New Marriott Bonvoy American Express Card Amex Offer: 3 bonus points per dollar spent on grocery purchases + MORE Apr 22nd

Thanks to Trusty Suitcase for alerting us to this one! Right now you can find lie flat business class seats on Air Canada’s flights between Toronto and Cancun for select dates in February 2022. These flights are currently scheduled to be operated with Airbus A330-300 aircraft that feature Air Canada’s lie flat business class seats. Editors Note: Rewards Canada does not encourage non-essential travel at this time but as part of our mission of delivering a wide breadth of loyalty program news, bonuses and tips on earning and redeeming we do want to present options for our readers who may be interested is such news as this and for planning for future travel!Here is an example of the current availability:Availability for 2 people Availability for 4 people!And cash costs:The cash price for 2 peopleRedeeming 97,000 points for $3932 of flights works out to 4 cents per point which is a pretty decent redemption! If you earned those points on an Aeroplan credit card that means at least a 4% return on your base spending and more than that for any accelerated spend categories…

Here’s your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more.  As first reported by Loyalty Lobby there are some changes happening at the GHA (Global Hotel Alliance) Discovery program. These changes don’t affect travel within Canada but if you do utilize the program and their hotels outside of Canada you’ll want to note these changes. The first is that U.S. based Omni Hotels are leaving the program at the end of June 2021. That hotel chain will focus on its in house loyalty program called Select Guest. The second bit of news sees Spanish based NH Hotels joining the program in 2022 at which time that hotel chain’s NH Rewards will be merged into the Discovery program. Finally in that same press release about NH joining Discovery they note that the Discovery program will be revamped in Q4 of this year including the addition of a digital currency. That means they should be moving to a points based system and away from their current non-point awarding program…

 Thanks to Rewards Canada contributor Jeff W. for alerting us this morning to this amazing new Amex Offers offer that came out for the  Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express® Card:For the next 3 months cardmembers who are targeted for this offer (and it looks like a good portion of them are!) can earn 3 bonus Marriott Bonvoy points per dollar spent on groceries up to 4,500 points ($1,500 in spending).  Adding the bonus to the base earn rate equates to a total of 5 Marriott Bonvoy points per dollar spent on groceries. Since we value Marriott Bonvoy points at 1 cent each at a minimum this puts you at a 5% return for these purchases However, if you recall from our review of this card we had an example where redeeming for a luxury hotel worked out to 3.4 cents per points in value so if you multiply that by the earn rates above you can achieve a 17% return! Recommended reading:  Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express® Card Review If you don’t have this card right now is a good time to apply for it as it has one of the best ever welcome offers on it of 60,000 welcome points (when you spend $3,000 in the first three months) and a $120 statement credit if you spend $10,000 in the first twelve months effectively making this card free in the first year…