Carnival Corporation

What you get

You get onboard credit to spend on an eligible cruise. The amount depends on the cruise length and currency. The credit goes to your cabin. It is not cash and does not reduce the fare.

Which cruise lines take part?

Carnival lists Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn and Cunard for North America; Costa and AIDA for continental Europe; P&O Cruises, Cunard and Princess for the UK; and Carnival Cruise Line and Princess for Australia.

Which currency applies?

For Carnival Cruise Line, Cunard and Princess, the ship’s onboard currency determines the credit. You cannot choose between the currencies in the table.

AIDA booking types

For bookings made from 15 July 2025, AIDA limits the benefit to Comfort and Premium fares.

What it takes

You need at least 100 Carnival Corporation shares.

You must sail on an eligible booking and occupy the cabin receiving the credit.

Holding through a broker

Carnival sends shareholders to Stockperks for the ownership check. Its benefit page does not say you must register the shares in your own name. We have not tested a claim through any broker or account.

How to claim

1. 1. Find your cruise line in StockperksDownload Stockperks, create a profile and search for Carnival. Select the cruise line you are sailing with.
2. 2. Validate your holdingChoose “Validate your portfolio” and follow the ownership check.
3. 3. Claim for your bookingOnce Stockperks confirms your holding, submit a claim for each eligible booking. Allow at least three weeks before departure; you cannot arrange the credit onboard.

Carnival does not say which documents Stockperks accepts or how long checks take. If Stockperks cannot validate your holding, ask it what evidence it needs.

Open Carnival’s Stockperks instructions 

Stockperks — Ownership checks and app support: carnivalcorp@stockperks.com

Exclusions and limits

Excluded: Employees; Travel agents on agent or interline rates, and tour conductors; Reduced-rate or free cruises; Casino charges and tips (gratuities) charged to your onboard account; Transferring the credit, requesting a refund or exchanging it for cash.

Usage limits: one onboard credit per cabin the shareholder occupies.

Dates

Carnival Corporation gives no qualifying date or minimum holding period.

Claim deadline rule

Submit the claim at least three weeks before departure.

Use the benefit by

31 December 2026

Expiry rule

The published offer covers sailings through this date.

Practical notes

If you held Carnival plc shares in the UK

Carnival combined its two listed companies on 7 May 2026. Each Carnival plc share became one share in Carnival Corporation, which trades as CCL on the New York Stock Exchange. The London listing ended.

UK holders may now hold depositary interests: these represent Carnival shares in the UK settlement system. Equiniti runs a nominee service for Carnival that holds them for some shareholders. Start with Stockperks and ask its support team how to verify this holding. Carnival’s FAQs do not explain that step.

Check your fare before relying on the credit

Carnival excludes reduced-rate and free cruises but does not say which fares count. Ask your cruise line about your booking. Carnival’s benefit page links to each line’s contact details.

The offer can change

Carnival can change or end the benefit without notice. Check the published terms before each claim.

History of the perk

The current terms describe two changes to AIDA’s eligible fares. They do not say when the onboard credit scheme began.

1. 15 July 2025

   AIDA adds Comfort fares

   Comfort and Premium bookings qualified from this date.

2. 1 June 2025

   AIDA restricts new bookings to Premium

   AIDA stopped accepting other fare types for new bookings.