Earn Quadruple Aeroplan Miles for stays at Coast Hotels in Canada and the U.S.

Back in September we had let you know that you would be able to earn Triple Aeroplan miles for stays at Coast Hotels in Canada and the U.S. until the end of November. Well it looks like they have gone and changed the offer on us....

Aeroplan members, your stays with Coast Hotels just got a lot sweeter. Starting November 1, 2019, we’re increasing your bonus miles earned from three to 4X the miles on all eligible stays completed by December 31, 2019!

It's actually good news! They increased the bonus to quadruple miles for any stays you have during this time period.

Offer details:
Quadruple Aeroplan Miles for stays at any Coast Hotels location in Canada or the U.S. Full details & online booking  Until Dec 31, 19

Can’t make use of this offer? Here are some other bonus offers available:

• Earn up to 30% Bonus Aeroplan Miles when you fly on Air Canada or Air China between Canada and China. Bonus is awarded on both one way and round trip flights. Full details, online registration & booking.
• Earn 500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles for stays at Best Western Hotels in Canada, the United States, or the Caribbean Islands Full details, online registration & booking (Registration is required)
• Double Aeroplan Miles for stays at all participating IHG Hotels Worldwide. Full details, online registration & booking. (Registration is required) 

Find our complete list of Aeroplan bonus miles offers here!

RBC Visa Infinite Avion - Up to 20,000 Bonus RBC Rewards Points and First Year Annual Fee waived

RBC has a new acquisition offer for their flagship card the RBC Visa Infinite Avion card. Once again you can get 20,000 points and have the first year free but you'll have to put some spend on the card to get the full bonus.  When approved you'll get 15,000 points then when you spend $1,000 on the card in the first three months you'll be awarded with 5,000 more points for 20,000 total - and the first year annual fee is waived. This means you are basically getting the  20,000 points for free. This is a great deal assuming the $1,000 in spending you put on the card is spending you would do otherwise. This is an easily achievable spend requirement only only $333.33 per month so it is definitely an offer you'll want to check out.

Those 20,000 points will equate to 20,000 British Airways Avios at no cost or more when they run their transfer bonuses like the current 50% bonus.  It is also equivalent to 200 WestJet dollars at no cost and that doesn't even take into account the transfer bonuses they run occasionally throughout the year for WestJet. And remember BA has household accounts so you and your spouse could each get the card then convert to BA and combine the Avios into one account for no less than 40,000 Avios. Remember that you can get really cheap Avios redemptions to Dublin from Toronto and Montreal on Aer Lingus. There are just so many options here....

Here are some articles we have written to help you decide if this offer is for you!

• RBC Visa Infinite Avion Card Review
• How to maximize value out of the RBC Avion Airline Award Chart
• Utilizing British Airways' Executive Club for flights in North America
• How you can easily get a free flight between Toronto and Dublin, Ireland (pre taxes/fees) or 4 flights for $240+fees

Introducing WorldHotels Rewards - 4x points to celebrate the launch of the program (very similar to Best Western Rewards)

Earlier in the year we let you know that Best Western Hotels had bought WorldHotels - a chain of about 300 hotels around the World. Up until now we didn't know how the chain would be, if at all, integrated into Best Western and Best Western Rewards. We have the answer now and it looks like WorldHotels will be run separately with their own program called WorldRewards. This essentially replaces their long defunct World Hotel Peakpoints program.

What is WorldHotels Rewards?
That's an easy question to answer. It's almost an exact copy of Best Western Rewards. The program earns points at the same rate as Best Western Rewards for stays at all participating WorldHotels locations and offers up the same elite levels. Their are slight differences in the levels from the base level being named Red instead of Blue as seen in BWR and the benefits are slightly different like late check out only being available to higher elite levels in WHR.

