Rocketmiles: 3,000 Bonus Miles/Points in the program of your choice including Aeroplan for your first booking made by January 31

If you have signed up with Rocketmiles but haven't booked with them yet you would have received this email! Even if you didn't or haven't signed up with them you can take advantage of this offer.

Offer details:
3,000 Miles/Points in the partner program of your choice for your first stay booked via Rocketmiles. Stay must be booked via the special promotion page at www.rocketmiles.com/2019-travel/. The bonus can only be earned once per member. Book by Jan 31, 19

Only a few days left for the Hilton Winter Sale - Save up to 25% on weekend stays in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa

You only have a few days left to book Hilton's weekend sale where you can save up to 25% on stays in Europe, The Middle East and Africa!

Make the festive season one to remember with the Hilton Sale and save up to 25% off breaks across Europe, The Middle East and Africa. For the best savings, simply join Hilton Honors for free while you book. Need some inspiration? Take a look below at some of our fantastic locations on offer to create your perfect break.

Stays must be booked by January 31, 2019 and completed on weekends until May 29, 2019. Remember that you should also be earning 2,000 bonus points on these stays with the current winter Hilton Honors promotion that runs until May 5. Find that and all other Honors bonuses here.

Discounts are up to 15% off the Best Available Rate and Best Available Bed & Breakfast Rate and vary by property. The Winter Sale Hilton Honors member rates are an additional 10% off of the Best Available Rate and the Best Available Bed and Breakfast Rate.

Click here to take advantage of the Hilton Winter sale

IHG Rewards Club: Up to a 75% bonus when you buy points until February 28

Just like in January of 2018, we see an up to 75% bonus for buying IHG Rewards Club points. The main difference from 2018 to 2019 is the level of points required to buy to receive the 75% bonus has gone up by 5,000 points. IHG tends to run lots of offers where you can buy points for 100% so I wouldn't jump on this unless you really need to points to top off for award nights.

Offer details:
Up to a 75% Bonus when you buy IHG Rewards Club Points online. Buy points here.
Until Feb 28, 19
Buy 5,000 to 19,000 points, receive a 50% bonus,
buy 20,000+ points receive a 75% bonus.

Find many more IHG Rewards Club Bonus Points offers here!

January 29 Update: 100% Bonus when you convert Radisson Rewards points to Aeroplan and Aeroplan loses Toyota as a partner

Check out the latest Radisson Rewards to Air Canada Aeroplan transfer bonus. Right now when you transfer points from your Radisson Rewards account to Aeroplan you'll get a 100%. What's curious about the promotion is the 100% bonus is split between Radisson and Aeroplan. Radisson will give 70% of the bonus miles while Aeroplan will give you the other 30%. Hopefully this posts correctly if you do choose to do this transfer. If you do, you have until February 15th to take advantage of the bonus. You need to convert a minimum of 2,000 Radisson Rewards points for the bonus to kick in. Points covert 10 to 1 so with the promo you'll get 2 Aeroplan Miles for every 10 points. Find out more about this offer here.

Speaking of Aeroplan, their partnership with Toyota apparently ended on December 31st. There is no news on the Aeroplan website about this, I found out when I took my Toyota in for service and pulled out my Aeroplan card. The service advisor advised me the partnership ended at the end of 2018 (even though the dealership still had a big Aeroplan banner hanging on the outside)

Posts since our last update:

• Rewards Canada miles and points resources you should frequently check and bookmark
  RewardsCanada.ca is a huge website in terms of the number of pages we have on the site.  Some often overlooked…
• Podcast Episode 51 is here! We discuss Canada's Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards for 2019
  Episode 51 - January 29, 2019 Canada's Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards for 2019!This is a special week! We…
• Save up to 25% with the Hilton Asia Pacific Sale - Must book by February 2 for stays until September 30
  Hilton Honors members can save up to 25% on stays across the entire region when you book by February…

Travel DealsMarriott is offering 20% off best available rates when you stay 2+ nights Thursday-Sunday at 6 great locations in Toronto and Edmonton. Valid for stays until Feb 28, 19 . Full Details and online Booking

Hilton APAC Year End sale - Save up to 25% when you book by Feb 2 for stays until Sep 30, 2019!
 

Remember to visit Rewards Canada's Travel Booking site to book travel directly with many of your favourite airlines, hotels and more!

