Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[pigletto]

I'm confused. So is this true for the airmiles vouchers as well as the disney purchased Canadian vouchers? I've looked through a number of threads and can't see anyone confirming trying to change airmiles vouchers. I was expecting to be able to add park hoppers and switch one to an DVC Gold pass. Anyone know if you can or cannot do either of these things?

For some reason I kind of was thinking we were immune as well. But then it dawned on me yesterday that they are giving us an exchange certificate that says it's the 25% off deal, which is the same as what everyone else is getting, so my guess is that it's going to be the same for us using the airmiles deal. I don't have confirmation, and I asked Donald-myhero in pm but she was using the non discounted airmiles tickets for her upgrades. I don't know anyone else who's tried. So until someone does it's anyones guess. I'm not feeling good about it though.


ETA) LoL.. and there's our Donald now!

ETAA) Ugh. To further confuse things.. regardless if these tickets are bridgeable or not wouldn't you just be paying the $73.49 to upgrade to hoppers. That's the set price on a ticket that is four days or longer. So it wouldn't seem to be tied to price

 

[Donald - my hero]

Ok just had another chat session with AM and at least this time they took the time to record the dates and stores i used the coupons at BUT this was the final outcome
"the appropriate department will look into this further for you and investigate and they anticipate having it resolved by the end of March 2017.
JOHNR: what?? end of MARCH!
Georges: Appreciate your passion (as I typically do) and please let me know if there is anything else I can assist you with today John?

JOHNR: but it clearly state in the terms and conditions and FAQs on line (which i kept a screen shot of BTW) that these bonus cash miles would be posted by end of february

Georges: John, I've provided you All the Correct information, there is no question about this.. if we have another date, you will be the first to know!

And then he left the session ... poof, gone.

Our Blue Book showed up and good grief ... we "only" have to use offers from 2 or more partners in our booklet ... uhm there are ONLY 2 in it and they are ones we shopped the STB promotion at and won't go to in the winter. Now i shall retire to my spot on the couch and finish the container of ice cream the hubby picked up at Metro ... on sale AND bonus miles both in the flyer and targeted

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

Someone else reported adding hopping to the tickets but alas, no report of the price for THAT transaction either.

I think this might be me...we want to add the PH to our AM Canadian discount tickets but our trip is not until March 26...I will report back on how much it cost to add PH to our tickets.

 

[hdrolfe]

I thought I saw in one of the threads that someone had added Park hoppers to their discount tickets and it was the discounted rate for that? But I can't find it now of course. And if you wait until the discount is over of course that doesn't help I guess.

I just ordered my 7-day PH tickets for a trip in August. Booked flights. And am (hopefully) staying at yacht club! Now to save up some USD for meals... and all the toys kiddo will inevitably want to buy. Saving my AM for a hotel pre-cruise next winter, and hopefully flights by then too!

Also got the booklet in the mail. A bunch of coupons for Sobeys, some of them are % off, not even bonus AM! An interesting Shell deal which seems to not require a coupon (buy gas 3 to 5 times between certain dates for bonus AM) and the "use deals at 2 different places to get 50 bonus AM". I have not noticed anything online for this on my AM account though.

Oh, and I got my flyers late this week, Sobeys was there but no Rexall! Seems I can never get all the ones I really want at once

 

[Silvermist999]

What is this booklet that some people have gotten? Is it for Onyx collectors? I'm just Gold so maybe that's why I didn't get it?
Instead I got a Shell mailer for get up to 150 AM if I fill up to 1200L of the VPower

 

[ttaylorcan]

Oh this is so hard to plan! lol

We always hop... get am tickets, add hoppers and change ticket lengths when required. So for us, at the moment, I am purchasing airmiles tickets for future trips. So either we will have to plan a trip without hopping or the tickets might be just a credit toward another ticket.

As I see it, a 5 day voucher is worth $255 US, anyone adding a hopper right now will be charged $51.75 US ($306.75 is the Canadian voucher price on the website for a 5 day hopper). So I guess we won't know the hopper price for future visits until after the promo is over. I calculated with a $255 US credit, adding a hopper after the promo would be $154 plus tax, normally $69 plus tax.

 

[ttaylorcan]

For some reason I kind of was thinking we were immune as well. But then it dawned on me yesterday that they are giving us an exchange certificate that says it's the 25% off deal, which is the same as what everyone else is getting, so my guess is that it's going to be the same for us using the airmiles deal. I don't have confirmation, and I asked Donald-myhero in pm but she was using the non discounted airmiles tickets for her upgrades. I don't know anyone else who's tried. So until someone does it's anyones guess. I'm not feeling good about it though.


ETA) LoL.. and there's our Donald now!

ETAA) Ugh. To further confuse things.. regardless if these tickets are bridgeable or not wouldn't you just be paying the $73.49 to upgrade to hoppers. That's the set price on a ticket that is four days or longer. So it wouldn't seem to be tied to price

It would be nice if they'd only charge the $73.49 , I'd be very happy with that.

 

[ttaylorcan]

Ok just had another chat session with AM and at least this time they took the time to record the dates and stores i used the coupons at BUT this was the final outcome
"the appropriate department will look into this further for you and investigate and they anticipate having it resolved by the end of March 2017.
JOHNR: what?? end of MARCH!
Georges: Appreciate your passion (as I typically do) and please let me know if there is anything else I can assist you with today John?

