Airmiles Armchair Chatter

Have the Best trip ever Jacqueline!
Just the thought of sunny, warm Disney weather makes me so happy!
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Big Hugs Mel
 
I am back from Sobey's and Rexall. Rexall scanned my card on my phone app with no problem. Sobey's couldn't scan but I showed them the phone and they typed in my airmiles card number.
There were some pretty good deals for stocking up at Sobey's. So while I miss the Jamie Oliver meal deals, this was on par with the miles I was getting every week up until November when everything dried up at Sobey's.
I spent $121.65 combined at Rexall and Sobey's and earned 307 airmiles. I also received a coupon (it was on a card) for 40 airmiles every time you spend $25 at Rexall that is good until January 22nd, and a $5 off $25 on my receipt. Those two can't be combined though. I also doubt I'll go back this week at all. I have what I need.
Not a bad haul and I'm back in the airmiles game and working toward the next ticket for the August trip!:sunny::cool1:
 


For those that have used AM for a car rental, how did you go about it? I'm clearly missing something on the AM site.
 


dancin Disney style said:
For those that have used AM for a car rental, how did you go about it? I'm clearly missing something on the AM site.
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SURE! I'll do a bunch of screen captures for you to follow along with :D
I find it easiest to scroll to the very bottom of the home page till you see this and click on the word TRAVEL
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This page will pop up Click on the CAR RENTALS section
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This window will then pop up on the right of your screen Fill in the information and hit FIND CARS
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I've found that it requires some fine-tuning to pick the location you want and the type of car (often pull up the site for the car rental themselves to compare) and also play around with dates and times -- my upcoming trip i saved significant # of miles by creating 2 one-week rentals with overlapping pick-up and drop-off times. Even moving my pick-up time one hour on one day was a difference of 500 miles. I still find this is a great use of my miles even if it does take a bit of time to tweak the offers.
 
Donald - my hero said:
I can't believe that our trip is almost here (pay no attention to my stupid ticker ..it's wrong!)We actually head to Toronto tomorrow late afternoon, staying in the Sheraton Gateway overnight (Thanks Airmiles :P )
I've been trying to keep on top of the new deals/flyer dates in the thread title and 1st post but AKK my last minute plans have gotten the best of me. We need to make one of our first stops after we get the rental car (thanks Airmiles) somewhere to get a phone for me. I added time to my ROAM Sim card before i *tried* to charge the phone i use in the States, yeah DEAD. The phone I use here is NOT un-lockable and after far too much running around the city yesterday to find an unlocked phone, decided to pick up one somewhere in Lake Buena Vista, wish me luck on THAT one.

Once we've checked in on Tuesday we'll be heading to Disney Springs to upgrade our tickets (Thanks Airmiles!), hubby to, we think, a 6 or 7 day Hopper and mine to an AP. Crunched the numbers and since we decided we will be getting Memory Maker anyway because our kids and their wives are joining us for a week (thanks mom for my birthday/christmas present of US cash) the extra $25.00 between the hopper and AP is a no-brainer. We'll make good use of the discounts on food and merchandise.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions that allowed us to not only get the airport hotel, 2 5 day passes (thought that would be enough ..WRONG), 2 separate car rentals (worked out cheaper that way as well as allowing us to get a larger car for when the kids descend on us) passes to Universal BUT almost an extra 3800 AM in our account. I'll do my best to keep my eye on the thread to provide whatever help i can, see you in February my fellow hunters! party:
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Have a fantastic time!!
 
Also - ordered our 5th and final 25% off 5 day pass today! Now I'm working on a "regular" 5 day pass for a non-Canadian resident (won't purchase until the sale is over), and three 2 day Universal Studios passes!
 
:scared:So THIS has just happened
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Anyone remember WestJet screwing up our flights so we had to alter our plans by 2 days?? (@mort1331 you SHOULD!) yeah, well i neglected to update our travel insurance to reflect that change and now we had NOTHING to cover tomorrow's flight. Hubby's gonna be really happy we chose to spend some Airmiles to stay overnight at the Sheraton Gateway in Pearson --- perhaps he jinxed it by saying "i don't want to drive into the airport during rush hour in a winter storm"

I checked their flight schedule and there are no other direct flights, all of the others have lengthy layovers making the trip anywhere from 6 - 13 hours
 
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Donald - my hero said:
SURE! I'll do a bunch of screen captures for you to follow along with :D
I find it easiest to scroll to the very bottom of the home page till you see this and click on the word TRAVEL
View attachment 215291
This page will pop up Click on the CAR RENTALS section
View attachment 215292
This window will then pop up on the right of your screen Fill in the information and hit FIND CARS
View attachment 215294
I've found that it requires some fine-tuning to pick the location you want and the type of car (often pull up the site for the car rental themselves to compare) and also play around with dates and times -- my upcoming trip i saved significant # of miles by creating 2 one-week rentals with overlapping pick-up and drop-off times. Even moving my pick-up time one hour on one day was a difference of 500 miles. I still find this is a great use of my miles even if it does take a bit of time to tweak the offers.
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Thank you...that took a bit of work to put together and I'm sure you're busy getting ready to go away. I just went through it and it's showing me 5000+ miles for my rental. I will go back and play around a little more but no way am I spending that many hard earned miles on a rental. I look at it as the equivalent of nearly 2 park passes so that's just too much money for a rental. I'm trying to put together a trip for March Break and I'm going to need to pull a rabbit out of a hat to make this work.
 
