My AMEX card had a new offer, spend $500 on Celebrity and get $100 back…

[mickeysgal]

On 6/22/2024 at 8:17 PM, oldfashioncruiser said:

I am making my final payment next week.  Thanks for the heads up.,  

 

 Does anyone know if the offer is on Delta’s platinum Amex card?

It has shown up on our AmEx Plat. 

[Happy Rogue]

On 6/22/2024 at 8:17 PM, oldfashioncruiser said:

I am making my final payment next week.  Thanks for the heads up.,  

 

 Does anyone know if the offer is on Delta’s platinum Amex card?

My blue cash preferred 

[joetop2467]

We had the offer on my husband’s and my blue AX cards. We still owed on our Ascent transatlantic so we made a  $500 payment on each card and got a $100 credit on each.  Thanks to whoever posted this.  Saved us $200. Because we booked through a travel agent, Celebrity wouldn’t take our card but our TA was off for the weekend and she told us how to post the payment ourselves.  Great deal.  Thanks again!

[Tom and Ingrid]

Now I'm getting JEALOUS and ANNOYED! 😡

 

😅  🤣  😂

[MisterBill99]

On 6/22/2024 at 8:17 PM, oldfashioncruiser said:

I am making my final payment next week.  Thanks for the heads up.,  

 

 Does anyone know if the offer is on Delta’s platinum Amex card?

 

Has anyone seen it on ANY Delta card? Or any other travel partner card? They generally do not get offers from other travel companies, even though Delta and Celebrity are not competitors.

[Happy Rogue]

On 6/25/2024 at 5:58 PM, Happy Rogue said:

Thank you!  I also tried paying $500 towards my balance with my travel agent for a preexisting future cruise.  I will also report back.

Just got my credit for doing this,

[hasentreelake]

Thank you @Stockjock   I have the offer and will take advantage of it.
Now off to see if my wife has the offer too!

 

[Tom and Ingrid]

7 hours ago, MisterBill99 said:

 

Has anyone seen it on ANY Delta card? Or any other travel partner card? They generally do not get offers from other travel companies, even though Delta and Celebrity are not competitors.

Still nothing on my Delta card 😞

 

But did get my $20 for my Zappos order, so at least "saving" some money.

[Stockjock]

4 hours ago, Happy Rogue said:

Just got my credit for doing this,

Same here.  The credit showed up today.  Free money is a good thing.

Edited Thursday at 03:20 PM by Stockjock

[ORV]

On 6/18/2024 at 11:00 AM, chadwickx16 said:

FYI...Amex Offers can only list 100 at a time.  If you don't see the offer you have to add other offers to your card and then logout and log back in for a new batch of offers. I had to add 90 other offers to my card before I was able to see the Celebrity one.

Just to get back to this concept. I have 3 cards that I see when I log in to my online acct. I kept putting offers on my card that would have this type of offer on it. After the first 100 I got another 100, after the second 100 I got another hundred, after the third 100 it stopped, this was about a week ago. Then it started dribbling and drabbing 3 or 4 a day. This is for all three of my cards. At this point the added offers are around 20 or so. The card I'm trying to get the offer on shows 309 offers added to card. 

 

My point is that it doesn't appear to be limitless on adding another 100 each time. Seems like around 300 they throttle you back. FWIW, I do have the Celebrity offer but was looking for an Oceania offer. 

 

I do have an offer I used on my Hilton card for my Youtube TV- $20 off when you 57.99 or more. Up to 3 times. Just posted today. It always pays to keep track of these things. Since I'm old and retired this is one of my hobbies, but it only takes about 10 minutes a day. Free money is good. 

[Cruise Gopher]

1 hour ago, ORV said:

FWIW, I do have the Celebrity offer but was looking for an Oceania offer. 

They had an Oceania one about a month ago for the 40th Amex Birthday offers. I sure wish we had an Oceania cruise to book because that’s a lot of points!
 

