Comments on: CIBC Rewards Guide | How to maximize your points

By: Hugh Campbell

Hugh Campbell — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 04:16:32 +0000

There is absolutely some good value to be extracted from CIBC rewards. Your comment about gift cards reminded me about a recent promo where you could purchase gift cards at 1cpp with a certain retailer and then purchase other gift cards in store with those gift cards to open up even more options.

Might not be the best value, but I find it depends on what fits your life best!

By: Chrissy @ Eat Sleep Breathe FI

Chrissy @ Eat Sleep Breathe FI — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 19:39:14 +0000

Thanks for this helpful post, Barry. The points are not bad, but I found the hotel redemptions to be pretty pitiful in Japan (even with using the Expedia trick). You will have much better luck using the points in North America. Way more hotels to choose from.

Now that our travels are grounded, I’ll have to look into other ways to use the points up. Thanks for listing the other redemption options.

By: Barry Choi

Barry Choi — Tue, 05 May 2020 17:50:51 +0000

In reply to Louise McCook.

Hi Louise.

It’s under the shop tab.

https://rewards.cibcrewards.com/shop/Details.aspx/67eee0c7-f510-4427-9f34-1528683a413d/-/1238/0/0/825300/NoSubCategory

By: Barry Choi

Barry Choi — Tue, 05 May 2020 17:50:51 +0000

In reply to Louise McCook.

Hi Louise.

It’s under the shop tab.

https://rewards.cibcrewards.com/shop/Details.aspx/67eee0c7-f510-4427-9f34-1528683a413d/-/1238/0/0/825300/NoSubCategory

By: Louise McCook

Louise McCook — Tue, 05 May 2020 15:51:04 +0000

I would like to redeem my points for Costco gift cards but I do not know how to do this…….can some one help me

By: Louise McCook

Louise McCook — Tue, 05 May 2020 15:51:04 +0000

I would like to redeem my points for Costco gift cards but I do not know how to do this…….can some one help me

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:16:28 +0000

Well, my review of CIBC Rewards Points is overwhelmingly negative. You’d be extremely lucky to find anything close to a saving of $228 for a 10,000-pt redemption, especially if your destination is outside Canada. Even if you can find flights that work schedule-wise (I almost always didn’t), you can’t book any flights with an origin outside of North America and only economy fares – and you sometimes can’t get anything but the rock-bottom economy fare on a Westjet flight. I switched to the Scotia Passport VISA Infinite to get something more like a cash-back card (redeem 10,000 points for $100 rebates on past travel purchases on the card) that gives me 2 more lounge visits per year and no transaction fees on foreign currency purchases. No more frustrations!!