THIS OFFER IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE Back in July, Chase Canada revamped their Marriott Visa card offering for Canadians with the Marriott Rewards Premier Visa. You can see my quick review of it here. Normally the card comes with a 30,000 point sign up bonus but we were quickly made aware of some 50,000 point […]
Options outside of Aeroplan and Air Miles. Part 3: Hotel Frequent Guest Programs
The majority of Canada’s loyalty program market share is held by two programs, Aeroplan and Air Miles. While both programs have strong roots in travel they have grown into what the industry calls coalition loyalty programs, which in layman’s terms means many earning partners and a varied rewards catalog. Its hard not to be a […]
Oct 10 Highlight: Mobile-Based Wallet To Convert Points and Miles into Cash, Priority Club Point Breaks and free Amtrak points
I want to thank everyone who has voted so far in the Canada’s Choice portion of our Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings 2012 and want to welcome new readers and subscribers who may have only joined us today as result of the social media coverage provided by Aeroplan (Thanks AP!) News, Tips & Tricks […]
1 week left to vote for your favourite Travel Rewards Credit Cards
There is only 1 week left to cast your vote in Canada’s Choice for Rewards Canada’s Top Travel Rewards Credit Card rankings 2012! Be sure to navigate to Canada’s Choice – Vote for Canada’s Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards 2012 and place your vote.
Oct 9 Update: Travel Rewards in the Media, United 100K+ Transatlantic Bonus Offer and more
I hope that all of you had a great Thanksgiving long weekend! I know I did, although I will not return to one high end restaurant here in Calgary after trying it out on Sunday, but that really has nothing to do with our subject matter! News, Tips & Tricks As always the first day […]
Capital One downgrades several of their free cards
Capital One adjusted the sign up bonuses for two of their no annual fee cards today: The Capital One® Aspire Travel™ Platinum MasterCard® which ranked #2 in the Travel Points Card with no annual fee category in our 2012 rankings has had its 10,000 bonus reward miles sign up bonus reduced to 5,000 bonus reward […]
Oct 5 Update: Hilton HHonors Q4 Promo offers 1,000 points per night
News, Tips & Tricks Hilton HHonors officially released their fourth quarter promotion today and overall the offer is so-so for a hotel promotion. If you are loyal to Hilton, you will at least get some bonus points out of your stays at participating locations but some of the other hotel reward programs do have better […]