Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[jenilynn]

Hello quick question!! hopefully this has not been covered before. I follow along with this thread quite frequently.

My boyfriend and I signed up for the AMEX Platinum credit card this weekend; it's under his name and I am the secondary, the airmiles card is under my name. Will this be a problem?

 

[ottawamom]

Hello quick question!! hopefully this has not been covered before. I follow along with this thread quite frequently.

My boyfriend and I signed up for the AMEX Platinum credit card this weekend; it's under his name and I am the secondary, the airmiles card is under my name. Will this be a problem?

Others have reported having no issue with this. Some couples have two separate Amex cards (ie not a secondary card on someones account) each of which are tied to one AM account. I have two different CC both of which post AM to my AM account.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Hello quick question!! hopefully this has not been covered before. I follow along with this thread quite frequently.

My boyfriend and I signed up for the AMEX Platinum credit card this weekend; it's under his name and I am the secondary, the airmiles card is under my name. Will this be a problem?

HI! Super glad you've been getting some great tips and joined our Airmiles hunt. Short answer to your question NOPE, not a problem at all, just add the AM account number to the AMEX card and you'll be good to go!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Just back from working the system at Rexall --- an hour shopping trip with the Kindle working hard and i spent just over $180.00 and snagged 333 Airmiles. YEAH ME

 

[jenilynn]

Others have reported having no issue with this. Some couples have two separate Amex cards (ie not a secondary card on someones account) each of which are tied to one AM account. I have two different CC both of which post AM to my AM account.

HI! Super glad you've been getting some great tips and joined our Airmiles hunt. Short answer to your question NOPE, not a problem at all, just add the AM account number to the AMEX card and you'll be good to go!

Thank you both for your help!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Heads up for anyone else who is needing (or wanting, however you spin it ) to rent a car thru Airmiles for an extended period of time .. do some math and careful planning! Our trip has exploded into almost 3 weeks now and we'll be needing a car (yes NEEDING, hubby has a conference to attend and we really must visit Harry). I plugged in various combinations of dates and locations and came up with this work around:
A Friday - Tuesday, drop off the car and pick up another keeping it till the next Tuesday ..total Airmiles 3800
Pick the car up Friday and keep it for the entire time .. total Airmiles 4900 WOW
Even the taxes work out in our favour this way ...$85.08 compared to $100.70

Adding a day on the end added a massive 1300 Airmiles!! Luckily we've managed to snag our last night at the same resort so can get rid of the car sooner <you know who you are, THANKS>

Moral of the story? Hubby is right, Excel really IS my friend I'll be needing to update my ticker to reflect these bizarre numbers AND add in the Sheraton Gateway!

 

[bababear_50]

Here is the link for the spend $25 get $5 off coupon:
http://www.rexall.ca/assets/downloads/RexallSurvey2016.pdf
Good until 10 October

Thank-you
I was able to use this today.
Hugs Mel

 

[hdrolfe]

I wish my flyers would get here... I want to plan my next shopping trips!
Managed to get 6 jars of sauce, and 9 cans of soups, plus some other stuff we needed and ended up with 188 AM. Not as great as some of you but I had a hard time fitting the jars and cans on my shelves as it was lol. They actually had the cheddar soup I like to use in casseroles (and for my Christmas morning hashbrown/sausage crock pot recipe) so I got a few of those.

 

[bababear_50]

I wish my flyers would get here... I want to plan my next shopping trips!
Managed to get 6 jars of sauce, and 9 cans of soups, plus some other stuff we needed and ended up with 188 AM. Not as great as some of you but I had a hard time fitting the jars and cans on my shelves as it was lol. They actually had the cheddar soup I like to use in casseroles (and for my Christmas morning hashbrown/sausage crock pot recipe) so I got a few of those.

Lol
I was just going to say
Paging Hdrolfe,,,,,I've just gone back to work and my feet are so swollen I've been sitting in the garden running the cold water on them for the past hour. I wobbled indoors to see if you had posted anything yet,,,,oh well thanks for trying I'm wobbling off to the kitchen to make a tea and put my feet up.
Hugs Mel

 

[Amycella78]

For those who have redeemed air miles for disney tickets, what was the process like to link them on mydisneyexperience to select fastpass rides? Did it work smoothly? We are hesitant to redeem air miles for the park tickets if the process is troublesome.

That being said, since we were unable to use our miles to book our package because the air miles travel centre has a two week wait to speak with an agent, I would like to save a little but of money some way this vacation...

 

[mort1331]

For those who have redeemed air miles for disney tickets, what was the process like to link them on mydisneyexperience to select fastpass rides? Did it work smoothly? We are hesitant to redeem air miles for the park tickets if the process is troublesome.

That being said, since we were unable to use our miles to book our package because the air miles travel centre has a two week wait to speak with an agent, I would like to save a little but of money some way this vacation...

I feel that the tickets are one of the best redemption that are going right now, besides the 1AM things for Onyx club. The tickets are real tickets mailed to you, same as if bought by Disney or UT. Linking is the same and just as easy.

