Book your travel with Rewards Canada, two new Amex Offers and the 30,000 mile flight reward offers to Europe extended to August

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

We are often asked by our readers how they can support Rewards Canada as a thank you for the website and services we provide as they are totally free to use. We charge no subscription fees for any and all information and no consulting fees when helping our readers! One way to support is by booking travel and completing actions via our partners and we have a lot of them! Today we completed an update to our 'Book Travel / Support' page to our new site format so it will be easier to view across all screens. All of the links take you straight the provider which means you'll earn your points, miles, elite status benefits since you would be booking direct with them! Click here to check it out

Aeroplan stopovers now bookable online on Air Canada's website

A very popular redemption option for the Aeroplan program just became easier to book. The stopover option, where you can pay 5,000 points to stopover in an extra city on an itinerary outside of Canada and the U.S., has only been bookable by calling into Aeroplan but as of today Air Canada has launched a beta test for the stopover option for online bookings.

FINAL REMINDER The credit card to consider getting right now - August 2022

 

We continue our monthly feature where we recommend a card to consider applying for right away during the course of the current month.  How do we pick which card should be highlighted? We'll look at numerous factors however in most cases it will primarily be due to the limited time offer on the highlighted card ending this month or shortly thereafter.  In some cases, it may be different factors or a combination of factors. This month it's the former however, where it is simply an offer that is set to end shortly after the end of this month. 

New Amex Offer for Effy Desk, save 20% at 92 Marriott Hotels in Canada & Hotels dot com also offering a 20% off sale

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

One new Amex Offers offer came out today I received this one on the Platinum Card and it is for Effy Desk:

Spend at least $700 in qualifying purchases using your registered Card at www.effydesk.ca/ by 30/10/2022 and earn a one-time $150 statement credit. Terms apply.

Aeroplan Availability Alert: Canada to Bangkok in economy class from 45,000 points each way

Air Canada has revealed a promotion that is guaranteeing a certain amount of reward seats on their new flight to Bangkok, Thailand. This promotion is available for bookings until September 6 for travel January 9 to April 17, 2023.

Buy or gift Aeroplan Points with an 85% bonus

 
Aeroplan has come out with another buy or gift points promotion where you can earn an 85% bonus. . This offer runs until September 3, 2022 and allows members to buy up to 500,000 points per transaction up to the annual limit of 1 million points. If you buy 15,000 or more points you will earn the 85% bonus. Compared to the last buy points offer this is better as the lower tiers had lower bonuses but that's not the case this time!

We review the BMO Ascend World Elite Mastercard and earn 20x PC Optimum points on beauty products at Shoppers Drug Mart

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

We have updated our review of the BMO Ascend^TM World Elite®* Mastercard®* formerly known as the BMO Rewards World Elite Mastercard. The card and the rewards program have undergone a slew of changes over the years so this review catches up on all that has happened from the name change, to earn rates, redemption and more. Click here to see what we think of BMO's flagship travel rewards card

Plaza Premium introduces a Canadian Lounge Pass offering up to 10 visits and up to 50% off walk up fees

Plaza Premium has introduced a new lounge access pass for their Canadian lounges in Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg. The new PPL Pass Canada can be purchased with 5 or 10 visits that will save you up to 50% off the walk up rates for these lounges. 

Credit Card Review: TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card

One of the most popular travel rewards credit cards in Canada, the TD® Aeroplan® Visa Infinite* Card was first reviewed by Rewards Canada in 2014 when it was introduced. For the better part of six years the card didn't change very much but then we saw the entire Air Canada Aeroplan saga transpire for numerous years which culminated in Air Canada buying Aeroplan back from Aimia and launching a whole new Aeroplan in November of 2020 along with refreshed credit card offerings. This mainstay Aeroplan card from TD underwent many changes for the new program and thus the need for this updated review.

Earn 5,000 bonus points on all Best Western stays (Must register & book by Sep 3)

A big new 5,000 points bonus from Best Western is out for this week only! Members who register and book by September 3rd will earn 5,000 bonus points on all Best Western stays until November 21, 2022.