Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Days In the Sun]

Not sure if anyone posted this already, seem like Shell has decided to give us 5x the 1AM on fuel fill ups for the next few months.

https://www.shell.ca/en_ca/motorist...6Ly93d3cuc2hlbGwuY2EvYWlybWlsZXNwcm9tby5odG1s

Thanks for posting, every bit helps. So for me it's 5am per 25l fillup, better than 1am. Until Nov 13.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Quick question : once an item is removed from airmiles.ca Rewards, is it usually gone for good? Last week they had 2 days + 3 days free (expiring Dec 20th) at Universal Orlando for 3750 AM (I was short on the AMs I needed to was trying to get more). Today it's gone If I call in, any chance I can get it? (the ad specifically said "Available Online Only").

Let us know.Thanks, Mike

Sometimes when they run out more come available a few days afterwards for a short period of time (sometimes just a couple of days). Almost like they are doing a final count on tickets redeemed and offering a few more. I would keep checking a few times a day and be ready to redeem if you want them. You might get lucky.

If Universal sells the same tickets and you are at Airmiles Onyx level, you can request the Onyx personal shopper to quote an airmiles price. They will cost approximately 14.2 airmiles per USD (after tax).

 

[dancin Disney style]

@dancin Disney style I'm glad your back safe and sound. I hope that you were able to enjoy your time there without the worry of the hurricane hurling it's self towards Florida.

LOL....I was not the least bit worried about being at WDW during the storm. It is the safest place in the entire state. They never lose power because they have their own generators, there is tons of food/water on a normal day and everything is built to withstand a Cat. 5. They even have their own onsite emergency response teams. It is it's own independent city. What I did obsess about was getting home. If we had not made that flight last night we could have potentially been stuck there until the weekend. That would present a Cat. 6 problem for me. We made it and now I need the t-shirt.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Quick question : once an item is removed from airmiles.ca Rewards, is it usually gone for good? Last week they had 2 days + 3 days free (expiring Dec 20th) at Universal Orlando for 3750 AM (I was short on the AMs I needed to was trying to get more). Today it's gone If I call in, any chance I can get it? (the ad specifically said "Available Online Only").

Let us know.Thanks, Mike

So sorry to tell you that the answer to part of your question will always be No -- they truly won't have access to anything we can't see online. (don't get me started on how i feel this is a massive disadvantage to older people who can't figure out how to USE a computer **cough cough MY MOM**) HOWEVER, as mentioned above the rewards have been known to reappear later, almost like someone cleans off a shelf and unearths a bunch of things that no one knew was missing Just keep checking periodically to see if they are back in stock.

 

[Donald - my hero]

LOL....I was not the least bit worried about being at WDW during the storm. It is the safest place in the entire state. They never lose power because they have their own generators, there is tons of food/water on a normal day and everything is built to withstand a Cat. 5. They even have their own onsite emergency response teams. It is it's own independent city. What I did obsess about was getting home. If we had not made that flight last night we could have potentially been stuck there until the weekend. That would present a Cat. 6 problem for me. We made it and now I need the t-shirt.

Here you go! Glad you made it home safely and still had fun while you were there!

 

[TammyLynn33]

LOL....I was not the least bit worried about being at WDW during the storm. It is the safest place in the entire state. They never lose power because they have their own generators, there is tons of food/water on a normal day and everything is built to withstand a Cat. 5. They even have their own onsite emergency response teams. It is it's own independent city. What I did obsess about was getting home. If we had not made that flight last night we could have potentially been stuck there until the weekend. That would present a Cat. 6 problem for me. We made it and now I need the t-shirt.

Glad you are home safe and had a good vacation .
So excited my points just disappeared from my account for my Christmas party tickets Finally . Hopefully I get s confirmation letter soon so I can link those

 

[tinkerone]

LOL....I was not the least bit worried about being at WDW during the storm. It is the safest place in the entire state. They never lose power because they have their own generators, there is tons of food/water on a normal day and everything is built to withstand a Cat. 5. They even have their own onsite emergency response teams. It is it's own independent city. What I did obsess about was getting home. If we had not made that flight last night we could have potentially been stuck there until the weekend. That would present a Cat. 6 problem for me. We made it and now I need the t-shirt.

