December 15 Update: New look to the main Rewards Canada site, the making of the new Rewards Canada logo & AIR MILES price drop on select merchandise rewards

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 which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

 
The new Rewards Canada site design is finally here! Today we soft launched a new look on the main Rewards Canada website that is fully responsive so it’ll will work great on mobile, tablets and desktops. Across all those platforms you’ll be able to enjoy the wealth of information we provide on the website without having to zoom or scroll in weird ways. We say soft launch, as seeing that we have 20+ years of content on our website, much of which has HTML that isn't responsive means it's not a quick switch of templates and it will take a bit of time to make sure every page and every feature is updated to the new look. 

Earn 2,500 bonus points per stay at Hilton Hotels from January 1 to May 1

Hilton Honors' next Points Unlimited promotion has been revealed and you can register for it right away. Members who register will earn 2,500 bonus Honors points per stay from January 1 to May 1, 2022. There is no cap on the points that can be earned hence Points Unlimited!

An update to the new AIR MILES flights booking platform sees mileage requirements addressed for super low fares

 
Continuing on with our extensive coverage of the AIR MILES Flights booking platform that went live nearly a month ago. We've had a couple of posts so far and lots of feedback from our readers that culminated our post last week Disappointment abounds in the new AIR MILES Flights booking platform. That being said AIR MILES reached out to us to let us know they addressed one of the issues when it comes to super low fares. 

The expanded Air Canada Aeroplan partnership with Uber is here - now earn points on ride sharing and Uber Eats

 

In 2020 Aeroplan partnered with Uber Eats in 2020 so you could earn Aeroplan Points for orders made via Aeroplan's eStore. Then just a few months ago Air Canada launched an offer with Uber Eats whereby co-brand cardholders would receive a free Uber Pass benefit but also at that time announced an expanded partnership with Uber would come later in the year. Well, later in the year has arrived and today we see the launch of the expanded partnership between Aeroplan and Uber.

December 14 Update: Muir, an Autograph Collection Hotel Halifax is officially open; Hilton extends and increases the daily food & beverage credit in the U.S.

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 which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

 

The much anticipated Muir, an Autograph Collection Hotel Halifax officially opened its doors a few days ago! Situated right on Halifax's waterfront in the Queens Marque neighbourhood, it is the 8th out of 10 hotels that were due to open this year not including existing hotels that moved over to Marriott during the course of the year. The last two hotels, the W Toronto has been delayed even further to 2022 while the Pearle Hotel in Burlington looks to be opening tomorrow. 

Aeroplan adds two new airline partners: Oman Air & Air Mauritius

 
All the fingers on two hands will now be officially folded open when counting how many airline partners Air Canada's Aeroplan has added since June of 2020. As of today, numbers nine and ten which are Oman Air and Air Mauritius both become official partners of the Aeroplan program. We knew two were coming from the Chase Aeroplan reveal event earlier this month but at that time we only learned of one, Oman Air. Now we know the second is Air Mauritius.

Earn 4x ALL Rewards Points for stays at the Hotel Belmont Vancouver, MGallery

There is a recurring promotion that we have listed on our site for years on end now and typically gave it more focus on our global website. That offer is ALL Accor Live Limitless' 4x points for stays at their new hotels. The reason why the offer hasn't really received any focus on Rewards Canada other than being listed on our Accor Bonus Points page is that there hasn't been a Canadian property featured in the offer - ever. That is until now. The Hotel Belmont Vancouver switched over to ALL Accor Live Limitless on December 1st and is part of this latest iteration of the new hotel 4x points bonus offer. All you need to do to earn the points is register for the offer and book your stay by January 24, 2022 and complete that stay by March 8, 2022.

December 13 Update: 25% bonus when you convert Shangri-La Hotels points to Aeroplan & other airlines; earn 25,000 bonus Be Well points at Rexall tomorrow

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 which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

Shangri-La Hotels Golden Circle is offering a conversion bonus to several of their airlines. From now until December 31 you'll receive a 25% bonus when converting GC Award points to Air Canada Aeroplan, Air France KLM Flying Blue and several other airlines. Points convert to miles 1:1 so you would receive 1.25 miles for every GC Award point and they have lowered the minimum conversion requirement of 2,500 points to 1,000 points for this promotion. While GC Award points are hard to come by if you don't have a lot of them ie. enough for a free night stay, this option could make sense for you to use up some points that you may never end up using. Click here to learn more.

The new Scene+ program is now live, find all the details here!

Cineplex SCENE and Scotia Rewards members rejoice! Your revamped and combined Scene+ program is now here! After some technical issues causing the originally planned launch in November the program went live today.. well some of it was actually operable over the weekend but for the most part all of it went up today. 

Save up to 30% for stays at Accor Hotels in Canada and the Americas

 
A friendly reminder here about Fairmont Hotel’s Take Your Time promotion where you can also earn triple points on these stays!  The Take Your Time provides up to a 30% discount for stays at Accor Hotels in Canada (Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto & Vancouver) as well as the U.S. and Central America.