April 4 Update: New Amex Offer for Shangri-La Hotels & Coast Hotels are adding a new hotel in downtown Calgary

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Shangri-La Hotels has returned to Amex Offers. I received this latest offer on on my Platinum Card:

Get a statement credit equal to 20% of total qualifying purchases when you use your registered Card at the Shangri-La Hotels in Toronto and Vancouver or via the Shangri-La App or at www.shangri-la.com/AMEXCanada at these locations by 30/06/2022. Limit of $150 in total credits. Terms apply

Offer extended: 10% cash back for the first two months with Tangerine Mastercards

Tangerine has once again extended their limited time welcome offers on the ever popular Tangerine credit cards to end of May. Both the Tangerine Money-Back Credit Card and the Tangerine World Mastercard will award a 10% cash back welcome earn rate in the first two months for any new approved applications made by May31, 2022. The 10% is capped on $1,000 of purchases for a total cash back reward of $100. After that 10% cap is hit or after 2 months the regular earn rate of up to 2% cash back kicks in. 

Miles & More Mileage Bargains - Big mileage discounts of 50% or more on flights to Europe from Calgary, Halifax and Montreal

The latest set of Miles & More Mileage Bargains (Meilenschnaeppchen) discounted mileage awards are here for this month. There are a few more offers this month when compared to small offering we saw in March The list is a little smaller this time however there are still Economy, Premium Economy and Business Class to choose from!

More Rewards Points Extravaganza - thousands of bonus points up for grabs!

Another big promotion from More Rewards following quickly on the heels of last week's special grocery redemption offer. This time it is the return of their Points Extravaganza with tons of bonus points for shopping at Save-On Foods and 20x points for earning points with select More Rewards partners.

New Amex Offers providing statement credits for Shell and Wendy's purchases

 

A few more Amex Offers came out at the end of this week for using your American Express card at Shell or Wendy's. Personally I received both the Shell and Wendy's offers on my Platinum Card and also received the Shell offer on my Cobalt Card. However the Cobalt offer is only for two statement credits versus the Platinum's four statement credits and the Platinum offer runs for one month longer.

CIBC Aventura Quest for Points - Earn up to 1,100 bonus points by collecting stickers, playing games and more

 

CIBC has launched a fun little promotion for their Aventura cardholders that runs until April 24. The Aventura Quest for Points has cardholders register to play and then collect stickers and bonus points each week by playing games. 

March 31 Update: AIR MILES Flights continues to disappoint, Air Canada partners with Mexico's Aeromar & one new Amex Offer

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 Last December we had a post here on the Rewards Canada blog covering our readers disappointment with the new AIR MILES Flight booking. Just over three months later and that disappointment is still being voiced by our readers. Over the past few days a couple more comments have been posted from flights that used to cost 900 miles now being over 5,000 miles and one flight to Europe requiring 4,332 miles and $1685 in taxes and fees. The actual price for the ticket? $1,730. Nothing like spending 4,332 miles for $45 in value. What has your experience been with the new AIR MILES Flights booking platform? Are you disappointed as well or have you actually been able to find some valuable redemptions? Let us know in the comments in the linked blog post or below. In the mean time check out the post with all our reader's comments here.

Match your Air Canada or WestJet elite status to Royal Air Maroc Safar Flyer (oneworld elite status)

 
April 1 Update: Matches to Safar Flyer Gold are no longer available. Silver is still available however.

The fine people at Statusmatch.com have revealed another status match opportunity that they are running on behalf of an airline. This time that airline Royal Air Maroc and you could potentially be matched to have elite status in the airline's Safar Flyer program. Some of you, most likely in the Montreal area are probably familiar with Safar Flyer since Royal Air Maroc serves your fine city. For others probably not so much but don't dissuade this opportunity as Royal Air Maroc happens to be part of the oneworld Alliance which counts airlines like American, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Qatar Airways as just some of the partners.

Air Canada Aeroplan Award Flight Sale: Save up to 20% in points on flights to select European destinations

Air Canada has launched an Aeroplan Award flight sale for travel to select destinations in Europe. This sale provides up to a 20% discount in the points required to redeem for flights when you book by April 12. The discount and travel dates vary by location as listed below.

Marriott Bonvoy's dynamic pricing is here - some hotels are pricing lower now (time to re-book) while others are pricing much higher

If you follow Rewards Canada on Twitter you'll have seen me tweeting late last evening about the new Marriott Bonvoy dynamic pricing.  If not, I'll sum up some of what I tweeted and more in this post. I considered posting this last night but figured Twitter was enough and it also would give time for more locations to be updated to the new pricing and also give me time to see what else others have found as good, bad or just plain ugly new points requirements that I could share here.