Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[cari12]

Did the 50AM Christie offer appear in the receipt? I did the Christie offer and the 30AM Pepsi offer and neither appeared on my receipt.

Yes it showed right on the receipt.

 

[youngdeb12]

Just had another great interaction with one of my favourite customer service agents, Michael! I had an Epiphany over our park tickets for January. Our plan was to wait for the 7 day tickets to pop back up on the site, get one and then when we arrive upgrade it to a 10 day hopper to match the one we're getting with our Air Transat credit. Lightening bolt moment hit the Duck, why not use Personal Shopper to get the actual ticket we want in the first place!?!?!?! Checked online chat and it's closed on Sunday but not to be thwarted I tried FB messenger. Michael responded and asked if he could call me to discuss what I want. Call took maybe 10 minutes (mainly because I asked if we'd chatted before and that took us down a rabbit hole!) the request has been submitted and we should hear by next week at the latest. We figured it makes more sense to get as much as we can before we leave home and this is a great use of our miles!

Let me know how this goes! I think this is how we are going to have to go for our trip in January as well. As much as I am hoping for Canadian Resident pricing again, I'm not sure that we will be able to wait that long before we have to make our FP selections!

 

[Donald - my hero]

If you have not already paid the full amount on your Amex I would advise that you check into this a little further. That was not an option that I was offered when I used the vouchers and I did ask about maximizing my AM earnings. We actually discussed the number of miles I could earn if the vouchers counted towards payment. I have used a VERY knowledgeable travel agent(both travel and AM) when I have made my AM bookings in the past. My concern is that you get stuck paying the amount that you charge to the Amex.

As to the reservation options.....all travel agents have the ability to piece together anything that you want....the problem is that most don't know how or won't put in the work required to find what you want. For example, a place like Flight Centre, all you have to do to get hired there is pass the personality test. They do a little training but it's minimal and mainly consists of using the booking system.

Thought I'd give you an update on this ... the trip is now paid in full! She asked if we wanted her to lock the vouchers up until we paid the balance and I sat up straight, looked her in the eye "No, I don't. Took me a long time to collect these, I'll hold onto them unless YOU want to pay me if they get lost in the shuffle" Hubby asked us how much was still owing, she told us, I pulled up the calculator on my phone, took off the value of the vouchers and plunked down my AMEX card. What followed was the longest 15 minutes EVER as i watched her painfully scan each bar code, hoping that nothing went wrong.

She had asked if we want to add the dining plan and was confused when I said no we didn't want to pony up yet another $3,000-ish to eat. She had no idea how i came up with that figure so i told her $79/pp * 14 days PLUS exchange and she still thought that is a good deal. Uhm, nope, not when you eat like we do! Last trip was 3 weeks and we spent, maybe $1,500 -- we share meals, I order from the kids menu at CS and we'll get some groceries. We did have a bit of an argument over the credit from AT and using that for buying one of the tickets but i just stopped talking. I have it in writing that we can do this and she'll either honour it or see how snarly i can get

Now I just need to start planning our meals, days in the park, and how to get some gift cards! Thanks again for having my back!

 

[mort1331]

FYI the Foodland Meal Deal is on again for those going to any of the Provincial Parks, ie Wasaga Beach or others. This gets you your day pass for parking that we would have had anyway, and our lunch. Now last few years its been a chicken. This year Dagwood Sandwich, so we will be giving it a try. And dont forget you still get your couple of AMs on top of this.
Have a great summer all.

The Summer Meal Deal makes soaking up summer a walk in the park (literally!). For $19.99, this family friendly meal includes:

• 1 x prepared-in-store Whole Dagwood Sandwich (1.2 kg)
• 1 x Compliments Salad (425-454 g)
• 1 x baked-in-store 12 pack of cookies 450 g)
• Coca-Cola beverages (4 x 310 mL)
• a day pass to Ontario Parks

 

[ottawamom]

Here's hoping for Blue Friday too!

 

[dancin Disney style]

Thought I'd give you an update on this ... the trip is now paid in full! She asked if we wanted her to lock the vouchers up until we paid the balance and I sat up straight, looked her in the eye "No, I don't. Took me a long time to collect these, I'll hold onto them unless YOU want to pay me if they get lost in the shuffle" Hubby asked us how much was still owing, she told us, I pulled up the calculator on my phone, took off the value of the vouchers and plunked down my AMEX card. What followed was the longest 15 minutes EVER as i watched her painfully scan each bar code, hoping that nothing went wrong.