Donald - my hero said:
SURE! I'll do a bunch of screen captures for you to follow along with :D
I find it easiest to scroll to the very bottom of the home page till you see this and click on the word TRAVEL
View attachment 215291
This page will pop up Click on the CAR RENTALS section
View attachment 215292
This window will then pop up on the right of your screen Fill in the information and hit FIND CARS
View attachment 215294
I've found that it requires some fine-tuning to pick the location you want and the type of car (often pull up the site for the car rental themselves to compare) and also play around with dates and times -- my upcoming trip i saved significant # of miles by creating 2 one-week rentals with overlapping pick-up and drop-off times. Even moving my pick-up time one hour on one day was a difference of 500 miles. I still find this is a great use of my miles even if it does take a bit of time to tweak the offers.
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Thanks for the hints to save AM. I was wondering the logistics of 2 one week rentals - I assume it was for the same car for the 2 weeks. Last year I enquired about adding on to an existing AM reservation for car rental using AM & was told that I wouldn't be able to do this as had to be physically in original rental location to sign the paperwork.
 
I agree. I would have never known about the bonus 2000 miles with AMEX, etc without these boards. I'm officially less than 200 miles away from our last pass needed (3 5-day WDW and 3 2-day US) and I only really started "crazy collecting" (DH used to say this, lol) since May 2016.

Then I can start to just hoard miles for the next 10 months and decide if using them for flights is worth it (or just pay for them out right).

What did we do before the Internet? lol
 
Donald - my hero said:
I can't believe that our trip is almost here (pay no attention to my stupid ticker ..it's wrong!)We actually head to Toronto tomorrow late afternoon, staying in the Sheraton Gateway overnight (Thanks Airmiles :P )
Donald - my hero said:
I can't believe that our trip is almost here (pay no attention to my stupid ticker ..it's wrong!)We actually head to Toronto tomorrow late afternoon, staying in the Sheraton Gateway overnight (Thanks Airmiles :P )
I've been trying to keep on top of the new deals/flyer dates in the thread title and 1st post but AKK my last minute plans have gotten the best of me. We need to make one of our first stops after we get the rental car (thanks Airmiles) somewhere to get a phone for me. I added time to my ROAM Sim card before i *tried* to charge the phone i use in the States, yeah DEAD. The phone I use here is NOT un-lockable and after far too much running around the city yesterday to find an unlocked phone, decided to pick up one somewhere in Lake Buena Vista, wish me luck on THAT one.

Once we've checked in on Tuesday we'll be heading to Disney Springs to upgrade our tickets (Thanks Airmiles!), hubby to, we think, a 6 or 7 day Hopper and mine to an AP. Crunched the numbers and since we decided we will be getting Memory Maker anyway because our kids and their wives are joining us for a week (thanks mom for my birthday/christmas present of US cash) the extra $25.00 between the hopper and AP is a no-brainer. We'll make good use of the discounts on food and merchandise.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions that allowed us to not only get the airport hotel, 2 5 day passes (thought that would be enough ..WRONG), 2 separate car rentals (worked out cheaper that way as well as allowing us to get a larger car for when the kids descend on us) passes to Universal BUT almost an extra 3800 AM in our account. I'll do my best to keep my eye on the thread to provide whatever help i can, see you in February my fellow hunters! party:
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pigletto said:
Thank you for all the good wishes everyone. We will definitely be ok but we are fragile right now and desperately want to be home. We all just need our routine and familiar people and places back. We recovered most of our checked luggage. It's just my husbands that is lost right now. The items left behind when we fled are going to take alot more time. I"ll be happy to see any of it again. I'm just trying to chew this elephant one bite at a time.

We had decided before all of this to go back to our plan of a late August Disney trip as my youngest brother and his girlfriend will be going at the same time. So I think I'll will be buying one Disney ticket before the 25% off deal ends. That will leave me about 6 months to earn the final 5 day Disney ticket ( I already have two airmiles tickets).
I think I will sit in the hotel room and look at Rexall and Sobey's flyers online to see if there is anything worth going to get Wednesday.
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Glad to hear you are home safe and sound and that you are planning another trip...I just want to point out that if any of your passports were out of your control during this ordeal, you might want to contact your local passport office to see if they will need to be replaced. I know the airport hired a third party to inventory all items left behind but you just never know with identity theft and all. I would also contact your bank to see if your credit/debit cards need to be replaced.
 
Mickey&JoshNut said:
Glad to hear you are home safe and sound and that you are planning another trip...I just want to point out that if any of your passports were out of your control during this ordeal, you might want to contact your local passport office to see if they will need to be replaced. I know the airport hired a third party to inventory all items left behind but you just never know with identity theft and all. I would also contact your bank to see if your credit/debit cards need to be replaced.
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Thank you.
We've been chasing our things all week and the latest is that they are being held at Toronto airport and we have to go and do a self declaration to get them released to us. Only dd's passport was left behind. I ran with my purse, but my wallet fell out. I have the passports for the rest of us. Just nothing from our wallets. We have been watching our accounts, not wanting to have to replace everything. I've also put fraud detection on my credit score account so I can watch for anything unusual.
We replaced our debit card so that we had access to money. I agree, I'll need to keep a close eye on our accounts for quite some time.
 
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