Fun points

[cruisinmems]

What and how do you redeem your Fun Points from Carnival MC? Thanks!

[dmdiver]

We always redeem ours as a statement credit back toward booking/onboard expenses. Since you get double points on Carnival expenditures, it makes more sense to redeem after the cruise. I know that some people save them up until they reach a substantial amount and are worth more, but we don't use our Carnival card for anything but Carnival purchases, so that would take us forever. It would be our luck that by the time we saved up over 100,000 points, they would discontinue the program or change it some way. Last cruise, we used our points to pay the onboard account balance. So basically, all our drinks were free!

 

When you log in to your Carnival credit card online, there is a button for rewards & you go there & it tells you your options. It will show Carnival purchases in the last 6 months I believe that are available to put points toward. Just be aware that once you have applied points to a purchase, you aren't allowed to apply more points later. So, you probably want to apply to the oldest one first unless there is a larger amount that you can get wiped out by the points. I hope that makes sense. I feel like I'm rambling.

[cruisinmems]

Thank you! Yes it does help, very much. :)

[bobandsherry]

Never... we have the card but there's many cards with much better benefits and rewards so we never use the Carnival card.

 

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[Micahs Grandad]

Never... we have the card but there's many cards with much better benefits and rewards so we never use the Carnival card.

 

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agreed. We keep it as a backup but hardly use it. When we took out points usually do as statement credit.

 

If you do it as obc watch on the ship as it comes thru as nonrefundable obc

[Darwal]

agreed. We keep it as a backup but hardly use it. When we took out points usually do as statement credit.

 

If you do it as obc watch on the ship as it comes thru as nonrefundable obc

 

I used my points for OBC, at the time it wasn't going to be a significant difference between obc vs applying to the balance. By nonrefundable, if you mean use it all up or lose what's left, that's easy to get around by going to the casino and transferring it to your playing balance and then cashing out.

[Micahs Grandad]

I used my points for OBC, at the time it wasn't going to be a significant difference between obc vs applying to the balance. By nonrefundable, if you mean use it all up or lose what's left, that's easy to get around by going to the casino and transferring it to your playing balance and then cashing out.

 

Use it or lose it, and I do visit the casino as necessary.

[Saint Greg]

I saved up the 100k points and redeemed them for a $1,500 statement credit on my Vista cruise. I booked that earlier this year. I'm going to do it again. I'm over 17,000 points now.

[cruisinmems]

Thanks everyone!

[calbred01]

I use ours for pretty much everything and a year ago I was able to upgrade from a balcony to a suite using points as well as onboard credit and a couple bottles of wine! In January we are cruising to Hawaii and I waited until we had 100,000 points and was able to use that as a statement credit of $1500 dollars (as well as getting a statement credit back for shore excursions), so our 14 day Hawaii cruise in a balcony really only cost me $3200!!! As well, we booked early and received $100 OBC and a two category upgrade (yes, I chose my room and deck). I understand that there may be better cards out there but since we cruise mainly with Carnival and get 2x points when I book with them it has worked out for me. Also, they have a program (on the Barclay website) where if you shop by clicking on the links you can get (sometimes) up to 4x the points!

[bobandsherry]

I use ours for pretty much everything and a year ago I was able to upgrade from a balcony to a suite using points as well as onboard credit and a couple bottles of wine! In January we are cruising to Hawaii and I waited until we had 100,000 points and was able to use that as a statement credit of $1500 dollars (as well as getting a statement credit back for shore excursions), so our 14 day Hawaii cruise in a balcony really only cost me $3200!!! As well, we booked early and received $100 OBC and a two category upgrade (yes, I chose my room and deck). I understand that there may be better cards out there but since we cruise mainly with Carnival and get 2x points when I book with them it has worked out for me. Also, they have a program (on the Barclay website) where if you shop by clicking on the links you can get (sometimes) up to 4x the points!

Nice deal, but for that same spend, using another card, I am confident I would have earned more reward points. I would have then used those to book travel and saved even more. But if it works for you then that's what matters.

 

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[2Shoes2Go]

Use the card for most everything, pay off every month. Almost to 100,000 points ($1,500.00 credit) for the third time in 2 1/2 years.