Elite Levels & Benefits
Here are the WHR levels and benefits:

Compare this to BWR:

As you can see the earn and qualification rates are exactly the same. The benefits are less with WHR as there are no thank you gifts or points, late check out is only available to the top two levels and free night redemptions don't count towards status. 

Also, just like Best Western Rewards, WorldHotels Rewards is offering the famous Status Match No Catch promotion. This means they will match your status from another hotel program, I'm guessing even Best Western Rewards is included. Learn more about the Status Match offer here. I'll have to update our feature  How to maximize the elite status benefits from The Platinum Card from American Express to 10 hotel chain elite statuses now thanks to this status match offer!

Earning Points or Airline Miles
Reading the terms and conditions of the program it does appear that not only do WHR members earn points for stays at select WorldHotels they also receive points for stays at all Best Western Hotels.

Members may earn Points at participating Licensed Hotels on stays that are eligible to earn points (“Eligible Stays”). Not all Licensed Hotels participate in the Program.  Please view the list of participating Licensed Hotels. Members may also earn Points on Eligible Stays at all Best Western branded properties worldwide.

As you can see it states 'Not all licensed hotels participate" and it is a big number. Right now it appears that only 61 of WorldHotels 300 or so locations are participating in the program. None of the hotels are in Canada.

You can also choose to earn airline miles with WHR, they have seventeen airlines to choose from, some of which are not partners with Best Western Rewards (and vice versa).

Learn more about earning WorldHotels Rewards Points here and more about earning Airline Miles here.

Redeeming Points
This is where the big difference lies between the two programs. At this time it appears that you cannot redeem your WorldHotels Rewards points for actual free night stays. That would explain why you don't earn elite status on free nights..... At this point you can only redeem WHR points for gift cards or certificates. Here's an example:

Learn more about redeeming WorldHotels Rewards Points here.

Program Launch Bonus Offer
To celebrate the launch of WorldHotels Rewards you can earn 4x Points on all stays at all the participating WorldHotels locations around the World. This means you'll earn 40 points per US$ spent on those stays. Learn more about the promotion here. The 4x points offer runs until December 31, 2019.

Thoughts
That's about all we know so far about the program! In general you'll want to join this program if you know you may have stays at any of the ~60 hotels and earn the bonus points. It would be nice to know if you could earn Best Western Rewards points for those stays instead however since you would be earning points for future free nights and not just gift cards. Still a reward is a reward and the fact that you can status match right away it should make stays at any of those WorldHotels a little bit better if you can score a room upgrade!

Visit WorldHotels Rewards today to learn more and to join the program

Earn 5x Aeroplan Miles for stays at Choice Hotels Worldwide until December 15

The latest Choice Hotels Aeroplan bonus miles offer was released at the start of this month and it continues on as the same offer we saw until the end of September. A nice and easy 5x miles on all Choice Hotels stays. Here are the Choice Hotels brands as reminder since "Choice" is an actual brick and mortar hotel:

Offer details
5x Aeroplan Miles for stays for stays at over 7,000 Choice Hotels worldwide. Full details & online booking Until Dec 15, 19
Simply provide your Aeroplan Number upon check-in, or update your earning preference in your Choice Privileges account.

Can’t make use of this offer? Here are some other bonus offers available:

• Earn up to 30% Bonus Aeroplan Miles when you fly on Air Canada or Air China between Canada and China. Bonus is awarded on both one way and round trip flights. Full details, online registration & booking.
• Earn 500 Bonus Aeroplan Miles for stays at Best Western Hotels in Canada, the United States, or the Caribbean Islands Full details, online registration & booking (Registration is required)
• Double Aeroplan Miles for stays at all participating IHG Hotels Worldwide. Full details, online registration & booking. (Registration is required) 

Find our complete list of Aeroplan bonus miles offers here!

Aeroplan Elite Status to be wound down in 2020

Word is out now that Aeroplan's Elite Status program will be winding down in 2020 and as of January 2020 you'll no longer be able to qualify for Aeroplan status. That gives you one and half months to rack up as many qualifying miles as possible if you had intentions of hitting anyone of the Aeroplan status levels of Silver, Black or Diamond.