Canadian Bonus Offers
Air Canada Aeroplan
- 100% Bonus Aeroplan Miles when you redeem Radisson Rewards points for Aeroplan Miles. More... Until Feb 15, 19

Other Bonus Offers
Air France KLM Flying Blue
- Triple Flying Blue Miles for stays at participating Golden Tulip Hotels Worldwide. More... Until Feb 28, 19

Marriott Rewards
- 500 Bonus Rewards Points when you stay at the AC Hotel Innsbruck. More... Until Feb 28, 19

Miles & More
- Earn up to 2,100 Bonus Miles & More Miles for rentals at participating Enterprise locations in Europe and North America. More... Book by Apr 30 for rentals until May 31, 19

United MileagePlus
- OFFER EXTENDED Elite Status Match that offers top-tier flyers of most other airlines a comparable status in the MileagePlus® program. More... Until Dec 31, 19



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Rewards Canada miles and points resources you should frequently check and bookmark

RewardsCanada.ca is a huge website in terms of the number of pages we have on the site.  Some often overlooked pages are those where you can earn more miles and points (or use less miles and points) when you fly, stay at hotels, rent cars and more.  To help compile those large number of loyalty promotions there are certain pages on the main Rewards Canada website that are summaries of these offers  and it is these pages that you should always keep an eye on. For those of you who are new to the Rewards Canada world or even if you have followed us for years but forgot where these pages were or have never heard of them, here they are. I hope they help you like they have me and many other Rewards Canada users in ensuring that you earn more Miles more Points more Rewards.

Route Bonus Listing (http://www.rewardscanada.ca/routebonus.html)
A complete list of all the airline bonus offers for flights/routes that are on RC. This list gives you the most up to date and near-complete listing of publicly available flight bonuses.

Car Rental Bonus Offer Listing (http://www.rewardscanada.ca/carbonus.html) Much like the route bonus above, this table lists all the car rental bonuses we have posted onto RC for the various airline, hotel and car rental programs. It's sorted by Car Rental company first and then by program. Much like the route bonus listing this page should be visited before you are planning any car rental bookings to ensure you  are not missing out any bonuses. 

Elite Status Bonus Mile and Point Offers (http://www.rewardscanada.ca/statusoffers.html)
Looking for status matches or flight, hotel and other offers that award status miles or points? That's what this FFB page for. Once again it pulls offers from across the entire FFB site into one page that offer some sort of Elite Status Bonus.

Buy, Gift, Transfer Mile and Point Bonus Opportunities (http://www.rewardscanada.ca/buymilesoffers.html)
The number of buy, gift and transfer bonus offers has skyrocketed in the last five or so years as the programs fully discovered the value of selling their loyalty currencies. On this page I try to capture all these offers and update it as each new one gets added to RC.

Discounted Mile and Point Redemption Offers (http://www.rewardscanada.ca/discounted-rewards.html)
What's better than redeeming your miles for a flight? Getting a discount on that redemption! This page covers any discounted rewards that we list on RC.

Free Mile and Point Offers (http://www.rewardscanada.ca/freemiles.html)
Free miles are the best. Granted you usually can't get very many miles or points that come at no cost (credit cards excluded) but they are very worthwhile nonetheless. Who knows when that 500 free miles offer will get you over the hump to an award flight or just happen to keep your account active when it may be expiring due to lack of activity!

Top Bonus Mile & Point Offers (http://www.rewardscanada.ca/topoffers.html)
This page is a summary of all the best flight, hotel, car rental and other bonus offers out there. Only the top offers will be found here - they tend to be the most lucrative, most popular and/or the easiest to take advantage of.

Podcast Episode 51 is here! We discuss Canada's Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards for 2019

Episode 51 - January 29, 2019
Canada's Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards for 2019!

This is a special week! We look at and discuss our 2019 Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings! Find out some of the details behind the rankings, the cards that came out on top and more! You can find the full rankings here!

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Save up to 25% with the Hilton Asia Pacific Sale - Must book by February 2 for stays until September 30

Hilton Honors members can save up to 25% on stays across the entire region when you book by February 2, 2019. The offer for non-members is only up to 15% off so it really makes sense to join Honors to get the additional discount seeing that it costs nothing to join the program.

