Yes, it's Rouge (eww) but it's direct from Toronto to St. Kitts/Nevis for $230CDN return for the dates of April 1-8.
Air B&B is a good place to find reasonable accommodations there.
Go to AirCanadaVacations.com and the price you'll see will be for two (the default). Change it to one if you wish to see the $210 price!
Under "Vacation Search," choose "Flights."
Then place in the April 1-8th dates.
Book fast before the rates go up or they sell out!
A choice of points for travel that you can book yourself based on a dollar per point value (1%) or as 1% cashback.
A rotating spending threshold--that means you get a bonus for every time you spend a certain amount on the card. For every $10K you spend on the card in a year, you get a bonus $25 or the equivalent in points.
A welcome bonus that is only available once every 24 months to reduce (not totally kill) churners (people who cancel and reapply for credit cards).
A concierge service such as that offered to AMEX platinum business/personal card holders that allows them to call and get assistance finding a hard to find item or service or just booking travel for them.
Let's see if any banks bite at my suggestions!
Sunwing is offering flights, but it seems to be limited to April 1st-9th for $53CDN more but 2nd-8th for $212.95 for their direct flight from Toronto to Fort Lauderdale. Sunwing only flies between the two cities on Saturdays and Sundays. Go to Sunwing's website to get this rate. NOT available on FlightNetwork or Googleflights. Book soon!
Today, I attempted to see how far apart two places are by car using my GoogleMaps app. It was between 2 US locations, and I was offered $15 off my first Uber or Lyft (competitor in the States) ride by booking it through Googlemaps. In Canada, it's only $15 CDN off and only with Uber. Some report it expired in February, but I still got the offer today.
You first need to try GoogleMaps for 2 US locations. Then, the offer pops up. Then, switch it over to two Canadian locations. Even then, if it's not your first time using Uber, it still may only ask you to link all your private info of Uber, including your payment information, and then get stuck like it did for me.
No promo code seems to be required, though if you use "GOOGLE" as your promo code, it won't work if you've used Uber before, but through GoogleMaps it will work. Check to see if the offer pops up when you use GoogleMaps for directions.
If you have recently been downgraded in your status with Marriott (platinum to gold or gold to silver), as of April 1st, the number of points necessary to get back to your original status is going UP!
CHECK YOUR STATUS WITH MARRIOTT if you expect to see gold or platinum showing up.
With SPG, while they'll match your status, one is unable to upgrade SPG status if lost by using points.
Before April 2017, if you had platinum status and are now dropped to gold, you can get back to platinum for 40K Marriott (13.33K SPG or around 27K AMEX points--first convert to SPG, then to Marriott). After March 31st, it will cost you 60K Marriott points! With platinum, you get more points for stays, an option of a snack or points for any stay (lame), United Silver status which allows you one free checked-in luggage on any Star Alliance flight (including of course, Air Canada) on top of whatever allowance you already may have. I find this useful with short haul flights or even any flight within North America, including Puerto Rico, which allows for NO checked-in luggage AT ALL without paying for it.
Most importantly, it gives you free upgrades that tend not to be guaranteed until the day of check in, but gold status offers this as well.
For those who've lost your gold status, it will cost you 25K to get it back before April--but 35K Marriott points after March.
Lock in now (unless you have a credit card that offers SPG Gold status and you don't care about the extra perks of platinum)!