 

[mort1331]

Heads up for anyone else who is needing (or wanting, however you spin it ) to rent a car thru Airmiles for an extended period of time .. do some math and careful planning! Our trip has exploded into almost 3 weeks now and we'll be needing a car (yes NEEDING, hubby has a conference to attend and we really must visit Harry). I plugged in various combinations of dates and locations and came up with this work around:
A Friday - Tuesday, drop off the car and pick up another keeping it till the next Tuesday ..total Airmiles 3800
Pick the car up Friday and keep it for the entire time .. total Airmiles 4900 WOW
Even the taxes work out in our favour this way ...$85.08 compared to $100.70

Adding a day on the end added a massive 1300 Airmiles!! Luckily we've managed to snag our last night at the same resort so can get rid of the car sooner <you know who you are, THANKS>

Moral of the story? Hubby is right, Excel really IS my friend I'll be needing to update my ticker to reflect these bizarre numbers AND add in the Sheraton Gateway!

|What if you just do a straight rental, no AM. Look at the cost then, if you don't need a big car I know at that time of year you can get some great deals.

 

[Amycella78]

I feel that the tickets are one of the best redemption that are going right now, besides the 1AM things for Onyx club. The tickets are real tickets mailed to you, same as if bought by Disney or UT. Linking is the same and just as easy.

Thank you! Much appreciated!

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I only need 60 more air miles and then I can order our DD8's 5-day pass! Woohoo! I will have all three WDW passes through Air Miles in less than 6 months, thanks to all the credit card promos/referrals etc. Lord knows, Sobeys doesn't really hook us Maritimers up with any consistently fantastic deals

Now, I'm onto our three 2-day Universal passes, which don't cost as many miles as the WDW. I'm more than half way there for one already

 

[zatharas]

Has anybody every had problems getting the bonus for BMO Airmiles cards if you already have one type of BMO credit card. Specifically I have the base BMO Airmiles card and I am thinking of getting the Sobeys or Shell Airmiles card. The terms and conditions say you cannot already have the card to get the bonus not sure if that means any BMO card or that specific card.

 

[ottawamom]

Just reviewed the Sobey's flyer. Marks $50 GC get 70AM. Compliments cleaning products buy 3 get 25AM. Sausage, grapes, pizza crust deal looks good for 25AM (I will use the parts for other things), limes, avocados and tomatoes 25AM meal another possibility. I use the avocado in chocolate brownies.

 

[DilEmma]

Another really cool Onyx 1 Air Mile offer - Niagara Lakes area - wine tasting and three course dinner with wine pairings:
https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/RewardsProductDetails?productId=prod2585314
AIR MILES ONYX Exclusive Event - Trius Winery Black Glass Dinner - Friday, November 18th

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Has anybody every had problems getting the bonus for BMO Airmiles cards if you already have one type of BMO credit card. Specifically I have the base BMO Airmiles card and I am thinking of getting the Sobeys or Shell Airmiles card. The terms and conditions say you cannot already have the card to get the bonus not sure if that means any BMO card or that specific card.

I have a BMO World card (gold) and I also have the Sobeys MC. No issues getting the Sobeys promo miles. This card is awesome for the first three months. 400-500 promo miles, plus you get 3x base miles, plus you get 2/$20 at Sobeys. We will typically earn 300 miles each of the first three months. I signed up for a card and then signed my DH up after my three months were up, so we've utilized the promos twice

 

[DilEmma]

Heads up for anyone else who is needing (or wanting, however you spin it ) to rent a car thru Airmiles for an extended period of time .. do some math and careful planning! Our trip has exploded into almost 3 weeks now and we'll be needing a car (yes NEEDING, hubby has a conference to attend and we really must visit Harry). I plugged in various combinations of dates and locations and came up with this work around:
A Friday - Tuesday, drop off the car and pick up another keeping it till the next Tuesday ..total Airmiles 3800
Pick the car up Friday and keep it for the entire time .. total Airmiles 4900 WOW
Even the taxes work out in our favour this way ...$85.08 compared to $100.70

Adding a day on the end added a massive 1300 Airmiles!! Luckily we've managed to snag our last night at the same resort so can get rid of the car sooner <you know who you are, THANKS>

Moral of the story? Hubby is right, Excel really IS my friend I'll be needing to update my ticker to reflect these bizarre numbers AND add in the Sheraton Gateway!

I've done four rentals through AirMiles to date. Similar results to yours. I found that a rental for three days and under were different prices (miles and taxes). Four, five, six or seven day rentals priced exactly the same in miles with increasing taxes as the days increased. More than seven day rentals priced with that pattern. That is, an 11 to 14 day rental was exactly twice as many AirMiles as a seven day rental. More days still meant more more taxes.

It certainly made sense to rent in multiples of seven days. You can save the AirMiles booking fees ($11.30 CDN) by lumping a 14, 21 or 28 day rental into one reservation. But any variation from multiples of seven makes more sense to break it out.

I also found a significant price difference in miles and taxes if you rent AWAY from the airports. Downtown Ottawa car rentals were almost half the cost of a rental at YOW airport. Same with MCO airport in Orlando. Though I kept my locale at the airport for convenience.

 

[DilEmma]

Just reviewed the Sobey's flyer. Marks $50 GC get 70AM. Compliments cleaning products buy 3 get 25AM. Sausage, grapes, pizza crust deal looks good for 25AM (I will use the parts for other things), limes, avocados and tomatoes 25AM meal another possibility. I use the avocado in chocolate brownies.

Assuming I can buy just one lime at a time (or two to pair up with the avocado 2/$5.00 if you have to buy two to get that price):
$1.99 grape tomatoes
$0.40 lime
$2.50 avocado bag

Those are great prices to start with. Guacamole!