Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[bababear_50]

I find this a tad confusing myself (this is nothing new though ) -- when you look at the fine print for the individual offers it has a maximum per transaction listed but there isn't one with the "threshold spend" ... so is it a total of 3 AM or 3 AM for every $5.00 They all say they can be combined with each other .. i think someone needs to take one for the team and buy the following items:

• 1 magnum frozen treat (too dang yummy!) $3.99 = 10 AM
• 2 Hershey tube (cause YUMMY) - not sure of price but usually around $2 = 10 AM
• 2 Perrier (to counteract all the sugar ) $3.00 = 10 AM

This should come in around $10 and give you 30 AM for the products and either 3 or 6 AM for the threshold spend!

Come on Captain Donald
Take one for our team
Lol
Hugs Mel

 

[Donald - my hero]

Come on Captain Donald
Take one for our team
Lol
Hugs Mel

Well .... hubby doesn't like Shell for gas (and the one here is stupid hard to get to) BUT when i'm in Toronto on Thursday there is one that's *kinda* within walking distance of my route from the hospital to Union station It's also a pretty big one so they should have all of the things i would like to buy ... after the 20 minute walk from the hospital I'll be ready for the ice cream .. and then i can eat the candy & drink the perrier on the GO train on my way to meet hubby. OOOH I can also hit up any number of Rexalls on my walk! Challenge accepted!!

 

[dancin Disney style]

Hey Toronto Airmilers - Any recommendations on a Toronto Pearson hotel I can book with AM? Something with an airport shuttle with ability to walk to restaurants or mall? Will have a layover with my daughter as she embarks on her trip to Sri Lanka. I do have a place we can stay in downtown Toronto for free, so not sure if I should book Porter or WJ with my AM, but not sure it's worth the hassle to take the express train to and from Pearson. Thanks!

If you want to stay at the airport there is very little that you can walk to. The hotel strip is literally hotels and gas stations and offices....it's an industrial area. There are a few random places like Timmie's or McD's. Some of the larger hotels have restaurants. There is no mall or shopping. You would have to take a taxi to get to a mall and the closest is probably Sherway Gardens.

The UP Express on the other hand is very cheap, quick and easy to use. You didn't say how much time you have to spend in the city but if it's a full day or more I would stay downtown.

As to Porter or WJ.....if you are staying downtown use Porter.

 

[star72232]

Good grief, just got this offer as well but we have to fill up THREE times ... remember the new car?? A FIT that came with a full tank ... we *might* fill up a total of 3 times in a normal month and it only holds 40 L this is NOT happening for us

I got it, but I need to fill up 5 times! I've received it a couple of times now and needed 4 fill ups, since I used it, I guess they upped it. This time of year we often go to my parents' house, and that's an almost 3 hour drive, so we will manage (even if I need to do a few small fills).

 

[kerreyn]

Good grief, just got this offer as well but we have to fill up THREE times ... remember the new car?? A FIT that came with a full tank ... we *might* fill up a total of 3 times in a normal month and it only holds 40 L this is NOT happening for us

I drive a VW Touareg (100L tank) - I'll be able to fill it up twice. I believe I have a couple of .04/lt off coupons to use at Shell too, hopefully they'll stack.

 

[kerreyn]

I got it, but I need to fill up 5 times! I've received it a couple of times now and needed 4 fill ups, since I used it, I guess they upped it. This time of year we often go to my parents' house, and that's an almost 3 hour drive, so we will manage (even if I need to do a few small fills).

I usually only go to Shell if there's a good deal for Air Miles. I find Safeway cheaper out here (YYC), and I usually get some good cents off per litre coupons when I get groceries at Safeway to use.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Just a heads up on this, I interpreted this as a scaled back version of the 5 AMs for every $5 spent to now be 3AMs per $5 when I first saw it.

On second reading (and looking at the Shell site) I think this is just 3 AMs per transaction over $5. So if you buy a $50 gift card you would only get 3 AMs, not 30 AMs. (Hope I’m wrong)

It's your second thought unfortunately, I'll edit the above post so it's clear.
Your $50 gift card would be 5 base miles plus 3 bonus miles = 8 am.
A $25 gift card would be 2 base miles plus 3 bonus miles = 5 am

 

[Pumpkin1172]

We received the shell offer as well this month...but we have to fill up 4 times The last 2 months I have had the offer of three fills....I guess they wanted to make it a little harder for us. I won't be able to make this one...even with both my car and the kiddos car...his car is great on gas...and I only fiill up 2x a month. Oh well...maybe they will offer me 3 next month

 

[ottawamom]

We got the 4 fill-ups for 100AM. I've enlisted the help of my two DS. One is on business in Montreal (driving) so he should be good for two fill-ups. DH is working from home more and more so we only fill our own vehicles every couple of weeks.

