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Here's your RWRDS Canada update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more.

Earn up to 18,000 Bonus Aeroplan points on select Air Canada Vacations packages

For a limited time Aeroplan is boosting Air Canada Vacations bonus points offer by 50%! First launched in October 2023, this long term bonus for booking ACV packages offered up to 12,000 bonus points per member but now with this promotion members will earn up to 18,000 points. Packages must be booked by May 31 for depatures until Sep 30. Click here to learn more.

IHG Hotels & Resorts Launches Apple AirPlay in North American Hotels

Nearly a year after it was announched, IHG Hotels & Resorts have officailly starting rolling out Aopple AirPlay at their hotels. The first phase of the launch sees ove 60 hotels in the U.S. and Canada now offering this option for guests to stream their content on the TVs in their room.

IHG is the first hospitality company to provide AirPlay functionality as part of its in-room entertainment experience. With AirPlay, IHG provides seamless connectivity and enhances the overall guest experience, improving guest satisfaction. Guests can simply scan a QR to the hotel’s Wi-Fi network and enjoy a personalized entertainment experience. Each QR code is unique, ensuring that a guest’s content remains personal and private and streams only to the LG hotel TV in the room.

These are the locations in Canada that are part of the first phase of the launch

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Canadian Bonus Offers

Marriott Bonvoy
- Kelowna 1,000 bonus Bonvoy points PER NIGHT for stays at the Fairfield Inn & Suites West Kelowna. Book now for stays until Jun 23, 24. More...

Other Bonus Offers

Marriott Bonvoy
- Berlin 3,000 bonus Bonvoy points for stays of 2+ nights at the JW Marriott Hotel Berlin. Book now for stays until May 31, 24. More...
- Costa Navarino Earn up 25,000 bonus Bonvoy points for stays of 5+ nights at The Romanos, a Luxury Collection Resort, Costa Navarino. Book now for stays Apr 25 - Jul 18, 24. More...
- Orange Beach 2,500 bonus Bonvoy points for stays of 2+ nights at the SpringHill Suites Orange Beach at The Wharf. Book now for stays until May 31, 24. More...

Miles & More
- OFFER INCREASED! 50% Bonus Miles & More Miles when you purchase a Miles&More Bundle&Go package (Essentially this is a way to buy miles) Valid until Apr 30, 24 More...

Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer
- Earn up to 4,000 bonus KrisFlyer Miles on Sixt car rentals worldwide. Book now for rentals completed by May 31, 24. More...

Wyndham Rewards
- United States Earn 2x Wyndham Rewards points for stays at participating La Quinta by Wyndham Del Sol locations in the U.S.. Book by May 17 for stays until Jul 31, 24. More...

Deals:

Cathay Pacific: Save an extra C$100 when you use promo code C360CA1SD4 to book Cathay flights from Canada to Hong Kong, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh, Wenzhou, New Delhi, Taipei, or Tokyo (HND). Book by May 5 for travel until Oct 5, 24. Click here for more details

Plaza Premium: Save 10% on Canada Lounge Access Passes (5 or 10 visit) when you use promo code Spring2024. Purchase by Apr 30, 24. Click here to buy a pass

Priority Pass: Special offer save 30% on Standard memberships, 20% on Standard Plus and 10% on Prestige. Click here to buy a membership

Aer Lingus Save up to $200 on bookings for the Irish airline’s flights between Toronto and Dublin and connecting beyond. Book by Mar 20 for travel Apr 15 – Sep 30, 24. Click here for more details & to book this offer.

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Be sure to login to your RBC account right away to load these offers or get the promo codes if required. These offers have also been added to our official Guide to RBC Royal Bank ‘RBC Offers’

Simply log in to your Amex account or go onto the Amex app to see if these offers have been sent to you and to register for them. You can find this and many more offers in our Guide to American Express Canada ‘Amex Offers’

Confirmed cobalt, multipliers list. Find out where in the world you can earn up to five times points with the best credit card in Canada.
Even if you can only put 50% of your eats and drinks spending on this card, you will be ahead then rather just putting 100% on another card

If you are researching this card on multiple sites and reading other reviews you'll see a lot of hype on this card's 5x points earning. And in the words of one of my favourites, Public Enemy. "Don't believe the hype!"

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Coincidence? Here's Rewards Canada on Tuesday "The card comes with an OK insurance benefits package .... Noticeably missing are flight delay, lost or stolen baggage and hotel/motel burglary insurance." and another blog on Friday "The insurance coverage on the card is OK .... Noticeably absent from the insurance inclusions is flight delay insurance, lost/stolen baggage insurance, and hotel/motel burglary insurance"

All of us points and miles sites, credit card sites and even financial blogs will cover the same news when it comes out. And a lot of the articles we write will be quite similar but sometimes that similarity seems to go beyond an author's own take on the news and heavily mimic our articles.

