Monday, November 23, 2020

AIR MILES Shops pre-Black Friday offer: 10x miles sitewide for shopping online

 
AIR MILES revealed their pre-Black Friday online shopping offer today that provides 10x the miles site wide:

Get 10x the AIR MILES® Reward Miles on qualifying purchases from 00:00:01 a.m. ET on November 23 to 23:59:59 p.m. ET on November 26, 2020. Offer applies to the total base Miles collected on qualifying purchase amount, excluding shipping, duty and taxes. Base Offer may vary per store; 

Podcast Episode 73 - Maximizing Black Friday Cyber Monday Shopping Deals, Give a Mile's Christmas Campaign & traveling virtually

 


Episode 73 - November 23, 2020
Maximizing Black Friday Cyber Monday Shopping Deals and more

In this episode we discuss this coming week of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. How to maximize your miles and points earning with them and other tips to getting the most out of this highly anticipated shopping week. We also discuss this year's Give A Mile Christmas Campaign and look at one of our favourite ways of travelling virtually!

Friday, November 20, 2020

Earn 3,000 bonus points for stays at the JW Marriott Edmonton ICE District

 

 
If you are looking to stay in downtown Edmonton for business or perhaps a staycation the this offer may just sway you to stay at the JW Marriott Edmonton ICE District.  The hotel that was the hub for the NHL bubble in Edmonton and one of the newest higher end hotels in the city is offering up a nice bonus for all stays at this hotel as long as you are a Marriott Bonvoy member. I say all member as I had to reach to Marriott since the offer wasn't working from the promotion page. Here's what Marriott told me:

Best Western Rewards Winter promo: Stay twice and earn a free night

 


Best Western has brought back their stay twice get one free night offer as their winter promotion. Members who complete two separate stays in the U.S., Canada and Caribbean will receive a voucher for a future free night stay. The promotion runs until Jan 31, 2021 and the voucher itself must be used up by Mar 31, 21. Members can only earn one free night voucher during the promotion.

Air Canada Aeroplan: Earn up to an additional 5,000 points for taking part in multiple Black Friday offers

Yesterday we brought you the details of two of Air Canada's multiple Black Friday promotions, the Aeroplan eStore bonus and the Buy Aeroplan points bonus. In the Aeroplan eStore post we mentioned another promotion that would be considered the umbrella of all of Air Canada's Black Friday deals and that is the bonus points offer for taking part in multiple Black Friday offers. In this post we take a closer look at the multiple offer bonus.

Canadians going to Hawaii will no longer have to quarantine if they have a negative test result within 72 hours of departure


Funny things happen when you ask questions. Not that we forced this but the timing sure was perfectly coincidental! 😉 If you recall from last week we discussed Hawaii travel in one of our daily update posts thanks to our reader Peter K. At that time the rules were that Canadians would need to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival to Hawaii unless they flew through the U.S. where they could get approved testing within 72 hours of departure. Yet Air Canada and WestJet had flights to Hawaii already scheduled despite no news of a similar option for flights that go direct to Hawaii from Canada. We even reached out to Air Canada and WestJet with  the question on how they were planning on conducting Hawaii flights and if they were working on anything behind the scenes. Both airlines told Rewards Canada that they were taking it day by day and that Canadian travellers would have to follow whatever rules Hawaii had in place. And then bam! All of sudden we get this news late yesterday afternoon that the Governor of Hawaii will allow for Canadian pre-testing to count towards their safe travel program. 

The Rewards Canada 2020 Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Holiday deals page is live


Last year we created a new page on the main Rewards Canada site that covered Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals and it proved to be overwhelmingly popular. So you guessed it! It's back for 2020 ! You may have noticed a few days ago that the pop up on our site that highlights a feature on our site changed to promote the page but we didn't push it out on the blog or socials as there were only a couple of deals. 

Thursday, November 19, 2020

AIR MILES Shop the Block is here - Earn up to 1,200 bonus miles for using multiple partners


 


The annual AIR MILES Shop the Block event launched today and presents a really nice bonus mile earning opportunity for AIR MILES collectors. If you meet the requirement of using Shop the Block coupons at 3 or more sponsors you'll be awarded with up to 1,200 Rewards Miles over and above the base miles and coupon bonus miles awarded.  The maximum 1,200 miles is the same as we saw last year so it looks like we won't see the 2,000 miles like we saw in 2017 and 2018.

50% bonus when you buy or gift Air Canada Aeroplan points by November 29

 


There are actually quite a few promotions within Aeroplan's Black Friday Spectacular that they launched today. From the eStore offer (covered here) to a multiple offer usage bonus and more. One of those offers is a bonus on buying Aeroplan points. You can earn a 50% bonus when you buy points between today and November 29th. As long as you buy the minimum of 2,000 points you'll get the 50% bonus. Here's a look at what it costs to buy the maximum amount of points:

Earn up to 10x points when you shop online via the Aeroplan eStore for Black Friday + up to an additional 5,000 points for using multiple offers


 

Today Aeroplan launched their annual Black Friday offers for shopping online via the Aeroplan eStore! From now until November 29 you can earn up to 10X the points when you shop online at select retailers that are partners in Aeroplan's online shopping portal. Members can also get up to 10% off when redeeming points for merchandise via the eStore.