July 6 Update: Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card will get Elite Night Credits, 30K mbna Alaska card offer is not limited time and 15 new retailers added to AIR MILES Shops

American Express has sent out letters to those who have the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card outlining the details of the changes to the card that are coming on August 4th. We provided this information in our post “New earn rates and benefits revealed for the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express” but […]

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June 30 Update: Stash Hotel Rewards returns to Canada, more confirmed Cobalt 5x Multiplier merchants, 15% off Air Canada Rouge Flights

Stash Hotel Rewards, the U.S. based boutique hotel loyalty program that we have covered here on Rewards Canada for a half dozen years or so have made a push into British Columbia! When they first launched they had one or two hotels in the Vancouver region but lost those early on. Now they have added […]

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New earn rates and benefits revealed for the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express

For sometime now we’ve known what the earn rates and benefits will be on current and new U.S. issued Marriott and Starwood credit cards from Chase and American Express respectively. Here in Canada we have not, we have only been able to speculate on what changes will happen to the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card […]

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June 26 Update: What happens to Marriott Free Night Certificates come August, lower sign up bonus on no fee SimplyCash and Amex Business Gold Rewards no longer 1st year free

As of today the sign up bonus for the no fee SimplyCash Card from American Express has been lowered. The new rate is 2.5% on purchases in the first three months (up to $150). This is down from 5% with a maximum of $250 cash back however you are not limited to grocery, gas or […]

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Transferring Starpoints between Starwood Preferred Guest accounts with the same residential address

Earlier this week I posted a step by step guide to redeeming points from the American Express Cobalt Card (or any Membership Rewards card for that matter) to Starwood Preferred Guest. This is all in anticipation that the conversion ratio will be changing when SPG and Marriott Rewards become one program in August. In that […]

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Step by Step guide to converting points from your American Express Cobalt Card to Starwood Preferred Guest

You may recall from our popular post “7 months in and The American Express Cobalt Card is still going strong – we’ve earned a LOT of points and huge value organically” that I mentioned I would be converting the Membership Rewards Select Tier points over to Starwood Preferred Guest. I went ahead and conducted that […]

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