Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Eveningsong]

I wasn't planning on doing the Mix & Match promo this time since i still need to chase down miles from the LAST one but then a few things popped up that I needed to buy and figured I would try to get them all online. I'm using the secondary card so I can hopefully get enough miles to book the Hyatt inside MOC (hold smokes those rates have increased!! almost 4700 for one night) highly unlikely I'll be able to pull in the extra 2000 I need buy why not try, right? Worse case scenario I'll use that account for the car rental.

Amazon order main reason Feliway for my very anxious kitty due to appliances moving in and out, new couch and us being away to visit Arthur and I added a couple of things to get up to $80, those miles posted.
Well .ca for stuff I'd normally buy at Rexall, now I just need to wait for them to get delivered instead and I'll get miles.

I simply couldn't pass up tossing this in my Amazon cart since books are an included category this month
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You can do 50% airmiles, and 50% cash, plus taxes for the room. Once you click on the book now it shows both options. I have done this several times booking air miles hotel rooms.

I checked the senior, or CAA rate, on the Hyatt website for a random Saturday at this location and it was under $200.00 US for the night.

 

[dancin Disney style]

Hmmm, I would go January. If she is feeling any insecurity or homesickness, it will happen early on. By February she could be feeling her groove.

Excellent point. You've met her then....

Yes, they are only 7 night sailings on the Fantasy. Occasionally they will do a 6 night then a 8 night but they are rare.
I had a friend who worked on the Magic. They do offer family rate however they are only used when they have extra cabins to fill so the crew seldom knows what is on offer till a few weeks before. If you're good with a last minute booking she can probably get a fairly good deal.
Also they have some pretty strict rules she will need to follow such as needing permission to enter your cabin or dine with you. There are several really good YouTube videos from CM's and former CM's that explain some of the rules, she should watch a few to get an idea.
Anyway, she will have a really good time.

I could manage with a couple of weeks notice. I want to make sure that I get to go and see her in action so I will investigate my options for booking something. I've got a lot of reading to do....know nothing about booking a cruise. She has often mentioned Youtube videos so I know she has seen some.

 

[Donald - my hero]

You can do 50% airmiles, and 50% cash, plus taxes for the room. Once you click on the book now it shows both options. I have done this several times booking air miles hotel rooms.

I checked the senior, or CAA rate, on the Hyatt website for a random Saturday at this location and it was under $200.00 US for the night.

Yeah, I know that but it isn't within our mindset of "pay for everything possible with airmiles" we have more than enough on the main card even after getting park tickets for both of us. I do plan on waiting it out though, the rates fluctuate, *only* 3340 for tonight instead of the 4700 for February and 2980 in September.

 

[dancin Disney style]

You can do 50% airmiles, and 50% cash, plus taxes for the room. Once you click on the book now it shows both options. I have done this several times booking air miles hotel rooms.

I checked the senior, or CAA rate, on the Hyatt website for a random Saturday at this location and it was under $200.00 US for the night.

Just wanted to say that personally I am not a fan of doing the 50/50 thing. Miles are hard earned so if I'm redeeming for something I don't want to spend my miles and my cash..... it has to be one or the other. That's me though. Someone else might be totally happy with using miles as a form of a discount.

 

[tinkerone]

Excellent point. You've met her then....



I could manage with a couple of weeks notice. I want to make sure that I get to go and see her in action so I will investigate my options for booking something. I've got a lot of reading to do....know nothing about booking a cruise. She has often mentioned Youtube videos so I know she has seen some.

You will have to let us know which character she will be playing so I can make sure to watch for her.

 

[juniorbugman]

So I never received any Offers from Sobeys on my card but the other 2 cards did get offers late yesterday so I called the helpline today to complain. The person said that they had technical issues yesterday and maybe I will receive some offers in a few hours or by tomorrow. I don't hold out much hope but she did give me 50 bonus miles for my troubles. I am going shopping very soon and I don't think any offers are coming so I will wait and see if I get offers next week.

 

[Donald - my hero]

My Sobeys offers finally popped up - while i was sitting in the car in the parking lot checking one more time. The secondary card has some awesome offers, good since that's the one I'm pushing for the hotel, including buy 1 yogurt get 20 miles. It was on sale and buy 2 get 30 miles so $5.99 yogurt netted me 50 miles. Spent 42.18 and snagged 284 miles in total, not half bad!!

Off topic question, for those of you who use packing cubes to avoid checked luggage, do you have any specific recommendations? Bonus points if I can order online and earn miles

 

[tinkerone]

My Sobeys offers finally popped up - while i was sitting in the car in the parking lot checking one more time. The secondary card has some awesome offers, good since that's the one I'm pushing for the hotel, including buy 1 yogurt get 20 miles. It was on sale and buy 2 get 30 miles so $5.99 yogurt netted me 50 miles. Spent 42.18 and snagged 284 miles in total, not half bad!!

