AMEX Offer - $350 off $1200 Holland America

[MisterBill99]

The AMEX Offer is back, this time it's $350 off $1200, expiring 8/31.

 

The $1200 does not need to be on a single transaction, they say "one or more purchases". It does not need to be on a new reservation and can be booked with HAL directly or through your travel agent, so long as they process the payment through HAL (and I'd never use a TA who did it any other way). In the past, I believe it's worked on purchases of OBC and excursions made through their website, but you'd need to check one of the old threads.  It does not work for onboard charges.

 

Here are the terms:

 

Spend $1,200 or more, get $350 back
Holland America Line
Expires 08/31/2024

 

 

DETAILS

Get a one-time $350 statement credit by using your enrolled eligible Card to spend a minimum of $1,200 in one or more purchases of cruise reservations online at hollandamerica.com, via Amex Travel, or through your preferred Holland America Line travel adviser by 8/31/2024. See terms.

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OFFER TERMS

Enrollment limited. Must first add offer to Card and then use same Card to redeem. Only U.S.-issued American Express® Cards are eligible. Limit 1 enrolled Card per Card Member across all American Express offer channels. Your enrollment of an eligible American Express Card for this offer extends only to that Card. Offer valid for cruise reservations booked between 5/17/2024 and 8/31/2024 for any departure date, directly with Holland America Line online only at US website hollandamerica.com, by calling 1-877-932-4259, via Amex Travel, or through a Holland America Line travel advisor. Valid only for reservations and any additional purchases booked at the time of initial reservation purchase. Excludes onboard spend, gift and services, Denali Square, McKinley Chalet Resort, Worldwide Emergency Assistance Services, Cancellation Protection plan, online shops, formalwear rentals, charitable donations, and any standalone purchases paid for separately from initial reservation. Ships’ Registry: The Netherlands. American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. is acting solely as a sales agent for travel suppliers and is not responsible for the actions or inactions of such suppliers. Certain suppliers pay us commission and other incentives for reaching sales targets or other goals and may provide incentives to our Travel Consultants. For more information visit www.americanexpress.com/travelterms. California CST#1022318, Washington UBI#600-469-694. Offer is non-transferable. Valid only on purchases made in US dollars. Limit of 1 statement credit per Card Member. You may not receive the statement credit if we receive inaccurate information or are otherwise unable to identify your purchase as qualifying for the offer. For example, you may not receive the statement credit if (a) the merchant uses a third-party to sell their products or services; or (b) the merchant uses a third-party to process or submit your transaction to us (e.g., using mobile or wireless card readers); or (c) you choose to make a purchase using a third-party payment account or make a purchase using a mobile or digital wallet. Purchases may fall outside of the offer period in some cases due to a delay in merchants submitting transactions to us or if the purchase date differs from the date you made the transaction (for example, the purchase date for online orders may be the shipping date). Statement credit will appear on your billing statement within 90 days after 8/31/2024, provided that American Express receives information from the merchant about your qualifying purchase. Note that American Express may not receive information about your qualifying purchase from merchant until all items/services from your qualifying purchase have been shipped/provided by merchant. Statement credit may be reversed if qualifying purchase is returned/cancelled. If American Express does not receive information that identifies your purchase as qualifying for the offer, you will not receive the statement credit. Limit 1 enrolled Card per American Express Card online account. The enrolled Card account must be active, not past due, canceled, or have a returned payment outstanding to receive the statement credit. Any benefit earned from this offer is in addition to the rewards (i.e. Membership Rewards or cash back) earned as part of your existing Card benefits, but your ability to earn spend-based rewards for the purchase will be based on the amount after any statement credit or other discount is applied. Amex Offers are available for varying and limited periods of time and are dynamic and personalized. If you navigate away from the Amex Offers page, you may see different offers when you return. For questions regarding your Card Account, please call the number on the back of your Card. By adding an offer to a Card, you agree that American Express may send you communications about the offer. POID: K7VF:0001

[mistertomatoe]

Got $300 back on $750 or more. Two times between family members. I'm so tempted to go on my first HAL.

[MisterBill99]

2 hours ago, mistertomatoe said:

Got $300 back on $750 or more. Two times between family members. I'm so tempted to go on my first HAL.

 

Nice! I guess I'm being penalized for having used the offer before!

