Hyatt is offering Work from Hyatt packages. The goal of this initiative is the encourage people to work out of the hotels instead of at home. It’s a way of combining a vacation with work together. Since there is limited travel, most likely, you will have to go to a nearby hotel, namely within your own country.
See also: COVID-19 Updates for our most up-to-date tracking.
I’m not sure about everyone, but when I start travelling again, it will most likely be road trips within Canada ONLY for the foresable future. For this reason, I have been tracking hotel points expiry policies, elite status extensions and other relevant information more closely than airline industry.
I still hope to see hotels being used for multi-purposes, not just for tourism. For example, government buying up rooms to house certain people temporarily to alleviate the hospitals. Marriott has introduced a work anywhere program.
Did I jinx it? Yahoo News is reporting that Capital One is ending its relationship with Costco Canada and Hudson’s Bay in 2021.
Are you kidding me? Right after our previous post where I said:
At this point, I just hope that Capital One finds a way to continue to operate in Canada. Part of me feels like they are closer to shutting down rather than introducing new products.
Marriott Bonvoy is offering a new program called: Work Anywhere. The program offers several different packages that will be explained below.
These packages are designed to encourage people who happen to be working from home, to work out of hotels and resorts instead. So Marriott is offering enhanced benefits for staying at a hotel that will combine working and vacationing together.
Several offers ending (see October 2020 and November 2020 cards) on this list that would not make it to next month’s list. So if you are thinking about a specific offer, you may want to go for it now.
Keep in mind that this post refers to temporary offers. We also have an ongoingly updated Top Credit Cards pages that includes permanent first year fee waived offers too. Here are some of the more relevant ones that are more related to this post:
A couple of offers (Laurentian and Scotiabank) are ending before my next month’s list. So if you are thinking about getting either of the cards, best to go for them now!
Keep in mind that this monthly post only includes temporary offers with higher than normal cash back offer. We have a list of ongoing offers in the Top Cash Back Credit Cards page with a more complete list.
This is a continuation of a previous post that I wrote about: End of an Era: Capital One World Elite Aspire Travel MasterCard.
Fair Warning: Bloggers often have to balance between sharing secrets for the benefit of everyone, versus keeping secrets, for the benefit of those who know about it (so that the benefit does not get shut down). For today’s post, I will be sharing my experience with the credit card (mentioned above) that really worked in my favour, which is why I kept it so long.
Marriott Bonvoy is kicking off a Week of Wonders starting today, October 8, 2020 through October 15, 2020.
Marriott says that the celebration is “aimed at bringing members joy and happiness by encouraging travel and providing opportunity to experience the pleasures of travel in your own home.” Basically, each day of the promotional week will feature a different Wonder.
We skipped over the September monthly list, but we are back again this month.
For this month, you will notice that many BMO offers were set to end on October 31, 2020, but they were preemptively changed around. Some offers were reduced, some were changed and extended. The new offers are reflected on this post.
Furthermore, you will noticed TD offers added to this month’s list.
See also: COVID-19 Updates for our most up-to-date tracking.
Hotel chains have done a great job at extending elite status memberships, as well as points expiry policies.
Below is a list of extension offers by programs more relevant to Canadians.