We were in Puerto Vallarta during hurricane Kenna back in 2002. It was a category 5. Direct hit and we couldn't get out, flights were canceled for days. It was an adventure for sure but not one I would care to repeat. No electricity, cut off from the rest of Mexico because the bridge was out. We were eating cheese sandwiches until they could get more supplies. We were asked to take the mattresses off the beds and place them in front of the glass doors. Once the storm passed, and it was a while, it was a very nice evening. Candles all over the place. They had music playing. Next morning when we could see the devastation, well, that was a completely different story. To say things were a mess would be sugar coating it. The pool was full of sand, no water, just sand. There were baby sea turtles all over what was left of the beach, that needed help. There was nothing covering the roots of the palm trees. We were surprised they didn't topple over.
I feel sorry for countries that have to come back from that. It takes a long time.
Glad your home safe and sound.

 

[bababear_50]

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Hugs
Mel

 

[dancin Disney style]

Here you go! Glad you made it home safely and still had fun while you were there!
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That's great!

Glad you are home safe and had a good vacation .
So excited my points just disappeared from my account for my Christmas party tickets Finally . Hopefully I get s confirmation letter soon so I can link those

Thanks. I better you have the email by Friday. I've come to the conclusion that this stuff just sits in the shoppers to-do box for a while because the whole can be done in a matter of minutes.

We were in Puerto Vallarta during hurricane Kenna back in 2002. It was a category 5. Direct hit and we couldn't get out, flights were canceled for days. It was an adventure for sure but not one I would care to repeat. No electricity, cut off from the rest of Mexico because the bridge was out. We were eating cheese sandwiches until they could get more supplies. We were asked to take the mattresses off the beds and place them in front of the glass doors. Once the storm passed, and it was a while, it was a very nice evening. Candles all over the place. They had music playing. Next morning when we could see the devastation, well, that was a completely different story. To say things were a mess would be sugar coating it. The pool was full of sand, no water, just sand. There were baby sea turtles all over what was left of the beach, that needed help. There was nothing covering the roots of the palm trees. We were surprised they didn't topple over.
I feel sorry for countries that have to come back from that. It takes a long time.
Glad your home safe and sound.

WOW..that must have been really scary. I kind of joke about it but it's no joke. The night before we flew home I was awake several times thinking about being stuck down there was a few days. I was formulating plans....could we fly from Tampa, could we drive to an airport in another state, could we drive all the way home. At one point I got up and started googling the driving time to Atlanta and New Orleans. Since getting home it has crossed my mind that perhaps going forward I won't travel during hurricane season. Unfortunately, that is half the year. My mom confessed yesterday that she was really worried. I should have figured that she was stressing over it. She was constantly texted me asking if I was paying attention to the storm updates and what were we planning to do.

 

[isabellea]

I’m closely following DCL response to Dorian since we have a cruise on the Fantasy booked for Aug 15-22 2020 (our 20th is on Aug 21st). We will be driving to FL so at least cancelled flights won’t be an issue. I’ll just make sure our car is full of gas and parked on a higher floor in the parking garage.

 

[hdrolfe]

WOW..that must have been really scary. I kind of joke about it but it's no joke. The night before we flew home I was awake several times thinking about being stuck down there was a few days. I was formulating plans....could we fly from Tampa, could we drive to an airport in another state, could we drive all the way home. At one point I got up and started googling the driving time to Atlanta and New Orleans. Since getting home it has crossed my mind that perhaps going forward I won't travel during hurricane season. Unfortunately, that is half the year. My mom confessed yesterday that she was really worried. I should have figured that she was stressing over it. She was constantly texted me asking if I was paying attention to the storm updates and what were we planning to do.

