Southwest Cruises Launches Booking Portal With Limited-Time Promotion

Updated: November 1, 2024, 6:52am CDT

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What Is Southwest Cruises?
Limited Time Promotion for 2x Points
Final Thoughts

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For those looking to earn Southwest Rapid Rewards points in additional ways, we have some good news. Let us introduce Southwest Cruises.

This new cruise portal offers more than just cruise bookings for your favorite cruise lines. It also provides a way to earn Southwest points — and you can earn a lot of them right now.

Here’s a look at the new Southwest Cruises portal and a limited-time promotion to earn 2x points on your next sailing.

What Is Southwest Cruises?

Southwest Cruises launched in partnership with Southwest Airlines and World Travel Holdings. Using this cruise portal, you can book cruises on Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, MSC, Celebrity, Holland America, Princess Cruises, and Disney Cruise Line.

This isn’t the first airline to offer a cruise booking portal. In fact, it’s not the first airline to offer a cruise portal in conjunction with World Travel Holdings. American Airlines Cruises is a prime example.

Southwest Cruises offers a chance to earn Rapid Rewards points on your next sailing — including some nice bonuses for a limited time. Unfortunately, you can’t redeem Southwest points to pay for cruises through the portal.

Without any promotions, you’ll earn 1 Rapid Rewards point per $1 spent on bookings with Southwest Cruises.

Limited Time Promotion for 2x Points

With this new offer, you can earn double points on your sailing.

Typically, you would earn 1x point per $1 spent on sailings. During this promotion, that’s doubled to 2x for sailings through December 31, 2025. It applies to sailings with Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian, MSC, Celebrity, Holland America, Princess, or Disney for sailings of 1-5 nights.

Available promotions are clearly outlined when you’re choosing a cruise.

Southwest Cruises 10k 2x points offers — Booking page showing available promotions. Image Credit: Southwest Cruises

Hot Tip:

If you are planning on booking a cruise, checking rates with Southwest Cruises would make sense.

Final Thoughts

Southwest Cruises is now live, and you can earn Southwest Rapid Rewards points on your next sailing. The standard earning rate isn’t very good, but a limited-time promotion can overcome that temporarily.

Unfortunately, you can’t redeem Southwest points for these cruises, but that may change over time. And now there’s another way to earn Southwest points, which should make many people happy.