Carnival Gift Cards are not available for purchase by phone but can be purchased online at carnival.ourgiftcards.com, onboard Carnival Cruise Line ships, and at approximately 9,000 retail locations. They cannot be used on ships with a functional onboard currency other than USD. Carnival Gift Cards can be used towards the purchase of a Carnival cruise and redeemed onboard toward the Sail Sign account for gifts, drinks, and fun.
The best place to buy Carnival gift cards with a discount is through AARP Rewards, where members can get 10% off a card. Gift cards of all types are widely available at major retailers, including Carnival Cruise Line. They can be pre-loaded with a value between 100 and 1,000 and can be purchased in physical cards to be mailed to you or with the option for a decorative tin for $1.99.
Carnival Gift Cards are available in over 9,000 retail outlets, including Best Buy, Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, Lowes, Safeway, and Winn-Dixie. With Affirm, customers can pay later with no late fees or surprises. Kroger purchases Carnival gift cards regularly during 4x points promotions, offering 2000 points for a 500 gift card.
In summary, Carnival Gift Cards are available at various retail outlets, including Carnival Cruise Line, Best Buy, Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, Lowes, Safeway, and Winn-Dixie.
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Imagine having a way that you can save literally hundreds of dollars on any cruise from Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Celebrity, …
Used this for the cruise I just booked, and my Amex had a special deal going on where I got 20% back on Paypal purchases. Yes, TWENTY. My cruise fare went from right at $1500 to $1080 just from that. Add in the $550 in OBC with the offer Carnival gave me and my 6-night cruise for 2 in a balcony cabin is costing me just $530.
I signed up for a Princess Visa that was offering $150 ledger credit when you spend $500 in the first 90 days. I used it to pay for the AARP gift cards for my cruise and saved $250. I also own 100 shares of Carnival stock so I get $250 obc share holder benefit for my 14 night cruise. With the discounts and on board credits I was able to get an inside cabin for about $400.
UK cruisers who work for the NHS can get a 10% reduction on Celebrity Cruises if they have the Blue Light card. The basic Amex cashback card also frequently has offers and if you time it right with the offers you can get £150 off twice if you split payments and wait for the offer to come up again – or else if you’re a couple and both have Amex you can split payment over two cards and save double.
I remember when COVID first started and there were a lot of cancellations and refunds people had a hard time because they had purchased their crews with gift cards and then did not have the gift cards anymore. Carnival will refund your money on to the original method of payment so if you don’t have your copy of the gift card and something happens it could cause a problem.
This is by no means guaranteed, but we have several Amex cards that get fairly frequent cruise offers, most commonly from NCL and RC. We recently booked an NCL cruise, and because they allow split payments, we effectively got 25% off. Granted, the cards have hefty annual fees, so it only makes sense if you already have the cards for other perks.
So here’s a question for you regarding the AARP Royal Caribbean gift cards. You mentioned they can only be used on new bookings, however I book through a travel agent. Can they be used then? Also, can they be used to purchase anything on Royal Caribbean’s website after booking – like excursions, drink packages etc. Since I don’t yet have an AARP membership, I couldn’t really look up this info. Hope you can help!
Great job, man! This is one of the best tips I have seen on how to save money on cruises. I have one question, though: At 6:30 you display terms and conditions of redemption for RCCL. 12th term reads that we do not get our gift card back if the cruise is cancelled. Is that true even if RCCL is the one who cancels the cruise? I have heard that that does happen sometimes… Many thanks!
A great tip, Tanner. Is there any limit to the number of gift cards you can purchase on the AARP website? If I want 50 $100 cards would they let me buy them? There is still the matter of travel insurance. I usually buy my cruise on my credit card which provides good travel cancellation/interuption coverage automatically. Paying with these cards would seem to forfeit that even if you bought the gift cards on the same credit card. You’d probably still need to get a policy (another 5-10% of the trip cost) and that could eat into your savings.
I just looked at my rewards because I have an upcoming celebrity cruise and the gift card can only be used for a new booking and max 500 person 1000 cabin for a max savings of 100. I’m assuming that the card can only be used directly with celebrity so you are losing any credit from booking through aarp or another. Sounds like a wash to me. But this is another tool.
I’ve done the AARP with the Carnival before and it does take some time for it to show up in your inbox. After how well it went I thought it was the same process with the Royal Caribbean gift cards as well and I was wrong. Royal makes you jump through hoops in order to redeem it. I wasn’t able to use to for a deposit on booking and in order to get it applied I had to have a booking already and contact them and have them apply it to the booking. Won’t do it for them no more.
The statements the cards must be used at initial booking and only through the cruise line are incorrect. i checked with my travel agent and confirmed by calling AARP Rewards, the travel agent can apply purchased gift cards to the remaining balance a a cruise, even one purchased 2 years ago through a travel agent.