Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Aladora]

Here is a link to the new Rexall spend $30, get 50AM coupon for Jan 30 - Feb 2.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Just curious how many air miles it costs for a Disney cruise? They are so expensive for how short they are.

 

[brandyleeann]

Just curious how many air miles it costs for a Disney cruise? They are so expensive for how short they are.

I was wondering that myself and then did some quick calculations based on the idea that you need 950 miles for every $100 and came to a very staggering number! We always do a 7 day cruise and there are four of us, so $7000 CAD would be quite a lot of miles. I am hoping I am wrong and would love to know!!!

 

[tinkerone]

So this new devaluing of airmiles for the travel seriously SUCKS!!! As that is how I've been able to afford my last two Disney cruises. I must be part of that "1.6%" that actually used my miles that way. Sigh. Hubby is now rethinking our March break 2018 cruise that we hadn't booked yet.

But if we HAD booked, reserved and paid the reservation cash, meaning that the airmiles could be used at the PIF date of the cruise for how many airmiles I had had - would they have increased the number of miles required? Or would I have been "locked in" with the previous number of miles required?

Just curious how many air miles it costs for a Disney cruise? They are so expensive for how short they are.

I was wondering that myself and then did some quick calculations based on the idea that you need 950 miles for every $100 and came to a very staggering number! We always do a 7 day cruise and there are four of us, so $7000 CAD would be quite a lot of miles. I am hoping I am wrong and would love to know!!!

I wondered as well. I didn't know you could do that with Airmiles.

 

[flyingjay]

I thought I'd report on wait times for receiving Air Miles DLR tickets. Being that it says on the website to expect three weeks and I always wondered how fast they actually shipped.

I ordered two adult 5-day hoppers and two child 5-day hoppers for DLR on Thursday evening. I got my shipping confirmation number today at around noon. So it took Air Miles approx. 2 business days to send the tickets to UPS for shipping. They ordered UPS expedited so it should take approx. 2 more business days for the tickets to be received. In total, I expect to receive the tickets less than a week from when I ordered them. Pretty impressive!

 

[bababear_50]

OK... you know you're AM obsessed when you're sitting in Emergency with your son who needs a cast for his wrist he just fractured, and you're thinking .... FFS so much for my Blue Friday bonus AM shopping at Safeway tonight.

Ah you are a good mom hon,lol
Hope he heals well.
Hugs Mel

 

[Donald - my hero]

HEY gang, have some awesome news to report back with regarding the Universal Tickets ... successfully downgraded them today WOOT!! After we left the Guest service counter with the gift card tucked safely in with my Disney Annual Pass discount card we danced away giggling and i stopped the hubby "OMG i can't wait to report back in!!" Here's a link to the full details of how to make off like a bandit!
Downgrade 4 adult 2 day park-to-park tickets and earn $424 in gift cards!!

 

[tinkerone]

HEY gang, have some awesome news to report back with regarding the Universal Tickets ... successfully downgraded them today WOOT!! After we left the Guest service counter with the gift card tucked safely in with my Disney Annual Pass discount card we danced away giggling and i stopped the hubby "OMG i can't wait to report back in!!" Here's a link to the full details of how to make off like a bandit!
Downgrade 4 adult 2 day park-to-park tickets and earn $424 in gift cards!!

I wonder, could you trade them in and not use any? That would be pretty amazing.
We are AP holders and taking my son and granddaughter in the summer. They will each need three day p-to-p which we can get with AP discount. Trying to see how I can benefit from this.

 

[hdrolfe]

I was wondering that myself and then did some quick calculations based on the idea that you need 950 miles for every $100 and came to a very staggering number! We always do a 7 day cruise and there are four of us, so $7000 CAD would be quite a lot of miles. I am hoping I am wrong and would love to know!!!

There is a calculator on the Airmiles webpage where you can put in how many AM you have and it will tell you their value. You can use all AM or a combination of both. I have never booked this way but was interested so was checking it out. 1000AM is $110. I am not sure if that is the same or different from what it was before. $7000 CAD is 63,630AM... not something I will ever get to

To get to the calculator - because I can't figure out how to link to it? - You go to Get Rewarded - Travel - Cruises - Haven't made an appointment and scroll down to the middle of the page.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

There is a calculator on the Airmiles webpage where you can put in how many AM you have and it will tell you their value. You can use all AM or a combination of both. I have never booked this way but was interested so was checking it out. 1000AM is $110. I am not sure if that is the same or different from what it was before. $7000 CAD is 63,630AM... not something I will ever get to

Whoa! That is a lot of flights to cruise ports! AND, lots of gift certificates for Maritime Travel or Tripcentral.ca!

 

[Spotthecat]

I have previously posted in this very thread about AM and Disney cruises...but just to recap, a 4 day Disney Dream cruise to the Bahamas this last december for my family of 5 (2A, 3K 3yo, 6yo, 9yo) cost me roughly 27,000 airmiles. I think they were worth like a random 7.747 airmiles per $ or something. I paid for the taxes CASH, but the rest (even the deposit) I paid with airmiles. If you don't have enough airmiles, they will also make you pay the deposit in cash/credit, as well as the taxes and any other amount you couldn't cover with the airmiles. For my previous cruise it was a 7 day - I reserved ahead, paid the deposit in cash, and when the pay in full date for the cruise arrived, I used as many airmiles as I could to reduce the cost of the cruise. This time, I waited until I had enough airmiles to pay the whole thing (but really freaked out as rooms were disappearing). I had enquired about the travel agency gift certificates, and you get a much better deal (or you used to) booking the trip through airmiles than the travel gift certificates - they only allow 4 per person per trip, so at max I could have saved myself 2000$. I saved much more than that on my last 2 cruises. But if the points calculator is correct, now the cost for airmiles is 9.078 airmiles per $ of travel, much higher than the 7.747 (or whatever, I know it had a lot of sevens) I had before.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

