Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Honeystar120608]

A separate question to my flight question.
The biggest accumulation for am around here really is Sobeys. They also Send me an email with bonus offers. Does this mean I can use in store offers, on top of my loaded offers, on top of the offer my last receipt offered me?
And can I use an offer multiple times in a separate transaction or only once in total?

 

[ottawamom]

If you are paying $200 in taxes and your flights are 3100AM the way I like to look at the AM you are paying the equivalent of $526 for your flight (3100/95*10+200). You likely can do better paying for your flight but if you've saved the AM to use them on a flight then you are ahead everything you don't have to pay out of pocket.

 

[ottawamom]

A separate question to my flight question.
The biggest accumulation for am around here really is Sobeys. They also Send me an email with bonus offers. Does this mean I can use in store offers, on top of my loaded offers, on top of the offer my last receipt offered me?
And can I use an offer multiple times in a separate transaction or only once in total?

I stack coupons and loaded offers with in-store AM offers all the time. I do one transaction. Try it once and see, the worst they can do is say no.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I'm in Nova Scotia and I stack mine every week! No issues.

I've never tried to use the offers multiple times though.

 

[ottawamom]

Loaded offers are a once and done if they are working properly.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

So I am coming to all of you air miles gurus.
First off, I'm in NB...accumulating air miles here (and on a tight budget) is HARD. This being said, I now have over 3200 am and have enough for 1 flight in Sept to orlando return. (3100 am) Now, the question is..what is a good dollar to am ratio. I budget $500 per person return flight. I usually get it more at $400. And I'm seeing that we need to pay taxes and fees. If I remember correctly is about $200. So, I'm basically, in theory, saving $200 per person. For 3100 am. I dunno if that is a good value or not.

Typically when I book flights to Miami with air miles, my taxes/fees are around $140-$160 per ticket. But I also have a BMO World Elite Air Miles Mastercard, so I only need to use 2,325 miles to Florida (rather than the 3,100). Not sure if that has something to do with the difference in cost.

 

[dancin Disney style]

So I am coming to all of you air miles gurus.
First off, I'm in NB...accumulating air miles here (and on a tight budget) is HARD. This being said, I now have over 3200 am and have enough for 1 flight in Sept to orlando return. (3100 am) Now, the question is..what is a good dollar to am ratio. I budget $500 per person return flight. I usually get it more at $400. And I'm seeing that we need to pay taxes and fees. If I remember correctly is about $200. So, I'm basically, in theory, saving $200 per person. For 3100 am. I dunno if that is a good value or not.

IMO, flights are are not a good use of AM. The exception being if you can collect say 1000+ miles per month. For me a better use of AM is redeeming for something that costs you nothing OOP or at least a very small fee ie: under $50

 

[DilEmma]

So I am coming to all of you air miles gurus.
First off, I'm in NB...accumulating air miles here (and on a tight budget) is HARD. This being said, I now have over 3200 am and have enough for 1 flight in Sept to orlando return. (3100 am) Now, the question is..what is a good dollar to am ratio. I budget $500 per person return flight. I usually get it more at $400. And I'm seeing that we need to pay taxes and fees. If I remember correctly is about $200. So, I'm basically, in theory, saving $200 per person. For 3100 am. I dunno if that is a good value or not.

Personally, unless I was rolling in AirMiles I would not make this redemption. Like you said, you'd only be getting $200 value out of a minimum $310 worth of AirMiles.

Do you need a car rental while in Orlando? I've had some pretty sweet redemptions on car rentals. Perhaps you could substitute for some other cost you'd incur and allocate that savings to your airline tickets.

I believe the BMO AirMiles credit card gives 20% reduction in the amount of AirMiles required for flights. It has a 2,000 AirMiles welcome bonus that helps offset the annual fee. Though that 20% discount still doesn't give you a 10 cent per AirMile value which is what you'd get for Cash Miles redemptions.

