August 18 Update: Receive a $75 Visa gift card when you stay 2 nights in Victoria and another Cobalt Multiplier for those in Manitoba

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We came across another one of those regional tourism offers! This one comes is from Tourism Victoria and it offers a $75 Visa gift card when you book and stay two or more nights at participating hotels in Victoria.  This offer is good for new bookings until September 30, 2021 Click here to learn more about and book this offer We have also added it to our post that covers all these offers from coast to coast. See all those offers here.

Air Canada Aeroplan partners with LCBO - members will be able to earn and redeem points for LCBO purchases

Back in February LCBO made headlines as they announced they were leaving the AIR MILES program after participating in it for 23 years. At the time they mentioned a plan for a future loyalty program. Thoughts were they might start they own program but that doesn't appear to be the case with today's news. LCBO will now partner with AIR MILES' biggest competitor, Air Canada's Aeroplan! The multi-year partnership will launch later this year and provides one more avenue for Aeroplan members to earn more points for their future travels.

Top 5 Cash Back Credit Card Sign Up offers for August - These cards provide the best value out of their welcome bonuses

Here are Rewards Canada's Top 5 Cash Back Credit Card Sign Up offers for the month of August 2021. This is not a 'best' credit card list like our Top Cash Back Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards that have very good acquisition (welcome/sign up) offers. As always when choosing a card you should always take other factors into account other than the just sign up bonus, but when some of these cards are first year free, they can and do pay off even when you grab them strictly for the sign up rewards.r

Receive a 100% bonus when you buy Hilton Honors points

 
Hilton’s bonus for buying points is back again! You can earn a 100% bonus for buying Hilton Honors points until September 30, 2021. This time they have doubled the annual limit of points you can buy up which means you can buy 160,000 points. That 160,000 does not included the bonus points so if you max out this offer and buy 160,000 points you’ll receive 320,000 into your account. As well to earn the bonus you must buy a minimum of 10,000 points in one transaction.

August 17 Update: Amex Offers galore, new increased TD Aeroplan & First Class Visa offers and Hyatt acquires ~100 resort properties

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Earlier today we posted about the Shangri-La Hotels Amex Offer and in that post we said there were a lot of new offers released this week. Here are the others that came out over the past few days:

Amex Offers: $100 statement credit for stays at Shangri-La Hotels in Canada

 
A bunch of new Amex Offers were released this week that we'll cover in a couple of posts here on RC but as usual the travel offers get their own billing! This one that came out yesterday provides a $100 statement credit if you spend $500 at Shangri-La Hotels in Canada.  I actually received this offer for my American Express Cobalt Card which I was a little surprised by as the majority of offers have been coming to my Platinum Card and let's be honest Shangri-La are considered luxury hotels and the Platinum Card is considered a luxury card so you would think the offer would be on that card but I digress. Let us know if you have the Platinum Card and did receive this offer for it.

[OFFER EXPIRED] New best ever welcome offer for the TD First Class Visa Infinite Card - Up to 100,000 welcome points + first year free

THIS OFFER HAS EXPIRED AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. IT HAS BEEN LEFT HERE FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES. PLEASE THE CARD MATRIX AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST FOR THE LATEST OFFER.

The third and final card from TD to receive a best ever welcome bonus offer is their proprietary rewards card the TD® First Class Travel® Visa Infinite* Card. As of today we see its bonus jump from 60,000 to 100,000 points! This is 10,000 more than the previous 90K high seen on the card in 2019 and 2020. Technically speaking this offer is actually 20K higher since those 90K offers required adding a supplementary card to earn 10,000 points. That's not the case here. This time the bonus is awarded strictly on the first purchase as 20,000 points and 80,000 more points when you spend $1,000 in first three months. On top of this there is an annual fee rebate for the primary and additional cardholders for the first year. This offer runs until December 5, 2021.

Receive up to a 50% bonus when you buy Marriott Bonvoy Points until September 25

 
A buy points bonus for Marriott Bonvoy has returned and it is a mystery bonus that will vary by member. Personally I received a 50% bonus offer. 50% is at a level where it can make sense to buy Marriott Bonvoy points for some free night stays. Sure it isn’t the 60% we saw in November 2020 but it is better than the 40% some people received earlier this year. The bonus is awarded on purchases from 2,000 to 100,000 points and that 100,000 is a doubling of the typical 50,000 point annual limit for buying points. This is also lower than the 150K we saw with the 60% bonus in November.

Earn up to 50,000 welcome bonus points when you get the best credit card in Canada - the American Express Cobalt Card

This is crazy and totally unexpected news for the American Express Cobalt® Card! As you know American Express announced some amazing changes to their Cobalt Card not too long ago that make this the best credit card in Canada even better. Yes they are charging more for it which has made some people unhappy but for the most part everyone seems ecstatic about the changes even with paying $2.99 more per month. So what if you don't have the card yet? Well you're in luck as American Express has just revealed the best ever welcome bonus offer for the card in it's four year history. That's what makes this crazy and unexpected - I don't think any of us thought American Express would come out with such an offer seeing how compelling and valuable the card is with its up to 5x points earn rate, its new 3x streaming services earn rate and most importantly now having the ability to transfer 1:1 to Air Canada Aeroplan and British Airways Executive Club.

Canadian Government to make COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for air, rail and cruise ship travel

 

Our federal government announced today that they intend to make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for air, interprovincial rail and cruise ship travel. On top of this all federal public service employees will be mandated to get the vaccine.