She had asked if we want to add the dining plan and was confused when I said no we didn't want to pony up yet another $3,000-ish to eat. She had no idea how i came up with that figure so i told her $79/pp * 14 days PLUS exchange and she still thought that is a good deal. Uhm, nope, not when you eat like we do! Last trip was 3 weeks and we spent, maybe $1,500 -- we share meals, I order from the kids menu at CS and we'll get some groceries. We did have a bit of an argument over the credit from AT and using that for buying one of the tickets but i just stopped talking. I have it in writing that we can do this and she'll either honour it or see how snarly i can get

Now I just need to start planning our meals, days in the park, and how to get some gift cards! Thanks again for having my back!

So now it's officially a done deal????

Sounds to me like this agent is inexperienced on a lot of fronts. The lady that I've used when we could go through Marlin for AM never once mentioned anything about the vouchers....she deducted the voucher amount from my total, and charged my Amex the balance. No fuss, no muss. Never did know what she was going to do with the vouchers. Interesting tidbit....when I used vouchers I got the AM earned posted to my account the very next day but other times without vouchers I always had to submit a missing miles request.

I'm with you on the food front. Paying OOP for the DDP is a complete waste for us. We usually bring breakfast (cereal) from home or get groceries down there. If we get groceries it's going to cover a couple of lunches (usually for days at the pool), snacks and beverages. Over our last 5 trips I've kept careful tabs on our spending and we average $65 USD per day for two people. That includes a few TS meals. I find that after a couple of days we eat less and less. Not that I love cooking at home but eating out constantly gets old really fast. LOL...last summer on our final day our lunch consisted of whatever was left in our room. I recall apples, yogurt, a single can of beer and some chips. Then for dinner we split a kids meal at the food court.

I ADORE the planning part

 

[isabellea]

FYI the Foodland Meal Deal is on again for those going to any of the Provincial Parks, ie Wasaga Beach or others. This gets you your day pass for parking that we would have had anyway, and our lunch. Now last few years its been a chicken. This year Dagwood Sandwich, so we will be giving it a try. And dont forget you still get your couple of AMs on top of this.
Have a great summer all.

The Summer Meal Deal makes soaking up summer a walk in the park (literally!). For $19.99, this family friendly meal includes:

• 1 x prepared-in-store Whole Dagwood Sandwich (1.2 kg)
• 1 x Compliments Salad (425-454 g)
• 1 x baked-in-store 12 pack of cookies 450 g)
• Coca-Cola beverages (4 x 310 mL)
• a day pass to Ontario Parks

Sounds like a good deal. I love the Dagwood original sauce!! One of my favourite sandwich place, much better than Subway imo.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Ok I take it back, the AM website HAS been updated ! I had been using the BETA site so much i just didn't notice the other changes that took place. Take time to poke around and see if you notice anything different, I'm liking what i see. The first thing that I noticed was they have replaced the store name with the store NUMBER when you look at your transactions. This is great for the brick and mortar stores but not so good for the online shops .. sorry but i would have trouble teasing out that all of these entries relate to Staples if i only had the numbers to refer to!

 

[Donald - my hero]

So now it's officially a done deal????
Sounds to me like this agent is inexperienced on a lot of fronts. The lady that I've used when we could go through Marlin for AM never once mentioned anything about the vouchers....she deducted the voucher amount from my total, and charged my Amex the balance. No fuss, no muss. Never did know what she was going to do with the vouchers. Interesting tidbit....when I used vouchers I got the AM earned posted to my account the very next day but other times without vouchers I always had to submit a missing miles request.
I'm with you on the food front. Paying OOP for the DDP is a complete waste for us. We usually bring breakfast (cereal) from home or get groceries down there. If we get groceries it's going to cover a couple of lunches (usually for days at the pool), snacks and beverages. Over our last 5 trips I've kept careful tabs on our spending and we average $65 USD per day for two people. That includes a few TS meals. I find that after a couple of days we eat less and less. Not that I love cooking at home but eating out constantly gets old really fast. LOL...last summer on our final day our lunch consisted of whatever was left in our room. I recall apples, yogurt, a single can of beer and some chips. Then for dinner we split a kids meal at the food court.
I ADORE the planning part