I have previously posted in this very thread about AM and Disney cruises...but just to recap, a 4 day Disney Dream cruise to the Bahamas this last december for my family of 5 (2A, 3K 3yo, 6yo, 9yo) cost me roughly 27,000 airmiles. I think they were worth like a random 7.747 airmiles per $ or something. I paid for the taxes CASH, but the rest (even the deposit) I paid with airmiles. If you don't have enough airmiles, they will also make you pay the deposit in cash/credit, as well as the taxes and any other amount you couldn't cover with the airmiles. For my previous cruise it was a 7 day - I reserved ahead, paid the deposit in cash, and when the pay in full date for the cruise arrived, I used as many airmiles as I could to reduce the cost of the cruise. This time, I waited until I had enough airmiles to pay the whole thing (but really freaked out as rooms were disappearing). I had enquired about the travel agency gift certificates, and you get a much better deal (or you used to) booking the trip through airmiles than the travel gift certificates - they only allow 4 per person per trip, so at max I could have saved myself 2000$. I saved much more than that on my last 2 cruises. But if the points calculator is correct, now the cost for airmiles is 9.078 airmiles per $ of travel, much higher than the 7.747 (or whatever, I know it had a lot of sevens) I had before.

Thanks for that information. Right now I'm saving for tickets into DW and Universal Studios for our family. But I am also trying to save for a special 25 anniversary trip. We never got a honey moon and have never travelled anything more than a road trip to another province together. So I would love to save miles for a trip for the two of us. My goal is to save for the family trip for in 2018 sometime...and hopefully do our 25 anniversary trip in 2019. It's going to take watching and collecting on my part...but that's part of the fun of planning as well

 

[tinkerone]

I have previously posted in this very thread about AM and Disney cruises...but just to recap, a 4 day Disney Dream cruise to the Bahamas this last december for my family of 5 (2A, 3K 3yo, 6yo, 9yo) cost me roughly 27,000 airmiles. I think they were worth like a random 7.747 airmiles per $ or something. I paid for the taxes CASH, but the rest (even the deposit) I paid with airmiles. If you don't have enough airmiles, they will also make you pay the deposit in cash/credit, as well as the taxes and any other amount you couldn't cover with the airmiles. For my previous cruise it was a 7 day - I reserved ahead, paid the deposit in cash, and when the pay in full date for the cruise arrived, I used as many airmiles as I could to reduce the cost of the cruise. This time, I waited until I had enough airmiles to pay the whole thing (but really freaked out as rooms were disappearing). I had enquired about the travel agency gift certificates, and you get a much better deal (or you used to) booking the trip through airmiles than the travel gift certificates - they only allow 4 per person per trip, so at max I could have saved myself 2000$. I saved much more than that on my last 2 cruises. But if the points calculator is correct, now the cost for airmiles is 9.078 airmiles per $ of travel, much higher than the 7.747 (or whatever, I know it had a lot of sevens) I had before.

That's interesting, thank you for posting. Since DCL is priced in US $$ and airmiles are CND $$ I wonder how they figure out what you need. That certainly is a good deal though.
Again, thanks.

 

[alohamom]

HEY gang, have some awesome news to report back with regarding the Universal Tickets ... successfully downgraded them today WOOT!! After we left the Guest service counter with the gift card tucked safely in with my Disney Annual Pass discount card we danced away giggling and i stopped the hubby "OMG i can't wait to report back in!!" Here's a link to the full details of how to make off like a bandit!
Downgrade 4 adult 2 day park-to-park tickets and earn $424 in gift cards!!

THAT IS AMAZING! Thanks so much for the link and posting your success. So here I am wondering if maybe I can use this idea to make ONE 2 day AM pass translate into TWO one day pass for two people...or at least save me some money on the second pass.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Are the WDW / Universal Studios resorts affiliated with any hotel chains that do air miles?

 

[Donald - my hero]

THAT IS AMAZING! Thanks so much for the link and posting your success. So here I am wondering if maybe I can use this idea to make ONE 2 day AM pass translate into TWO 2 day pass for two people...or at least save me some money on the second pass.

Now that is NOT a trick i'd want to risk trying! Even with the e-mail telling me we should be able to downgrade and end up with gift cards we STILL redeemed enough AM to get tickets for all 4 of us to get in because we didn't want to risk needing to pay full-pop at gate price. I would still suggest getting the number you need and then have *free* spending cash

 

[ottawamom]

Metro is a bit of a bust for me this week. They do have AM on products but they are all products I have quite a supply of already. Maybe Sobey's will have something good this week.

 

[hdrolfe]

Sadly, though my flyers came, the Sobeys flyer is missing!! Rexall has spend $50 get 100AM on the weekend.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Just got the Sobeys Atlantic flyer...Spend $100, get 50 miles. Meh, but I'll take it. Plus, another 30-50 from My Offers.

 

[bababear_50]

Metro link
http://flyers.smartcanucks.ca/canada/metro-on-flyer-february-2-to-8/all
Nothing I need this week,I am waiting for Sobeys and hoping for a few good deals.
Hugs Mel