For those of you with a PC Financial Mastercard and/or have a PC Insiders Subscription, you may have used PC Travel to make a travel booking. Every booking you make earns you free PC Optimum points you can use to get free groceries.
But, there’s some major news to report on PC Travel to be aware of.
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PC Travel website being shut down on July 15, 2023
The PC Travel website is being decommissioned – you’ll see it the next time you head to pctravel.ca.
The site will be shut down on July 15, 2023. You can continue to make bookings until July 14th, for travel ending on or before July 31, 2023.
After that time, the site will be no more. So if you have any bookings you want to make with them, act now before the site is gone forever.
Alternative rewards programs to earn bonus rewards on travel purchases
PC Travel’s biggest plus was earning points you could use to get free groceries.
There’s another program you can turn to in Scene+. Scene+ operates a travel website in conjunction with Expedia. On all your hotel and car rental bookings, you’ll earn 3 points per $1 spent.
And this is available to all Scene+ members – no special credit cards or subscriptions included. It doesn’t apply to all travel unfortunately, but covers 2 basics. Those points you earn? You can use them in these 4 ways, all for a value of 1 cent per point:
- future travel with Scene+/Expedia,
- groceries at Sobeys and Safeway,
- Cineplex products, and
- Recipe Unlimited restaurants.
If you want to earn even more Scene+ points, Scotiabank has a lineup of Scene+ credit cards you can look at. You won’t earn any bonus rewards on travel bookings, but you’ll still get 1 point per $1 spent on all your purchases.
Here are the Scene+ credit cards you can take a peek at.
×1 Award winner 
GC: $100
1x Award winner
GC: $100
GC: $50
$100 GeniusCash + Up to 50,000 bonus points + No foreign exchange fees.*
Let’s take a closer look at one of them – the Scotiabank Passport Visa Infinite Card.
Here’s what you’ll earn for rewards on all your purchases:
- 3 Scene+ points per $1 spent at Sobeys, Safeway, FreshCo and more
- 2 Scene+ points per $1 spent on groceries, restaurants, entertainment, and daily transit
- 1 Scene+ point per $1 on all other purchases
It also comes with these excellent travel perks:
- no foreign exchange fees,
- Visa Airport Companion membership with 6 free passes, and
- 11 types of insurance.
You’ll get all this for a standard annual fee of $150.
Your thoughts on PC Travel
It’s unfortunate the site is disappearing.
Any experiences you want to share about using PC Travel? Any dream destinations you want to go for while the service is still up?
Let us know in the comments below.
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