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Monday, July 18, 2011

Canada's Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards for 2011

Today on RewardsCanada.ca we posted our third annual picks for Canada's top travel rewards credit cards. New for this year is Canada's Choice, where we asked Canadians to vote for their favorite travel rewards credit cards with the results to be posted along side our rankings. We have combed over 70 different credit cards offering travel rewards for Canadians and of those there are a few that really stand out. While it is practically impossible to give this question a perfect one card answer, we can breakdown the market of Canadian Travel Rewards credit cards into five major categories that these cards fall into. Without further ado, here are the top travel rewards credit cards for 2011 as picked by RewardsCanada.ca along with Canada's Choice for each category:

Top Travel Points Credit Card (with annual fee)
Rewards Canada's Pick: Capital One Aspire World MasterCard
Canada's Choice: American Express Air Miles Platinum Credit Card

Top Travel Points Credit Card (with no annual fee)
Rewards Canada's Pick: American Express Blue Sky Credit Card
Canada's Choice: American Express Air Miles Credit Card

Top Hybrid Travel Credit Card (with annual fee)
Rewards Canada's Pick: American Express Gold Rewards Card
Canada's Choice: American Express Gold Rewards Card

Top Airline Credit Card
Rewards Canada's Pick: CIBC AeroGold Visa Infinite
Canada's Choice: American Express AeroplanPlus Platinum Card

Top Hotel Points Credit Card
Rewards Canada's Pick: (tie) Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express and Priority Club Rewards World MasterCard from Capital One
Canada's Choice: Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express

For the complete article, details on each card plus runners up in each category please visit the full Canada's Top Travel Rewards Credit Card for 2011 page on the Rewards Canada website

Care to comment on our choices? Want to voice your opinion on the good and the bad of all the Travel Rewards Credit Cards in Canada. Share you views and experiences by leaving a comment below.
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2 comments:

  1. I have had the CIBC Aerogold card for 10 years. Its extremely hard to ever book a flight unless you do it one year in advance.

    I was lucky enough to book 4 tickets to Florida one year in advance. But the flight was cancelled and I ended up with a 6 hour stop over and had to fly on United which charged me for my bags. I am switching to the RBC Westjet card.

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  2. I'VE had some good luck with Aeroplan even getting some last minute flights. I did however get scammed by scotiabank. They don't send your card directly and didn't notify me it was at my local branch. They wouldn't then give me my card unless I booked a 45 minute "meeting " presumably to sell other services. After all this I got my card and used it right away but 2 months passed since I signed up so they said my 30k bonus was not valid.

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