[BermudaBound2014]

What card are you getting targeted on? I see nothing on my Am Ex Gold Business. I also have an Am Ex Delta but I've never seen this type of offer on a cobranded airline card.

[DeeB4990]

Just logged into the AMEX main dashboard - couldn't find this offer & did a chat and AMEX chat agent said no such offer exists, all they found were Carnival & NCL & those were closed to new signups??  Perhaps OP or someone could post a link or offer code?? 🤷‍♀️  Would love to get it. 

Edited May 18 by DeeB4990

[mistertomatoe]

There are no direct links or codes. I still get them even though I've used them many times before, especially for NCL. It doesn't have to be a card that has an annual fee. Being an authorized user doesn't disqualify you. It's one offer per account so if you have multiple cards it will disappear from the other cards once you add it. It's mostly in the US but occasionally I hear people with cards from other countries getting their version of the offer.

 

They are targeted but I haven't heard of anyone breaking the code on why some get an offer while others don't. However, make sure you can see more than 100 offers at a time. In the app, it's limited and you might not be seeing all the offers. Log in with a browser to make sure you are seeing all of them especially if there are over 100 offers. I typically have over 300 offers at a time and try to add them all so I can see everything that's available.

[ExArkie]

My offer was for $250 back for spending $1,000, never used a HAL offer before. It would be interesting to find out how they decide which offer to give. Not even consistent as a percentage rebate:

$250/$1000 = 25%

$350/$1200 = 29%

$300/$750 = 40%

 

Perhaps it is tied to the type of card one has and how long one has had it.

[Andi Land]

I have Amex Gold and received $250 off $1000.  I just paid my cruise in full last night though and didn’t have this offer then. Wonder if they’ll let me change the payment type? Never hurts to ask. 

[cruisemom42]

15 hours ago, BermudaBound2014 said:

What card are you getting targeted on? I see nothing on my Am Ex Gold Business. I also have an Am Ex Delta but I've never seen this type of offer on a cobranded airline card.

 

Yeah, never ever on my Amex Delta.

[Cruise Junky]

I’m getting NCL right now but not HAL. Will keep my eyes open.  

[sunviking90]

43 minutes ago, Cruise Junky said:

I’m getting NCL right now but not HAL. Will keep my eyes open.  

Yes, sadly I only have NCL now too. Hopefully this hits the Canadian Amex cards soon.

[mistertomatoe]

3 hours ago, Andi Land said:

I have Amex Gold and received $250 off $1000.  I just paid my cruise in full last night though and didn’t have this offer then. Wonder if they’ll let me change the payment type? Never hurts to ask. 

 

I'm not saying it'll work in this case but you can try at your own risk. I've bought refundable OBC and it's worked for me in the past for Royal, Carnival, and Norwegian offers. When I'm onboard I just get the refund in cash.

[Big Dawg CC]

I got the $250 off $1,000 on my AmX Charles Schwab Platinum.

[Limes22]

On 5/17/2024 at 11:46 AM, MisterBill99 said:

The AMEX Offer is back, this time it's $350 off $1200, expiring 8/31.

 

The $1200 does not need to be on a single transaction, they say "one or more purchases". It does not need to be on a new reservation and can be booked with HAL directly or through your travel agent, so long as they process the payment through HAL (and I'd never use a TA who did it any other way). In the past, I believe it's worked on purchases of OBC and excursions made through their website, but you'd need to check one of the old threads.  It does not work for onboard charges.

 

Here are the terms:

 

Spend $1,200 or more, get $350 back
Holland America Line
Expires 08/31/2024

 

 

DETAILS

Get a one-time $350 statement credit by using your enrolled eligible Card to spend a minimum of $1,200 in one or more purchases of cruise reservations online at hollandamerica.com, via Amex Travel, or through your preferred Holland America Line travel adviser by 8/31/2024. See terms.

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Your enrollment of an eligible American Express Card for this offer extends only to that Card. Offer valid for cruise reservations booked between 5/17/2024 and 8/31/2024 for  

I have this offer on several cards and booked with Holland in February. So this offer will work for me even though the terms state it’s for cruises booked after May 17? 

[nho9504]

Has anyone received the offer on their business cards? 

 

In the past all cruise line offers would show up on the Blue Business Plus cards as well as the Everyday cards.  They never show up on Hilton or Marriott cards.

 

This time the offer only shows up on Everyday Primary and AU card but is the good one $350/$700.  I wish it shows up on BBP because that card earns 2X while Everyday only earns 1X.

