January 20 Update: Additional confirmed Cobalt multipliers and PC Optimum offering 30,000 bonus points for $100 Shoppers Drug Mart spend

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! 

We have a couple more American Express Cobalt Multipliers for you that our readers have confirmed. Thomas let us know that Lulu Hypermarkets in Oman earn 5x points and C with a T let us know about Sa Boothroyd out of B.C. also codes as 5x points. Check out the list of multipliers here.

Earn up to 90,000 bonus points for stays Radisson Hotels in Canada, the U.S., Latin America, or the Caribbean.

Radisson Rewards Americas has a new bonus points offer out that is very rewarding if you have a lot of nights planned for the remainder of winter and early into Spring. The offer awards 30,000 bonus points for every 3 nights you complete and those night do not have to be consecutive. They’ll let you rinse and repeat a couple more times to be able to earn a maximum of 90,000 points if you stay 9 nights by the end of the promotion which is April 30. Don’t forget that stays until that date also automatically earn 2x stay/night credits as well.

Save up to 30% for stays at Accor Hotels in Canada, the U.S., Mexico & Barbados

 
Accor Hotels has brought back their Take Your Time promotion after a short hiatus while they ran their New Year New View promotion. The Take Your Time promotion provides up to a 30% discount for stays at Accor Hotels in Canada, more specifically Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. The sale also works for stays in the U.S., Mexico and Barbados 

Earn up to 100% bonus Aeroplan Points on Air Canada sun destination flights

 

Air Canada revealed a new flight bonus offer today for Aeroplan members. The bonus offers up to 100% bonus Aeroplan points on flights between Canada and select sun destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico and U.S. Select economy fares will earn 50% bonus points per round-trip or two one way segments and 100% bonus points per round-trip or two one way segments flown in Premium Economy or Business Class. As is standard with Aeroplan flight promotions, flights booked prior to the launch of this promotion on January 19 are not eligible to earn the bonus. 

Offer details:
Earn up to 100% Bonus Aeroplan Points when you fly on Air Canada, Air Canada Rouge or Air Canada Express between Canada and select sun destinations* in the Caribbean, Mexico, or the United States.  Register and book between Jan 19 and Mar 1 for travel between Jan 19 and Aug 31, 22. Click here to register for this offer (Registration is required)

When booking these flights make sure you are maximizing the points earned on the purchase by using a credit card like the American Express® Aeroplan®* Reserve Card which earns 3 Aeroplan points per dollar spent on Air Canada purchases.

* Eligible destinations:
Bridgetown, Cancun,Cayo Coco, Cozumel, Fort De France, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, George Town, Holguin, Honolulu/Oahu, Huatulco, Kahului/Maui, Kingston, Kona/Hawaii, Las Vegas, Liberia, Mexico City, Miami, Montego Bay, Nassau, New Orleans, Orlando, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Pointe-À-Pitre, Port of Spain, Providenciales, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, San Diego, San Jose, San Jose Del Cabo, San Juan, Santa Ana/Orange County, Santa Clara, St. Lucia-Vieux Fort, St. Thomas, Tampa, Varadero, West Palm Beach, Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo.

Marriott Hotel + Air packages have been officially discontinued

 

As we reported last week, Marriott Bonvoy has now officially ended their Hotel+Air package redemption option. The Marriott website has been updated to confirm this however there has not been any notice sent out to members. Those members who have reservations in place through one of these packages will be able to keep them however no changes can be made to them after March 2. Those members who have certificates from the packages in their accounts but haven't made reservations you will have until February 28 to make such reservations. Any certificates remaining after that date will be converted back to Marriott points or if you change your reservation they will refund all points to you and you'll have to re-book.

January 19 Update: New Prepaid Credit Cards page on Rewards Canada and the Marriott Bonvoy Business card retains its up to 85,000 bonus points bonus

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! 

 
Added yet another new page to the main Rewards Canada site. Over the past couple of years we have been providing more coverage of the Prepaid Credit Card market so it only makes sense to have a summary page of the card offers.The page is in its infancy with several offers listed but don't worry I'll be adding more cards to the page over the next few weeks including Stack, CIBC AC Prepaid Conversion etc. Click here to check out the page

 

Lynx Air will start flying on April 7 between five Canadian cities

 

The long awaited story of Calgary based charter carrier EnerJet launching an Ultra Low Cost Carrier (ULCC) has come to fruition. As we reported back in November, Lynx Air as the new airline is named announced they were going to launch in 2022 with three Boeing 737 Max aircraft. As of today everything looks official as you can now book flights with Lynx Air for travel between five cities in Canada. Those cities are Calgary (their home base), Kelowna, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg.

IHG Rewards announces changes to the program starting with the elite status tiers

Earlier today we brought you the new global IHG Rewards bonus points offer and in that post mentioned the hotel chain has more news that was released today. That news is about changes coming to the IHG Rewards program in March and today they only revealed the first of the program's updates and that is to the elite status portion program. The changes in elite status include renaming the Spire tier to Diamond, adding an additional tier, changing the qualification requirements and adjusting the bonus points earned by elite members.

Earn 2x points on all IHG stays in Canada and worldwide (Register now for stays Feb 1-Mar 31)

IHG Rewards provided several pieces of news today – the first is a new systemwide global points bonus offer and the second are changes to the actual program. In this post we’ll cover the post offer and follow up with another with the program changes. This new global points bonus offer is a simple one, double points on all IHG Hotel stays completed between February 1 and March 31. You can register for the offer as today and must be registered prior to completing stays. There is no limit to the number of bonus points that you can earn.

PC Optimum now the official loyalty program for Esso as Esso Extra is retired

 
Yesterday marked the end of an era as a long running gas station loyalty program in Canada, Esso Extra was officially retired. The gas retailer has now implemented PC Optimum as its official loyalty program. First announced in June 2021 the switch to offering only loyalty program came as a bit of a surprise at that time but as Esso offered customers a choice of earning Esso Extra points or PC Optimum points on purchases the data must have shown more people choosing the latter. Now as of this week, that's your only choice for earning extra loyalty rewards at Esso stations!