The next airline to bring out a bonus for buying their miles/points is Alaska Airlines. The Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan buy miles bonus is back and it is nice to see it back at the 60% level. The bonus is tiered in that if you buy 3,000 to 19,000 miles you’ll get a 40% bonus, 20,000 to 39,000 is 50% and the 60% kicks in at the 40,000 mile level.
Welcome to Part Two of our series on new hotel openings in Canada for 2022! In this part we take a look at Marriott Hotels who
are taking a bit of a breather compared to the past several years with new hotel openings. Having added well over 40 new hotels between 2019 and 2021, Marriott is planning on only opening six nine new hotels in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec. So let's take a look at what they have in store for this year.
SEPTEMBER 2 UPDATE: One more hotel will be opening up this year
bringing the total number of new hotels to nine. The hotel is in Laval and have been added to the list below.
JULY 1 UPDATE: Two more hotels will be opening up this year bringing the total number of new hotels to eight. The two hotels are in Montreal and have been added to the list below.
Be sure to login to your RBC account right away to load these offers (if required) or get the promo codes if required. Personally I received these offers on the WestJet RBC World Elite Mastercard but most if not all should also available for RBC's most popular card the RBC Avion Visa Infinite Card and most other RBC cards.
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!
More Rewards is offering 1,500 points when you order $30 or more from Panago Pizza until February 28. Those 1,500 points work out to just over $6 when redeemed for travel. Click here to learn more.
Marriott officially unveiled their next global systemwide promotion
today and it’s a pretty good one. The offer provides 1,000 bonus Bonvoy
points and double elite night credit per night stayed at Marriott
Hotels across Canada and Worldwide. The promotional stay period is February 8 to May 4 but
you can register for the offer and book your stays now. You must
register prior to your stays to be able to earn the bonus and
registration is only open until April 20. I like that you can get the
bonus on a single night (compared to Hyatt’s offer where you need to
complete two nights) and that there is an elite earning component (Both
Hyatt and Hilton’s offers are non-elite qualifying).
HSBC is expanding their credit card portfolio for the everyday Canadian with the launch of the HSBC Travel Rewards Mastercard®. We say everyday Canadian as up until a few years ago most of their credit card offerings were limited to HSBC customers or those with high net worth. That changed when they launched the awesome travel rewards HSBC World Elite Mastercard and then followed it up with the low interest rewards card the HSBC +Rewards Mastercard. As of this week they have now added a third card that is open to anyone applying for it and it also marks the bank's entrance into the no fee rewards card space.
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!