If you have already, or will qualify for one of the status levels by December 31 you will continue to enjoy the benefits of those levels until mid-2020 when the newly revamped Air Canada program launches. At that time several of the benefits will no longer be available, specifically:

• Market Fare Flight Reward Discounts
• Preferential Rates on Flight Reward Fees

Here are all the benefits associated with the Aeroplan Status program:

This change should have been anticipated with Aeroplan being brought back in house to Air Canada. In reality why would you want to run two separate elite status programs? Air Canada has Altitude, the main elite status program for the airline and Mark Nasr has already alluded to potentially offering some sort of elite status benefits with their credit cards in the future so the best guess is that will be the road to elite status for the frequent spender who is a non-frequent flyer.

Sources: Aeroplan / Reddit
 

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Podcast Episode 60 - The Ultimate Guide to Credit Card & Loyalty Programs for the All Inclusive Vacationer

 

Episode 60 - November 12, 2019
The Ultimate Guide to Credit Card & Loyalty Programs for the All Inclusive Vacationer

 

In this episode we delve into one of the latest features on Rewards Canada and a topic that has been mostly ignored by reward programs as well as travel and loyalty points bloggers and websites. That topic is how to use credit card and loyalty program points and miles towards All Inclusive Vacation packages. We discuss six credit cards whose reward programs are ideal for package vacations and also take a look at six loyalty programs whose points and miles can help save you some cash on those same vacations.

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November 12 Update: AIR MILES Shop the Block returns in 2 days with up to 1,200 bonus miles and the last Air Transat A310 flights to be YQB-CDG

AIR MILES Shop the Block returns for the holiday shopping season with the opportunity to earn up to 1,200 bonus AIR MILES Reward Miles. The promotion launches in two days and you can bet we'll provide coverage of this year's offers. Find out more here.

For our #avgeek readers who want to fly on Air Transat's last A310 flight the airline has updated the dates and routes for those last flights. According to RoutesOnline the last flights will now be Quebec City -Paris on April 26 and returning Paris to Quebec City on the 27th.

Posts since our last update:

• IHG Cyber Sale – Save up to 30% on stays around the globe
  IHG’s annual cyber sale is here! They are one of the first of many who will be offering up…
• Amex Shop Small promotion returns for the holiday shopping season - earn $5 credits or 300 bonus Membership Rewards points
  Amex's awesome Shop Small offer is back for its fourth (or is it fifth?) incarnation!  Last seen in July the…
• November 8 Update: 2,000 Bonus Points at JW Marriott Edmonton extended, Marriott New Year's Eve Packages and up to 4x miles with Trip dot com PointsPLUS
  The 2,000 Bonus Bonvoy Points offer for stays at the new JW Marriott Edmonton ICE District has been extended…

Travel Deals

Hilton has a flash sale for stays in the Southeastern U.S., Bahamas and Puerto Rico. It offers up to 20% off if you book by Nov 15 for stays until Feb 2, 20. Find out more here.

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

Avianca LifeMiles
- 4,000 Bonus LifeMiles when you make your first hotel booking via LifeMiles Hotels. More... Book by Dec 24 for stays until Dec 26, 19

British Airways Executive Club
- 50% Bonus when you buy anywhere from 1,000 to 200,000 Avios online. More... Until Nov 21, 19

Etihad Guest
- Earn up to 3,000 Bonus Guest Miles when you rent with Avis for 5 or more days Worldwide. More... Book by Jan 31 for rentals until Mar 31, 20
- Triple Guest Miles when you rent with Avis in Abu Dhabi. More... Until Nov 30, 19

Marriott Bonvoy
- 1,000 Bonus Bonvoy Points per stay at the Sheraton Munich Arabellapark Hotel. More... Book by Nov 30 for stays until Dec 24, 19

