Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[kristabelle13]

Well. That Disneyland price hike has me laughing lol

Its funny because Americans are upset and I’m like, “hi, times it by 1.33, now how would you feel?” But all you can do is laugh, really!

This has me re-evaluating my strategy for tix this year — I’m wondering if I should use AM for a Cdn ticket for a few days in March and then wait til that offer is over, get an AM 5 day ticket and apply that to an AP during D23? — it would give me 5 more months on an AP - but cost probably approx. 5K AM more (since we don’t have those priced yet and I can only imagine...) but save me about $110USD in cash outlay for AP (Cdn ticket vs reg 5 day hopper). BUT, waiting also means no AP discount for first trip. Guess I’ll have to weigh pros and cons.

 

[ottawamom]

May I ask which hotel you are staying at in UO? We stayed at Cabana Bay several times and they had one in the lobby but this time we are considering the new hotel, Endless Summer, as the rates are soooo good. I'm wondering if they have one as well.

We're staying at the Aventura so right across the street from Cabana Bay.

 

[osully]

I also used it in Universal Studios Orlando. Enjoy!

Yes you can use them any Starbucks that takes gift cards - there is a bar code you give them to scan on the app. You sometimes can’t redeem for a free drink reward but that’s not a big deal.

 

[kimbert]

I'm not at all surprised by this. Did you actually get the email with the offer? I think that it was only meant for those who received the email offer even though some asked BMO and AM if the offer was for everyone and got the answer 'yes'. It just didn't make any sense to me that BMO would give every MC what is equivalent to $50 just for shopping at 3 sponsors. What is the incentive? Maybe BMO has realized that they were being billed for more AM's than they had planned for and has put a stop to this until they can see if the offer was actually sent to the person.
This, of course, is all hypothetical. I'm retired BMO and the whole thing just didn't make sense to me but again, I'm retired and have not had any access to MC other than on a personal level in quite some time. Hope you get the AM's and that it doesn't take to long to get this resolved.

Yes, I received the email.

 

[kimbert]

I was told it was 90 days from the end of the promotion (Sept 30). Not when the last transaction was complete.

I believe in my very first chat (which I did when many on here wrote they were seeing theirs deposited) I was told 120 days, which is why I waited. However, 90 from Sept. 30th makes more sense.

 

[osully]

Well I better start doing the Rewarding Your Opinions surveys again... LOL as I did groceries at FreshCo last week and will probably do so again for the rest of the year when Sobeys doesn't have anything to offer. My shop was $80 instead of my usual $100 at Sobeys and I felt like there were a few things I stocked up on for the good prices!

Frozen cauliflower $1.99 @ FreshCo. $3.49 or $3.99 at Sobeys. Same exact bag.

Swift brand bacon (made by Maple Leaf apparently) is amazing and contains no sugar. It's a very salty bacon and the regular price is $3.99. Often on sale for $3.

Othen than that, pretty much everything is cheaper.

The worst part is bagging your own stuff after an $80 transaction that filled your whole cart

 

[Donald - my hero]

Rexall is starting us off with a bit of a tiny bang, more of a fizzle --- coupon is better than 1:1 ratio I strive for but not by much. If i needed enough to squeeze out a $60 tranasaction it would combine with my LnG offer for spend $60 get 60 but i don't think that's happening

Spend $40 get 60 AM Valid Monday Jan 7th - Thursday Jan 10th

 

[kerreyn]

Rexall is starting us off with a bit of a tiny bang, more of a fizzle --- coupon is better than 1:1 ratio I strive for but not by much. If i needed enough to squeeze out a $60 tranasaction it would combine with my LnG offer for spend $60 get 60 but i don't think that's happening

Spend $40 get 60 AM Valid Monday Jan 7th - Thursday Jan 10th

I got the spend $60 get 60AM on the app for our secondary card, but nothing on our main card - odd. My daughter's app has spend $25, get 50AM.

