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…
Intra-Canada Aeroplan promo until January 13
Looks like there was an unannounced Aeroplan redemption promo going on that has now become official (unlike last year’s one-class upgrade for free). Details here: http://www3.aeroplan.com/promotions/promotion_details.do?promotion=promo_webup3292_AE, but essentially one-ways are temporarily priced at about half of the return trip, which is…
A few new successful bookings
Sometimes people ask me if I commercially help people book reward travel. My answer is usually yes – and I take points as payment, rather than cash, as I feel points are worth more than dollars to me (some people…
Received a surprising 10,000 points from Aeroplan!
Well, this was peculiar. I received an email telling me that “as a valued member”, I will receive 10,000 Aeroplan points … for nothing. I generally do not believe in free stuff, so I figured this must be either a…
More Hertz madness
I wrote before about how Hertz and Aeroplan have messed up my 5,000 mile bonus for car rental. It appears the story does not end there. I called Hertz about another rental which went to the useless Hertz Gold Reward…
Hertz and Aeroplan madness
I discovered something interesting. This is only useful for those who rent a lot, but it would paper Aeroplan people don’t read their own promotions (or phrase them wrong). There are currently two conflicting promos running on the Aeroplan site…
Aeroplan Hotel Transfer promo
Just in time for the holidays is the recurrent mile transfer promo. Sadly, this one is not as good as the one from a few months ago, where Amex was included, but it’s still a good time to ash out…
Booked a mini-RTW for a friend
With Aeroplan being so RTW-friendly on their return redemptions, it is only natural that the savvies, when booking a trip to East Asia, tend to route over different oceans. The reason for this is that besides having legitimate claim to…