Carnival Cruise Stock Holders get Onboard Credit $$
 

We love cruising and decided several years ago to buy Carnival stock (CCL) - one of those emotion based decisions that you're not suppose to do, but we did it anyway. A year later when taking a Princess cruise (owned by Carnival), the Princess agent mentioned to us that if we happened to own at least 100 shares of Carnival stock, that we'd get $100 of onboard credit to use. That was a very nice surprise!

I have done this on Holland America (a Carnival co). After you book just call the home office and they will ask you to fax (I think I might have emailed the last time) a proof of ownership. A copy of your brokerage statement will do. Cross off anything you do not want them to see. The credit will be added to your account.

The amount of the credit depends on the length of the cruise.

We own One hundred shares of both Royal Caribbean and Carnival. We cruise a lot, so it has worked out very well for us.

Love to cruise also and if you own Royal Caribbean shares, you also get credit on Celebrity! On Carnival we already had an OBC and they wouldn't allow 2 so had them apply the shareholders credit to prepaid tips. Cruising several times a year and it really pays off!

Becky

I thought RCCL stopped giving the OBC for stock. Did they reapply it again. Oh, I hope so since we own the necessary stock. They used to give us the credit and stopped it-oh, maybe that was just double dipping. We get balcony discount and upgrade as dia+ members and cannot get any other discounts along with that like they used to do.

about 100 shares will cost you over 3000 dollars.

We bought Carnival stock just for this purpose. Doesn't matter how many cruises you take per year---100.00 for a 6 day or longer---50.00 for less days. We cruise about 3 times a year--have been just cruising Carnival to build up our "status". We also purchase a future cruise certificate--some Carnival ships sell it onboard and if not, you can call their promotions dept when you get back home and purchase one. You give Carnival 100.00 deposit towards a future cruise--you have two years to book---this deposit will come off the final price of your cruise---and they also give you a 100.00 on board credit for 6 days or longer and 50.00 for a shorter cruise. It is totally refundable if you decide not to take a cruise within that two year time period. We are scheduled for the Carnival Dream on 8/25--7 nights---have 200.00 on board credit on our account. ( Carnival tipping has increased in the last year - from 10.00 a day to 11.50 a day per person. ) Think we paid around 31.00 per share for our stock and have benefited a lot more from this money (by giving it to Carnival) than if it had been sitting in the banks.