AIR MILES: 50 bonus miles for stays at IHG Hotels until December 28

Offer details:
50 Bonus AIR MILES Reward Miles when stay at participating IHG® Hotels and Resorts properties. Full details & online booking. Until Dec 28, 20
To earn miles and the bonus you must set your IHG Rewards account to earn AIR MILES.

Marriott's largest Cyber Sale ever - Save up to 25% at over 5,000 hotels in the Americas (233 in Canada)

 

Marriott is offering its largest Cyber sale ever which begins today Tuesday, November 24. Marriott Bonvoy™ Escapes seven-day sale is being offered for the first time at more than 5,000 hotels throughout the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America. Marriott Bonvoy members will save 25% and non-members will save 20% on stay.

You will be able to buy Marriott Gift Cards with a 15% discount on November 30 and December 1

 

Marriott reached out to us to let know about some of their upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. They’ll have a sale starting tomorrow for actual hotel stays that will offer savings of up to 25% off and we’ll cover in a separate post. However we wanted to give you a heads up that they will once again be selling gift cards with a 15% discount. The sale takes place on November 30 and December 1 as follows:

November 23 Update: Black Friday Cyber Monday deals will take over this week and credit cards issued by Collabria being devalued in January

 
A quick note about this upcoming week here on Rewards Canada - a lot of our regularly scheduled and planned programming may be delayed as the focus this week is on Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals! This means some posts we had planned for the new Aeroplan program may not come out until next week, coverage of the new Desjardins World Elite Cash Back card that many of you have let us know about will be next week and we may not even have a hotel bonus points summary post for this month! It will really come down to how many offers we come across to post and add to our deals page. 

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!

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.