Carnival cards with southwest rapid reward points

I found out today i could redeem my southwest rapid rewards points for $100 dollar carnival gift cards. (13,500 points) I always find out things like this only a few weeks from my cruise. Has anyone redeemed points for carnival cards and how long did it take for cards to arrive? Any other points programs have similar deals?

Keep in mind 13,500 Rapid Rewards points are close to $200 worth of Southwest flights - so much better redemption value there.

Keep in mind 13,500 Rapid Rewards points are close to $200 worth of Southwest flights - so much better redemption value there.

This!

Our flights are almost always free by using Southwest points.

Check out Mitsugirly's Conquest review - she goes into great detail on these, starting on page 3. :)

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2491944&page=3

Still, an awful value to redeem for $100 in gift cards when you can get nearly $200 worth of flights...

True, but the OP didn't say how many he has. If he has 13,500 exactly and still needs to buy his flight, it's a bad decision. If he has 300k (and regularly racks up more for use as needed), why not?

Thanks everyone. I looked at mitsugitly’a post and realized there are two types of points. One from soutwest credit card. I do not have one. The other is with the rapid rewards for just traveling on soutwest. On that plan the price of a $100 dollar carnival card is the same as $100 southwest gift card. So I may hold onto the points this time around. I wish my work travel used southwest more often. In the past I used to get free flights all the time, but they changed the program. I hated it but still fly them. Mm changes .. sounds familiar.