Military Credit Refundable?

[Pierlesscruisers]

On 5/3/2022 at 2:03 PM, fabric_fabric said:

Does military mean active military or does it also apply to veterans? 

It also applies to British and Canadian veterans also.

 

Tom

[RollingMeadows]

This is an expense to the line I would expect to dry up in the near future. Nice while it lasted, but my expectations are changing in the current economy.

[travellingnana]

I’m going to second cashing out at the casino, which we didn’t do. One useless phone call and 2 unanswered emails later I’m still waiting to get my $ back from our May cruise

[kokopelli-az]

We were on the Caribbean Princess in June.    The military credit was not refundable.   (We spent it in the casino.)

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 2022 by kokopelli-az

[D. B.]

How do you Cash out a Military OBC in the Casino?

With no experience in that area, I apologize if that's a stupid question.

[Loveh2ofl]

24 minutes ago, D. B. said:

How do you Cash out a Military OBC in the Casino?

With no experience in that area, I apologize if that's a stupid question.

Here is a link to Princess Military benefits.  Casino - nope.  Also it's not refundable  - but once you've qualified, get with every cruise you book....

 

https://www.princess.com/military_benefit_program/

Edited July 25, 2022 by Loveh2ofl
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[bjkTX]

5 hours ago, kokopelli-az said:

We were on the Caribbean Princess in June.    The military credit was not refundable.   (We spent it in the casino.)

 

 

 

I think you are misreading this.  Any OBC listed with an * is non-refundable - you don't have any.  Check the image in post #16 on the first page to see what I mean.  If you had Shareholder Benefit listed it would have the * after it.

[Catchum]

On 7/25/2022 at 1:13 AM, Pierlesscruisers said:

It also applies to British and Canadian veterans also.

 

Tom

On our last cruise we went to guest services to sort out another issue and were asked if we wanted to have our Military OBC in cash (it was near the end of the cruise) it was about $130. I think this was because we live in the UK, we said yes of course!

[coo359a2]

13 hours ago, bjkTX said:

I think you are misreading this.  Any OBC listed with an * is non-refundable - you don't have any.  Check the image in post #16 on the first page to see what I mean.  If you had Shareholder Benefit listed it would have the * after it.

Thanks for posting.  I was beginning to think something had changed with the military OBC.  Did check  out   our cruises through 2023 and all show as refundable (no *).  The only "non" word I could see in the description  was non transferable.

[kokopelli-az]

15 hours ago, bjkTX said:

I think you are misreading this.  Any OBC listed with an * is non-refundable - you don't have any.  Check the image in post #16 on the first page to see what I mean.  If you had Shareholder Benefit listed it would have the * after it.

I think you're right.   Thanks.   

[Ozwoody]

Has this change during 2023? Or is the benefit still refundable?

Thanks in advance

 

Regards

John

 

[Hlitner]

40 minutes ago, Ozwoody said:

Has this change during 2023? Or is the benefit still refundable?

Thanks in advance

 

Regards

John

 

We have an upcoming, Dec, cruise and our account (Payments)  still shows the Military Credit as refundable.

 

Hank

[WisCruiser2]

This is from the Payments section of our upcoming February Cruise:

 

Total Onboard Credits	$30.00	$130.00	$160.00
Military Benefits*	$0.00	$100.00	$100.00

*Please enjoy using these credits onboard as they are not refundable.

 

We never have any problem using the OBC during the cruise...

[MissP22]

Our Military OBC shows up as refundable. 

[Hlitner]

3 hours ago, MissP22 said:

Our Military OBC shows up as refundable. 

I wonder if Princess has changed their policy regarding the refundability of military OBC and some of us were simply grandfathered-in to the old poilcy

[Moondogy]

It may be the time in which you booked the cruise. A few months back I received an email from Princess stating that you could no longer have the SHOBC and MOBC together anymore, you would only get one or the other. There must have been a real big stink raised because they have decided to let us have both again, but changed the MOBC to nonrefundable. If you still show it as refundable I wish you the best of luck that they don't catch it or change it on you. We just booked a cruise for 2025 on 10/23/23 and it shows MOBC as nonrefundable.

[GonzoWCS]

Yeah somehow we GIs figure out how to get those $$ into our pockets refundable or not... 😉

 

Cheers

[Astro Flyer]

1 hour ago, Hlitner said:

I wonder if Princess has changed their policy regarding the refundability of military OBC and some of us were simply grandfathered-in to the old poilcy

Based on my 3 future cruises you are correct…the 2 booked before the change was made on 6/29/23 show as refundable; the 1 booked after that date is non-refundable.

 

Edited November 1, 2023 by Astro Flyer

[2MellowCruisers]

3 hours ago, Hlitner said:

I wonder if Princess has changed their policy regarding the refundability of military OBC and some of us were simply grandfathered-in to the old poilcy

I just checked my upcoming cruises for 2024 and I think you are correct.  For the cruise booked in July, the MOBC is showing as refundable but the two cruises booked in October are showing as non-refundable.

[Ozwoody]

2 hours ago, Moondogy said:

It may be the time in which you booked the cruise. A few months back I received an email from Princess stating that you could no longer have the SHOBC and MOBC together anymore, you would only get one or the other. There must have been a real big stink raised because they have decided to let us have both again, but changed the MOBC to nonrefundable. If you still show it as refundable I wish you the best of luck that they don't catch it or change it on you. We just booked a cruise for 2025 on 10/23/23 and it shows MOBC as nonrefundable.

Carnival advised in July that we in Australia, could no longer claim both SHOBC & MOBC,

now there seems to be some confusion as to whether or not it has been reinstated that you can.

Have you guys over there heard something official?

 

regards

John

[kiwimum]

Wait until you get the email on the new method for claiming Shareholder onboard credit.  No more email, fax or snail

mail.
 

www.stockperks.com/carnivalcorp

[Moondogy]

9 minutes ago, Ozwoody said:

Carnival advised in July that we in Australia, could no longer claim both SHOBC & MOBC,

now there seems to be some confusion as to whether or not it has been reinstated that you can.

Have you guys over there heard something official?

 

regards

John

I got both for our 3/25 cruise. They did change it back over here.

[Moondogy]

3 minutes ago, kiwimum said:

Wait until you get the email on the new method for claiming Shareholder onboard credit.  No more email, fax or snail

mail.
 

www.stockperks.com/carnivalcorp

I just emailed mine last week for our 3/8/25 cruise and they applied it the next day. When is this new one coming about?

 

[Ozwoody]

6 minutes ago, kiwimum said:

Wait until you get the email on the new method for claiming Shareholder onboard credit.  No more email, fax or snail

mail.
 

www.stockperks.com/carnivalcorp

You have me curious......

How has it changed?

 

[kiwimum]

You need to create an account with Stockperks and link your brokerage statement.   If it works takes a few minutes to verify eligibility.   Stockperks is having issues with Plaid the interface, could be due to volume.