January 10 Update: IHG changes Best Rate Guarantee, Lufthansa A350 to fly YVR-MUC route, Air France seat sale to Asia

IHG has changed their best rate guarantee from offering the first night free on a succesful claim to now offering up to 40,000 points. Over the years most hotel chain’s BRGs have been tightened and harder to take advantage of. (HT YHBU) 1. Under the Program (as further described below), if you book a hotel room […]

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IHG Rewards Club 2018 Point Changes – New higher redemption amounts and nearly 700 hotels changing categories

Happy New Year everyone! We are now officially back at it and unfortunately start the New Year offer with not so great news from IHG Rewards Club. There are two components to the 2018 changes that take effect on January 16th 2018. The first is a new maximum requirement for some of IHG’s highest end […]

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December 7 Update: Amex Cobalt Confirmed Multiplier Locations (help us build the list), Alaska Airlines & Air France KLM part ways, IHG Accelerate Returns

Alright Cobalters! We need your help! Rewards Canada reader Hossam M. asked if there is a published list of merchants where you can earn the 5x (10x for this month) multiplier with the American Express Cobalt card. We know that Amex doesn’t publish one so based on Hossam’s question we created a page to track […]

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IHG Rewards Club Accelerate returns for Fall 2017 – Earn 30,000 or more bonus points for your IHG stays!

As soon as the Summer Accelerate bonus ends the Fall Accelerate offer launches! As we have seen each Accelerate promotion they come out with new personalized offers for each member. The total bonus available per member ranges from a minimum of 30,000 points to well past 100,000. You can register for Accelerate here. Since I […]

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Full list of 107 IHG Rewards Club PointBreaks Hotels including 4 in Canada – available for booking on Monday July 31

IHG has released the full list of the newest PointsBreaks hotels and here they are. This set has 107 hotels included with the actual booking of the hotels at these rates opening on Monday July 31st for stays between that day and October 31, 2017. For those who travel domestically we see the list of […]

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