For example here's an excerpt from my aticle this past Tuesday about the new Laurentian cards: "The card comes with an OK insurance benefits package .... Noticeably missing are flight delay, lost or stolen baggage and hotel/motel burglary insurance."

and another blog a few days after mine: "The insurance coverage on the card is OK .... Noticeably absent from the insurance inclusions is flight delay insurance, lost/stolen baggage insurance, and hotel/motel burglary insurance"

I want to chalk it up to coincidence but to me the similarities read otherwise. What do you all think? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!

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All of us points and miles sites, credit card sites and even financial blogs will cover the same news when it comes out. And a lot of the articles we write will bear striking resemblance but sometimes that similarity seems to go beyond an author's own take on the news and heavily mimic our articles.

For example here's an excerpt from my article this past Tuesday about the new Laurentian cards: "The card comes with an OK insurance benefits package .... Noticeably missing are flight delay, lost or stolen baggage and hotel/motel burglary insurance."

and another blog a few days after our post: "The insurance coverage on the card is OK .... Noticeably absent from the insurance inclusions is flight delay insurance, lost/stolen baggage insurance, and hotel/motel burglary insurance"

I think you can tell who this other website referenced to write their review of the Cobalt Card

Rewards Canada:
The American Express Cobalt Card charges $12.99 per month for having it which equates to an annual fee of $155.88. That fee works out to be slightly higher than the $120 to $150 a year we see on competing cards but it is so worth it. You should also know that additional cards come at no cost so there is a savings there in adding authorized users versus many of the competitors.

The Other site:
The annual fee for the American Express Cobalt® Card is $155.88 ($12.99 monthly fee). This is higher than the average annual fees of other cards, which range from $120-$150 per year. However, the higher price is worth it. Additional cards also come at no extra charge, saving you some cash when it comes to competitors when adding authorized users to your plan.

Rewards Canada:
From the above you'll see you only need 15,000 points for popular short haul round trip flights. Make that spending with 5x multipliers and you have that ticket for only $3,000. You will not achieve that with any other card in Canada. Even business class to Europe is an amazing deal, only $28,000 in spending at 5x points gets you that round trip flight to Europe. Compare this to nearly double that for most other cards in Canada that allow you to redeem for business class.

The other site:
If you focus your card spending on food and drink purchases worth 5x points, you can afford that ticket for $3,000 worth of charges. At the other end, a round-trip business class flight to Europe will cost you 140,000 points, or $28,000 worth of spending on the same 5x multiplier. Other cards in Canada that allow you to redeem for business class have that total set to double the amount American Express offers

The other site:
If you are eligible to apply for the Cobalt® Card, these are a few additional considerations to make before deciding if this card is the right match for you:

I want to chalk it up to coincidence but to me the similarities read otherwise. What do you all think? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this! And remember - Rewards

AIR MILES is another program that Canadians either love or hate and despite a several tumultuios years the program holds onto 5th spot in these rankings. The program stil counts itself as one of the largest in Canada so it cannot be ignored with millions of Canadians still holding onto and earning AIR MILES Reward Miles.

In our first go round of these rankings in 2014 we scored AIR MILES with 5 Stars for earning but have cut that back by half a star for these latest rankings due to the program losing most of its nationwide partners like Rona, Sobeys, Staples and so forth. Still with its credit card options (Click here to see all AIR MILES credit card offerings), online shopping portal and remaining in-store partners it is easy enough to earn reward miles.

For ease of redeeming, the program gained a star thanks to the program moving away from limited seats on select flights to offering a wider range of awards across more airlines. On top of this they added to ability to redeem for flights anywhere in the world (no longer requiring a Canadian departure point) as well as access to premium economy, business class and first class flights.

Flexibility is slightly lower for AIR MILES compared to other programs on the list and the key reason for that is the lack of a partial redmeption option for flights. With AIR MILES uou need to have the full amount miles published when booking flights where as the others allow for points+cash options so you don't have to wait to use up your points/miles.

Outside of some occasional outsized value flight rewards in the old AIR MILES flights rewards system, the program was always kind of average in terms of earning versus redeeming value. And with the recent changes to the flight program the per mile value for flight rewards decreased from 11 to 15 cents per mile to 9.5 to 10.5 cents per mile. That being said the expanded redemption options for flights, good value in miles for car rental, vacation package and hotel redemptions we kept AIR MILES Reward Miles at three out of five stars for overall value.