SriLankan FlySmiles
- Triple FlySmiles when you fly on SriLankan between Kolkata and Colombo. More... Book by Nov 20 for travel until Dec 31, 19

TAP Miles&Go
- Triple Miles&Go miles when you buy miles online. More... Until Nov 30, 19



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IHG Cyber Sale – Save up to 30% on stays around the globe

IHG’s annual cyber sale is here! They are one of the first of many who will be offering up extra special savings for those who book during this busy shopping period.  From now until December 17th when you book your stay at IHG hotels you’ll get a discount of up to to 20% off the Best Flexible Rate with an additional 5% discount for IHG® Rewards Club members. Be aware that the Booking requires non-refundable, full pre-payment for the entire stay at the time of booking. This means to make most of the savings you must fully know your travel plans and know that you will complete these stays. Advance purchase requirements and discount vary by hotel. All stays must be completed by May 31, 2020. If you book between November 29 and December 6 the discount will be up to 30% off.

Click here for complete details and to book this offer.

You can also earn up to 4x IHG Rewards Club Points on stays until Jan 31, 20:
Earn 1,000 Bonus Points on your 1st stay, Double Points on your 2nd stay, Triple Points on your 3rd stay and Quadruple Points on your 4th stay and beyond. Full details, online registration and booking  (Registration is required)  Register by Dec 15 for stays until Jan 31, 20
 

Amex Shop Small promotion returns for the holiday shopping season - earn $5 credits or 300 bonus Membership Rewards points

Amex's awesome Shop Small offer is back for its fourth (or is it fifth?) incarnation!  Last seen in July the offer has changed a bit for this iteration. This time, instead of having dedicated landing and registration pages for four cities in Canada, the offers are actually listed in the Amex Offers section on the Amex Canada app or online when you log in to your account. It is still limited to small business merchants in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver as well as having a cap on the number of cardmembers who can register for the offer.

There are also multiple offers depending on the cardholder. It looks like you can receive the $5 You can earn the statement credit for purchases from  up to 5 different retailers for a total of $25.

Here are the two offers I have seen so far:

This is the offer I received on the Platinum Card

This offer awards 300 bonus Membership Rewards points on each $10 purchase at a participating Shop Small merchant up to 5 times. That means you can earn 1,500 bonus Membership Rewards points in total with this offer. From the terms and conditions this offer is open to the first 7,000 members who register

This is the offer I received on the Gold Rewards Card

This offers looks like the offer we had become accustomed to during each run of this promotion in the past. Receive a $5 statement credit on each $10 or more purchase at any of the participating Shop Small merchants. Same as above this is limited to 5 purchases so you can end up to $25 in statement credits when spending as little as $50. This offer is only open to the first 11,000 members who register.

If you aren't familiar with American Express' Shop Small program we have a feature to help you out:  A step by step guide to the American Express Shop Small Program

Ideally, those looking to maximize the offer will only spend $10 at each location to come out with what is essentially a 50% discount (if you have the $5 offer) or a minimum savings of $3 if you have the points offer. The points can be worth more than $3 depending on what you redeem them on however.

For this fourth incarnation, we received the $5 offers on the Gold Rewards Card and Marriott Bonvoy American Express Card and the 300 points offer on the  Platinum Card from American Express and Cobalt Card.

This offer runs until December 22 and to find out what merchants are participating you just have to go to the American Express Shop Small website and look for the Shop Small icon beside the merchant:

You can also choose to filter for only the merchants that are participating in the offer by checking off the Shop Small Offer box:

And some quick examples from all four cities:

Just a reminder that there aren't dedicated landing pages for the offers this time. You have to access them via Amex Offers on the app or Amex Canada website.

Happy shopping!


