Carnival credit card

[EllieinNJ]

There is a promotion on that says if you purchase $500 you can get 20,000 fun points which can be converted into a statement credit of $200.  Does this $500 have to be a Carnival product or for any purchase?  I did read the T&C but it was not clear to me.  Is this a good promo or do they have better promos?  Last year my husband got $250 taken off when he applied for it right at the booking.

[dallasdan]

When I did the credit card last year it had to be Carnival.  We paid off a cruise for around $600 and received the statement credit a month or so later.  Seemed pretty quick on the credit.

[scpirate]

No it can be anything. I got the card 3 months ago and made a large purchase of batteries for my golf cart  and easily met the $500 ..  I received the ,$200 credit. After that with the Carnival price increases I went ahead and paid my cruise and gratuities off  since my wife finally decided she did want to cruise again. So it does not have to be carnival related.

[Normajean999]

I just got the card a couple weeks ago. I called CS and they said a purchase from ANYWHERE of ANY amount will trigger the $200 credit. I did however use it to pay for wifi and gratuities.

[BoozinCroozin]

There are far better travel cards than this one. If you are getting a card for rewards, I would definitely look elsewhere. 

[Normajean999]

11 hours ago, BoozinCroozin said:

There are far better travel cards than this one. If you are getting a card for rewards, I would definitely look elsewhere. 

Correct. Only got it for the statement credit and for my daughter on purchases that won’t take applePay. I use my Chase Reserve for most everything else. I have several other cards that earn varying amounts of rewards on too.