Tricks

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Great deal: ~$55CAD discount on hotel, min spend ~$100, no night min

MakeMyTrip, a large Indian online travel agency, is currently offering, until February 25 (not sure what time zone they’re using), a discount of 2750 INR (~$55CAD) when using their app with the promotional code “APPFEST”. The minimum spend is 5000 INR (~$100CAD), but there is no minimum night requirement. Say you’re staying a week at a hotel, you can simply book 7 single-night stays, and have netted a ~$385CAD discount. After booking (and waiting a day to make sure the hotel receives the reservations), simply call the hotel to merge the reservations.

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IHG Best Price Guarantee – Policy Change?

One of my favourite programs is the IHG Best Price Guarantee (BPG). This program will, subject to a number of terms, provide you with a free night at any IHG hotel if you can find a rate from a competitor that is lower and matches or beats the terms of the booked rate on IHG’s website. I have received many dozens of free nights with this program, from $1000/night rooms at Intercontinental hotels, and cheapo Holiday Inn hotels.

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How to Turn Your AMEX Platinum $200 Voucher Into Cash

How to turn your AMEX Platinum $200 Voucher into Cash

Every calendar year, your Canadian AMEX Platinum card [this is a referral] is issued with a $200 travel voucher. To use this voucher, you must book travel with AMEX Travel Services. Personally, I find AMEX Travel Services to be way overpriced, especially for hotels. With this trick, you can convert your $200 travel voucher into a straight-up statement credit, without the need to use it for AMEX’s overpriced travel services.

$50 off $100 Hotel, Orbitz (Masterpass)

Starting tomorrow, Orbitz is having a $50USD off $100USD promotion, for bookings until June 30, 2016. There is no minimum night restriction.

Although this is not as excellent as their previous $100 off promotion, I doubt we’ll see that anytime soon, and this is an excellent deal to grab. To use this offer, use code “MASTERPASS” and pay with Masterpass. Note that the promotion ends after a number of uses, so I’d grab this fast.

HURRY! $50 off Shop.ca (no minimum) + 3,000 Aeroplan Points WITH TD Aeroplan Visa

Shop.ca is having a rather ridiculous promotion: using the promo code ‘TD’, you will get $50 off your purchase, with no minimum spend + 3,000 Aeroplan points when you link your Aeroplan number. You have to use a TD Aeroplan Visa, however, it looks like some non-Aeroplan branded TD Visas might work. As of right now, I could only get this to work once. Your final cost has to be at least 1 cent over $50, or the credit card won’t authorize (they tried to charge $99,999 on my’n!).