December 29 Update: 3,000 bonus points for stays at the newest Marriott ski hotel, more Rewards Canada updates & a new online shopping portal to earn miles

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! 

 

There is another Marriott hotel stay bonus here in Canada. This one is for one of their newest hotels that we have featured on Rewards Canada several times over the past few months. That hotel is The Josie Hotel, Autograph Collection at Red Mountain Ski Resort near Rossland B.C.. As a grand opening special they are offering 3,000 bonus points for stays of 2 or more nights. We checked it out and it's one of those offers that borders on being worthwhile or not. Depending on the days booked the bonus point rate ranged from $10 to well over $20 more per night over the Member Flexible Rate. On those days where it is only $10 more it might be worth it to go for the points but on nights where it is $20 or more not so much. Click here for more details & to book this offer.

Earn up to 1,000 free miles when you join EVA Air Infinity MileageLands + earn up to 1,000 bonus miles per flight

I wonder if EVA Air hired a new head of loyalty as something is definitely up at the Infinity MileageLands program. The program has been extremely quiet for many years and now all of a sudden they introduce a buy miles option (With an introductory 65% bonus right now), they launch an online shopping portal: The EVA Mileage Mall with options to shop online in 12 countries around the globe and they launch a new member acquisition offer.  This new member acquisition offer awards 500 miles just for joining Infinity MileageLands plus an additional 500 miles when you complete your membership profile for 1,000 free miles in total. Simply join by June 30, 2022 to earn the free miles.

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

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! 

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

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! 

 
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.