Choice Hotels to acquire Radisson Hotels Americas

 

I can't even count now the number of time that ownership of Radisson Hotels or its subsidiaries has changed hands over the past few decades and it continues this week with Choice Hotels announcing the acquisition of Radisson Hotels Americas. The Americas portion of Radisson only emerged about a year ago after the parent company had to split their Radisson family of brands in two due to Chinese ownership and U.S. privacy rules. Thus they created Radisson Hotels Worldwide and Radisson Hotel Americas, the latter to appease to the U.S. government. It is the latter as well that is subject of this purchase.

Receive up to a 50% bonus when you buy Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles

 

Alaska Airlines has launched a new buy miles offer that runs until December 23rd. This time the bonus once again ranges from 30% to 50% depending on how many miles you buy. Ideally you want to buy so you get that 50% bonus which means you’d have to buy 30,000 or more miles. We see the 50% bonus quite frequently now but we also see 60% quite often now as well so unless you really need the miles right now you may want to wait to buy.

The best flight, hotel, and car rental bonus offers for June

 
Here are our Top Travel Bonus Mile/Point Offers for this month. This post covers the best travel related bonuses for Canadian travellers. Whether it is for flying, hotel stays or car rentals you'll find our top picks here to earn more miles more points and more rewards. Many of these offers go beyond this month so don’t count them out if you need to book and/or travel beyond this month. 

CIBC Dividend® Visa Infinite* Card - 10% cash back on all purchases up to $2,500 and a first year annual fee rebate

 
The highest welcome bonus for non-American Express Cash Back cards in our market has typically been 10% cash back on up to $2,000 of spending ($200 cash back). That changed when CIBC bumped up the spend limit for their offer to $2,500 over the first four statement periods. This means that 10% welcome bonus can earn you up to $250 cash back!

Best ever bonus for buying Air France KLM Flying Blue Miles - up to 120% extra miles!

Flying Blue's buy miles bonus has returned and it's bigger and better than ever! The offer provides up to a 120% bonus when you buy Flying Blue miles which is 20% higher than we have ever seen. If you are short some miles for a redemption or want to speculatively buy for if and when we see a 50% off business class promo reward you'll definitely want to check out this offer.

Earn up to 3x Aeroplan points on Air Canada flights within Canada

Air Canada has a new flight bonus offer for Aeroplan members travelling within Canada this summer and into early fall. This offer awards up to 3x Aeroplan points depending on which fare class you buy. You must register for this offer and book flights between June 8 and June 21 for travel until October 31, 2022

Earn 5x miles when you shop online via AIR MILES Shops for Father's Day

AIR MILES has launched a Father's Day Bonus for shopping online via their AIR MILES Shops portal. The bonus offer 5x miles sitewide for purchases made by June 19, 2022. The bonus is earned over and above the base earn rate and any additional bonuses that may available for specific merchants. 

U.S. to end COVID-19 testing requirement as of Sunday & earn 25,000 Be Well points this weekend at Rexall

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

Great news for Canadians travelling to the U.S.! As of midnight Sunday June 12 they will be dropping the requirement to have a negative Covid-19 test prior to arriving via air. CNN is reporting that this will be officially announced by the Biden administration sometime today. (Source CNN)

Earn more points on your summer hotel stays! Summary of global hotel bonus points promotions – June Edition

 

Here is your monthly update of all the global hotel bonus points promotions that are available. One of the easiest ways to rack up lots of hotel points is to take advantage of these global/systemwide/regional bonuses that come from many of the big chain programs and also from the lesser known programs.

Earn 3x Aeroplan Points on Rocky Mountaineer rail journeys when you book by July 8

It's an Air Canada and Aeroplan kind of day here on Rewards Canada as this will now be the fourth post today featuring the airline or the loyalty program! This post covers a new bonus points offer for Aeroplan members looking to book rail journeys with Rocky Mountaineer. The two have now been partners for just over a year and although it's not alluded to, we'll call this their first anniversary bonus! Until July 8, 2022 Aeroplan members will earn 3x points when booking Rocky Mountaineer excursions for travel through to October 2022.