Edited Saturday at 05:12 PM by Cruise Gopher

[ORV]

2 hours ago, Cruise Gopher said:

They had an Oceania one about a month ago for the 40th Amex Birthday offers. I sure wish we had an Oceania cruise to book because that’s a lot of points!
 

Yeah, I think that was on the Platinum, I only have the no annual fee Everyday. I've got Celebrity and Oceania offers on it multiple times. 

[awhcruiser]

On 6/26/2024 at 12:07 PM, Tom and Ingrid said:

Now I'm getting JEALOUS and ANNOYED! 😡

 

😅  🤣  😂

Me too. The offer didn't show up on any of my Amex cards...I tried everything, but no go.

[Stockjock]

On 6/29/2024 at 10:11 AM, Cruise Gopher said:

They had an Oceania one about a month ago for the 40th Amex Birthday offers. I sure wish we had an Oceania cruise to book because that’s a lot of points!
 

Not sure if you do, but I have an active Oceania offer on my Amex Platinum.  But my cruise is paid in full and I don't think I need to add anything further.

[KKB]

One tip--load a bunch of offers you don't need onto your card...

New ones then show up! 

(no guarantees it will be this one, but it does work--I do it almost daily)

Edited Sunday at 05:59 PM by KKB

[Cruise Gopher]

1 hour ago, Stockjock said:

Not sure if you do, but I have an active Oceania offer on my Amex Platinum.  But my cruise is paid in full and I don't think I need to add anything further.

Can you just buy a ton of refundable OBC then cash it out on the ship? I do that on Royal and Celebrity if I have an Amex offer but have fully paid the cruise itself. 

[Stockjock]

24 minutes ago, Cruise Gopher said:

Can you just buy a ton of refundable OBC then cash it out on the ship? I do that on Royal and Celebrity if I have an Amex offer but have fully paid the cruise itself. 

I just bought $500 refundable OBC on Celebrity and I'll cash out anything I don't use.  I was refunded $100 2 days later.

Even though 10 times points is a good offer, it's not as meaningful to me as an instant partial cash-back refund.

[Luvcrusn]

On 6/24/2024 at 12:13 PM, jenf22 said:

I mixed it up so the AMEX people wouldn't think it fraudulent.  I did $225, $175, and $100.  I was worried if they saw multiple charges for the same amount, they might put a temporary hold on the card.  We have the offer on my husbands card too (he's an authorized user in the same acocunt) so I think I'll do it again now that I know it works.

Were the 3 purchases on OBC all on the same cruise? Will the X site let you make multiple purchases of OBC for the same cabin that in total exceed $225? The offer says online purchases. Were you able to make the OBC credit purchase over the phone and have it count?

Edited 20 hours ago by Luvcrusn

[jenf22]

19 minutes ago, Luvcrusn said:

Were the 3 purchases on OBC all on the same cruise? Will the X site let you make multiple purchases of OBC for the same cabin that in total exceed $225? The offer says online purchases. Were you able to make the OBC credit purchase over the phone and have it count?

In the end, I did 6 online purchases of OBC for the same cruise.  $500 total on my AMEX and $500 total on my husband's.  Got both $100 statement credits already.  Others have posted they were able to call and buy OBC over the phone.  I'm booked with a TA on a group booking, so I was afraid they wouldn't talk to me if I called.

[jbcallender]

On 6/18/2024 at 10:01 AM, sushraya said:

Don't see the offer on my AMEX platinum 😞

I clicked on the "rewards" menu item and it was in the list.   I think it is only for amex cards issued in America.  What I couldn't determine is if it is good for bookings through a travel agent or just directly with Celebrity.

[Kmangel]

2 hours ago, jbcallender said:

What I couldn't determine is if it is good for bookings through a travel agent or just directly with Celebrity.

We have done it both ways.  Directly through Celebrity and through our TA.

[KKB]

Gees...yesterday I had like 10 travel offers on each card. (none I needed)

Today--TWO on each!

Goes to show...download offers you may or may not need on your card regularly to allow more offers to drop...AND

CHECK OFTEN.