Good and bad news today for the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express. First lets get rid of the bad news, which in all reality isn’t that bad. It’s just bad because the promotional sign up bonus of 25,000 Starpoints ended yesterday and as of today is back to the 20,000 Starpoints. So […]
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October 18 Update: RBC & Petro-Canada team up for more points & savings, last day for SPG Amex, up to 3x miles on Qatar Airways flights
RBC and Petro-Canada came out with more partnership news yesterday. Thanks to RBC, Bruce and Kevin for sending along the details to us! As many of you may be aware we brought you details some time ago about automatically getting 2 cents off per litre of gas at Petro-Canada when you use a RBC credit […]
October 17 Update: Amex Platinum Card access to Lufthansa lounges in Munich, Scotia card updates for November + more!
If you read some of the U.S. frequent flyer and rewards blogs you may have seen articles about American Express Platinum Cardmembers having access to Lufthansa lounges in Munich. When those articles came out it wasn’t sure if Canadian cards also qualified, well the good news is they do! As long as you are flying […]
One week left to grab the higher sign up bonus on the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express
Wow three months sure do fly by! It feels just like yesterday when the increased sign up offer on the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit from American Express launched but alas it was not. In fact it has almost been three months and the offer will wrap up next week on October 18th. If you don’t […]
October 4 Update: New Amex Centurion Lounge in Hong Kong along with new entry rules, The Bisha – a new Toronto Hotel & more
It’s a lounge kind of day! We brought you the review of the Plaza Premium Lounge in Winnipeg and the following news as well: American Express‘ new Centurion Lounge in Hong Kong is now open and with that news also comes further restrictions on access to Centurion Lounges. No longer will they be available to […]
October 3 Update: Podcast Episode 33 is available for download, WestJet adds flights to Mexico City, Amex Cobalt Multipliers
The Rewards Canada Round Up Podcast has returned! Episode 33 is out now for download on Apple iTunes, Google Play, our website and Soundcloud. In this episode we discuss the launch of the American Express Cobalt card, one of the best cards to come out in a long time in the Canadian market and we […]
Are the American Express Cobalt Card category multipliers available globally?
A question that has been posed to me about the new American Express Cobalt Card repeatedly via email, social media and in comments is about the category multiplier bonuses being available on purchases outside of Canada as we are the only ones reporting that they actually are. The multipliers in question are: • Earn 5 […]