After missing out last week, I've actually got a bit of a list for Rexall, so I'll be spending $60 and getting 120 on the secondary card this week.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

I hope someone can help me...I remember seeing a post about texting your AM # to shell to receive some binus AM...I know I wrote it down somewhere but can't find it now...I checked page 1 but didn't see it listed...does anyone recall the number that you text your AM to? Thanks in advance

 

[Aladora]

I hope someone can help me...I remember seeing a post about texting your AM # to shell to receive some binus AM...I know I wrote it down somewhere but can't find it now...I checked page 1 but didn't see it listed...does anyone recall the number that you text your AM to? Thanks in advance

Text SHELL to 111222

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

Text SHELL to 111222

thank you...

 

[hdrolfe]

Rexall is starting us off with a bit of a tiny bang, more of a fizzle --- coupon is better than 1:1 ratio I strive for but not by much. If i needed enough to squeeze out a $60 tranasaction it would combine with my LnG offer for spend $60 get 60 but i don't think that's happening

Spend $40 get 60 AM Valid Monday Jan 7th - Thursday Jan 10th

I have a spend $25 get 50 AM and could probably use a few things from Rexall. We are almost out of TP! and paper towels! crazy... I haven't left the house much for the past two weeks. If I didn't have to work I think I'd hibernate all winter lol.

Good time to start up with airmiles this year I guess! I am planning Disney in August and then next March a cruise. I'll need a hotel and flights for that and Fort Lauderdale will be pricey.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I hope someone can help me...I remember seeing a post about texting your AM # to shell to receive some binus AM...I know I wrote it down somewhere but can't find it now...I checked page 1 but didn't see it listed...does anyone recall the number that you text your AM to? Thanks in advance

Great idea! I've added the Shell info to the first post and included the link that will let you see all of the in-store offers as well! I don't know if that post helps anyone else but it has saved my butt a couple of times at Rexall when i can't find the coupon on my phone!

 

[momof2gr8kids]

So tomorrow is the day AM is launching the new travel booking system through red tag. According to the AM site anyways. I'm curious to see how this will work, whether it's worth it to save my dream miles for.

 

[Donald - my hero]

So tomorrow is the day AM is launching the new travel booking system through red tag. According to the AM site anyways. I'm curious to see how this will work, whether it's worth it to save my dream miles for.

My number one question is how will they handle it if you don't have enough miles for the entire trip?? I'm definitely going to be taking a peek so I hope it works better than the flight/hotel/car rental options that don't show you anything if you don't have enough miles in your account to book.

 

[Glynis4]

My grand total for 2018 was.....1,795 miles BUT, over half of those were from November/December, which was when I really started collecting again (took a break after our last Disney trip in Nov 2017). So, my goal for 2019 is quite lofty. I would love to earn 20,000 air miles. Enough for four 5-day Disneyland passes (assuming they are around 5000 air miles each). We are going in November so I have almost an entire year. I plan to use the miles I already have on legoland tickets. Flights to Disneyland are around $800 more than they were at this time 2 years ago, so my budget is going to be way off if I can’t get at least 2 tickets with air miles!

 

[Donald - my hero]

I managed to poke around the travel site for about 10 minutes before it crashed and I have to say I'm mildly impressed. Looks slick and appears you will be able to book and they will automatically take miles off in increments of 909 = $100 and apply the remainder to your credit card. If you are booking a last minute type of trip you pay in full at the time of booking or if it's further out you can choose a minimum $500 deposit or pay the full amount again . It's almost making me wish i had waited before i cashed out


It's a bit tricky to get to on your own .. lots of clicks OR you can just use this direct link that i discovered it opens to
Book Trip thru Redtag

Enter your account number and PIN and the website launches.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Looks pretty good! I'd assume booking a cruise will appear the same way.

I thought for sure the webpage would look cluttered and be not easy to navigate.

 

[momof2gr8kids]

It does seem easy to navigate. Tempting not to book a cheap last minute deal outta here within the week. Maybe this time next year after I've saved a ton more am!

 

[hdrolfe]

I'll have to check it out at home, the way it opens doesn't work at work. Maybe for next year! Though I'm still more a cruise person, so I guess that'll give me time to save up more!