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Earn 250 SPG Points for Checking-in on Mobile App
Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) has added a check-in feature on its mobile App. In celebration of this launch, they are running a bonus points promotion until June 15, 2018. All SPG members can receive 250 bonus points for checking-in using the SPG…
Ranking the Credit Card Portfolios of Each Canadian Financial Institutions (updated May 1, 2018)
A few companies need to be added to this list, so I thought it was due for an update from 6 months ago. Most of the ranking changes occurred in the bottom half of the list. Furthermore, I also revamped…
IHG’s Pointsbreak Released (April 30, 2018 – July 31, 2018)
IHG has released its latest Pointsbreak program, which runs from April 30, 2018 – July 31, 2018. This is the second time that IHG released its new version of Pointsbreak. In the past, all hotels on the list can be redeemed…
Marriott Rewards Free Night Certificate Coming Through
Check your Marriott Rewards account. The much anticipated “Rewards Certificate MR VISA CA ANNIV FREE NGT CAT 5” due to the termination of the Chase Marriott credit cards should be coming through today. It should look something like this when it…
New AC Hotel Montreal Downtown
The AC Hotels by Marriott has debuted the first of its kind in, which is only fitting seeing as AC Hotels have a European design and style. That being said, I hope to see more AC Hotels across the country as well! AC…
Best Current First Year Fee Waived Cards for April 2018
We are back again with our monthly update on the first year fee waived credit cards list. Quite a few changes from last month to consider. Note that we also have two other types of monthly lists going on: Top…
Aeroplan Renews Rocketmiles Partnership
Let’s face it, after a slew of bad news for Aeroplan, they could use some good news. Aeroplan announced the renewal of a multi-year agreement with Rocketmiles. Rocketmiles is a third party hotel booking that allows you to earn miles for bookings.…
How I Manage all My different Loyalty Accounts (updated April 23, 2018)
I cannot believe that it has been almost 5 years since I last wrote an update on this post. I am frequently asked how I track all my loyalty programs at the same time, because it seems like “so much…
How to make Economy Air Travel more Comfortable (updated April 20, 2018)
I actually wrote a post about this subject two years ago and I thought it was due for a slight update. As you probably already do, a lot of time is spent collecting miles and points so that we can…
VIA Rail to Replace its Quebec-Windsor Corridor Fleet
As you may already know, I am a big fan of trains and it is by far my favourite way to travel. Especially in Canada! Unfortunately, there is limited news that I can write about in Canada as VIA Rail has…
Revamped AMEX Starwood Credit Card
A Pointshogger reader alerted us today that American Express Canada has revamped its Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card, one day after the Marriott unification announcement. The major change is the elimination of the 20,000 sign up bonus points and changed into a…
Marriott International Announces One Set of Benefits
Marriott International announced, today, that it will introduce one set of unified benefits across Marriott Rewards, Ritz-Carlton Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest for its members that will come into effect in August 2018. Personally, I am very excited by what they…
