear135]

I have the Amex blue cash card and I just checked and have spend $500, get $150 on Holland America.  Looks like the promos can differ between accounts

[MisterBill99]

On 10/29/2021 at 11:39 PM, PigsCanFly said:

Update.  The $1500 I paid on a previously booked cruise on Oct 20th showed up as a $400 credit on by Amex Blue statement on Oct 21st.  So...  the 90 days after Dec 31st and the booking window did not cause an issue.  Now I just wish that one of our other Amex cards had the same offer.

 

AMEX no longer allows people to have the same offer on more than one card (there used to be a loophole, but they closed it). HOWEVER, if your spouse or anyone else has an authorized user card on your account, you/they can login to their AMEX account, and they may/should have the same offer on their card, which you can then use again. If they do not have an AMEX login, just create one.

 

The only exception to the one offer per person is if you have a card that has Membership Rewards points, in which case this offer might be available with a points promotion instead of cash back. I got an offer for cash back on Oceania on my Blue Cash Preferred card, and then got the same offer with points back on my Blue card. My wife got the same offers. The good news is that I have an expensive Oceania cruise to pay for next year, so I'll be able to use all four offers.

 

I did not receive the WLCL/HAL offer on any of my cards, possibly because I have redeemed it many times previously. I did receive a $100/500 offer for Celebrity, and recently got one for NCL. I should be able to use the Celebrity offer on cruises I have booked for next year, although most of it will be paid with FCC's. 

 

And as has been said a few times here, the "new reservations" is never enforced. To be honest, they have absolutely no way of knowing that it's a new or existing reservation, so there is no way it could be.

[roxybear135]

24 minutes ago, MisterBill99 said:

And as has been said a few times here, the "new reservations" is never enforced. To be honest, they have absolutely no way of knowing that it's a new or existing reservation, so there is no way it could be.

Any idea if I use the deal to buy beverage packages if I would be able to get the statement credit?  We booked a casino deal so we don't owe anything for the cabin but want to buy beverage packages and a spa pass.

[MisterBill99]

44 minutes ago, roxybear135 said:

Any idea if I use the deal to buy beverage packages if I would be able to get the statement credit?  We booked a casino deal so we don't owe anything for the cabin but want to buy beverage packages and a spa pass.

 

Someone above said they had experience where buying OBC counted towards the offer in the past, and I also found that to be the case. But I don't think anyone has tried it with this offer. It really depends on how it posts and whether it comes through looking like a cruise payment. I recall it did not work on Carnival because it posted differently there. What I did when I tried it was to buy the smallest amount of OBC that I could and see how it posted, then buy enough to trigger the offer.

 

I assume you can cancel your purchase if the AMEX offer is not triggered, so it's easy enough to try.  Or purchase OBC and buy the drink package and spa pass on board. You can always get the excess OBC refunded after your cruise (but make sure you don't use an AMEX card that you used the offer on, or they may take back the offer credit you received).

Edited October 31, 2021 by MisterBill99

[PigsCanFly]

I was able to use the similar RCL AMEX offer to purchase soda pkg and dining pkg for the 3 of us and it worked.  It seems that as long as the charges show up from the cruise line, they allow it.

[ontheweb]

5 hours ago, MisterBill99 said:

 

Someone above said they had experience where buying OBC counted towards the offer in the past, and I also found that to be the case. But I don't think anyone has tried it with this offer. It really depends on how it posts and whether it comes through looking like a cruise payment. I recall it did not work on Carnival because it posted differently there. What I did when I tried it was to buy the smallest amount of OBC that I could and see how it posted, then buy enough to trigger the offer.

 

I assume you can cancel your purchase if the AMEX offer is not triggered, so it's easy enough to try.  Or purchase OBC and buy the drink package and spa pass on board. You can always get the excess OBC refunded after your cruise (but make sure you don't use an AMEX card that you used the offer on, or they may take back the offer credit you received).

Yes, I was the one who posted that I used it successfully for buying OBC. (We actually already had OBC and was wondering if we could use it up and would AMEX claw back tbe offer, but then DW wanted the most expensive Anne of Green Gables tour and all the OBC disappeared.) This was a second offer, and actually on a previous one both of us had the offer and used it to pay for the cruise, so we in effect used it 3 times on the same cruise.

[MisterBill99]

9 hours ago, PigsCanFly said:

I was able to use the similar RCL AMEX offer to purchase soda pkg and dining pkg for the 3 of us and it worked.  It seems that as long as the charges show up from the cruise line, they allow it.

 

As I said, it varies by cruise line. I'm fairly sure that people reported in past deals that it did not work on Carnival because it posted as Fun Shops and not Carnival.

Edited October 31, 2021 by MisterBill99