25% off Emirates flights between Toronto & Dubai when booking for 2 or more people

 
If you are planning any travel to Dubai over the next few months check out this offer from Emirates. The airline launched a companion offer today that provides a 25% discount when you are booking for 2 to 9 people on the same reservation. The discount works on both Economy and Business Class fares and is applied to all adult base fares. This offer must be booked by Feb 6 for travel until Apr 30, 2022 

TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card: 25,000 Bonus Aeroplan Points, bonus buddy pass and no annual fee in the 1st year

 
The best airline card in the Canadian market and second best overall travel rewards card in the market is still offering a very valuable welcome bonus that is great for those looking to travel soon or those waiting things out and looking to travel sometime in the near future.  Right now when you apply for the TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card by March 6, 2022  you can receive up to 25,000 Aeroplan points, a bonus buddy pass and the first year annual fee rebated! This offer is not available for residents of Quebec. For Quebec residents, please click here.

Rewards Canada Special Offer: Save $10 on your first successful lounge access bid with LoungePair

 

Earlier in January we updated the Rewards Canada's Guide to Business Class Lounge Access for 2022 and one of the new additions to the piece were the details on LoungePair. LoungePair is the new startup that allows you to name your own price on single entry business class lounge access at hundreds of lounges around the world including 15+ in Canada. With LoungePair added to the guide we're happy to let you know that we have now partnered with them!

Receive a 30% bonus when you buy World of Hyatt points

 
Hyatt has released another buy points bonus!  This time they have gone back to an actual bonus instead of a discount. That bonus is 30% which means you are buying points for US$ 1.85 cents each. There is potential value in buying these points for select Hyatt stays around the globe as you can easily get more value than that per point on the right redemptions.

Car Rental redemptions have returned to AIR MILES and they retain great value!

When the revamped AIR MILES launched in fall of 2021 one redemption that disappeared, temporarily that is, was car rentals. We are happy to tell you that is option is back, based on a tweet from AIR MILES the car rental option returned on January 19, 2022. The car rental option has been added to the AIR MILES Travel Hub which is the same portal you can use to book hotels.  In the past incarnation Car rentals had typically been one of the best and most valuable redemption options in the program and we'll test it out to see if it still is.

Triple ALL Rewards Points at Accor & Fairmont Hotels in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Panama

 
Accor Hotels’ Triple Points offer for stays at their locations in North America and select Latin American countries has returned. Simply register for this offer to have it ready for any bookings and stays you complete with the chain’s hotel brands. You can easily tie this in with the current Take Your Time discount promotion that offers up to 30% stays.

New Hilton Hotel Openings in Canada for 2022 - an amazing 21 hotels planned including the Canopy by Hilton Toronto Yorkville & Vogue Hotel Montreal

 
A new year means the return of our series on new hotel openings in Canada! This year we kick it off with Hilton Hotels who are looking at a huge expansion in our great country. At the time of posting this Hilton are planning on opening a whopping 21 new hotels in four provinces. So let's take a look at what Hilton has in store for 2022.

January 21 Update: How to maximize the elite status benefits from The Platinum Card from American Express & get your 2nd night free for stays in Quebec City

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! 

 

Another major feature on the main Rewards Canada site received a makeover and update this week. That feature is How to maximize the elite status benefits from The Platinum Card from American Express. This is our piece showing how you can take the elite status benefits that you get with the card and extend those elite statuses to even more hotel, car rental and even cruise loyalty programs. The number of statuses has actually gone down one since our last update as currently Wyndham Rewards has put their status match offer on pause. Click here to check out this feature.

Save up to 30% & earn 3x points for stays at Fairmont Hotels in Canada, the U.S., Mexico & Barbados

 
Just like their parent company Accor, Fairmont Hotels has brought back their Take Your Time promotion after a short hiatus while they ran their New Year New View promotion. The promotion provides up to a 30% discount for stays at Fairmont Hotels in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Barbados

Less than two weeks left for the best ever welcome bonuses on Tangerine Mastercards - 15% cash back for the first 2 months

We have confirmation that Tangerine's biggest cash back bonuses ever - percentage wise that is will be ending as planned on January 31, 2022. No more extensions as we have seen over the past few months.  Both  the Tangerine Money-Back Credit Card and the Tangerine World Mastercard will award a 15% cash back welcome earn rate in the first two months for any new approved applications made by January 31, 2022. The 15% is capped on $1,000 of purchases for a total cash back reward of $150. After that 15% cap is hit or after 2 months the regular earn rate of up to 2% cash back kicks in.