Although this won't help with the first ticket, it will with the subsequent ones...
You could switch from Dream Miles to Cash Miles. Then use your new accumulated AirMiles to purchase groceries. And then set aside that cash for your airline tickets. It's really not extra work. Just some mental accounting.

 

[DilEmma]

I really need to know what Disney is charging per day to add days to these airmiles tickets. I got one before the Canadian discount, and two after the Canadian discount through airmiles. They are all five day tickets. I want to add two days to them. If I lose the discount, it isn't worth it.

If I won't lose the discount, I'm going to stop waiting for free dining, book at a Deluxe with a discount and pay OOP for dining, and it will cost me the same as free dining or less.

This is all been discussed so much. Does anyone know for certain yet or does it depend on which castmember you get? I literally can not make a decision about where we are staying unless I know.
I've read so many things my head is spinning.

Two trips ago we still had no expiration tickets left. We booked seven nights at the Wilderness Lodge with Free Disney Dining. I only added ONE park ticket per person to that reservation and we still received free dining for our stay. Although I know the biggest expense is in purchasing that first ticket but would it offset the free Dining?

 

[dancin Disney style]

Just to add for reference...
My DD and I went to WDW for March Break last month. I live 30 minutes from YYZ but almost always fly from BUF(BUF is max 90 minutes away). If I had used my AM for the flight it would have cost approx. 6000 miles for our two tickets plus over $400 in fees. I purchased airfare from BUF for only $522 and used my AM for my park tickets. So if I had used my AM for flights and park tickets I would have had to redeem 12,000+ miles and spend $400+ dollars. Instead I redeemed under 6000 AM and spent $522.

You could even look at it like this. That extra $122 that I spent bought me another pair of 5 day park tickets. That's a very good deal!

 

[dancin Disney style]

Two trips ago we still had no expiration tickets left. We booked seven nights at the Wilderness Lodge with Free Disney Dining. I only added ONE park ticket per person to that reservation and we still received free dining for our stay. Although I know the biggest expense is in purchasing that first ticket but would it offset the free Dining?

We have done that same thing twice. I still have some of the tickets that we bought to get FD. I think it's a good deal because the cost per person was still less than what we would have spent on food but both times we did it we stayed 12 and 13 days. It may not be cost effective if you stay for only a week.

I think in the next year or three we will finally put those tickets to use. DH and I want to plan a couple of long weekends away and WDW is actually the easiest place to do that.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I believe the BMO AirMiles credit card gives 20% reduction in the amount of AirMiles required for flights. It has a 2,000 AirMiles welcome bonus that helps offset the annual fee. Though that 20% discount still doesn't give you a 10 cent per AirMile value which is what you'd get for Cash Miles redemptions.

BMO World and World Elite Air Miles Mastercards give you 25% off any flight, except Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico. We have the World Elite and it's awesome.

The best value for flights that we have used them for is flights that are expensive! We like to cruise out of Miami in April, and those flights are around $700-$900 for the times that we would need before and after the cruise. To use 2,325 per flight and only pay $150 for each one is a slammin' deal. I would only use the air miles for flights if you could save at least $400-$500 per ticket, especially if you are paying "full miles" at 3100 (Florida).

It's only $20 more to upgrade from the World card to the World Elite and you get much better perks with it.

 

[jenilynn]

I double dipped this week (well triple actually but the coupon on the receipt is a regional thing). The Rexall near me has a fairly decent grocery section so I usually get milk, eggs, bread, cheese. By the time I stock up on that for my family of 5 I usually find a little something I need (cosmetics, household cleaning etc) to get me up and over the threshold.

Those days of bulk purchasing may soon be in your future.

I for whatever reason have not been receiving the target emails for Rexall. I googled Rexall load and go and found the website to load my bonus offers. I was able to load the spend $50 get 110 AM and print the coupon offer for today that was previously posted and use both. I spent $74.66 with tax and got 233 AM. I also went to Shell and picked up a gift card for a birthday party this weekend and got 7. Pretty successful day! They don't have the Costa coffee yet at my Shell but the lady told me that they are getting the cups in soon.

