Year: 2016

I have always been a fan of the Alaska Airlines program.

With Alaska Airlines’ new distance based award chart, the shortest award flights will cost just 5,000 Alaska Airlines miles one-way, and the longest only 12,500 miles one-way.

Here is an example of a redemption to Seattle from Victoria, BC for just 10,000 miles return for just $44 for taxes!

While many other airlines are heading in a different direction and simply looking at how much people spend, we’re focused on rewarding people across the board for how much they fly. That means:

• They’ve lowered our lowest award tier so Mileage Plan members can now book award travel on Alaska Airlines flights using as few as 5,000 miles.
• They’ve bumped up mileage earnings on flights in business or first class on 10 global partners by up to 80 percent.
• Also, elite members now are eligible for complimentary upgrades on award travel on Alaska-operated flights when they book main cabin tickets.

Here is a link to the blog post.

This is a great reminder to get the Alaska Airlines Mastercard for the $75 annual fee – $60 Cash back from Great Canadian Rebates!

If you are going to be traveling to Vegas in the near future, then a bit of forward planning may be required to ensure that you are able to make the most of your trip. This can actually add to the whole experience because making plans builds up anticipation for your trip. There are certain things that can make your trip much less stressful if they are planned in advance.

A good place to start when planning your trip is to familiarize yourself with the Strip. This is probably going to the place where you spend most of your time so if you have a vague idea of where everything is it can save you quite a lot of time while you are there. If you have already have an idea of which hotels you want to visit you can start breaking this down into what you are going to do on each day.

One of the main reasons that people travel to Vegas is for the casinos. If this is something that you want to do when you get there, then it is a good idea to decide beforehand when you will visit the casino and how much money you want to spend. If you have never visited a casino before you may want to practice some of the games that you could play at Red Flush Online Casino so that you have some idea of what to expect.

There are many free visitor guides that can be found which are full of useful information. These guides have comprehensive listings of all restaurants, shops and hotels in the city so you get a real idea of exactly what you can expect to find. These guides will give you more information about places that you have already decided you want to visit and you may also find attractions that you may not have thought of before but are now definitely on your list of things to do before you leave.

It can also be useful for you to find out what the weather is likely to be like at the time you are visiting. As Las Vegas is in the Nevada desert it does not get much rainfall throughout the year and so this is not really something that you have to worry about. The summer months are the warmest and it can get quite cold during the months of January and February. There are many resources online that give statistics about the weather at different times of the year so you can see what sort of weather you can expect.

Depending on where you are traveling from, the journey to Vegas can be a long one. If you know you are going to be on the road or in the air for a while, then it may be a good idea to plan to take some entertainment along for the journey. Why not go mobile at Red Flush Online Casino to get in the mood for when you arrive in the city itself.

I haven’t used Air Miles Dream miles for a long time (except for buying a Dyson vacuum and Peg Perego car seat on sale).

I have never found any good redemption values.

Loyalty One has cancelled their Expiration policy.

They removed the deadline (after a lot of negative press). CBC did a Marketplace segment but unfortunately I am not sure what those users were doing (they showed 5 users trying to redeem their Dream miles).

Take my advice, either don’t bother collecting these miles (going out of your way to shop at retailers that offer these), or redeem them for Cash Miles and save yourself the agony of trying to redeem for a flight.

What this means for most collectors as LoyaltyOne needs to pay for these rewards that collectors redeem is that the price of some of the rewards will go up.

I just want to start a petition where I can see the good ol’ days back with them (about 7 years ago), where they had easy rewards to understand and redeem for, like Cineplex or Starbucks gift cards, and not this complicated rewards structure.

What are your thoughts on the Expiration Policy removal?