Airmiles Armchair Chatter

ottawamom · Dec 3, 2016

mort1331 said:
We just got back from our trip and I will say it was fantastic. Thank you Airmiles.
For those who are at Onyx or trying, use these offers when they come up. Cant believe that it was 1 AM. Well worth the drive and hotel stay.
DilEmma, we should have hooked up. Dinner was great would have loved the conversation.
For others, we should try and post when we are going to one of these events and meet up. Then we could talk AM and Disney, great conversation.
I will start, heading down to the ET concert at the end of the month. Anyone else?

I just got home from the World and my son used the tickets for Cirque du Soleil. Can't wait for him to get home from Montreal tomorrow to hear what he has to say about the evening. This show will be his first Cirque show so his review should be interesting.

mort1331 · Dec 3, 2016

ottawamom said:
I just got home from the World and my son used the tickets for Cirque du Soleil. Can't wait for him to get home from Montreal tomorrow to hear what he has to say about the evening. This show will be his first Cirque show so his review should be interesting.

I remember you mentioning that he was going. Hope he had as good a time as we did. Hope your trip was great as well, but how could it not be at the World.

DilEmma · Dec 3, 2016

mort1331 said:
We just got back from our trip and I will say it was fantastic. Thank you Airmiles.
For those who are at Onyx or trying, use these offers when they come up. Cant believe that it was 1 AM. Well worth the drive and hotel stay.
DilEmma, we should have hooked up. Dinner was great would have loved the conversation.
For others, we should try and post when we are going to one of these events and meet up. Then we could talk AM and Disney, great conversation.
I will start, heading down to the ET concert at the end of the month. Anyone else?

Great idea!

I was wondering if there were 'others' while we were having dinner.

I don't have anything coming up but will jump on the next opportunity. We couldn't use the Niagara-on-the-Lakes winery dinner and i do regret not trying harder to fit that in.

ottawamom · Dec 4, 2016

Anyone notice a 6'5" tall red headed young man (early 20's) with a young woman with long dark hair. That would have been my DS. He was eating dinner around 6pm.

pigletto · Dec 4, 2016

DilEmma said:
Great idea!

I was wondering if there were 'others' while we were having dinner.

I don't have anything coming up but will jump on the next opportunity. We couldn't use the Niagara-on-the-Lakes winery dinner and i do regret not trying harder to fit that in.

My brother and sister in law did that one. They also found a deal on Travelzoo for that night at the Prince of Whales hotel, and my brother had credit card points that made the whole evening about $80 total. I babysat for them and got to see my sweet nephew. They said it was a fabulous night.

Debbie · Dec 4, 2016

NorthernGrl said:
I gave up on Shop the Block. We live in a really rural area, and our Rexall, Sobeys and Foodland never have everything in the flyers let alone what's supposed to be available with coupons. And no coffee at our "local" Shell. It's been a crazy time and I'm just not willing to go through all the stress of managing this offer.

BUT, I just got an email telling me that I'm a winner of the Prize Pool contest from back in the summer. 1000 Airmiles will be credited to my account in 6-8 weeks, after answering a skill testing question. lol

Yeah, I'm finding Shop the Block a lot of work, and 1) I might not make it do to not needing much, and living outside the city and 2) who the heck wants to track something for months?-not me, anyway. I might have made the first level, and if I do....it will be a huge shock when it posts. :cheer2:

Congratulations on winning the Prize Pool contest! :cheer2:

Donald - my hero · Dec 4, 2016

The Duck is reporting her success (or what we consider EPIC FAILURE )

My miles posted from my last minute shop at Rexall by 8 am yesterday so i went in and unlocked my cash miles so we could use them and moved the slider to 100% Dream and then ... the doorbell rang... Woke up early this am and realized i hadn't received an e-mail alerting me to the change ... sure enough, there sat the window waiting for me to hit the confirm button. SO we just earned another 135 Cash Miles at Metro.... we NEVER use them, not even really sure HOW to use them so to use the coupon we did it as a separate transaction

This is however, a record haul at Metro for this fall, the ratio was close to 3:1 (or is that 1:3 ) I'm not even sure where the majority of the miles came from just all lumped together at the bottom in a list !
Bonus 48
Bonus 25
Bonus 25
Bonus 7
Bonus 3
etc etc etc

