It’s one thing to discuss the current greatest deals and give heads-up on promotions, but it’s entirely another matter to discuss the entire point of all this point hoardage – taking round-the-world trips in business or first class, for pennies…
New LifeMiles promo!
LifeMiles seems to be throwing out promos every two months or so, which is excellent in case you are planning on going anywhere with them. The current one, going between Feb 5 and Feb 20, creates +1 extra mile for…
Montreal-Panama $398 all in on Air Transat
Chris Myden’s blog posts a pretty good fare on YUL-PTY for $398ai. http://www.yuldeals.com/montreal-to-panama-central-america-398-roundtrip-after-taxes
New SPG American Express point promo until April 11, 2013
Looks like for 2013, Amex has increased the points available for new SPG cards to 20,000 (from the previous 10,000). This is VERY good. See my earlier post on cash & points changes, which isn’t as good, but SPG points…
SPG Cash & Points changes
SPG Cash & Points has been one of the better programs to date – offering the opportunity to stretch SPG points to get higher value redemptions – and some of them have been very attractive. It’s not that it’s coming…
40% off hotel bookings!
This is not going to last long. USAA members get 40% off final booking cost on http://www.explorecruisetravel.com using coupon code USAA1. If you do not have a USAA membership, go sign up. I won’t go into the details on who…
One of the best-value redemptions on Aeroplan
There are many cool places one can go to – Asia, Africa, Australia, round-the-world… but one of the best redemptions on Aeroplan remains right in our own backyard here in Canada. I’m talking about YFB – Iqaluit. Hardly a place…
Additional Starwood+Aeroplan promo!
A new Starwood+Aeroplan promo is up. It isn’t as lucrative as the one that was around last December (get 5,000 points for hotels – and get another 3,000 on top if at least 3 nights are in Canada), but this…
Best Rate Guarantee programs at hotels
With the proliferation of discount hotel booking websites and margin erosion, hotels have been desperately trying to bring people back to their sites. To do that meant letting people pay the lower rate – which generally means two things: 1)…
Starwood promo is up! 18,000 points for 20 nights
The Starwood promo is up! It’s unfortunately not as exciting as it could be, as it’s “only” 18,000 points – I rather preferred the triple points that December brought (by paying for several people in one shot, I accumulated 29,000…