Off topic question, for those of you who use packing cubes to avoid checked luggage, do you have any specific recommendations? Bonus points if I can order online and earn miles

Do you mean brands?
I use packing cubes all the time. I have one color for me, one color for DH and a black set to put dirty clothes in. When I come home I toss the dirty clothes in the washer along with the packing cube. Just don't put the packing cube in the dryer. Not sure if they would be damaged with the heat.
Most of my cubes are Heys brand. I purchased when they were a new thing and never looked back. For Christmas this year, I asked for a new set from Amazon, not a Heys brand. I'll see if I can find the link. They are not expensive and last forever.
https://www.amazon.ca/Shacke-Pak-Pa...qid=1660933432&sprefix=packing,aps,83&sr=8-16

Haven't used the new set yet but they seem to be as sturdy as the Heys that I have. I like the different sizes. I use the really small one for odds and ends like post it notes, highlighter, laundry tabs, some meds (asprin, bandages, polysporn), The misc. stuff. I use a medium sized one for underwear and bathing suits. Another medium one for t-shirts and shorts. Large for dinner clothes.
When I get to the hotel I just unzip the cube, tuck the lid underneath and then my clothes don't have to touch the drawers which held who knows what before we used them. If I do laundry I just put it back into the proper cube when done. When we leave all I have to do is zip the cube back up and packing is all done. No fuss. At home they all get folded up and stored into one medium cube so I always know where they are.

Sorry this is so long but I just LOVE my cubes and I'm always coming up with new ways to use them.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

My Sobeys offers finally popped up - while i was sitting in the car in the parking lot checking one more time. The secondary card has some awesome offers, good since that's the one I'm pushing for the hotel, including buy 1 yogurt get 20 miles. It was on sale and buy 2 get 30 miles so $5.99 yogurt netted me 50 miles. Spent 42.18 and snagged 284 miles in total, not half bad!!

Off topic question, for those of you who use packing cubes to avoid checked luggage, do you have any specific recommendations? Bonus points if I can order online and earn miles

Big fan of packing cubes here! I have the LUG cubes. I posted a couple links to where you can purchase them through the AM Shops portal (Amazon, The Bay). These are $82 on LUG's website, so much cheaper here:

https://www.amazon.ca/Lug-5-Piece-P...ocphy=9000091&hvtargid=pla-436040703311&psc=1

https://www.thebay.com/product/lug-...vZxPy71uinnWkk-5tnRoCNxoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[bababear_50]

Email from Airmiles

Dear Mel Our apologies – due to a technical issue outside of our control, we are unable to issue AIR MILES® Reward Miles™ to collectors who shopped at Amazon.ca through airmilesshops.ca between Saturday, July 9 and Thursday, July 14, 2022. To make up for this issue, we're making a one-time deposit of 25 Reward Miles to your account. These Reward Miles will be posted to your account within the same week you receive this email. There's nothing else you need to do. If the 25 Reward Miles are less than the Miles you should have earned on a purchase you made at Amazon.ca between July 9 and 14 through airmilesshops.ca, please submit a missing Miles inquiry at https://www.airmiles.ca/en/get-help/missing-miles.html. Just sharing Hugs Mel​

 

[dancin Disney style]

You will have to let us know which character she will be playing so I can make sure to watch for her.

I just asked her if she could tell friends who she was going to be....she said that from what she knew she would have to say 'I'm friends with......'. Right now she has a list of 4 roles that she maybe doing. It has to do with the Pixar at Sea thing.

Get back to me before you go and I'll give you the info.

 

[Debbie]

Off topic question, for those of you who use packing cubes to avoid checked luggage, do you have any specific recommendations? Bonus points if I can order online and earn miles

Another packing cube fan here! I bought our first sets (one for me, one for hubby) at Walmart. They are an Air Canada set, and were about $30 some years ago. My third set was bought from Amazon with a laundry bag and shoe bag included.

 

[AngelDisney]

My Sobeys offers finally popped up - while i was sitting in the car in the parking lot checking one more time. The secondary card has some awesome offers, good since that's the one I'm pushing for the hotel, including buy 1 yogurt get 20 miles. It was on sale and buy 2 get 30 miles so $5.99 yogurt netted me 50 miles. Spent 42.18 and snagged 284 miles in total, not half bad!!

Off topic question, for those of you who use packing cubes to avoid checked luggage, do you have any specific recommendations? Bonus points if I can order online and earn miles

You may want to consider the compressed packing cubes which have a zipper to reduce their thickness. You do need to zip it up slowly to avoid the zipper getting stuck sometimes, but they can save more space when they are compressed.