The way I explained it to DS was he could get one AM with a fill up at Shell (on his card) or he could help us and I would shop at Metro using his card and more than make up for his missing AM. Does your daughter have a car Donald? Maybe she could help.

 

[hdrolfe]

I didn't get the Shell offer! Must be because I could actually do it this month Oh well. I have been going to Petro and using my RBC card to get money off and earn points. Not sure how to use the points but I'll figure that out later I guess.

 

[damo]

We got 2 fill ups for 100 AM. We haven't used Shell much lately, so I imagine that is why.

 

[osully]

Dang! I really want these easy Shell offers. My husband drives a lot so we usually fill up once a week at least. Our tank is around 35L though.

 

[osully]

Also - I'm nervous. I've been stalking the AM hotels for a November 2019 trip. I swear I was able to find the Doubletree Disney Springs in February 9 nights but on the weekend it disappeared from the hotel options. I now can't find rates for it later than December 2018.

Has this happened to anyone?

I've been using February 2018 rates to estimate and these are my options. February and November, oddly, are low crowd levels.

• Doubletree Disney Springs - just under 17K AM, no fees, and we won't be parking. It's one of the Disney Springs Official Hotels.
• Delta Lake Buena Vista - this is the nicest one but cheapest on points for the features I want. Not Disney Springs Official but very close to Disney Springs. Free shuttle to the parks etc. Around 12K for 9 nights, no fees.
• Best Western Lake Buena Vista - just under 13K AM, no fees, and is a Disney Springs Official Hotel too. Not as nice of a hotel but super close to DS too.

 

[Silvermist999]

Didn't get the Shell gas offer. We spend way too much at Shell already, too easy for us with two vehicles that use V Power gasoline. Half a tank today cost me $50, sadly.

 

[ebharris]

Hey Toronto Airmilers - Any recommendations on a Toronto Pearson hotel I can book with AM? Something with an airport shuttle with ability to walk to restaurants or mall? Will have a layover with my daughter as she embarks on her trip to Sri Lanka. I do have a place we can stay in downtown Toronto for free, so not sure if I should book Porter or WJ with my AM, but not sure it's worth the hassle to take the express train to and from Pearson. Thanks!

I am not from Toronto, but we were there in November for a wedding and can't tell you how EASY the UP train was to use. Truly. Very easy, very efficient. We took it downtown from the airport, used Uber or walked to get around downtown, and then when we were ready to go back to the airport we walked to Union Station and took the UP to the airport. Hope that helps!

 

[bababear_50]

Sobeys On
https://flyers.smartcanucks.ca/canada/sobeys-on-flyer-june-7-to-13/all

Foodland Ontario
https://flyers.smartcanucks.ca/canada/foodland-on-flyer-june-7-to-13/all
Maple Leaf Meats Schneiders Meats
Hamburgers/ Hot dogs
Prime Strips and Nuggets
buy 2 get 50 airmiles

Villagio Bread
buy 3 get 30 airmiles

Tropicana Juice
Buy 3 get 25 airmiles

Sun chips/rolled Gold etc
buy 4 get 20 airmiles


Metro
https://flyers.smartcanucks.ca/canada/metro-on-flyer-june-7-to-13/all
Ice Cream and Pizza
buy 2 get 30 bonus airmiles

Hugs Mel

 

[ottawamom]

Foodland here I come. I will stop in at Sobeys and Metro for a few small things as well. Not the road trip of years gone by but a good one for what we've experienced here in Ontario recently. Combining this with Rexall it should be a decent week hunting.

 

[motherof5]

Blue Friday shop is done - spent $181, earned 609 air miles. Not bad, not the best, but I’ll take it. That will give me enough for another 6 travel vouchers, but I’ll wait til I have enough for 10 before ordering another round.

How do you do this?

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Sobeys Atlantic is a bust for the most part. Hopefully Lawton's will have a good week and My Offers are better than they have been. Might be another Super Store week!

 

[ottawamom]

Are Maple Leaf and Schneiders the same company when it comes to loaded offers. I have a loaded offer for Schneiders Country Naturals burgers which in the Foodland flyer are referred to as Maple Leaf Country Naturals. The items pictured are the same (one is Angus burger the other is regular but I'm not worried about that aspect). If they treat them the same then I can get a few extra AM purchasing them.