December 28 Update: Receive a $100 Visa Card each night you stay in Kingston, 20% off gift cards via RBC Rewards & Canada Jetlines takes delivery of their 1st plane

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Looks like we might have a challenger to the famous StayVancouver promotions that awards Amex gift cards for each night you stay at hotels booked through them. While we have seen many tourism boards provide gift card/prepaid card offers most of them outside of the StayVancouver offer are limited to one card regardless of how many nights you stay. Well it looks like Tourism Kingston wants to challenge StayVancouver as their latest incentive provides a $100 Visa Gift PER NIGHT not per stay when you book at least 2 nights and they award it for up to 5 nights for $500 in total gift cards.  

500 bonus points per night for stays at the Element Vancouver Metrotown

 

A new Marriott Bonvoy bonus points offer came out this month for stays at the Element Vancouver Metrotown. The offer provides 500 bonus points per night and free self parking for all stays until February 28.  A quick check of how the offer prices against the Best Member Flexible Rate shows that this package is slight more expensive. Not a lot and could be worth it if you do need the parking - if you don't need the parking skip the bonus points offer. See the example below.

December 27 Update: Expiry and Inactivity Rules of Canadian & International Loyalty Programs, 1,000 free points from More Rewards & one more Cobalt multiplier

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As a follow up to our Loyalty Laundry post from last week about checking your loyalty accounts for points or miles that are set to expire we have updated our popular feature Expiry and Inactivity Rules of Canadian Loyalty Programs. In fact it is now titled Expiry and Inactivity Rules of Canadian & International Loyalty Programs as we have added many popular international programs to the list as well. This update sees more Canadian programs like Tims Rewards, MyMcDonalds Rewards and Journie Rewards on the list, an extra column that details any COVID-19 extension and of course a list of airline and hotel programs from outside of Canada that are popular with Canadians. Click here to check out the feature!

Expedia Rewards is changing on February 1st and most of the changes are a devaluation to the program

 

We have yet another upcoming reward program change to let you know about. This time Expedia is making modifications to their Expedia Rewards programs and for the most part we have another devaluation on our hands. Changes are being made to the earn rates, redemption rates and elite status qualification requirements.

Air Canada offering up to 20% off Aeroplan award flights booked by December 28 or 15% off cash fares

 
Air Canada's Aeroplan has revealed a Boxing Day award flight sale! If you book Aeroplan award flights between today and December 28, 2021 for travel until June 30, 2022 you can save up to 20% in the number of points required.

AIR MILES Shops Boxing Week deal - Earn 10x miles site wide for your online shopping

 
If you haven't had enough of online shopping just yet then this week is another good one to get some done and rack up some bonus miles. AIR MILES is offering 10x miles site wide on AIR MILES Shops purchases made by December 31. 

December 23 Update: Earn up to 5x points with Aeroplan eStore's Boxing Week event, Rexall offering 15,000 bonus Be Well Points & earn up to 100 AIR MILES with Shell EasyPay

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! 

 

Aeroplan eStore's Boxing Week event sees the online shopping portal offering up to 5x points at select retailers. The offers are in place until January 2 although I do have a feeling we may see something bigger on Boxing Day itself (just a guess though). Check out the offers here.

Last minute loyalty program laundry - check for expiring miles and points, vouchers and more

 
With just a week left in 2021 now is a good time to double check if you have any points and miles that will be expiring at the end of this year. For the most part, the majority of loyalty programs have extended the pause on points and miles expiry into 2022 however there are a select few that are not. The biggest program I can think that is not extending points expiry after December 31, 2021 is World of Hyatt. There are others as well which I list further below in the post.

December 22 Update: Further updates to the ongoing Scene+ issues and Flair Airlines also launching Toronto-Chicago flights

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! 

Few more updates on the Scene+ program from the Rewards Canada community:

• Elia G. let us know they are seeing the multipliers from the Scotia credit cards posting correctly now however not for the transactions from the launch date of December 13 through to the 19th. Scotia told Elia that all will be repaired by February 2022. So if you are also missing points from that time period it may be a couple of months before you see them.
• @joshnet let us know that the Scotia App now has a notice in the app about the Scene+ Travel's partial redemption not working:

Plaza Premium opens two new lounges at Toronto Pearson International Airport

 

This month saw third party business class lounge provider Plaza Premium open up two new lounges at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. One is a temporary lounge to cover for the renovation of an existing lounge and the other is their new flagship lounge in Canada called the Landmark lounge. This brings the company's total number of lounges in Canada to 14 including the recently opened Air France KLM lounge in Montreal plus one Wellbeing spa.