I didn't even think about it for my trip but will for future. I had no idea it was even coming until someone at Typhoon Lagoon mentioned the "storm coming". That was Tuesday, I didn't have my phone at the water park so as soon as I got back to the room I was checking up on it to see what was going on. I was very glad to see it wasn't coming until after we left. But I was nervous.

I'm glad you made it home! I'm sure it was nerve wracking.

 

[alohamom]

I didn't even think about it for my trip but will for future. I had no idea it was even coming until someone at Typhoon Lagoon mentioned the "storm coming".

How did you guys like Typhoon Lagoon? I know your had said you went to another one here in Canada and were hoping you would like the Disney ones as much

 

[FLVacationGirl]

Had an unintentionally decent night for air miles while back to school shopping last night. Round up contest air miles at Staples, airmilesshops.ca air miles for an Old Navy purchase I made during my daughter's music lesson, and then we ended up at Sobeys and I was debating why I was shopping on a non-bonus miles night, forgetting it was 10% off or 20x the points night. Bonus! Got 105 miles.

Only downside is I was on the run from 6:30am until 9:30pm yesterday so I ran out of time to get Optimum points for fuel. But I did all of the back to school shopping on my PC credit card so got some decent PC points that way.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Shell GO+ bonus day Thursday September 12.

I have 1 airmile per litre of V-Power. Unless I'm getting 10 litres for the lawnmover, I doubt I'll be using this ... again.

I have yet to successfully use one. The last one I finally had an offer for regular gas, tank was on fumes and drove by the gas station at 8:45pm as the price drops around 9pm (closes at 11pm) and they were out of gas. Promptly kept driving and stopped at Esso for pcoptimum points.

 

[Days In the Sun]

Just a heads up.

Received Sobeys coupon booklets in the mail yesterday, well husband and daughter did. One offer is a 50am wus $25 at Sobeys that they want you to load. My Sobeys account has it as well so I assume my booklet is missing in action at the moment.

Anyway it's a standard Sobeys booklet, Sobeys coupons and a few others places where you use 3 partners by October 14 and get 50 airmiles.

 

[hdrolfe]

How did you guys like Typhoon Lagoon? I know your had said you went to another one here in Canada and were hoping you would like the Disney ones as much

We really enjoyed both water parks. I think kiddo preferred Blizzard Beach. We did not enjoy the buses! We waited 30+ minutes to get to and from both parks, it was nuts. I wish I had taken my phone so I could have caught an Uber/Lyft. Any way. We liked using the lazy river to get around the parks, the wave pools were nice but so different from one another. I think we did more slides at Typhoon but the kids section at Blizzard Beach was good for kiddo, with the zipline and a few extra slides. I know he'll want to go back.

Shopped at Sobeys for a few things, it was meant to just be a few things but I spent $26 and got 50 bonus airmiles, not sure what for! Maybe the offer @Days In the Sun mentions above? I'll take it. Looking at my records I earned about 0 airmiles in August lol. Glad to have earned a few, and hoping for many more before the end of the year.

 

[damo]

Anyone else having issues with the airmiles.ca website through Chrome? I can't sign in with it although I can get through in Safari.

 

[juniorbugman]

Anyone else having issues with the airmiles.ca website through Chrome? I can't sign in with it although I can get through in Safari.

I was just able to get in through Chrome. Maybe it was just a momentary glitch.

 

[ottawamom]

I was having issues yesterday but all has been good today. The system seems glitchy these days. Keep trying.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

So mad at myself.

Last weekend I bought $250 Sobeys gift card as I had to hit $700 by Sept. 12 for the Round Up mastercard offer. I also have a spend $360 at Sobeys get 220 miles by end of Sept. offer. Well, Sobeys have their GIFT CARD OFFER this week! Grrr. $200 gift card get 100 miles. I really could have double-dipped if I had just waited a few more days. DOH!