 
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November 8 Update: 2,000 Bonus Points at JW Marriott Edmonton extended, Marriott New Year's Eve Packages and up to 4x miles with Trip dot com PointsPLUS

The 2,000 Bonus Bonvoy Points offer for stays at the new JW Marriott Edmonton ICE District has been extended to the end of the year. Originally it was slated to end in late October. The bonus offer is pretty sweet since it prices the same as the best flexible rate. You can stack this bonus Marriott's Unlock More global promotion to earn even more points! Book the JW Marriott offer here.

Continuing on with Marriott offers, over on our worldwide site FFB, we posted about Marriott's New Year's Eve package offers. There so many offers around the globe so if your travels may be taking you away from home for that night be sure to check out what packages Marriott offers. Find out more here.

The newest player in the 'earn miles or points for hotel bookings via third party site' has released some great bonus offers for the holiday season. Trip.com's PointsPLUS is offering 3 to 4x miles or points with 10 of their airline partners including American AAdvantage and Cathay Pacific Asia Miles. Simply book by November 30 for stays until January 31. Find out more here.

Posts since our last update:

• Holiday Season offer at the TownePlace Suites Fort McMurray - 500 bonus points, welcome gift, discounted rates and more!
  If your travels are taking you up to Northeastern Alberta for the Christmas season, namely Fort McMurray, there's a…
• November 7 Update: Show your Starbucks Holiday Cup to get priority boarding on Alaska Airlines, win tickets to the CFL West Final with Canalta Rewards and 12 new miles & points bonuses
  Flying Alaska Airlines out of Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna, Vancouver or Victoria over the next four days? Show a Starbucks…

Travel Deals

Air France has some really good fares for flying from Montreal to Paris later this month. Fares start as low $708 all in round-trip. Find out more here.

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

Marriott Bonvoy
- 500 Bonus Bonvoy points for stays at the TownePlace Suites Fort McMurray More... Until Jan 5, 20
- OFFER EXTENDED 2,000 Bonus Bonvoy points per stay at the JW Marriott Edmonton ICE District. More... Until Dec 31, 19

Other Bonus Offers

American AAdvantage
- Earn up Triple AAdvantage Miles when you book hotels via Trip.com’s PointsPLUS. More... Book by Nov 30 for stays until Jan 31, 20

British Airways Executive Club
- Save 10% to 50% off Avios award tickets from the U.K. More... Book by Nov 21 for travel until Apr 30, 20

Cathay Pacific Asia Miles
- Earn up Quadruple Asia Miles when you book hotels via Trip.com’s PointsPLUS. More... Book by Nov 30 for stays until Jan 31, 20

Emirates Skywards
- Double Skywards Miles when you fly Emirates to or from Mexico City. More... Register & book by Dec 8 for travel Dec 9, 19 - Mar 31, 20

Ethiopian ShebaMiles
- 1,000 Bonus ShebaMiles when you fly on Ethiopian Airlines in Business Class between Addis Ababa or Accra More... Until Nov 30, 19

IHG Rewards Club
- Double IHG Rewards Club Points for stays at the Crowne Plaza Paris Republique More... Until Dec 31, 19
- Double IHG Rewards Club Points for stays at the Crowne Plaza Hamburg More... Until Jan 31, 20
- Double IHG Rewards Club Points for stays at the Regent Porto Montenegro. More... Until Dec 31, 19

Marriott Bonvoy
- 2,000 Bonvoy Points PER NIGHT at the Courtyard Detroit Downtown More... Until Jan 31, 20
- Double Bonvoy Points for stays at the Hotel Trio Healdsburg More... Nov 19, 19 - Feb 10, 20
- Earn up to 1,000 Bonus Bonvoy Points for stays at The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square More... Until Dec 31, 19

Miles & More
- Double Miles & More Miles for stays at Steigenberger Hotels & Resorts in Europe. More... Until Dec 31, 19
Scandic Hotels Friends
- 50% discount when you redeem Scandic Friend points for award night stays at select hotels in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Germany. More... Until Dec 31, 19


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