Ontario is protecting consumers from losing reward points based only on the amount of time passed since they were earned. Beginning on January 1, 2018, consumers will be protected against losing reward points that they have been saving up for larger purchases, and the change will be retroactive to October 1, 2016. Consumers who believe their points improperly expired will…
Aeroplan has posted a number of promotions for Boxing Day currently live at Aeroplan.com. See full deals here: https://www.aeroplan.com/BoxingWeek2017.do?currentLanguage=en&cid=BAN30000819. Of interest, members can earn up to 7X the miles on select retailers at the Aeroplan eStore until January 2nd. This includes retailers such as: Michael Kors, iTunes, Sephora, Nike and many more. In addition from Dec 18 – 28th, members can earn 4x…
I had the pleasure to take my family to the San Diego Natural History Museum located in Balboa Park in November 2017. One of the reasons we love visiting San Diego is that they have many family-friendly things to do. We were able to take advantage of the CASC reciprocal admission agreement with the San Diego Natural History Museum to get in at no…
We had the pleasure of redeeming several Marriott reward points for a wonderful 7-night stay at the Residence Inn Maui Wailea. We were upgraded to an ocean-view (we loved this view nightly). This is one of the more expensive Residence Inns (in terms of points redeemed – Category 8) I have stayed at but was great with my family of 5.…
WestJet, Air France and KLM today announced the redemption phase of their reciprocal frequent flyer agreement. Flying Blue Miles can now be redeemed for WestJet flights and WestJet dollars can now be redeemed for flights within the Air France and KLM global network. The announcement comes on the heels of the airlines’ successful launch of the earn phase of the…
Starting November 6th, if you collect points from hotel loyalty programs, now is your chance to convert them into Aeroplan Miles. You’ll even receive a 30% bonus* when you convert them before Dec. 11, 2017! Members will need to have 5,000 converted miles in order to be eligible to receive the 30% bonus. Also to note, that this bonus is…
Book today with beVancouver.com and they will give you a prepaid AMEX Gift Card of up to $125 to reward your booking AND an additional $50 AMEX Gift Card for every subsequent night you stay. Gift Cards can be used any way you’d like … to cover hotel costs, on-site restaurants, room service, spas, amenities … or at surrounding restaurants…
We had a great camping trip last month near Harrison Hot Springs, BC, in the mainland, but it was nice near the end to spend some time in the big city, Vancouver. I love to visit Vancouver but the traffic is frustrating and it is very long (compared to my daily commute of 15 minutes by bicycle). We had the…
American Express Canada has introduced a new credit card in it’s large suit of products this week, the Cobalt card. The American Express Cobalt card comes with a sign-up bonus of 40,000 points, but you won’t get all those points at once. You’ll earn 2,500 points for each monthly billing period in which you spend $500 in purchases — up…
AMEX is offering a 25% bonus on Membership Rewards (MR) points transferred to British Airways Avios until November 12, 2017. I love this program as a transfer partner as it really opens up the possibilities. You can redeem on partners like: American Airlines Alaska Airlines Finnair JAL Cathay Pacific LAN The Avios program is distanced based so their chart has…