Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Summary of global hotel systemwide bonus points promotions – December 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. Without further ado here are all the current promotions that are available to everyone:

Monday, December 21, 2020

December 21 Update: Use TD Rewards Points for Amazon purchases and Air Transat's Boxing Day 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. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard.

 
Last week TD formally announced the option for the TD Rewards program whereby you can shop with points on Amazon. The feature soft launched back in October and last week's press release from TD marks the official launch of the redemption option. This is the same feature American Express offers for those who are familiar with it. All of TD's credit cards that earn TD Rewards Points (like the First Class Visa Infinite card) are eligible and it allows cardholders to link their rewards account with Amazon so that they can redeem points right at check out from Amazon.ca. Per this thread on RFD the redemption rate is 303 points for $1. Learn more about the redemption option here.

My favourite Starbucks Rewards redemption

 
We don't cover Starbucks Rewards very often here on Rewards Canada, in fact the last time I wrote about them was when the program was going through changes early in 2019 (read that post here) that were for the most part worse than better. However I've been meaning to write about the program, well more so about my favourite redemption for sometime now and am I finally getting around to it.

Friday, December 18, 2020

December 18 Update: HSBC offers for Door Dash & Spotify, new Amex offer for Frank & Oak and WestJet adds flights to Bonaire

 


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.

 We have another player in the credit card offers market and by offers we mean discounts or statement credits! By now you are probably very familiar with Amex Offers and RBC Offers as we do give them a lot of coverage here on Rewards Canada. We have also touched upon BMO who also has the occasional offer but nowhere near the extent of Amex or RBC - now we also have HSBC. They have their own offers for some of their Mastercards (primarily the higher end ones) and those offers can be found on this page on their site

Thursday, December 17, 2020

December 17 Update: 50,000 bonus PC Optimum points for online purchases, Amex Offer for Casper & American AAdvantage members to receive preferred boarding

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.

 A day late with this one but it is still good for a few more hours. You can earn 50,000 PC Optimu bonus point (worth $50)s when you spend $150 or more on almost anything online with Shoppers Drug Mart. Find out more here.

Image via Shoppers Drug Mart

Coming Soon: 15% bonus Cathay Pacific Asia Miles when you convert points from American Express, HSBC or RBC

 
Set an alert in your calendars for December 28 if you are someone who utilizes Cathay Pacific's Asia Miles program. On that date they will be launching a bonus for converting points from their global credit cards partners! The bonus will be 15% and from the way I understand it all of their partners are included and it eclipses the 10% bonus we saw around the same time last year.  Note this is for conversion from credit card partners not for cards that actually earn Asia Miles like the RBC Cathay Pacific Visa Platinum Card. In reality though that card isn't very popular Canada where as the cards that really count that will earn this bonus are extremely popular!



Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Two Toronto Area IHG Hotels offering bonus points as they are now part of Sonesta Hotels - including the InterContinental Toronto Yorkville

 
Back in August we let our readers know that two of IHG's hotels in the Toronto area would be moving from that family of hotels to the Sonesta Hotels brand. That transition has now happened which means the following two hotels have changed as such:

Amex Offers - Spend $9.99 with Spotify Premium and receive a $9.99 statement credit

 


Yet another great Amex Offers offer was released today. This one is for Spotify and it basically pays for one month of streaming if you take their individual plan. Thanks again to Rewards Canada contributor Jeff W. who let us know he received some of the offer on his Marriott Bonvoy American Express card and in our household we also received it on the Platinum Card.

OFFER EXPIRED Less than two weeks left to grab one of the best welcome bonuses in Canada - 100,000 points on the HSBC World Elite Mastercard


HSBC Canada Credit Cards

 

THIS OFFER HAS EXPIRED

HSBC's biggest and best offer for the HSBC World Elite Mastercard that happens to be one of the best ever bonuses ever seen in Canada (definitely in the Top 5 ever in terms of value) will be ending on December 28. This means there are less than two weeks to get in on it and we have confirmation it will not be extended. The offer for all of Canada sans Quebec is up to 100,000 points which ties the highest ever points offer outside of Quebec. The PC Optimum World Elite Mastercard and ATB Gold My Rewards Mastercard have both offered 100,000 in the past but those two offers were only worth $100. On top of the 100,000 point bonus on the HSBC World Elite Mastercard this current welcome bonus also provided no annual fee in the first year for the primary cardholder. Those 100,000 points are worth $500 towards any travel and as that first year annual fee is waived you get the full value of that $500! Since Quebec doesn't allow the first year free waiver the offer there is a whopping 130,000 points (this is highest ever bonus in Canada numerically speaking) worth $650 towards travel but you do have to pay the annual fee so you end up with $501 in travel value.

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Two days left to grab higher welcome bonuses on BMO No Fee AIR MILES Mastercards

BMO's complete suite of No Fee AIR MILES Mastercards have had a welcome offer of 950 AIR MILES Reward Miles since the middle of August and that offer will wrap up in less than two days. December 16th will be the last day to apply for any one of the cards and be eligible to earn the 950 AIR MILES. After this date the bonus will drop to 800 AIR MILES - not a huge difference but big enough for a no fee card.