Stays must be booked by February 2, 2019 for stays until September 30,  2019. Remember that you should also be earning 2,000 bonus points on these stays with the current winter Hilton Honors promotion that runs until May 5. Find that and all other Honors bonuses here..

Discount varies from 5% to 25% off Flexible Rate (BAR) or Breakfast Included Rate (B&B) across all participating properties. Hilton Honors members will receive an additional 10% discount for bookings outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.


Click here to take advantage of the Hilton APAC Year End sale 
 
Here's just a small sample of the offers available:

January 28 Update: Credit Cards that help save on airline fees, WestJet adds Calgary to Austin & Portland, Edmonton to St. John's and IHG new hotel openings

Today's we released a new feature on the main Rewards Canada website entitled "Credit Cards that help you avoid those dreaded airline fees." This one looks at credit cards that can help you save money or even avoid airline and even some airport fees! Read the feature here!

WestJet announced their summer 2019 flight schedule today and it includes three new routes. The new routes are seasonal service between Calgary and Portland (daily), Calgary and Austin (2x weekly) and Edmonton and St. John's (3x weekly). There are also lots of increases to existing routes, of which you can find the highlights below. Learn more about WestJet's new routes here!

CALGARY

• Calgary-Houston, from 12 weekly flights to 13 weekly flights.
• Calgary-London (Gatwick), adding two weekly flights with daily 787 Dreamliner service.
• Calgary-Orlando, from once weekly to twice weekly.
• Calgary-Phoenix, will double service from once daily to twice daily.
• Calgary-Puerto Vallarta, from three times weekly to four times weekly.
• Calgary-San Diego, from three times weekly to four times weekly.
• Calgary-San Francisco, will double service from once daily to twice daily.
• Calgary-Kitchener, from seven weekly flights to eight weekly flights.

EDMONTON

• New non-stop three times weekly service between Edmonton and St. John's.
• Edmonton-Halifax, from nine weekly flights to 10 weekly flights.

TORONTO

• Toronto-Nashville, from seven weekly flights to 10 weekly flights.
• Toronto-Grand Cayman, will double service from once weekly to twice weekly.
• Toronto-Kingston, from three weekly flights to four times weekly.
• Toronto-Liberia, will double service from once weekly to twice weekly.
• Toronto-Montego Bay, from 11 weekly flights to 12 weekly flights.
• Toronto-Nassau from six to seven times weekly.
• Toronto-Saint Maarten, will double service from once weekly to twice weekly.
• Toronto-Halifax, adding five weekly flights for seven-times daily service Monday to Friday.
• Toronto-Charlottetown, adding two weekly flights.
• Toronto-London, from two times daily to three times daily.

VANCOUVER

• Extension of existing once weekly winter seasonal service between Vancouver and Orlando.

HALIFAX

• Halifax-Winnipeg, from four weekly flights to five times weekly.
• Halifax-Edmonton, from nine weekly flights to 10 weekly flights.
• Halifax-Toronto, adding five weekly flights for seven-times daily service Monday to Friday.

On Friday we released our second new hotel openings post of 2019! This time we took a look at all the new IHG Hotels opening up. You can visit that post here and also check out our first one on Best Western openings here.

Posts since our last update:

• Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan: Up to a 40% bonus when you buy miles until February 22
  Alaska Airlines has launched another buy miles bonus! Though not as good as the 50% we saw earlier in the…
• InterContinental Hotels Group New Hotel Openings in Canada for 2019 - 7 hotels in the works
  IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) is a large worldwide hotel chain best known for their Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn…

Travel Deals
Cathay Pacific's New Year's sale sees them offering flights out of Vancouver to Southeast Asia for as little as $895 round trip. Book by Jan 31. Find out more here.

Marriott is offering 20% off best available rates when you stay 2+ nights Thursday-Sunday at 6 great locations in Toronto and Edmonton. Valid for stays until Feb 28, 19 . Full Details and online Booking

Avis: Save up to 20% with their New Year Worldwide sale. Book by Jan 31 for rentals until Dec 15, 19. Find out more here.

Hilton APAC Year End sale - Save up to 25% when you book by Feb 2 for stays until Sep 30, 2019!

Hilton Winter Sale - Save up to 25% on weekend stays in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa

Remember to visit Rewards Canada's Travel Booking site to book travel directly with many of your favourite airlines, hotels and more!