That brings me to 5 coupons used now and I'm just getting ready to finish up an order thru Staples on-line to make it 6 (however, I'm tempted to leave the final submitting till my collection switches back to dream!)

kuhltiffany · Dec 4, 2016

I changed my account back days ago to 100% Dreams but the Cash Miles keep showing up…so many things "back date" to when the card was used but don't post until later, it's really hard to keep track!

ottawamom · Dec 4, 2016

Donald - my hero said:
The Duck is reporting her success (or what we consider EPIC FAILURE )

My miles posted from my last minute shop at Rexall by 8 am yesterday so i went in and unlocked my cash miles so we could use them and moved the slider to 100% Dream and then ... the doorbell rang... Woke up early this am and realized i hadn't received an e-mail alerting me to the change ... sure enough, there sat the window waiting for me to hit the confirm button. SO we just earned another 135 Cash Miles at Metro.... we NEVER use them, not even really sure HOW to use them so to use the coupon we did it as a separate transaction

This is however, a record haul at Metro for this fall, the ratio was close to 3:1 (or is that 1:3 ) I'm not even sure where the majority of the miles came from just all lumped together at the bottom in a list !
Bonus 48
Bonus 25
Bonus 25
Bonus 7
Bonus 3
etc etc etc

That brings me to 5 coupons used now and I'm just getting ready to finish up an order thru Staples on-line to make it 6 (however, I'm tempted to leave the final submitting till my collection switches back to dream!)

I had the same thing happen to me. I thought I had changed it before I went on holiday and it was still sitting at 100% cash when I got home. Changed it again last night and got the email. Finished up my Shop the Block today. Will use another coupon tomorrow for insurance (although I have saved all my paperwork as proof if need be).

ottawamom · Dec 4, 2016

kuhltiffany said:
I changed my account back days ago to 100% Dreams but the Cash Miles keep showing up…so many things "back date" to when the card was used but don't post until later, it's really hard to keep track!

On my spreadsheet where I keep track of my AM until they post I have put in brackets next to the store name when they were earned under "Cash". I only had 4 or 5 transactions go through as cash so once these are all posted I'll be back to my usual way of tracking things. If you use a binder to keep track you could always use a highlighter to mark the transactions that were done with "Cash miles".

pigletto · Dec 4, 2016

I finished my Shop the Block offers today. Used it all for things I wanted anyway (with the exception of the Bothwell cheese and the Prime Chicken Strips.. but we will use them).
I did..
Sobey's for one offer
Foodland for two offers
Staples for one offer
Rexall for two offers
and the Airmiles.ca 20x promo

It was pretty painless.. which surprised me given the problems these promos can have. Now it just remains to be seen if they actually post the Cash Miles.

I was trying to tell my brother where I look to see if there is any new Onyx deals and realized I don't know.. I always hear about them here lol. What is the section of the airmiles site to look under again?

bababear_50 · Dec 4, 2016

pigletto said:
I finished my Shop the Block offers today. Used it all for things I wanted anyway (with the exception of the Bothwell cheese and the Prime Chicken Strips.. but we will use them).
I did..
Sobey's for one offer
Foodland for two offers
Staples for one offer
Rexall for two offers
and the Airmiles.ca 20x promo

It was pretty painless.. which surprised me given the problems these promos can have. Now it just remains to be seen if they actually post the Cash Miles.

I was trying to tell my brother where I look to see if there is any new Onyx deals and realized I don't know.. I always hear about them here lol. What is the section of the airmiles site to look under again?

Hi Hon
log in
Go to your profile
Click on Gold and Onyx benefits
Click on Merchandise and events

Or
Log in
Go to get rewarded
Go to dream rewards
Go to Airmiles events exclusive

Hugs Mel

pigletto · Dec 4, 2016

bababear_50 said:
Hi Hon
log in
Go to your profile
Click on Gold and Onyx benefits
Click on Merchandise and events

Or
Log in
Go to get rewarded
Go to dream rewards
Go to Airmiles events exclusive

Hugs Mel

Thanks so much Mel!

pigletto · Dec 4, 2016

I went to Foodland today for the two offers I mentioned earlier, and I was appalled at the prices. Absolutely everything I looked at was marked up way beyond what I pay at any other store.
I generally do my everyday shopping at Freshco, Food Basics or NoFrills. We go into Sobeys for airmiles items, deli items, or sale items. I've never seen prices at Sobey's as bad as the Foodland today. The worst part was that the store is in an economically depressed area. I imagine many of the people walk or bike to the store and don't have many other choices. $2.79 for an English cucumber? $3.29 for a dozen eggs? Yuck.

