There are some promotions so generous that they’re worth mentioning a couple of times. One of those is the promotion that Air Canada’s Aeroplan loyalty program is currently running for Starwood stays through December 9, 2012. I explained the promotion in detail here, so check out that post.

The basics are that you earn 3,000 bonus Aeroplan miles for three nights at Starwood hotels between September 10 and December 9, 2012, and you earn an additional 2,000 bonus Aeroplan miles for another two nights (meaning you earn a total of 5,000 Aeroplan miles for five nights). These nights don’t have to be consecutive, and you still earn points for the stay as you usually would. Just register for the promotion here, as it applies retroactively, and the Aeroplan miles will automatically post in addition to the points you’d usually earn for your stays (including bonus points from Starwood’s fall promotion).

As you can see below, my 5,000 bonus miles just posted.

Woot! Thanks Aeroplan and Starwood!

Posted on November 15th, 2012 by lucky
Filed under: Air Canada, Great Deals, SPG | 17 Comments »

  1. November 15th, 2012 at 6:10 am

    The Weekly Flyer said,

    Fantastic, this could be my first Aeroplan mile earned :)

    Just registered, thanks.

  2. November 15th, 2012 at 6:24 am

    Ryan said,

    I received my 3k as well…one more night and I should get the additional 2k (since I have 4 nights during the promo period)

  3. November 15th, 2012 at 8:17 am

    Mihir said,

    I got all 8K posted today. I was a lucky one who had a 3 night stay planned in Toronto during the period so got 3K for Canadian stay too. Thanks.

  4. November 15th, 2012 at 8:44 am

    Jon said,

    Keep in mind that if you need more Aeroplan points to redeem a particular award you’re looking for, you can transfer points in from Wyndham Rewards (2.5:1 ratio), AmEx Membership Rewards (1:1 ratio), or SPG (1:1 ratio….with a 5K bonus if you transfer in 20K SPG points). There are other transfer partners as well, though not at very good transfer rates IMO.

  5. November 15th, 2012 at 10:48 am

    JBG said,

    Lucky, what does this mean “you don’t even have to credit your stays to Aeroplan”?

  6. November 15th, 2012 at 10:55 am

    lucky said,

    @ JBG — Wrote this way too late at night. My point was that you earn points as you usually would for your stays, but it’s a moot point with Starwood, since you don’t have an airline miles earning option for stays (but instead you can just transfer points after the fact).

  7. November 15th, 2012 at 11:01 am

    TonySCV said,

    I’ve got some strange activity in my account related to this – looks like the miles were added then immediately removed. Odd.

    Redeem -2000 11/08/2012 AEROPLAN ADD PROMOTIONS
    Earn +2000 11/08/2012 AEROPLAN 5 NIGHTS BONUS (FBA)
    Redeem -3000 11/08/2012 AEROPLAN ADD PROMOTIONS
    Earn +3000 11/08/2012 AEROPLAN 3 NIGHTS BONUS (FBA)

  8. November 15th, 2012 at 11:02 am

    JBG said,

    Lucky, thanks.

    I doubt I’ll ever fly them, but I’ll take the miles. Do the transfer 1:1 anywhere?

  9. November 15th, 2012 at 11:04 am

    lucky said,

    @ TonySCV — Odd, have you completed the required number of stays yet? Maybe they posted them prematurely?

  10. November 15th, 2012 at 11:05 am

    lucky said,

    @ JBG — Well there is this one option for converting them to US Airways miles:
    http://boardingarea.com/blogs/viewfromthewing/2012/08/29/redeeming-american-express-membership-rewards-on-star-alliance-airlines-without-fuel-surcharges/

  11. November 15th, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    beachfan said,

    Thanks for the reminder!

  12. November 15th, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    DBest said,

    Another way to earn 5000 Aeroplan points is with thier Hertz promotion. Rent a car for 5+ days and get 5k points. Watch out for the YQ though when you go to redeem them! http://www3.aeroplan.com/promotions/promotion_details.do?promotion=promo_webup2966_Hertz

  13. November 15th, 2012 at 6:17 pm

    Jeff said,

    Note that this ratio is now unfavourable:
    http://canadiankilometers.com/looks-like-another-decent-value-for-aeroplan-just-evaporated/

  14. November 15th, 2012 at 10:34 pm

    Chris said,

    My points posted as well, although given how they structured the transaction (earning SPG points followed by instantaneous conversion to Aeroplan), it’s too bad the points couldn’t have stayed where they were.

  15. December 18th, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    Eric said,

    I just received the same strange activity TonySCV got, but no activity in AeroPlan:

    Any idea Lucky? I suspect I might have mis-typed my Aeroplan number during registration and it wouldn’t let me re-register when I did try it again. Neither Aeroplan or SPG can confirm.

  16. December 21st, 2012 at 10:16 am

    HFH said,

    Same here, ‘odd’ activity in my SPG account on Dec18, no action on the Aeroplan side

  17. December 27th, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    Tim said,

    Me too, the same +/- activity on my SPG account but no miles on the aeroplan side.

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