JOHNR: but it clearly state in the terms and conditions and FAQs on line (which i kept a screen shot of BTW) that these bonus cash miles would be posted by end of february

Georges: John, I've provided you All the Correct information, there is no question about this.. if we have another date, you will be the first to know!

And then he left the session ... poof, gone.

Our Blue Book showed up and good grief ... we "only" have to use offers from 2 or more partners in our booklet ... uhm there are ONLY 2 in it and they are ones we shopped the STB promotion at and won't go to in the winter. Now i shall retire to my spot on the couch and finish the container of ice cream the hubby picked up at Metro ... on sale AND bonus miles both in the flyer and targeted

I'm using the Sobeys coupons, only other offer was Staples 40 wus $80, so to get the bonus technically you'd get 40+50am bonus (so 90am) wus $80 at Staples. Pass.

 

[ttaylorcan]

What is this booklet that some people have gotten? Is it for Onyx collectors? I'm just Gold so maybe that's why I didn't get it?
Instead I got a Shell mailer for get up to 150 AM if I fill up to 1200L of the VPower

Our house has three gold collectors and two received the booklet offer. I'm always gold and usually get the booklet promos. The only difference that I can think of between my daughter, who didn't get the offer and husband who did for the first time was that I reflagged his airmiles account in the fall to receive promotions. One of the kind people on this thread replied to someone to do this to start their Sobeys am promos so I did it to my husband's account. Lo and behold he gets Sobey promos.

I know this doesn't help for this promo but it might be something to try.

Wow, 1200L, that's a lot of gas!

 

[ttaylorcan]

My booklet has a 3 cents off/litre at Shell til April, combinable with other offers. Husband's doesn't.

 

[ttaylorcan]

My booklet has a 3 cents off/litre at Shell til April, combinable with other offers. Husband's doesn't.

Actually, relooking at my booklet, the gas 3 cents offer might be included in the 2 offers needed to get the 50 bonus miles. So unclear, but it's on the booklet cover as a participating partner.

 

[Donald - my hero]

What is this booklet that some people have gotten? Is it for Onyx collectors? I'm just Gold so maybe that's why I didn't get it?
Instead I got a Shell mailer for get up to 150 AM if I fill up to 1200L of the VPower

Once our booklet showed up today i was able to confirm it's the same offers i can view on my page .. follow these steps to find them for you
On the home page click on Get miles

This will open up a window (that i can't capture urgh!) where you will find the words "Find offers" on the far right under "more ways to get miles" click on that to find this

clicking on "see my offers" will open up a new tab with your offers ... you need to click ONE MORE time on this. it will open up yet another tab where you will FINALLY find your coupons. A LOT of work for 50 AM if you ask me. Like i said, we won't use any of them!

 

[Debbie]

I'm using the Sobeys coupons, only other offer was Staples 40 wus $80, so to get the bonus technically you'd get 40+50am bonus (so 90am) wus $80 at Staples. Pass.

That's what I got, too. No choice at all, to be honest. On the positive, I was ready to print the Foodland coupons, anyway, so it saved me some printer ink.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I just got off the phone with the My Offers folks. I had so many paper and electronic offers used today, my spend $150/get 35 didn't show on the receipt.

I called them and the guy essentially questioned me about my spend. He asked how much did you spend, then he asked how much was the tax. Now, in normal math $150 x 1.15 = $172.50, but we all know we pay minimal tax on groceries. When I told him my tax was like $7.00, he was very leary and said that he was going to push it through but not mark it as a system error.

Sometimes those offers are a pain in the butt. *rant over*

 

[bababear_50]

Well no little blue book for me on the airmiles site or in the mail...
Hmmmmm ...though from what you are all saying I guess I can miss this promotion.
Hugs Mel

 

[Donald - my hero]

Those AM Disney tickets are looking better all the time gang! Rumors are floating around that starting tomorrow with the standard February ticket increase Disney will be adding expiration dates to them! The rumored date is Dec 2018 SO the stated "non-expiring" CDN discounted tickets will be a double advantage. Save 25% (more depending on the actual ticket jump) and non-expiring. The fact that there have been reports that they have added a line on the CDN ticket offer of expiration date confirms this in my mind. I would encourage those of you who have these tickets to take screen shots and/or send for e-mail confirmation of the current non-expiration policy to CYA if need be!

 

[Sailormoon2]

I would encourage those of you who have these tickets to take screen shots and/or send for e-mail confirmation of the current non-expiration policy to CYA if need be!

I would not want to add more confusion to this issue, but are you implying that those of us with AM Vouchers, acquired recently at the reduced point "cost" may need to prove that they are still valued beyond Dec 2017? I have 2 5-Day passes from AM that I won't be using until 2018.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

So which tickets are going to have expiry?

The AM website tickets or the Cdn 25% off (WDW site) tickets?

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

The fact that there have been reports that they have added a line on the CDN ticket offer of expiration date confirms this in my mind.

Can you post a link to this so we can understand which type of tickets is getting the expiry?

 

[Sailormoon2]

@ilovetotravel1977 The AM tickets do not have an expiry listed on their website. The Cdn 25% off the Disney Site currently have Dec 2017 listed as the expiry.