Shareholder of CC stock

[Princess Chatterer]

Tell your husband the skeptic that yes, you will receive all of your OBC. We quadruple dip. FCC credit, shareholder credit, TA credit and Princess credit. We get it all.

 

Don't forget Princess Visa card OBC. It's not that hard to get $500 or more if you charge everything you can.

 

My question is if I own 100 shares and my DW owns 100 shares do we get two OBC's?

[Toto2Kansas]

Don't forget Princess Visa card OBC. It's not that hard to get $500 or more if you charge everything you can.

 

My question is if I own 100 shares and my DW owns 100 shares do we get two OBC's?

 

 

Wokie, the credit you receive from stock ownership is per cabin, and not per person.

[Toto2Kansas]

Just realized I didn't actually answer your question, my apology. Even if you both own 100 shares, or more, you will still only get the shipboard credit per stateroom. You can not get double credit even if you both own at least 100 shares.

[BayCalif-Ariz R Us]

Don't forget Princess Visa card OBC. It's not that hard to get $500 or more if you charge everything you can.

 

Wokie I hope you and Toto have the patience to address this as well as the stockholder OBC. How exactly does owning a Princess Credit card benefit? We put everything on an AA card and use it for travel, but if there was a real benefit, we'd get the additional card as well. Thanks for you indulgence - Denise

[Toto2Kansas]

Wokie I hope you and Toto have the patience to address this as well as the stockholder OBC. How exactly does owning a Princess Credit card benefit? We put everything on an AA card and use it for travel, but if there was a real benefit, we'd get the additional card as well. Thanks for you indulgence - Denise

 

 

Denise, I do the same as you are doing currently. We use our miles credit card to acquire air miles and do not use a Princess credit card. I guess we just find there are so many ways with FCC's, stock credits, and TA credits to get those shipboard credits that we are happy getting the airmiles instead.

I much prefer saving them up and booking a first class/business class flights to far away destinations then getting a little more shipboard credit or a few hundred off my cruise price. We booked one fliight that the cost would have been $13,000 per person and we were able to obtain it for $100 each for the fees and taxes. I guess for us, we just like to pamper ourselves occasionally with a really nice flight and will forgo a little extra shipboard credit to do this. ;)

[Pia1913]

Wokie I hope you and Toto have the patience to address this as well as the stockholder OBC. How exactly does owning a Princess Credit card benefit? We put everything on an AA card and use it for travel, but if there was a real benefit, we'd get the additional card as well. Thanks for you indulgence - Denise

 

Assuming Wokie and Toto might be sleeping in this Sunday morning, let me see if I can answer this for you.

 

First, you get a 5000 point bonus for signing up. Then you get one point for each dollar you charge; same as the other cards. But, any Princess charge gets you double points. You buy one FCC for $100, you get 200 points. On board charges.....doubled. Payment for cruise........doubled.

 

Redemption for 10,000 points gets you $100, 20,000 $200 and so on until you get to 40,000 At 40,000 you get $500 and at 60,000 you get $750. I just redeemed 60,000 points and let me tell you how nice it was to have that amount removed from my credit card statement. :D

 

I also send casino cash to myself. I get the $1,000 at the cage, put it into my cabin safe and whatever I don't spend goes right back into my checking account when I get home. Of course I have already received 2000 points for this "transaction."

 

More questions? I'm just sitting here having my third cup of coffee. ;)

[goldenrod]

We have flown business class twice to Asia and three times to Europe all for free! (except taxes) Here's how, I had two corporations at one time both are still registered, my wife is a Realtor with her own company although we are both semi retired our credit and the credit of our corps. is still active and great. We get Citi bank AA cards with a 25,000 mile bonus one for the corps one for her Real estate Brokerage and personal cards we do this for Mastercard, Visa, and American Express we can't get them all at once they are staggered by 6 months after you spend $750 you get the bonus miles after the first year we cancel the card and start the whole process again after 6 months. We have been doing this for years it takes us each about 1 1/2 years to get enough miles for a round trip Business class Asian trip, as a matter fact we are doing an Asian trip next month just can't stand flying that distance in coach.:D

Jerry

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

Assuming Wokie and Toto might be sleeping in this Sunday morning, let me see if I can answer this for you.

 

First, you get a 5000 point bonus for signing up. Then you get one point for each dollar you charge; same as the other cards. But, any Princess charge gets you double points. You buy one FCC for $100, you get 200 points. On board charges.....doubled. Payment for cruise........doubled.

 

Redemption for 10,000 points gets you $100, 20,000 $200 and so on until you get to 40,000 At 40,000 you get $500 and at 60,000 you get $750. I just redeemed 60,000 points and let me tell you how nice it was to have that amount removed from my credit card statement. :D

 

I also send casino cash to myself. I get the $1,000 at the cage, put it into my cabin safe and whatever I don't spend goes right back into my checking account when I get home. Of course I have already received 2000 points for this "transaction."

 

More questions? I'm just sitting here having my third cup of coffee. ;)

 

Hello PIA there is no fee when you get money from the cage?

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

Not to steal the bord ,But the amex blue cash gets you back more cash

[Toto2Kansas]

Hello PIA there is no fee when you get money from the cage?

 

Unless things have changed in the last few months, there is a 3% service charge for getting cash from the casino cage. BUT, you can download the cash at a slot machine from your shipboard account, and then cash it out at the casino cage and they don't attach that 3% fee. It's one more small step, but you don't get charged that extra fee for it. ;)

[Ethel5]

Hello PIA there is no fee when you get money from the cage?