[victory2020]

6 hours ago, Andi Land said:

I have Amex Gold and received $250 off $1000.  I just paid my cruise in full last night though and didn’t have this offer then. Wonder if they’ll let me change the payment type? Never hurts to ask. 

I di this once with a to go travel agent - I found the offer within hours of paying

[HUNKY]

No fee Blue Everyday - $300 back after $750 spend.

 

No HAL offers on my Delta Reserve.

Edited May 18 by HUNKY

[MisterBill99]

6 hours ago, HUNKY said:

No fee Blue Everyday - $300 back after $750 spend.

 

No HAL offers on my Delta Reserve.

 

Co-branded travel cards like Delta never get offers for other travel companies.

 

This is why I thought of putting this in an old thread, since answers like this are already there. 

Edited May 19 by MisterBill99

[mistertomatoe]

I just booked a flight on Delta to my NCL cruise... so why wouldn't they do these offers? Maybe it's just Delta's decision. How about Hilton cards? People do stay at hotels before and after cruises.

 

Do the Delta cards have any travel offers? Hotels/Resorts/Car rentals? Probably not other airlines since they are direct competition.

[*Miss G*]

In the past, I have received and redeemed the Holland America offer on my Delta Amex card.  There is not one currently, however.  Sadly, I was unable to find the old threads on this topic.  Someone would usually post the link and we’d be able to link the offer from there when it didn’t show up in your account.

 

Yes, @mistertomatoe, I do receive travel offers for the Delta card.  Right now I can see Expedia, Caesars Las Vegas, Margaritaville Beach House Key West, and Lotte Hotel Seattle.  When logged into the website there are completely different offers to the ones I see in the app.

[Menocchio]

9 hours ago, mistertomatoe said:

I just booked a flight on Delta to my NCL cruise... so why wouldn't they do these offers? Maybe it's just Delta's decision. How about Hilton cards? People do stay at hotels before and after cruises.

 

Do the Delta cards have any travel offers? Hotels/Resorts/Car rentals? Probably not other airlines since they are direct competition.

Delta does have its own cruise portal, so I suppose they don't want people buying directly from the cruise lines (or other TAs).

 

They also have one for hotels (It's literally just Expedia but they charge a little more, and you can't access Expedia's loyalty program but you can use or get Skymiles) and I do see some hotel offers. But between Delta, Amex, and the hotels they probably have different working relationships. 

[ExArkie]

11 hours ago, MisterBill99 said:

 

Co-branded travel cards like Delta never get offers for other travel companies.

 

This is why I thought of putting this in an old thread, since answers like this are already there. 

“Never” isn’t exactly right. My wife’s Delta Platinum AmEx card has the NCL offer, but not the HAL. 
 

Personally, I think a group of AmEx people get together for pizza and beer and throw darts to determine who gets which offer.

[Mike B Landlubber]

I had the offer on my AMEX Platinum and Green cards. If you have the Green Card, I recommend adding it there, because the Green Card gets 3 Membership Rewards Points per dollar on cruises, while the Platinum (and I believe the Gold) only get one point per dollar. You’ll only be able to add the offer to one card, so choose wisely!

Edited May 19 by Mike B Landlubber

[MadManOfBethesda]

On 5/17/2024 at 2:31 PM, mistertomatoe said:

Got $300 back on $750 or more. Two times between family members. I'm so tempted to go on my first HAL.

That's the one I received as well ($300 credit for spending $750), although it can only be used once, not twice. I haven't been on a HAL cruise since 2009 when my wife and I took a 30-day South Pacific cruise on the Ryndam, but coincidentally just this morning, we talked about booking a 10-day Mysteries of Iceland & Scotland cruise on Niew Amsterdam in July since we don't have any cruises booked right now until October.  Thank you very much Mr.Bill for creating this thread and saving me (and others) $300!

 

On a somewhat related matter, in addition to this $300 statement credit, I believe I'll also receive an additional $200 obc from the AmEx Platinum Cruise Privileges program for booking a verandah cabin or Vista suite. I may even be entitled to a $100 CCL shareholder credit, but I'm not sure what the current rules are given than most of my recent cruises haven't qualified since they were all so-called "free" cruises booked through casino offers..

[LAX]

Has anyone successfully redeemed this offer after making a payment to HAL through a big box TA?

 

LAX