Other Rewards Programs

Earn Bonus AIR MILES When Booking with Travel Hub

ByMatt

The AIR MILES Travel Hub is a hotel booking engine powered by PointsHound, which has an inventory of over 150,000 hotels and all-inclusive resorts around the world.

When booking your hotel stay through Travel Hub, you can earn bonus Air Mile reward miles. There is a current promotion where you can: 
Earn 100 bonus miles after spending $100 or $299
Earn 200 bonus mile after spending $300 or more
The booking needs to be made by September 30, 2017 and the stay must occur before December 31, 2017.

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American Express Membership Rewards 25% Avios Transfer Bonus

ByMatt

It has been 18 months since the last time we saw an American Express Membership Rewards transfer bonus to British Airways’ Executive Club. Personally, I thought that we would never see a transfer bonus like this again from American Express, so I was pleasantly surprised to see a 25% transfer bonus. 

Transfer bonuses are my favourite way to boost my loyalty accounts. 

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[DISCONTINUED] RBC Esso Visa Card

ByMatt

Is it just me or does it feel like more credit cards are being shut down than introduced to the market? It started with Petro-Canada, now it is Esso’s turn. Seems like gas loyalty programs are having difficulty maintaining their partnerships with credit card companies. You will noticed that the RBC Esso Visa Card has already been taken down from the RBC website. On the Esso website, they still show the card, but mention that new applications are no longer accepted.

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Comparison of the AMEX Air Miles Reserve and BMO Air Miles World Elite Cards

ByMatt

As requested by one of our readers, we will be comparing the American Express AIR MILES Reserve Credit Card and the BMO AIR MILES World Elite MasterCard. A second question was whether Air Miles is worth a second look considering the upcoming end of the Aeroplan and Air Canada partnership. Feel free to share any other suggestions in the comment section below!

Before we get into the comparison, let’s start with some of the highlights of each card:

American Express Air Miles Reserve Card

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Review of Carrot Rewards

ByMatt

Carrot Rewards has become quite a popular App since expanding outside of British Columbia, where it originally started. Carrot Rewards has expanded to Ontario, as well as Newfoundland and Labrador. Seems like they have some plans to expand to more provinces, so be on the lookout for that!

Tip- If you have a family or friend living on one of those provinces, you may be able to borrow their postal code. The precaution I would take is whether the postal code on your loyalty account matches.

Review of the multi-retailers Canadian loyalty program: DROP

ByMatt

Today, we feature Pointshogger contributor, Jean-Francois Pratt, who will share with us his experience with Drop. Thank you Jean-Francois!

A Toronto-based start-up launched a multi-retailer loyalty program called DROP. Each 10 points is worth 1 cent, so 2,000 sign up bonus points is $2 that you can use at partner programs.

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RBC Devaluing Conversion to American Airlines AAdvantage

ByMatt

One of my readers email me a few days ago about this, I was in denial for a few days. But it is true. If you log into your RBC Rewards account, you will find the following wording:

Please be advised of the upcoming changes to the conversion of RBC Rewards points to American Airlines AAdvantage miles through the RBC Rewards program. Effective May 2, 2017, for every 10 RBC Rewards points which is converted, you will receive 7 AAdvantage miles. A maximum of 500,000 points may be converted annually. A minimum conversion of 5,000 points continues to apply each time.