I will be hitting The Bay this weekend to pick up new pillows and get my bonus AM's

Happy Easter and Happy shopping everyone!

 

[DilEmma]

Here is the link to the Rexall coupon for today.
http://images.rexall.ca/newsletter/2017/Apr12/AM110Coupon_04132017_ON-MB.pdf
It was on Rexall.ca main page.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I for whatever reason have not been receiving the target emails for Rexall. I googled Rexall load and go and found the website to load my bonus offers. I was able to load the spend $50 get 110 AM and print the coupon offer for today that was previously posted and use both. I spent $74.66 with tax and got 233 AM. I also went to Shell and picked up a gift card for a birthday party this weekend and got 7. Pretty successful day! They don't have the Costa coffee yet at my Shell but the lady told me that they are getting the cups in soon.

I will be hitting The Bay this weekend to pick up new pillows and get my bonus AM's

Happy Easter and Happy shopping everyone!

What you might need to do to trigger those e-mails is to go into your AM profile and check that you are opted in for e-mails. IF you are you might need to "un-check" the box & then sign out of your account. Sign back in and check that box off again, sign out again and then back into your account. I've had to do this a couple of times to get my offers from Sobeys/Foodland to appear!

According to others who have access to the Costa crap-ee eerrr coffee, yeah that's it coffee, you're not missing anything!

 

[DilEmma]

Honest, I'm not complaining! But....

I spent $52ish plus tax at Rexall this morning.
I stacked the get $5 off a $25 spend coupon with the $10 off coupon from last week. And I got 157 AirMiles to boot.
It's a mystery to me how Rexall can offer me $31 in discounts on items that are already an excellent price.

I've only been to Rexall six times this year. And I've only earned just over 1,000 AirMiles year to date from all sponsors. It's been a slow year for me so far. But I still love the hunt.

 

[Aladora]

I for whatever reason have not been receiving the target emails for Rexall. I googled Rexall load and go and found the website to load my bonus offers. I was able to load the spend $50 get 110 AM and print the coupon offer for today that was previously posted and use both. I spent $74.66 with tax and got 233 AM. I also went to Shell and picked up a gift card for a birthday party this weekend and got 7. Pretty successful day! They don't have the Costa coffee yet at my Shell but the lady told me that they are getting the cups in soon.

I will be hitting The Bay this weekend to pick up new pillows and get my bonus AM's

Happy Easter and Happy shopping everyone!

I was wondering if I would be able to double dip with the Spend $50, get 100AM and the Spend $50, get 110AM today. Sounds like you were able to which gives me hope that I will as well!

 

[Pumpkin1172]

was disappointed with this weeks AM at Safeway...No bonus miles. I guess I was just hoping that with the holiday weekend, they might put it out there to entice shoppers to come to them if they spend more $$$. I seem to have decent PC points this week. So I guess they will get my business this week. Also hoping to hit up a Rexall when we go to visit the daughter ( no Rexall here in Grande Prairie Ab ) So hoping to get a few miles from them this weekend. I'm sooooo close to another 5 WDW ticket. Only have 715 miles to collect.

 

[DilEmma]

I was wondering if I would be able to double dip with the Spend $50, get 100AM and the Spend $50, get 110AM today. Sounds like you were able to which gives me hope that I will as well!

Oh no! I did not have any load and go offer. Just the spend $50 get 110 AirMiles. Plus the two cash off coupons.

Edit to add:
The spend $50 get 110 Air Miles is only good for today.
http://images.rexall.ca/newsletter/2017/Apr12/AM110Coupon_04132017_ON-MB.pdf
This spend $50 get 100 Air Miles is only good for this weekend http://images.rexall.ca/newsletter/2017/Apr13/RexallPharmaPlus_ON_TB.html

 

[Aladora]

Oh no! I did not have any load and go offer. Just the spend $50 get 110 AirMiles. Plus the two cash off coupons.

Boooooo!

I have not had any L&G offers for such a long time that I forgot about checking the app. I happened to look at it today and the S$50, G100AM was there, expiring today!