Air Canada's Aeroplan program is one of the most rewarding and lucrative programs in Canada when it comes to travel. The great thing about the program are the numerous opportunities to earn a lot of points with their co-brand credit cards and credit cards that allow you to convert to Aeroplan. As some of these cards are available with no annual fee in the first year or others with no annual fee at all, you can score a lot of Aeroplan points for free.
Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. Today's update is brought to you by the HSBC High Rate Savings Account with which you can enjoy a total annual interest rate of up to 2.65% on new deposits± Click here to learn more about this offer
IHG One Rewards, the revamped program from IHG Hotels & Resorts took another step today in the evolution of the program as the new Elite Status Benefits and Milestone Rewards went live today. The elite status benefits include early check in /late checkout, hot breakfast for Diamond members and room upgrades. All the benefits are subject to availability. The Milestone Rewards are the additional rewards offered for completing stays with the brand during a calendar year. Rewards kick in once you complete 20 nights and then you get to pick more every 10 nights after that up to 100 nights per year. The rewards include confirmed suite upgrades, bonus points and food & beverage creditds. Simply log in to your IHG One Rewards account to see your progress and select your rewards.
This episode I am taking it back to the roots of the podcast! If you have been a faithful listener or have gone back to listen to the early episodes you’ll know that when the podcast was launched in 2016 we would cover a little bit of everything in an episode, from loyalty program or credit card news, to bonuses and other topics that were of note for the few weeks leading up to the episode release date. In this episode we cover the best ever bonus seen on the RBC Avion cards, Air France's 3x miles on their new Quebec City route, Best Western's free night award offer, the introduction of one way rewards from RBC Rewards, the new Star Alliance credit card and our tip of the week looks at the American Express Cobalt Card confirmed multipliers page on Rewards Canada.
The latest set of Miles & More Mileage Bargains (Meilenschnaeppchen)
discounted
mileage awards are here for this month. This month we see Montreal as the only Canadian city on offer but with all three Miles & More airlines that serve the city being included.
Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. Today's update is brought to you by the HSBC High Rate Savings Account with which you can enjoy a total annual interest rate of up to 2.65% on new deposits± Click here to learn more about this offer
National Bank of Canada has extended the current increased welcome bonus offers on their World Elite, and Platinum Mastercards. These two card's 20,000 bonus points plus first year free offer are now available until August 31. 2022. Click here to learn more about these offers.
Here are the Rewards Canada Top 5 Small Business Credit Card Sign Up offers for this month! This is not a 'best' credit card list like our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards for small businesses that have very good acquisition (welcome/sign up) offers. As always when choosing a card you should always take other factors into account other than the just sign up bonus, but when some of these cards are first year free, they can and do pay off even when you grab them strictly for the sign up rewards. This month we see three first year free cards on the list! And remember this list is based on minimum value towards travel which we calculate as the minimum value of the welcome bonus less the annual fee. It is entirely possible to receive more value out of the welcome bonuses on all of these cards since they earn Aeroplan points - which can provide some huge outsized value rewards!
Hilton has once again brought out a bonus for buying Honors points. This time the bonus varies by members, I personally received an offer for an 80% bonus however others are receiving 100%. Also the promotion this time does see the doubling of the annual cap on buying points so you can buy up to 160,000 points. That 160,000 cap does not include the bonus points so if you max out this offer and buy 160,000 points you’ll receive 320,000 into your account.
Here
are Rewards Canada's Top 5 Cash Back Credit Card Sign Up offers for
the month of June 2022. This is not a 'best' credit card
list like our Top Cash Back Credit Card rankings but instead a look at cards that have very good acquisition (welcome/sign up) offers. As always when choosing a card
you should always take other factors into account other than the
just sign
up bonus, but when some of these cards are first year free, they
can and
do pay off even when you grab them strictly for the sign up rewards.
Choice Hotels summer promotion is here and it is the same offer we used to always see from them! They word the promotion differently in terms of get a free night or get a $50 gift card. In the end the two promos are the same, they will award you enough bonus points after you complete 2 separate stays to have 8,000 points after those stays. This time it is being promoted as the gift card offer as the promotion also sees the redemption rate of those $50 gift cards halved from 16,000 points to 8,000 points. With award night starting as low as 8,000 points you would get more value out of the points for an actual hotel stay over the $50 gift card but there is no harm in redeeming for a gift card especially if Choice isn’t your primary choice of hotel programs. This time the promotion is limited to U.S. or Canadian residents only.