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I also want you to take this additional knowledge with you if you are researching the BMO card. You will find websites that rank the BMO CashBack World Elite Mastercard as the best cash back card in Canada and I would be careful with that as they are most likely doing so to earn commissions rather than actually provide you with details on what is the actual best card. We here at Rewards Canada earn commissions on the BMO CashBack World Elite Mastercard but even so the card doesn't even make it into our Top 5 Cash Back Cards

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* Cents Per Point and Cents Per Miles valuations are strictly to be used as a guiding benckmark to help compare the earn and burn ratios between loyalty program. The actual value when redeemed will vary by individual based on numerous factors including but not limited to time of booking, travel dates, class of travel, operating airline/hotel etc.

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This is always a good way to explain it! The savings versus value analogy. The value remains the same no matter what (without getting too technical like the flight is $10K today and $9K tomorrow) but if you weren't going to buy it in the first place you haven't saved at all.

It's like if you won a fancy car in one of those home lotteries. You pay $250 for the ticket and win a $100,000 Range Rover. You didn't save $99,750 if you had no intention of ever buying a Range Rover but you did just receive $100,000 of value for the $250 you spent.

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However to be able to compare the core premise of these programs, which is earning and redeeming points, you require some sort of benchmark to do so. The adopted industry standard (given there is no governing body or actual standardization rules in place) is to look at the associated value of each loyalty program's currency whether that is points, miles, Avios, dollars and so on. This is typically denoted as Cents Per Point (CPP), Cents Per Mile (CPM), Cents Per Avios (CPA) or in programs with dollars, such as WestJet, a straight percentage like 2% (which would be the equivalent of 2 cents per point so that you can compare)

Value is based on over 70% of current Aeroplan cardholders receive a value of $0.02/points or more when redeeming for a flight as of Feb 1, 2023. Redemption calculation is based on actual flight redemptions made by cardholders between the period of Nov 8, 2020 – Feb 1, 2023. Now you have to remember, cardholders receive preferred pricing with Aeroplan as well so that boosts that value up for cardholders but not for Aeroplan members who do not have a card. And 70% of cardholders? Aeroplan has somewhere in the region of 5 to 6 million members and I would guess that there are probably between 1.5 to 2 million cardholders across all the Aeroplan co-brand card options. And then you have to ask how many of those cardholders redeemed during that time period and your sample size for that 2 cents valuation keeps shrinking.

I signed up for the TD aeroplan rewards credit card thinking that Aeroplan points were worth 1.5-2 cents per point according to basic google searches and Air Canada's chart https://www.aircanada.com/content/dam/aircanada/loyalty-content/documents/flight-rewards-chart-en.pdf. I've had my aeroplan credit card since March and have accumulated 52,000 points. I decided I would use my points to book some flights for 2 adults from Calgary to Toronto. At $0.015/ point I assumed I had ~$780 worth in points.

I started to book with points and noticed it was 42,000 points + $749.10 for two people from Calgary to Toronto. The same flights without points were worth $986.82. So essentially 42,000 aeroplan points are worth $237.72 or 1 point = $0.00566. At this point I'm asking myself why I switched from my cash back card to Aeroplan points.

This issue arises after sites publish what an Aeroplan point is worth. We are one of those sites - we put a minimum valuation of 1.5 cents for Aeroplan points which is a much more conservative valuation than others.

This is something I have also heard on occasion from our readers and am also suspecting tends to be the issue on forums where people are speaking up that they are having a hard time finding

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Membership Rewards points transfer at a 1 to 0.75 ratio to Flying Blue. Which means you’ll need to transfer as little as 40,000 points for a round trip economy class flight or 100,000 points for one way business class. To put this in perspective, Amex’s own Fixed Points for travel requires 60,000 points for economy class or 140,000 for business class and a lot more cash for the taxes and fees for a round trip economy class ticket. And with Aeroplan you are looking at 60,000 to 70,000 points for economy class (60,000 to 70,000 Membership Rewards points) or 120,000 - 140,000 or more points for business class. As well with Aeroplan the fees for economy class will be comparable as Aeroplan does not include your first checked bag.

Even with the 1 to 0.75 ratio this represents an absolutely amazing redemption option for your Membership Rewards points. This is especially true for the American Express Cobalt Card if you earned most or all of your points at the 5x level. If you are able to redeem for a round trip economy class flight for 40,000 Membership Rewards points it represents a very low $8,000 in 5x points spending. For business class you are looking at 100,000 Membership Rewards points for a round trip or as little as $20,000 in spending. There is no way you can even come close to getting redemptions like this for that little amount spending with any other credit card in Canada.

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