pohlerbear Posted March 14, 2022 #1 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Hello everyone I am booked on a cruise with two friends in May- first post covid cruise so I am out of touch with a few things. I've read that you can use your OBC ahead of time now for excursions and cheers- we got $100 OBC at booking so I've already figured out where to redeem it online. I have enough rewards on our Carnival mastercard to get $200 OBC and would like like to purchase Cheers before we leave since its cheaper. Will this OBC show up ahead of time now as well? In the alternative, I guess I can buy gift cards (digital) to apply to Cheers? I don't know if there's a better way to do this. Thanks for any input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare crewsweeper Posted March 14, 2022 #2 Share Posted March 14, 2022 When you go to manage my cruises and select Cheers at checkout you should be able to use points for partial payment and a cc for the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingston13 Posted March 14, 2022 #3 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Why not use the points for statement credit and charge the cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pohlerbear Posted March 15, 2022 Author #4 Share Posted March 15, 2022 17 hours ago, kingston13 said: Why not use the points for statement credit and charge the cheers Hmmm I’ll have to look at that. Not sure what the rate is for statement credit but for the points I have I qualify for $250 obc or gift cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireresq15 Posted March 16, 2022 #5 Share Posted March 16, 2022 Barclay does not show up in your obc. You need to go to guest services once on board with your confirmation code to be applied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pohlerbear Posted March 16, 2022 Author #6 Share Posted March 16, 2022 29 minutes ago, fireresq15 said: Barclay does not show up in your obc. You need to go to guest services once on board with your confirmation code to be applied. Thank you for your response. I was wondering if it was different now that Carnival allows you to use OBC online before the cruise. I will just buy a gift card and redeem it for cheers before my cruise to get the cheaper price. Also I've never had to go to guest services to get it applied. I've always had a paper in room and its just appears on my OBC automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calbred01 Posted March 18, 2022 #7 Share Posted March 18, 2022 On 3/15/2022 at 6:45 AM, pohlerbear said: Hmmm I’ll have to look at that. Not sure what the rate is for statement credit but for the points I have I qualify for $250 obc or gift cards You do get double points for any purchase using the credit card also, we received a 10% credit after booking our shore excursions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare EllieinNJ Posted March 19, 2022 #8 Share Posted March 19, 2022 We opened a Barclay card and charged the whole of our first cruise and received $250 statement credit. Do we also get OBC? Or just points? How many points do you need for OBC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolyroger Posted March 20, 2022 #9 Share Posted March 20, 2022 This was what I was wondering as well. I as well have the Carnival card, purchased OBC using our points, but wanted to use them before the cruise to purchase the cheers package. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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