[OFFER EXPIRED] Last day to get the best ever welcome bonus on Canada's Top Travel Rewards Credit Card

 

THIS OFFER IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

The overall best travel rewards credit card in Canada (and in fact a pretty strong cash back card in its own right) has enjoyed its best ever welcome bonus since January and that offer will be wrapping up in two weeks! The card is the American Express Cobalt Card and ever since it launched late in 2017 it has been the number one card in Canada. There are several reasons for this but it primarily comes down to the card earning 5x points on eats and drinks (it was one of the first cards to award that many points on purchases) but also providing good redemption value for those 5x points and even the rest of the points the card earns a 2x and 1x. On top of that the card lets you convert points to Marriott Bonvoy which can then in turn be converted to 40+ airline programs including Aeroplan. Really, the card gives you a little bit of everything.

Best Western New Hotel Openings in Canada for 2021 - 10 hotels in the works including the GLo Mississauga

Best Western Hotels is a large worldwide hotel chain that was best known for just being Best Western. About ten or so years ago they added in Best Western Plus and Best Western Premier brands to help distinguish some of their hotels. And then over the past four or so years they decided to follow the other major hotel chains with expanding the brands to meet specific travel needs. There are now 18 brands associated with Best Western:

New earn rates for the BMO CashBack World Elite Mastercard are here - earn up to 5% cash back

Early in February we brought you the news that BMO  would be revamping their BMO CashBack® World Elite®* MasterCard®* in addition to changes coming to some of their other cards. In comparison to those other card changes the changes for the CashBack World Mastercard were the only bright spot as for most people this change was truly an enhancement.

May 4 Update: RSVP Rewards - Canada's newest hotel loyalty program, earn 40,000 PC Optimum points for shopping beauty & 3 Lufthansa lounges join Priority Pass

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

 
In April the Sandman Hotel Group consolidated several of their loyalty programs and relaunched them as one program called RSVP Rewards. The new frequent guest program combines Sandman Hotel's Lucky 13 Rewards and Sutton Place Hotels Prestige into one. The new RSVP Rewards program is points based which is more like the Sutton Presitge program as Lucky 13 Rewards was a stamp based program (think buy 10 get 1 free punch cards. All Sutton Prestige members will retain their existing points balances and elite status levels while Lucky 13 members will have their stamps converted to points, unless you have a full card in which you can still redeem that for a free night. The program is giving Lucky 13 members until June 1, 2022 to convert their stamps into electronic points.

Earn 10,000 Aeroplan Points when you open select TD chequing accounts in combination with a TD Aeroplan credit card

 

I believe I may have made a quick a mention of this offer a few months ago in one of our daily update blog posts but didn't go into detail on it and wanted to remind our readers of this offer since it ends this month. That offer is for 10,000 Aeroplan Points when you open select chequing accounts with TD in combination with their TD Aeroplan Platinum or higher credit cards.

New Amex Offers from Cornershop by Uber (Spend $60 get $30 back), Wayfair, Robinson Lighting and more

 

A whole bunch of new Amex Offers came out over the past few days so be sure to log in to your account online or check on the app to see which you have been targeted for. There were no less than six new offers added including a very tempting one from Cornershop by Uber where you can get a $30 statement credit when you spend $60 (this is on the Platinum Card) or a $15 credit when you spend $50 (on the Gold Rewards Card). Here are those offers and the others that were just released:

Earn up to 70,000 bonus points and get your first year free on the HSBC World Elite Mastercard

 

HSBC revealed a new offer for their HSBC World Elite Mastercard that is better than the standard welcome offer we've seen since the middle of April. The new offer provides up to 70,000 bonus HSBC Rewards Points along with having the first year $149 annual fee waived on the primary card.  The bonus is awarded as follows:

• 20,000 Point Welcome Bonus on your first purchase
• 20,000 points when you spend $5,000 in the first 180 days 
• 10,000 points when you add an authorized user
• 20,000 points on your card's first year anniversary
  

Earn up to 3x IHG Rewards points on all IHG stays Worldwide from May 5 to August 16

IHG Rewards systemwide global promotion for the remainder of spring and the better part of the summer has been revealed. The promotion has been developed to encourage multiple stays with the brand as there is no bonus on your first stay. You have to complete multiple stays to start earning bonus points. You’ll earn 2x points on your second stay and 3x points on your third and every stay after that.

April 29 Update: Air Transat will now provide refunds for flights cancelled by COVID-19, Amex Offer for Kinton Ramen & we added a Brim Financial page!

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

 
Air Transat released news today that they will receive $700 Million in funding from the Federal Government and as such will now allow travellers who received travel credits as a result of COVID-19 to request refunds for those credits. It's been a long time coming for Canadian consumers to get refunds on all the flights and vacation packages that had to be cancelled since last March. WestJet took the initiative first out of the big carriers with Air Canada and now Air Transat only announcing refunds once they were granted loans from the government. Air Transat has set up a dedicated page on their website where you can request a refund for your travel credit. Visit that page here and please let us and our fellow readers know how the process works out for you!

Marriott Bonvoy further extending free night award expiry to January 2022 and points expiration to March 2022

 

 

Once again excellent news coming out from Marriott today - they are providing further extensions to free night awards and points expiration! These changes will be effective as of May 6, 2021:

Free Night Award (FNA): Members who currently have a Free Night Award (FNA) that had an original expiration date in 2020, or which will expire before January 2, 2022, as part of their Cobrand Credit Card Benefit, Annual Choice Benefit, promotions or travel package will be able to redeem it through January 3, 2022. Please note that FNAs with an original expiration date before 2020 will not be eligible for the additional extension. Members do not need to take any action because the system will automatically update their account with these extensions on May 6, 2021.