Just an FYI - if you log in to your goldpoints account, you can sign up for a Disney sweepstakes and get 500 points...it only takes a second. I don't want the vacation, but I will take the 500 points! :D

I just entered, maybe if we win, we can use it for our east coast get-together ;)

...OR buy flowers at FTD for 75 points per dollar or an entertainment book for 2000 points....

Thanks Sheri . . .

Peggy

Just how do you enroll in Goldpoints? Is it done automatically upon your first cruise? And what are the benefits of earned points?

I hope it's not like the air travel points, because unless you travel all the time, they are useless! I'm using NW air for our cruise and although we have some definite point accrual, they are useless to me because they were not earned this year! So much for hoping for an upgrade! Personally, for what they charge and the service rendered, I think some airlines should reward any returning passenger! :rolleyes:

CurlyQ: Talk to your TA about Goldpoints. You can do it on-line also by going to www.goldpoints.com. I don't travel all the time either, but get miles through American Express that can be credited to many airlines, so I never feel they are useless! I am getting upgrades on my next two cruises to biz class through the miles I have through American Express, not by flying, but by charging. It is worth it to seek out these options. I think I will save $400 per passenger on a 2005 cruise using Goldpoints...first time I have ever called them in.

www.goldpoints.com. Just log in there and enroll. You earn 5 points for every dollar spent on the first RSSC criuse fare (not land, port tax or air) and then after the first cruise you earn 10 points per dollar spent. Redemptions are best at the 50,000 ($200) or 100,000 ($400) points level as you start to learn less per cruise after that point. You can also cash in your points for other awards. TGI Fridays is a member of the gold points program, as are Radisson Hotels and in fact all the Carlson company products. You must at some point call in your gold points number to Radisson cruise line and register it. This is very easy to do and you also put it on your guest forms. The goldpoints number once registered is now automatically put in every Radisson cruise booking. You dont earn gold points on 2 for 1 cruises.

Have a gold point number but no points atleast that is what they tell me on goldpoints...guess I enrolled but never put cruises in?? So I should call Radisson?? Joanna

Joanna your cruises have probably not qualified to earn gold points. 2 for 1 and highly discounted cruises dont qualify.

You will earn goldpoints on June 7 though and at a rate of 10 points for dollar spent. You will also earn them for the World Cruise segments next year. Soon you will be rolling in gold points.

Thank you Ngaire...I am getting too old to keep track of all the "points"...frequent flyer, amex, tons of others we have, can be a full time job - and wait till you go to Flyertalk - talk about another full time job - Joanna

Remember to change your email address with them every 3 months. It's worth 500 points & some of their purchasing specials are wonderful, especially if you only need several hundred points to reach enough for a RSSC discount.
Go to the goldpoints site & see how many you do have. You might be surprised.

Remember to change your email address with them every 3 months. It's worth 500 points & some of their purchasing specials are wonderful, especially if you only need several hundred points to reach enough for a RSSC discount.
Go to the goldpoints site & see how many you do have. You might be surprised.
I saw where you had registered on Flyertalk. I have only been reading it for a few weeks & still haven't figured it out totally, but have received some good tips on coupons & free samples & earning extra FF miles, but there abbreviations are a world unto themselves.

Thanks for the tip Sheri! Betty did they change the rules for Goldpoints? I thought you could change your email address every 6 months but if it is now three months even better.

I think it has always been 3 months, but neither Karen nor I could find it on the web site...they used to have the info there.

...or, for those of you who need luggage, ebags.com gets you 55 points per dollar spent!!

Is the Disney sweepstakes still on the site? I don't see it ... :(

Masaki

I didn't see it today either...it may have been a one-day thing. :(

Oh well. Thanks for reminding to change my Email address though, Betty & Sheri. I now have 500 points on my account! :)

Masaki

I just figured out I have had a gold points card since before my cruise is it to late to get credit for past cruises?

Lynette, Ngaire will know the answer to this for sure but I think you have a one year grace period.

Lois your gold points number was in your cruise and I just checked your balance and they are in the system. You only get 5 points per dollar spent for the first time. Next time you get 10 points. Not enough to redeem yet.

To answer your question though you can only go back 6 months to redeem points on a cruise that has already sailed.