Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Amex Offers: Spend $175 with Amex Travel for hotel or car rentals and receive a $50 statement credit


A new Amex Offers for booking with Amex Travel came out today This offer provides a $50 statement credit when you spend $175 or more on prepaid hotel or car rental bookings online with Amex Travel. The offer is good for one single qualifying purchase or cumulative qualifying purchases so you could have two or more smaller bookings qualify as long as they total up to $175. Personally I received the offer on my Platinum Card

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

 
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. 

Monday, July 18, 2022

Receive up to a 60% bonus when you buy Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles

The Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan buy miles bonus is back and once again we see it up at the 60% level which continues to be new normal for the airline.  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 you’ll get a 50% bonus and the 60% kicks in at the 40,000 mile level.

Earn up to 50,000 Bonus Aeroplan Points and pay no annual fee in the 1st year with the TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card



In March, TD's Aeroplan co-brand cards moved to a points only bonus instead of points + bonus buddy pass which made a lot of individual travellers happy as for the better part of 18 months the welcome offer on this card offered less points but also a Buddy Pass. Well if you don't travel with a companion that Buddy Pass didn't provide any value for a solo traveller.  That being said, this new offer isn't just for solo travellers - this offer is just as great for couples, families or whomever, it's just that the old Buddy Pass offer was more conducive for non-solo travellers. 

Shoppers Drug Mart PC Optimum Bonus Redemption Event - up to an extra $100 in value for your points until July 20

Shoppers PC Optimum Redemption Event

PC Optimum's bonus redemption event for shopping at Shoppers Drug Mart has returned. PC Optimum members will receive up to an extra $100 in value for their points when they redeem them for online or in-store Shoppers Drug Mart purchases.

New RBC Offers include statement credits and discounts for Boston Pizza, Mary Brown's Chicken & Balzac's Coffee Roasters

 
The latest batch of new RBC Offers sees ten new and extended statement credit or discount promotions for using your RBC card at select retailers! In total there are over 30 offers in place with this program.

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.

We review the Business Platinum Card from American Express, a new Amex offer for Amazon Business & the return of US Travel Association's Daily Getaways

Here's your Rewards Canada update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more.

The next card to receive the Rewards Canada review treatment is the Business Platinum Card® from American Express. This card is targeted towards Canadian small business owners who love to travel and want to avail of benefits that can make that travel better. From providing the best airport lounge access benefit out of any business cards in Canada, hotel elite status, discounts on premium class flights and so much more this card was developed with travel in mind! Not to mention it has an amazing new welcome bonus offer in place right now! Click here to read the entire review

BMO will cap the AIR MILES Mastercard's new 2x grocery earn rate


 

Last week it was announced the BMO AIR MILES Mastercards will be receiving a full time grocery store purchase accelerator in light of AIR MILES losing the Empire group of stores as a partner. The news revealed the co-brand cards will earn 2x AIR MILES Reward Miles on purchases at all grocery stores but as we have learned now the press release from BMO omitted one key detail about the new accelerator.

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Best ever welcome bonus on the TD First Class Visa Infinite Card - earn up to 100,000 welcome points + first year free


The TD® First Class Travel® Visa Infinite* Card is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 points along with an annual fee rebate for the primary and additional cardholders for the first year. Not only does this continue to be the best ever bonus seen on the card it is also one of the highest flexible point card bonuses in market right now with a nice low spend requirement! This offer runs until October 29, 2022.

Friday, July 15, 2022

Resumption of mandatory random COVID-19 testing for international travellers & earn 2x points for stays at Sonesta Hotels locations in Toronto

Here's your Rewards Canada update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more.



The Canadian Government announced the resumption of COVID-19 mandatory random testing for those entering Canada by air. As of July 19 the random tests will return for fully vaccinated travellers arriving into Calgary, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Click here to learn more.