HURRY: Save on Royal Caribbean Gift Cards (and Stack with Cashback AND Credit Card Offers)

If you have an upcoming Royal Caribbean cruise or plan to purchase one soon, you might be interested in a special gift card offer available now through Newegg. But before you do anything, there are a few steps you should take to make sure you save even more money (or earn extra points!)

We don’t yet know how long this sale will, erm, be sailing.

Royal Caribbean Gift Cards: $500 Gift Card for $455

Online retailer Newegg is selling $500 gift cards to Royal Caribbean for $455. You can apply these toward purchases of a new cruise and/or onboard purchases such as “specialty dining, beverage packages, spa services, shore excursions and more.”

Please note the terms stated on the sale’s page:

1. After making a cruise reservation, Email a copy of this Gift Certificate to SharedservicesGiftCertificateRedemption@rccl.com.
2. You should receive an automated response within 24 hours. If not, please try resending your email in a smaller file size or try sending a separate email for each certificate
3. You will receive a email confirmation once certificate(s) have been applied to your reservation. Please allow up to 10 business days.

This promotion is limited to one gift card per account. In my experience, gift card limits reset every 24 hours. Keep that in mind.

But don’t go shopping yet.

Check Your Credit Card Offers

You might really be able to stack up the savings with this special if you take advantage of some credit card offers. Most offers say that gift card purchases aren’t eligible. I speak from experience: stranger things have happened.

Chase Newegg Offer

All of my co-branded Chase cards (i.e., World of Hyatt, Marriott Bonvoy, and IHG) received this offer:

Earn 6% cashback, up to $50 as a statement credit when you make a purchase at Newegg, including taxes and after any discounts… Payment must be made directly with the merchant. Payment must be made on or before 08/31/2024.

Click on the promotion and it will be automatically added to that card. And here’s the beauty of Chase Offers: you can add them to every targeted card.

So, let’s say you add it to a Marriott Bonvoy card and use that today to purchase a Royal Caribbean gift card. Great! You potentially earn back $27.30 in statement credit. Your $500 gift card is now costing you $427.70.

If you want to buy another gift card tomorrow — assuming the sale is still live and the limit resets — use another card you enrolled in the same offer. Wash and repeat.

American Express Newegg Offer

This promotion isn’t nearly as lucrative. But you still can save some money if you don’t have any Chase cards (you know who are: hardcore Delta people who pledged allegiance to the American Express).

Through September 2, 2024, you can earn back 2% in statement credit when using your eligible card for eligible purchases at Newegg, up to $250 in statement credits. (Terms apply; manual enrollment is required.) Amex no longer lets you apply offers to multiple cards.

Get Bonus Cashback or Points

Remember to start your shopping session through a portal such as Rakuten.

Right now, Rakuten awards 1% cashback (or 1X Membership Rewards, if you elect that route) on eligible Newegg purchases. Gift cards are generally exempt. But have I earned cashback on gift card purchases through Newegg? Do I know others who have? Again, stranger things have happened.

And if you’re not already a Rakuten member, you can earn $30 bonus cashback when you spend at least $30 through Rakuten-initiated shopping sessions (like buying these gift cards!) within 90 days of signing up. You can sign up free here through our referral link (thank you!).

When All That’s Done

Start your shopping session through your preferred shopping portal. Search for Newegg. Click through to Newegg. Search for “royal caribbean gift card.” You’ll see something like this:

Click on the $455 purchase price and go from there!

Happy sale-ing and sailing!