Just wanted to say thanks to Joel0917 for posting!
We are on the same cruise
Eastern
4/19/14
2A 2C Cat V Deck 12
$7483 no insurance, 10% deposit and $615 Costco Cash Card (booked online with Costco Travel before Xmas, so my price was $35 more than Joel0917) And we are Costco Executive Members, so customer service at the store told me that travel should count towards our 2% back at the end of the year (so the deposit will count toward 2012, the balance for 2013).
Unfortunately costco travel purchases don't count towards the executive award. From costco's website:
Calculation of 2% reward – Reward is approximately 2% of pre-tax purchases of most merchandise purchased through: front-end registers and most ancillary business registers at Costco warehouses and Costco websites in both the U.S. and Canada by U.S. and Canadian residents. In the U.S., Rewards are not calculated: (i) on purchases of cigarettes or tobacco-related products, gasoline, Costco Cash Cards, postage stamps, alcoholic beverages in certain states (including Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan), and at food courts; (ii) on membership
fees; (iii) on purchases not recorded through Costco’s front-end registers and transactions done on or through websites not hosted by Costco even if accessed through Costco.com, including all business, consumer, and insurance services, the online photo center,
Costco Travel and
the My Publisher website; (iv) on miscellaneous fees, deposits and taxes, including sales tax; (v) where prohibited by law or regulation; (vi)
on purchases made by anyone other than the account’s primary or primary Household Cardholder; and (vii) on certain other categories as determined at Costco’s discretion, which may change without notice.