Rkintx

#FairmontMoments one day sale on June 24th from 1pm to 4pm EST.
Buy $250 in Fairmont Hotels electronic gift cards and receive a $50 gift card free.

Found on Fairmont Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/fairmonthotels?fref=nf

CanadaDH

Excellent! I've put a reminder in my calendar.

I liked it better last time when it was buy $500 and get $100 back, since this means making more purchase transactions. I recall having to call Amex a couple of times to unlock my account when the gift card purchases were flagged by their fraud detection systems.

I've got about $10K in booked reservations, so this could take me most of Wednesday buying gift cards. For a 17% discount on everything, it will be time well spent.

Thanks for posting ^

EDIT - after reading through the comments on Facebook, it seems I can just purchase several $250 cards in a single purchase transaction. That should make it easier. I don't know why I didn't do that last time, unless last time that actually had to be separate purchase transactions.

tomy77

I'm assuming this can't be used at Raffles hotel right?

mahasamatman

For those who bought them last year, did they show up as Fairmont transactions and earn 5x points with the Fairmont Chase Visa?

CanadaDH

I don't have a Chase Visa (although I would love it if Canadian residents were able to), but it did not show as a Fairmont transaction on my card. The merchant was "Buyatab" and appeared as "EGIFT CARD888 267 0447 VANCOUVER" on my statement.

JunkDiver

What card did you use? A Chase card?

TravelStar

If I remember correctly from the last time...you need to purchase the gift cards ONE AT A TIME in order to receive a bonus for each purchased e-card. If you buy multiple e-cards in a single purchase you will only receive ONE bonus card for the entire purchase.
I found that out the hard way last time.

jerryhung

OP should change title to include June 24 1-4pm EST

Still debating if I need one... ha

Jim055

Same here.
Last year I used my Chase Fairmont Visa card. No Fairmont bonus points were awarded.

CanadaDH

That's my concern as well. However, Fairmont did post on Facebook that you just need to purchase individual $250 cards, but multiple cards can be purchased in the same shopping cart transaction, and will qualify. I would expect the Facebook team is a legitimate source of info, since that's the only means by which they seem to have even mentioned this promo.

I'm not going to be very pleased if I have to split up my purchases into 40 separate transactions.

SometimeTraveler

Perhaps a silly question but how do you purchase the gift certificates. I want to be ready to buy some next Wednesday.

Thanks

CanadaDH

https://fairmontgiftcard.com/consumer/main/home.py

SFOPhD

1) I live in the US and wish to purchase a gift card in USD to avoid a foreign transaction fee on a specific card. Will I be penalized somehow if I use this to pay for a hotel in Canada (i.e. some odd conversion fee)?

2) Anyone have any experience on whether or not this posts as travel to earn 2x on the Chase Sapphire Preferred card?

Genesis321

Hi all,

sorry to post a newbie question as I am totally new to this and living in Europe:

Just to be sure: from 1pm to 4pm EST means Eastern Standard Times,(i.e. 5 hours behind UTC)?

I will stay @Fairmont Kea Lani in August and have to purchase breakfast buffet for me and my family. Can I use these giftcards to purchase the breakfast when I will check-out?

Thx in advance for your help

Jasper2009

Correct. Or "Toronto local time" if that's easier.

Yes.