Gary Leff from the View From The Wing blog broke this story a few days as a rumour and then confirmed that effective October 1st, 2011 all Starwood Award stays and nights will count towards your elite qualification in the SPG program. The only other hotel programs to offer this benefit are Choice Privileges and […]
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SPG Amex member get a member offer, lots of Starpoints to go around!
Holders of the Canadian Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express can earn up to 25,000 bonus Starpoints for referring new applicants to the card and those applicants can earn 20,000 bonus Starpoints with the card. Here’s how it works, existing members will earn 5,000 bonus Starpoints for each successful applicant they refer to […]
Planning a stay in Vancouver? Check out these hotel bonus point offers
There are lots of hotels to choose from in Vancouver where you could stay but a few have recently released some really good bonus point/mile offers for staying with them. These offers are over and above any system-wide offers that may be going on right now (like Marriott’s Mega Bonus and Starwood’s Rewarding Returns) and […]
Canada’s Top Travel Rewards Credit Cards for 2010
Today on RewardsCanada.ca we posted our second annual picks for Canada’s top travel rewards credit cards.. We have combed over 60 different credit cards offering travel rewards for Canadians and of those there are a few that really stand out. While it is practically impossible to give this question a perfect one card answer, we […]
Luxury Matters? One in Four Canadians Would Rather Not Travel at all than Stay at a Budget Hotel
Here is a press release that came out today from American Express that is tied into the new SPG Credit Card here in Canada, the survey portion provides some interesting insight into the ways Canadians want to travel: Luxury Matters? One in Four Canadians Would Rather Not Travel at all than Stay at a Budget […]
Rewards Canada’s Credit Card Comparison Chart Updated
At the end of last week I finally had a chance to update our very popular Credit Card Comparison chart. The update was to add two new cards that were released this year, the Starwood Preferred Guest Card from American Express and the WestJet RBC MasterCards. You can view the updated chart here to see […]
Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express is now available
After many months of hype from American Express and their PR team, the Starwood Preferred Guest®* Credit Card from American Express fro Canadians is finally open for applications. In fact it went live last Wednesday (Mar 31) but we have been quite swamped with the 5 Years 5 Ways to Win Contest that I have […]