Canadian Bonus Offers
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Other Bonus Offers
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
- Earn up to 40% Bonus Mileage Plan Miles when you buy or gift miles. More... Until Feb 22, 19

Choice Privileges
- 30% Discount when you buy 5,000 or more Choice Privileges points. More... Until Feb 17, 19

Hyatt World of Hyatt
- 30% Bonus World of Hyatt Points when you purchase 5,000 or more points. More... Until Feb 22, 19

Jumeirah Sirius
- Double Sirius Points for stays on the Suite Sensation Package at participating Jumeirah Hotels in UAE. More... Until Jun 30, 19

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Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan: Up to a 40% bonus when you buy miles until February 22

Alaska Airlines has launched another buy miles bonus! Though not as good as the 50% we saw earlier in the year some of you may be able to make great use of buying the miles with a 40% bonus! With the 40% offer you are buying Mileage Plan Miles at roughly US 2.11 cents each (plus GST/HST):

What is new this time around with the buy miles offer is Alaska now setting in place a maximum amount of miles you can buy in a year if you don't hold MVP status.  Non-Elite members can only buy 150,000 miles per year now.  MVP, MVP Gold, and MVP Gold 75K member are not subjected to this limitation. Seeing that Alaska does have 50% bonuses at times I wouldn't buy at 40% unless you have a need for these miles to be redeemed over the next 60-90 days at which time we may see their next bonus offer.

If you do buy right now remember you can redeem miles for premium class flights on British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Hainan, Korean Air and more, there are lots of options for you to use these miles. It only takes 70,000 Mileage Plan miles to fly Cathay Pacific First Class one way from North America to Asia and those 70K will cost you US$1478.13 as seen above - and to pay for that first class will cost you a lot more than that!

Offer details
Earn up to 40% Bonus Mileage Plan Miles when you buy or gift miles. Buy Alaska Miles Here Until Feb 22, 19

• 10,000 – 19,000 miles = 20% bonus
• 20,000 – 29,000 miles = 30% bonus
• 30,000 - 60,000 miles = 40% bonus

Find many more Mileage Plan bonus miles offers here!

InterContinental Hotels Group New Hotel Openings in Canada for 2019 - 7 hotels in the works

IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) is a large worldwide hotel chain best known for their Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express brands. IHG however comprises of 13 brands in total (soon to be 14 with the addition of Regent) and well over 5,000 hotels Worldwide. They have a significant presence here in Canada with over 185 hotels from coast to coast.

They are planning to grow that presence by opening another seven hotels across our nation in 2019. These are the hotels and their anticipated opening dates (of course these are subject to change):

• Holiday Inn & Suites Calgary South - Conference Centre 
  
  • Slated opening date: March 1
• Staybridge Suites Red Deer North
  
  • Slated opening date: March 5
• Holiday Inn Edmonton South - Ellerslie Road
  
  • Slated opening date: March 29
• Holiday Inn Express & Suites Ottawa Downtown East
  
  • Slated opening date: August 16
• Holiday Inn Express Lethbridge Southeast
  • Slated opening date: August 18
• Holiday Inn Express & Suites Sarnia Port Edward
  
  • Slated opening date: August 1
• Holiday Inn Express & Suites Halifax Dartmouth
  
  • Slated opening date: August 15

Alberta and Ontario are the winners here taking four and two of the seven properties respectively.  I would say the stand out hotels that are opening this year are the Holiday Inn & Suites Calgary South, Holiday Inn Edmonton South and the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Ottawa Downtown East. If you are planning a stay at any of these hotels let us know as we'd love for you to do a review for us!

Overall this is a lower amount of new hotels opening compared to 2018 which had 12, however it is still good to see the brand continuing to grow in Canada. Based on IHG's reports there are at least another 24 hotels planned in Canada over the next few years.

Remember to take advantage of all the possible IHG Rewards Club bonus points offers if you plan on staying at any of these new IHG hotels or any other IHG hotels for that matter! You can find all the promotions listed on our IHG Rewards Club Bonus Points page. At the very least the offer that should be on everyone's radar is their Faster Nights. Free offer or Triple Aeroplan Miles offer although both of these offers end on April 30, which means only the first three hotels would be available for the bonus. Don't fret however there will most likely be new offers out for the remainder of spring and summer!

Are you excited about any of the new IHG hotels opening up this year? Are there any locations or brands you'd like to see in your neck of the woods? Let us know in the comments below.