Would You Use a Carnival Corp. Points Credit Card?

[jhannah]

It's common to see airlines that award frequent flyer miles for dollars spent. What if Carnival Corporation issued such a card that let you build up points for cruise purchases and/or onboard credits on any of their brands. Would you use such a credit card?

[DFD1]

Sure, but knowing how these things can sometimes work, I'd have to be one hundred-twenty years old to have gotten enough points to go anywhere!

[LAFFNVEGAS]

I use my United Mileage Plus card for EVERYTHING and have flown to Hawaii for free at least 4 times. We also used miles for our tickets to go to Ft Lauderdale next March. Since it is the ONLY card we use and I pay off monthly I do not know if another card would be of much benefit. I believe RCL has a card and I checked into it last year and like DFD1 stated it would take forever to earn enough miles to pay for 1 person on a cruise. Not sure if you could earn miles to use as a ship board credit.

[iluvcruzin]

No. I looked into the RCCL card and found the benefits weren't as good as the FF mileage card and cash dividend cards I use. I also like to sail a variety of lines so it would take me forever to build up enough points for a cruise.

[stillfrantic]

I have a Disney Visa which I use to gain points for a trip this winter to Disney World.

One that would award points to be used as cash, along with nice bonus offers, would be a great thing for the holding company to do. Once we leave WDW, it could become my card of choice!:p

[Navy_Chief]

I did away with credit cards after I paid the last of them off. I don't have a problem using them and paying off the balance down the road and always sent more than the minimum but too many people get into serious hot water with them. Then the credit card companies draw people in with theses so called "miles" or "refunds" where you have to spend $20,000.00 to get a $500.00 airline ticket.

Bah! I look at it this way, If the rental company needs a credit card for me to rent a car, I'll use my Check Card with the Visa logo on it. If I can't whip out the money to buy it, then I don't want it. When I pay for a cruise reservation, I tell the bank to open a 30 minute window for that amount, and that's that. I wonder how much those credit card companies loose to people who give up and just file Chaprter 7 (and of course, they then join Credit Cards annonmous:D ). So I guess the answer to the thread is: No I don't think so.

[ron46936]

Carnival does or at least did have a rewards card. The problem was that their's and RCCL's rewards were at about 1/3 those of the NCL card. I have two NCL cards and use them for everything.

[Orcrone]

I looked into the Carnival credit card and how much I'd have to spend to take advantage of their benefits. I found I was better off keeping my cash dividends cards and using the rebate for a cruise (or whatever I choose). And the advantage of cash is I can spend it anywhere, not just on a Carnival cruise.

IMHO these cards are great marketing, but you can do better elsewhere.

[Himself]

I have a "Milage Plus" card from Bank One and so far I have had one Coach flight and two first class flights. Hopefully, I will use it to fly to the West Coast in '05 as I now have enough miles for another freebee in first class.

Himself

[torpeedo]

We have used icruise's MBNA visa card and use it to reduce the cost of the cruise by a good deal of $$. That would be any cruise line we choose as long as booked through icruise. Also have Carnival Capital One Mastercard. Not as good a reward program as icruise but when we earn the max number of points a year we switch off to the Carnival card. We always pay the balance off every month so it's a win win thing. No fee for either card.