Nagle · Dec 4, 2016

DilEmma said:
Completely off topic:

I'm in Montreal and just got back to the hotel from Cirque du Soleil OVO. Recall the dinner and show for two package that Air Miles offered for 1 mile.

Absolutely incredible show. And a great a la carte dinner. Tremendous value overall and so worth a hotel stay.

We were at the show Friday night. We thoroughly enjoyed dinner and the show was very good. we also scored a great rate with parking included at Le Nouvel hotel, just a ten minute walk from the Bell Centre. All in all a very enjoyable evening.

tinkerone · Dec 4, 2016

mkmommy said:
Points from Air Miles Travel HUb, anyone know if the posting date for the points is check out date?

I got an offer if I earn 700 AM in December I will get Oynex till March 2018, I already have a hotel booked for check out Dec 29 that will give me 700 points, but not sure if those will be awarded in time.

I received an offer that I will Oynex if I collect 675 AM in December. I actually need 1150 (which there is no way I will get) so I wonder how this works. Guess I will wait and see.

Did anyone else see the W5 program about Airmiles? They suggested at the end that the number of AM's needed for items will go up soon because of the change to no expiry date. It will be interesting to see.

bgula · Dec 4, 2016

bababear_50 said:
Hi Hon
log in
Go to your profile
Click on Gold and Onyx benefits
Click on Merchandise and events

Or
Log in
Go to get rewarded
Go to dream rewards
Go to Airmiles events exclusive

Hugs Mel

Hmm... Under Onyx benefits I see Contests and Events which cycle between 2 pictures and then below that Onyx Rewards. I'm also not sure where you find these events for 1 airmile. I'm heading to the World in a couple of weeks and could have used some tickets to La Nouba.

bababear_50 · Dec 4, 2016

bgula said:
Hmm... Under Onyx benefits I see Contests and Events which cycle between 2 pictures and then below that Onyx Rewards. I'm also not sure where you find these events for 1 airmile. I'm heading to the World in a couple of weeks and could have used some tickets to La Nouba.

Hi Hon
La Nouba is an Orlando Based (Disney Springs venue),,the Cirque du Soleil OVO one people are mentioning was held in Montreal I believe. The 1 airmile tickets and events are something that happen periodically and you just have to keep an eye out for them.
In the past few months I have picked up:
Wine Tasting and Dinner in Niagara On the Lake
Movie passes,Toronto
ET Live in Concert Sony Centre Toronto.
You can put in your region (Toronto).
I actually have a son who benefits from all of these so he checks the airmiles site daily.
He checks "Airmiles events exclusive" frequently,,,also many people here will post when a special is offered.
Hope this helps to better explain things,,,if anyone else has a better explanation please feel free to chime in.
Hugs Mel

I posted this one a few days ago for people in Quebec

Granby zoo - VIP Day, meet small animals - package for one (1) - March 25, 2017
Granby Zoo
1050, boul. David-Bouchard Nord
Granby, QC J2G 5P3

Onyx members 1 airmile

This is a great site for
all questions about La Nouba Cirque Du Soleil
https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/la-nouba/faq

bababear_50 · Dec 5, 2016

Off Topic
Blue Man Group Tickets
Orlando Groupon
46% off
Blue Man Group Theatre at Universal CityWalk

https://www.groupon.com/local/orlando/theater-and-shows

star72232 · Dec 5, 2016

pigletto said:
I went to Foodland today for the two offers I mentioned earlier, and I was appalled at the prices. Absolutely everything I looked at was marked up way beyond what I pay at any other store.
I generally do my everyday shopping at Freshco, Food Basics or NoFrills. We go into Sobeys for airmiles items, deli items, or sale items. I've never seen prices at Sobey's as bad as the Foodland today. The worst part was that the store is in an economically depressed area. I imagine many of the people walk or bike to the store and don't have many other choices. $2.79 for an English cucumber? $3.29 for a dozen eggs? Yuck.

I know, isn't it terrible? They tend to be in smaller towns with few other options. Ayr is my closest store - if you can drive to KW/Cambridge, it's not too bad, but for anyone who can't get there? Highway robbery.

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