 

If you "gift" yourself before the cruise, there are cards waiting in your cabin when you board. You take the cards to the cage and they give you the cash. There is NO fee for this type of transaction. :D

[cincytravelers]

Hi Denise!

 

Once again, thanks for doing a great job coordinating our M & G on the T.P. We found out about this benefit after we'd paid for the cruise, but since we already owned Carnival stock, we sent the letter in to Carnival and then we didn't hear anything. When we called the phone number listed on the site, they told us that we had a credit. We were also told that it could not be used for the required tipping, but we found that there was no differentiation on the statement that we got at the end of the cruise. We bought our stock originally through Charles Schwab.

Does anyone know if you can get a credit for a cruise you already took? (Like last year?) or does this only apply towards booked cruises.

BTW, Denise, did you see that the T.P. made it into both Greenland ports this time. :( (Good for them, though.)

Talk to you soon!

[Toto2Kansas]

Hi Denise!

 

Once again, thanks for doing a great job coordinating our M & G on the T.P. We found out about this benefit after we'd paid for the cruise, but since we already owned Carnival stock, we sent the letter in to Carnival and then we didn't hear anything. When we called the phone number listed on the site, they told us that we had a credit. We were also told that it could not be used for the required tipping, but we found that there was no differentiation on the statement that we got at the end of the cruise. We bought our stock originally through Charles Schwab.

 

Does anyone know if you can get a credit for a cruise you already took? (Like last year?) or does this only apply towards booked cruises.

 

BTW, Denise, did you see that the T.P. made it into both Greenland ports this time. :( (Good for them, though.)

 

Talk to you soon!

 

Sorry, no, you can not get a stockholder credit for a cruise you have already sailed on. It's shipboard credit, and they expect you to spend it onboard, so after the fact is not possible. ;)

[Lynda90]

Assuming Wokie and Toto might be sleeping in this Sunday morning, let me see if I can answer this for you.

 

First, you get a 5000 point bonus for signing up. Then you get one point for each dollar you charge; same as the other cards. But, any Princess charge gets you double points. You buy one FCC for $100, you get 200 points. On board charges.....doubled. Payment for cruise........doubled.

 

Redemption for 10,000 points gets you $100, 20,000 $200 and so on until you get to 40,000 At 40,000 you get $500 and at 60,000 you get $750. I just redeemed 60,000 points and let me tell you how nice it was to have that amount removed from my credit card statement. :D

 

I also send casino cash to myself. I get the $1,000 at the cage, put it into my cabin safe and whatever I don't spend goes right back into my checking account when I get home. Of course I have already received 2000 points for this "transaction."

 

More questions? I'm just sitting here having my third cup of coffee. ;)

I had no intention of getting this card, but after reading your great explanation, I am re-thinking my original decision. Thanks for throwing me into a quandry! :eek::p

[Pia1913]

I had no intention of getting this card, but after reading your great explanation, I am re-thinking my original decision. Thanks for throwing me into a quandry! :eek::p

 

You can always depend on me to find another way to get points. :D

 

And Toto: See Ethel5's explanation re: casino from the cage.

[Toto2Kansas]

And Toto: See Ethel5's explanation re: casino from the cage.

 

Yep, I do that every cruise. But that doesn't take care of extra shipboard credits you might have left. The gift of casino credits you pay for when ordered. I guess I was referring to removing shipboard credit from your account without the fee, not the double points for charging the gift. ;) My confusion! :o

[caribill]

Basically, aftter the initial 5000 point bonus, with the Princess Credit Card you are getting 1% back on non-Princess purchases and 2% back on Princess purchases.

 

If you can do better than that with other cards, then the other cards are better. For example, a Compass card will give you 5% cash back on purchases at grocery stores, drug stores and gas stations.

 

I never use the Princess card outside the USA because there is a 3% charge for using it then. A CapitalOne card has no foreign 3% fee.

 

Just need to use the card that is best in each circumstance. The Princess card is usually best for Princess related charges.

[Pia1913]

Yep, I do that every cruise. But that doesn't take care of extra shipboard credits you might have left. The gift of casino credits you pay for when ordered. I guess I was referring to removing shipboard credit from your account without the fee, not the double points for charging the gift. ;) My confusion! :o

 

I'm very willing to pay the 3% to take out the "found money." :D We always have leftover cash from an overage of OBC.

[j!m]

funny thing

 

the obc for north americans is stated to be $250 for our soon to be cruise

 

we live in canada

 

when i look at our cruise personalizer it lists the obc as CDN$250

 

maybe i send liza an email and ask why not US$250

[Toto2Kansas]

I'm very willing to pay the 3% to take out the "found money." :D We always have leftover cash from an overage of OBC.

 

 

Pia, but you don't have to give up any of it if you download it to a slot machine first. ;)

[Pia1913]

Pia, but you don't have to give up any of it if you download it to a slot machine first. ;)

 

I know, but sometimes I'm lazy and also not all ships have those machines.

[Toto2Kansas]

I know, but sometimes I'm lazy and also not all ships have those machines.

 

Good Point! I forgot that the smaller ships do not have the slots like the larger ships. ;)

[Ethel5]

Pia and Toto...

 

Thanks for "Finance 101." :D

[BunnyRabbit55]

I was reading a document from Carnival regarding the stock an OBC. You only get $250 if the cruise is 14 days or longer. 7-13 days the OBC is only $100. Has anyone experienced anything different?

[Toto2Kansas]

I was reading a document from Carnival regarding the stock an OBC. You only get $250 if the cruise is 14 days or longer. 7-13 days the OBC is only $100. Has anyone experienced anything different?

 

 

Same credit, exactly. Here is the information: http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/14/140690/shareben.pdf