April 24, 2018 – Episode 43 – The Marriott Rewards – Starwood Preferred Guest Unification Episode! Includes comments from Marriott Canada’s Director of Loyalty Marketing Over the past 8 days all the buzz in the loyalty world has been around the announcement from Marriott International about the unification of their three separate loyalty programs, Marriott […]
Month: April 2018
Enter to win a C$100 Amazon Gift Card to celebrate the launch of the Aeroplan & Amazon.ca relationship!
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY Congratulations to Richard P of Regina Saskatchewan! He was randomly selected as the winner of our $100 Amazon.ca gift card giveaway with Aeroplan! Rewards Canada is once again proud to team up with Aeroplan to offer our readers another contest! Aeroplan wants to […]
Summary of global hotel systemwide bonus points promotions – April Edition
One of the easiest ways to rack up lots of hotel points is to take advantage of the systemwide bonuses that come from many of the big chain programs and also from the lesser known programs. In fact, right now it should be rare for you NOT to earn a bonus. Unless you are staying […]
We have a preview of some new redemption rates with the combined Marriott Rewards-Starwood Preferred Guest program
Today Marriott released the redemption rates of 100 of their top hotels in the newly combined program that launches this August. Last week we brought you most of the details of the new program in these two posts: Marriott Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest come together with the announcement of one set of benefits Further […]
April 23 Update: 35% Discount on buying or gifting Starpoints, Aeroplan & Rocketmiles extend partnership, latest Fairmont Moments offer
Starwood Preferred Guest once again offering of a 35% discount when you buy Starpoints. This is always an ideal buy points offer as you can pull way more value out of the points when redeeming for expensive hotels or converting to airline miles for under US 2 cents apiece. Your yearly limit remains at 30,000 […]
Hilton Honors: 100% Bonus Points when you buy 5,000 or more points until June 7
One of the better hotel buy points bonuses is back again, although about a month later than when we saw it for springtime last year. With the 100% bonus you are buying at 1000 points for $5 or 0.5 cents per point. When you can easily pull out 0.8 cents per point for redeeming for […]
April 19 Update: Bearskin Airlines leaving Aeroplan, Flair Airlines expanding domestic service, lots of new bonuses
In what can be seen as another hit to Aeroplan, albeit a small one, as of June 30 Bearskin Airlines will no longer participate in the programs. Full details Flair Airlines is expanding their ultra low cost service with 9 more routes this summer across Canada. Flair does not have a frequent flyer program but […]