Have fun planning!

 

[bababear_50]

O/T
Rexall heads up.
Jamieson vitamins buy 1 get one free.
Good deal for me as I needed my D3 & Probiotics replenished.

Hugs
Mel

 

[hdrolfe]

Went to Metro, spent $82 and earned 80 AM so that seemed pretty good. I got the cheesecake. It was kind of funny because there was one of the chocolate pecan ones left but the box was open, it would have been what I prefer but I grabbed a Cherry instead. All other flavours had lots. I guess because the pecan one was in the picture people didn't realize the coupon works on the other ones? Hope it's good We are going to have steak fajitas with corn on the cob for supper tonight.

Of I woke up with a headache this morning and by the time the medicine started working so I could go to the store, it was raining. Oh well, it's not a cold freezing rain so it was fine. Reminded me of the rain at Disney. Hopefully it's only a day or two, my head does not like this weather. And looking forward to another week of vacation. Time to get some cleaning done in the house, now that I've spent a small fortune on back to school stuff I would like to not have to spend any money for a few days

 

[marchingstar]

Does anyone remember those green nonexpiring Canadian tickets that Air Miles had a few (5?) years ago?

I found a couple in a drawer and I have no idea how to best use them. Can I link them to my account? Can I use them to reserve parks like new tickets? Will it mess things up if only part of my party has them? Or should I take the physical cards in on a future trip and have the $$ value applied to a hotel stay? Any tips on best ways to use them are very welcome

 

[Donald - my hero]

Does anyone remember those green nonexpiring Canadian tickets that Air Miles had a few (5?) years ago?

I found a couple in a drawer and I have no idea how to best use them. Can I link them to my account? Can I use them to reserve parks like new tickets? Will it mess things up if only part of my party has them? Or should I take the physical cards in on a future trip and have the $$ value applied to a hotel stay? Any tips on best ways to use them are very welcome

I know you can't apply funds from any type of ticket media to anything other than a different type, so if you wanted to go to an after hours event that would work or to a different type of ticket. As for the rest of your questions, sorry, I don't know. I do know you'll still have to proof of residency to be able to get into a park so that might complicate reservation

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Does anyone remember those green nonexpiring Canadian tickets that Air Miles had a few (5?) years ago?

I found a couple in a drawer and I have no idea how to best use them. Can I link them to my account? Can I use them to reserve parks like new tickets? Will it mess things up if only part of my party has them? Or should I take the physical cards in on a future trip and have the $$ value applied to a hotel stay? Any tips on best ways to use them are very welcome

Those are not "tickets" they are vouchers, and they not non-expiring. I had to call WDW to get ours (2 adults vouchers) reactivated (ours had expired in Sept 2021) and pay around $330 CDN since they were originally in the Canadian rates.

You need to visit a Guest Services booth to get them switch into proper tickets, and you need to bring your passports since they were purchased using the Canadian rate.

You can link them to your MDE now and once you pay to have them reactivated, you can do your park reservations.

 

[mort1331]

Does anyone remember those green nonexpiring Canadian tickets that Air Miles had a few (5?) years ago?

I found a couple in a drawer and I have no idea how to best use them. Can I link them to my account? Can I use them to reserve parks like new tickets? Will it mess things up if only part of my party has them? Or should I take the physical cards in on a future trip and have the $$ value applied to a hotel stay? Any tips on best ways to use them are very welcome

Those are not "tickets" they are vouchers, and they not non-expiring. I had to call WDW to get ours (2 adults vouchers) reactivated (ours had expired in Sept 2021) and pay around $330 CDN since they were originally in the Canadian rates.

You need to visit a Guest Services booth to get them switch into proper tickets, and you need to bring your passports since they were purchased using the Canadian rate.

You can link them to your MDE now and once you pay to have them reactivated, you can do your park reservations.

So we still have these cards as well...But check them,,,ours have an expiry of 2030 with them. Some as above did expire in 21.
Now we have not redeemed them yet, so cant say how we can use them with the new reservation system. Best to call and ask. Too many variables,,,hope they are the ones that expire later,,,they should say in tiny print on the back.

 

[marchingstar]

So we still have these cards as well...But check them,,,ours have an expiry of 2030 with them. Some as above did expire in 21.
Now we have not redeemed them yet, so cant say how we can use them with the new reservation system. Best to call and ask. Too many variables,,,hope they are the ones that expire later,,,they should say in tiny print on the back.

My mistake about the expirations! I sort of vaguely remember these details now, but ordering them so long ago, it all feels a bit hazy. I don’t see an expiration on my cards so I have a bunch of questions—I think I will call and find out what can be done with the vouchers, as everyone is suggesting.