January 6 Update: Updated credit card reviews, earn 2x RSVP Rewards points at Sandman Hotels & Qatar Airways 25th anniversary seat sale

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. 

As part of the redesign of the Rewards Canada website we are also updating many of the articles and features as well as we go along. On the credit card reviews front two popular reviews were updated today. Those two are as follows:

• American Express Cobalt™ Card Review
• BMO eclipse Visa Infinite* Card Review

On top of that we have now created a separate landing page on the Rewards Canada website strictly for Credit Card Reviews. You can check it out here. New landing pages will also be created for our airline, hotel, lounge and other reviews in the coming weeks.

Summary of global hotel systemwide bonus points promotions – September Edition

 
Here is your monthly update of all the global hotel bonus points promotions that are available. One of the easiest ways to rack up lots of hotel points is to take advantage of these systemwide bonuses that come from many of the big chain programs and also from the lesser known programs. In fact, right now it should be rare for you NOT to earn a bonus. Unless you are staying at a boutique hotel or perhaps an independent hotel most other hotels out there have a bonus. So take advantage of it! These systemwide bonuses simply require you to register beforehand and they do not affect hotel pricing as long as you book a point eligible rate which are most rates out there. Of course booking through a third party site like Expedia or Rocketmiles does not count as most chains only award points on bookings that are made directly with them.  Here are all the current promotions that are available to everyone this month: 

May 27 Update: Every 2nd night free + double points at Sandman Hotels and 25% off select gift cards through RBC Rewards

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently has a welcome bonus of up to 70,000 bonus points and no annual fee in the first year!

 

Sandman Hotels have a new sale in place where you can get every second night free for stays at select Sandman hotels across Canada. On top of that RSVP Rewards members will earn double points on those stays. Simply book by May 31 for stays until June 30. Find out more here.

May 4 Update: RSVP Rewards - Canada's newest hotel loyalty program, earn 40,000 PC Optimum points for shopping beauty & 3 Lufthansa lounges join Priority Pass

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more.

 
In April the Sandman Hotel Group consolidated several of their loyalty programs and relaunched them as one program called RSVP Rewards. The new frequent guest program combines Sandman Hotel's Lucky 13 Rewards and Sutton Place Hotels Prestige into one. The new RSVP Rewards program is points based which is more like the Sutton Presitge program as Lucky 13 Rewards was a stamp based program (think buy 10 get 1 free punch cards. All Sutton Prestige members will retain their existing points balances and elite status levels while Lucky 13 members will have their stamps converted to points, unless you have a full card in which you can still redeem that for a free night. The program is giving Lucky 13 members until June 1, 2022 to convert their stamps into electronic points.