Hub and I have avoided travelling with Air Canada (no one calls it our ‘national airline’ do they?). It’s been so long we’d forgotten why. But booking a trip with Air Canada vacations reminded us big time. We were enticed by the fact the departure and arrival times meant we wouldn’t lose an entire day at the airport and perhaps get caught in flight cancellations. The long list of Privileges on page 243 of the glossy travel brochure helped and the note that our intended hotel – Occidental Nuevo Vallerta – was a property participating in their program was the clincher. Unfortunately, when we arrived, we discovered the Privileges were basically vapour-ware…for a while. I didn’t learn how to haggle in Thailand for nothing! But…

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