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sailing on the vela for my honeymoon next may!

What now seems all the rage is getting Carnival gift cards to pay off your cruise/ use on your sign and sail card. And yes I am one of those who got some from my local Kroger store to stock up on those fuel points.

 

Yet, I'm still a little confused . What is the BEST way to ensure that they use my gift cards first prior to my credit card ? I've contacted carnival 3 times and have gotten 3 different responses .

 

Has anyone had an issue with using them ? For instance carnival some how messed up and charged your credit card and didn't use the gift card first ?

 

TIA

Carnival charges on the last day of the cruise, not periodically throughout. When you add a $500 gift card to your account on the first day you will have a -$500 balance. Therefore all charges will be taken from the 500 first

Well since none of the other comments were helpful ill lend some info. They can take anywhere from 2-5 days and come from UPS, they must be signed for at delivery as well.

No drop for my may cruise :(

Just checked, the $500 gift card is on the site for purchase right now.

no sold out a few days ago. you have to actually click the item

Having been on all three I would give disney the highest rating and then royal caribbean and carnival being almost identical. Both have positives and negatives the others do no

I do have a PVP (at Carnival) and I tried to have it reduced, but she told me I had to fill out the form.

 

 

Just got the second reservation approved a half hour after the request.

Seems like a real hassle for $160 in free money

thanks to user lakelander1959 for the funtimes, i found these on a role call

Sorry, forgot to do this yesterday. Hopes this helps.

 

Ft Lauderdale

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3l7Cr31N68BajFjQVgxY0Uwem8/view?usp=sharing

 

Sea Day

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3l7Cr31N68BeEFWMFhHWXo1M3c/view?usp=sharing

 

Grand Turk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3l7Cr31N68BblVfaHpMU2gtVTA/view?usp=sharing

 

La Romana

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3l7Cr31N68Bai1GSUpUc2dZOWs/view?usp=sharing

 

Curacao

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3l7Cr31N68BdnFkQ3ZiTUVTRFk/view?usp=sharing

 

Aruba

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3l7Cr31N68BYzZYRkxkVWl4QzQ/view?usp=sharing

 

Sea Day

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3l7Cr31N68BUzhyMXFfemd1Vnc/view?usp=sharing

 

Sea Day

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3l7Cr31N68BZXg5N0JFZnRrcGc/view?usp=sharing

If i buy 100 shares right now can i still apply for OBC for a cruise in may of this year?

They also still have RCCL

RCCL Is sold out

Also if you have southwest rapid rewards you can buy gift cards as well.

$100 for 9,400 points or $500 for 47,000 points. You can pay with all points.

This is really a bad point exchange but is still an option. They are only giving you $1 for every 94 points.

From another thread

"Just received this in an email from Verizon.

We are currently enhancing the security features on all eGift Cards, and as a result eGift Cards have been removed and are unavailable. Regretfully, we do not have a time frame on when we will be reinstating the eGift Card features, or when the standard gift cards will become available again. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you enjoy the offers. "

im also waiting on the gift cards to go back up. I was able to use them to pay my $900 deposit (2 $500 gift Cards for $900, $100 remaining balance) but my final payment is march 2nd.

Hope they are back up soon. 10% off is a lot for basically nothing.

If you have an excursion booked with the cruise ship or a trusted guide you will be fine. Other than those exceptions I would stay on the boat.

You are going on a smaller ship, for a weekend cruise. Differences between RCCL and Carnival will not be much. However, if you were to go on a larger RCCL ship, than the differences are amazing. Basically, everything is about the same and handled the same way. If you prepaid tips, than your charges will be what you put on your card for purchases and drinks. Your room might be smaller, but I have never had an issue with it. If you get to the terminal by 10:30, they will let you on by 11:00 and lunch opens at 11:30, with very little lines for the first ones on. After that have fun!

appreciate the tip on getting on at 11. Thanks!

We have sailed CCL in the past and have no complaints. We moved over to RCCL to give it a try and because we wanted the bigger ships. The 1st thing that comes to mind is that the ambiance is much nicer on the new RCCL ships. Now, I most recently salied on one of RCCL older, smaller ship and wasn't happy.....again, we like the newer and bigger ships. The reason I say that is because it is all in what you want.

This year will be the 1st time we try one of the specialty restaurants, but other than that, IMO - I can not give RCCL any better markings for their food. We have had good an bad cruise directors on both lines. I feel the excursions offered are equal in $ and value.

We have always been happy with carnival and decided on something new for this trip. Enchantment OTS is obviously an older ship but i believe it was refurbished in 2012. Either way its a vacation :)

I have been on 5 cruises in the past (4 Carnival and 1 Disney) but this will be my first time on RCCL. We decided on Royal Caribbean because it was the cheapest of any cruise line the weekend of the 23rd for a 3 day ($149/each). We will be on the Enchantment OTS in a large interior (K) room on deck 7.

What can I expect to be different as compared to Carnival and Disney?

Any additional charges upon debarkation (already prepaid gratuities)?

And any other tips that could help!

great review. 16 days for me!

Jealous! Have a blast

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Does the Splendor have Angry Orchard? Going on 4/18.

 

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Wonder if there is a list of ships currently carrying it. I'm wondering about the Valor.

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Is this how you booked your Liberty cruise? This boat is moving to Port Caanveral and I'd really like to cruise on this ship given the E Caribbean ports and glowing reviews of the ship in general. What kind of savings do you typically see when booking last minute?

We did last minute for the inspiration of out tampa and liberty out of Miami. Both within a month or so of sailing. It did end up being the lowest price I had seen for either of those sailings.

However we did book a 7 day out of PR last night for May of this year. The #nowisthetime sale going on right now is great for returning customers. All upgrades are included.

It all depends if you think the price has a chance of going down and how full your ship is right now.

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Can anyone confirm if angry orchard is on the Valor out of PR?

Also a Tampa resident. We have booked cruises 15 days out and with great deals. I do not have any experience with ES because we tend to always book during a sale or last minute.

if your not worried about being on a lower deck then i would say wait

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Received the email too, I have never cruise on Carnival??? Makes one wonder how the cruiselines are running these systems? :eek:

Do you normally receive carnival emails? if not, that is very weird