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AARPTeri
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March 29, 2022

Three Exciting New AARP Rewards Cruise Line Gift Cards!

  • March 29, 2022
  • 84 replies
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Week of 3/28/22, we’ve added the following three gift cards to the Rewards catalog:

 

  • Royal Caribbean Digital Gift Card (Members Only)
    • $450 ($500 Value 10% off)
    • $90 ($100 Value 10% off)

 

  • Holland America Line Digital Gift Card (Available to all)
    • $450 ($500 Value 10% off)
    • $90 ($100 Value 10% off)

 

  • Princess- Digital Gift Card (Available to all)
    • $450 ($500 Value 10% off)
    • $90 ($100 Value 10% off)

 

Redeem yours today! https://www.aarp.org/rewards/redeem/ 

 

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    JeffB262193
    Contributor ⭐
    May 15, 2024

    Holland America Gift cards are stated to have a 10% discount, but when purchased, was only 8% (cost was $460 for a $500 gift card

     

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    Doodad101700
    Contributor ⭐⭐
    October 9, 2024

    SCAM!!! Celebrity Cruises Gift Card are a SCAM! Non Refundable and you have to book through Celebrity.  I have a Trusted Travel agent who can not book my cruise! I just canceled my AARP Membership!  I will not renew! Read the FINE PRINT especially (1) and Non Refundable to boot!   I'm out $450!

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      BellaD105782
      Contributor ⭐
      October 10, 2024

      Per the celebrity cite, your TA can use them for the booking.  

      "Celebrity Cruises Gift Card

       

      Celebrity Cruises

       www celebrity cruises. com › gift-cards
       
      Use them online at Celebritycruises.com, by calling us a 888-751-7804, or through your Travel Advisor. They can also be used onboard to pay for expenses."
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      Doodad101700
      Contributor ⭐⭐
      October 10, 2024

      Wrong... read the fine print!  7. Certificate may not be used to obtain onboard credit or to settle any shipboard charges.

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        JenniferT915923
        Contributor ⭐
        October 23, 2024

        The headache and hassle it takes to apply the Royal Caribbean Gift card is not worth the savings. AARP should be ashamed to even offer it. They should also refer to it as a Gift CERTIFICATE and not a card because that misleads people into thinking that it can be used the same as other gift cards.

         

        It is also disingenuous to imply it is the same as any other Royal Caribbean gift card because you have to not only EMAIL the voucher but wait TEN BUSINESS DAYS for it to be credited. This means people may miss their final payment deadlines if they needed to wait to purchase them until closer to that date.

         

        BUYER BEWARE!

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        LCWATER
        Contributor ⭐
        November 11, 2024

        Unfortunately, I learned the hard way 2 years ago.  Never had a problem using/applying Carnival gift cards purchased from AARP. Still stuck with a $500 Royal Caribbean gift card because all of the fine print didn't show up on my order until after I had placed it in the cart and purchased it.  I read everything before selecting it and no where did I see it could only be used on a new booking made around the same time of the gift certificate purchase. I had recently booked and paid the deposit of a new booking when I purchased the gift card but still had a balance on that cruise.  Went to try to apply the gift card and apparently, I was a month too late meaning I couldn't use because I should have submitted the gift card as soon as I had booked the cruise. My issue now is the rules changed since I purchased it; one of which is you cannot used it combined with any casino offers. So, when I've tried to apply it even recently, the same day I booked a new cruise, gift card was denied because I had booked my cruise under a casino offer.  It didn't matter to Royal Caribbean that I was able to provide them with the rules at the time I purchased.  They didn't care; they said I had to go by the current terms and conditions which now excludes combining with casino offers. Put it this way, after doing the math from the Royal Caribbean cruises I have gone on within the past 2 years, I've actually saved more than the $500 gift card I'm stuck with.  With that said, it's not technically AARP's fault; however, I do wish they would put an alert at the top when purchasing Royal Caribbean gift cards.

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