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Receive up to a $250 Mastercard Gift Card for a two night stay in Vancouver Sep 29th
StayVancouver Hotels has brought back their popular gift card offer – albeit for a much shorter stay period this time. Just like several of the past offers this one requires a 2 night stay with a gift card being awarded for each night. The offer is available at 40+ hotels in the downtown Vanco.... More »
Amex Offers: Spend $175 with Amex Travel for hotel or car rentals and receive a $50 statement credit + MORE Jul 20th
A new Amex Offers for booking with Amex Travel came out today This offer provides a $50 statement credit when you spend $175 or more on prepaid hotel or car rental bookings online with Amex Travel. The offer is good for one single qualifying purchase or cumulative qualifying purchases so you could .... More »
Do you need mortgage life insurance? + MORE Sep 22nd
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I am a single, 70-year-old with a reasonable mortgage of $115,000. I have no family and no dependants. I find that the life insurance on my mortgage is too expensive. Do I need mortgage life insurance anyway? What for?
—Katerina
What is mortgage life insurance?
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RWRDS Daily Update – January 31, 2024 Jan 31st
Clash of the Credit Cards! BMO eclipse rise Visa Card vs Tangerine Money-Back Credit Card, No Canadian Flying Blue Promo Rewards for February and earn 1,000 Etihad Guest Miles + World of Hyatt points on Hyatt stays. Check out today's points & miles updates here:
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This Week in RWRDS: February 17 – 23, 2024 + MORE Feb 24th
This week we provide exclusive details on the HSBC Rewards to RBC Avion Rewards points conversion, discuss the downfall of Lynx Air and more in our weekly credit card and loyalty rewards newscast Watch This Week in RWRDS here: Listen to This Week in RWRDS here: Topics of discussion: Exclusive detail.... More »
New Plaza Premium Americas Pass saves you up to 50% on business class lounge entry
– RewardsCanada.ca
Plaza Premium has introduced a new lounge access pass for their lounges in the Americas which includes those here in Canada. Via View from the Wing we learned this new pass can be purchased for US$59 and includes two lounge visits of three hours each in length. This is perfect for those who don’t have lounge access via their credit card and also don’t need Plaza Premium’s global 2 lounge visit or higher pass.Canadian Lounge Access This pass will provide you with access to Plaza Premium Lounges (going West to East here) in Vancouver (4 lounges), Edmonton (1 lounge), Winnipeg (1 lounge), Toronto (6 lounges) and Montreal (1 lounge). These include the new T3 lounge in YYZ, the pre-security concept lounge at YYZ and YUL’s Air France Lounge.Recommended reading: Rewards Canada’s Guide to Business Class Lounge AccessRest of Americas Lounge Access: Outside of Canada the pass is accepted at any Plaza Premium Lounge, Avianca Lounge, Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse operated by Plaza Premium Group and MERA Business Lounge in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador and Colombia (excluding Argentina) Click here to see the entire list of lounges for this pass…
New offers on the Marriott Bonvoy American Express Cards: 65,000 bonus points + $100 statement credit
– RewardsCanada.ca
Today marks the return of an increased welcome bonus offer on the Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express® Card and a change to the offer on the Marriott Bonvoy™ Business American Express® Card. It has been a couple of months since we’ve seen a limited time offer for the consumer card so it is a welcome sight to have one again while the business card still had a limited offer in place up until today it has now changed to more closely line up with the consumer card offer. The welcome offers are as follows: Marriott Bonvoy™ American Express® Card New Marriott Bonvoy® American Express®* Cardmembers, earn 65,000 Welcome Bonus points and a $100 Statement Credit after you charge $1,500 in net purchases to your Card in your first 3 months of Cardmembership. Offers end May 10, 2022.Marriott Bonvoy™ Business American Express® Card Earn 65,000 Welcome Bonus points + $100 statement credit after you charge $3,000 in net purchases to your Card in your first 3 months of Cardmembership…
March 9 Bonus Offer Highlight: What you actually have to spend to get some of the best credit card welcome bonus offers & TD extends their refer a friend promotion
– RewardsCanada.ca
Here’s your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your near daily dose of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! We completed an update to another one of our popular features on the Rewards Canada website. That feature is What you actually have to spend to get some of the best credit card welcome bonus offers. This piece looks at exactly that – how much you have to spend to get a bonus. With so many bonuses out in the market and many of them requiring Spend X to get Y the chart here will show which cards will take $0 in spending to get a bonus all the way up to those that require $40,000 to get the advertised welcome bonus. Click here to check out the updated feature.—TD has extended their Refer a Friend promotion until May 29, 2022…