YES, yes YES! I can now officially say (and i might have said it a few too many times already) WE'RE GOING TO DISNEY WORLD! This is the first time I have the APP and it's bizarrely satisfying to open it repeatedly and watch the little suitcase turn into a bed Everything looks perfect too, she managed to get everything straight and submitted properly but you KNOW I'll be calling to confirm my requests

She confirmed on Saturday that we're her Disney virgins! "You've made me want to go now. There's so much to do there, I want to show you everything you have" After her oh i don't know, 6th mistake, I stopped her, told her I've been going since 1971, she stared at her papers before asking how long it's been open and then looked crestfallen when i said 1971. "Guess I don't need to tell you anything then do I?" At least we don't earn AM for booking thru them anymore because i could see that creating more headaches!

BTW our vouchers covered more than half of the trip! I'm VERY happy with that fact and glad that we've finally got something to look forward to.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Rexall email, Wednesday only, 100 airmiles when you spend $50, hopefully an app offer to come:

http://images.rexall.ca/newsletter/...7032019-PP14-AirMilesV1-Rexall&utm_content=TB

 

[Donald - my hero]

Rexall email, Wednesday only, 100 airmiles when you spend $50, hopefully an app offer to come:

http://images.rexall.ca/newsletter/...7032019-PP14-AirMilesV1-Rexall&utm_content=TB

In case anyone wonders this is the same coupon I shared this morning, no double dipping yet

 

[Days In the Sun]

In case anyone wonders this is the same coupon I shared this morning, no double dipping yet

Sorry I'm just browsing through quickly, on holidays and have company for another week and a half so quite behind and missed your post.

I'll mention one other BMO Shell cross promo, 3 cents off a litre for 10 weeks (based on activation date. Last date to sign up is Sept 3). On airmiles website.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Has anyone received airmiles from AMRP marketing?

I got 135 miles today and it says it's an AMRP marketing bonus. No clue what this would be for.

Did you get any of the Fast Track offers? That is how mine posted today once I open it up fully on the website.

I brought this over here in case more people are wondering the same thing!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Sorry I'm just browsing through quickly, on holidays and have company for another week and a half so quite behind and missed your post.

I'll mention one other BMO Shell cross promo, 3 cents off a litre for 10 weeks (based on activation date. Last date to sign up is Sept 3). On airmiles website.

Oh don't be too Canadian! I was just keeping others from getting excited (like i *might* have been ) I have a list for Rexall and was hoping!!

 

[Days In the Sun]

Oh don't be too Canadian! I was just keeping others from getting excited (like i *might* have been ) I have a list for Rexall and was hoping!!

There is a Rexall Wednesday coupon on airmiles.ca now under offers, different number, perhaps someone can post, I'm not at home and struggling posting it without a computer.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

Question about the Rexall coupon for tomorrow...the coupons specifically say " Cannot be combined with any other Air Miles store wide coupon or load + go offer"...does that mean our days of double dipping are over???

 

[Donald - my hero]

Question about the Rexall coupon for tomorrow...the coupons specifically say " Cannot be combined with any other Air Miles store wide coupon or load + go offer"...does that mean our days of double dipping are over???

That wording has been on the coupons for over 2 years now, just keep handing them over and let the POS figure it out! It only means that if it doesn't scan or work you probably can't fight it but as of last week it was still working.

I'm trying REALLY hard to find anything other than a coupon code of 417000051978

@Days In the Sun I don't see a coupon on the website at all .. a little more detail please as to where you're seeing it

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

I found a coupon this morning on the AM site - the code is 417000051947...
https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/Issua...-_-Sponsor+Offers//Segmented-_-Offer7914615/0

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

That wording has been on the coupons for over 2 years now, just keep handing them over and let the POS figure it out! It only means that if it doesn't scan or work you probably can't fight it but as of last week it was still working.

I'm trying REALLY hard to find anything other than a coupon code of 417000051978

@Days In the Sun I don't see a coupon on the website at all .. a little more detail please as to where you're seeing it

Thanks....I'll try it at my Rexall...but they have been sticklers lately...

 

[Donald - my hero]

I found a coupon this morning on the AM site - the code is 417000051947...
https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/Issua...-_-Sponsor+Offers//Segmented-_-Offer7914615/0

URGH ... I'm still not able to get a coupon out of that!!! It just takes me to this and there's nothing to open or have scanned