Aeroplan: Save 10,000 Points on Hotels and Car Rentals

Aeroplan is taking 10,000 points off hotel and car rental redemptions again, with one promo code covering both through the end of September. Flights remain the better use of points most of the time, but a discount applied at checkout narrows the gap enough to be worth checking.

From September 16 to September 30, 2026, Aeroplan members can take 10,000 points off an eligible hotel stay or car rental with promo code WWSS26. Both booking types need a redemption of 50,000 points or more before the code is applied.

This run is simpler, with one code covering both hotels and car rentals. The points off are smaller than August’s, but the floor is lower on both sides. Let’s crunch the numbers.

How the Promo Code Offers Work

Any Aeroplan member in good standing can use this code at the checkout step on the Aeroplan travel portal. There’s no limit on how many times you can use a code during the offer period, though only one code applies to each booking.

Redemption	Promo code	Minimum	Points off
Hotel stay	WWSS26	50,000	10,000
Car rental	WWSS26	50,000	10,000

The booking window runs from September 16, 2026 at 12:01am NT to September 30, 2026 at 11:59pm PT. Enter the code at checkout on the Aeroplan travel portal, and if your cart clears the minimum for your booking type, the reduction applies automatically before you confirm.

One warning on changes. If you cancel or modify a discounted booking after the window closes on September 30, the code is gone for good, so any rebooking needs to happen inside the window.

This is a discount taken at checkout rather than a rebate paid out afterward, so the only points total you’ll ever see is the reduced one.

You need enough points to cover the full total before the code is applied, so a 50,000-point hotel stay needs 50,000 points sitting in your account even though you’ll only hand over 40,000. Points + Cash bookings are eligible on both offers, and local taxes and fees, such as resort or destination fees, may still be collected directly by the property.

The reduction is a flat points amount, so the discount shrinks the more you redeem.

At its 50,000-point floor, the code works out to an effective 20% discount on either a hotel stay or a car rental. Push a booking to 100,000 points and the 10,000 off is only 10%.

Since there’s no limit on how many times you can use a code, the move on a longer trip is to break it into separate four-night bookings at the same property. Each block earns its own free night and takes its own 10,000 points off, as long as each one still clears 50,000 points after the free night is applied.

The hotel offer also stacks with Aeroplan’s Fourth Night Free benefit, which on a longer stay is where most of the savings actually come from. That benefit is tied to holding an eligible Aeroplan co-branded credit card, so it isn’t automatic for every member. If you hold one, any four consecutive nights at the same property come with one night free in points.

The free night is priced at the average nightly cost of the stay rather than the cheapest night. If two nights price at 20,000 points and two at 30,000, the stay totals 100,000 points and you’re charged 75,000, which is the 25,000-point average across three nights.

Order matters when the two stack. The free night comes off first, and the promo code is applied to whatever is left, which is also the figure the 50,000-point minimum is measured against. A stay pricing at 60,000 points drops to 45,000 once the free night lands, and no longer qualifies for the code at all.

Is Booking Hotels with Aeroplan Points a Good Deal?

Generally speaking, you’ll get the best value by using your Aeroplan points for flights, especially in premium cabins.

But a hotel redemption can still be useful in the right situation. If you’ve got another program covering the flight portion of a trip, and a stay booked through HotelSavers lines up well, putting your Aeroplan points toward a hotel can make sense.

The complication is that you have to do the valuation yourself. Hotel redemptions tend to return around 1.7 to 1.8 cents per point (CAD), below our valuation of Aeroplan points at 2.0 cents per point, and the real number swings a lot by property.

Take a four-night stay at the Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Beach Resort in February 2027, in a Luxury Room. The four nights price at 116,000 points. Fourth Night Free removes 29,000, exactly a quarter of the total, leaving 87,000. That still clears the 50,000-point minimum, so WWSS26 comes off next for another 10,000, landing the stay at 77,000 points.

Notice what the flat reduction does here. Because the stay still costs 87,000 points once the free night lands, the 10,000 off is worth about 11%, not the full 20% you’d get booking right at the 50,000-point floor.

Whether 77,000 points is a good deal depends on the cash price for the same room and dates, so run that comparison before you commit. If the points would otherwise sit idle, or the cash outlay on a trip is the thing you’re trying to manage, a reduction of this size on a Bali stay is a real result. The argument for holding back applies mainly if you’re actively saving toward a premium cabin redemption, where the same points work harder.

A pricier hotel flips the math. During a previous promotion, a four-night stay at the Muu Bangkok Hotel, a Small Luxury Hotels property, priced at 60,750 points after the Fourth Night Free discount, against a cash rate near $1,138 (CAD).

That promotion took 15,000 points off against a lower 50,000-point minimum, dropping the stay to 45,750 points, which works out to around 2.5 cents per point. This run’s 50,000-point floor would bring a stay like this back into play, though at 10,000 off it would land at 50,750 points, or roughly 2.2 cents per point.

That’s the shape of this run. The reduction is smaller than August’s, but the lower floor brings more modest bookings back into play, and the gap between the two examples still holds the useful lesson, since pricier properties make the same points go further.

What to Check Before Redeeming on a Car Rental

The car rental side uses the same code and the same numbers, 10,000 points off a 50,000-point minimum, which is a 20% discount at the floor. That’s a step down from August’s 20,000-point reduction, the richest Aeroplan has offered in this series, but the lower floor means more rentals qualify.

A 17-day rental in Vancouver shows how it works. Seventeen days with Thrifty out of Vancouver International Airport (YVR), in a full-size car with unlimited kilometres, a Toyota Camry or similar, prices at 53,050 points, landing close to the floor. WWSS26 brings it down to 43,050 points.

Because the booking sits close to the minimum, the 10,000 off is worth close to 19%, not far off the full 20% at the floor. That’s where you want a flat discount to land, and it’s the argument for sizing a rental to the floor rather than well past it.

From there, run the arithmetic backwards. For those 43,050 points to hit our 2.0-cent valuation, the rental would need to cost roughly $860 (CAD). Price the same booking in cash directly with the rental company and compare. Landing under that number doesn’t make the redemption a mistake, it just tells you how hard your points are working, which is worth knowing before you commit them. Rental pricing swings a lot by destination and season, so this is a check worth repeating rather than a rule you can memorize.

There’s a second cost to redeeming here that never shows up in the points math. Most premium Canadian credit cards provide collision damage waiver coverage only when the full rental is charged to the card, and a points redemption doesn’t meet that condition. Award flights have a carve-out, where the Aeroplan co-branded cards extend coverage once taxes and fees hit the card. Nothing equivalent exists on the rental side.

That leaves you buying the rental company’s own waiver at $30 to $40 (CAD) a day, or leaning on another policy. On a 17-day rental like the one above, the waiver alone would run $510 to $680, which could wipe out the entire 10,000-point discount and then some. Read your card’s certificate before assuming you’re covered.

The smaller perks go the same way. Card-linked rental discounts, your status with the rental company, and any corporate or association rate codes generally only apply when you book direct, and you won’t be earning on the rental either. None of that is a reason to avoid the redemption, but it belongs in the comparison against the cash rate.

Worth noting that the terms pair the code with Fourth Night Free on hotel bookings only. There’s no equivalent benefit to stack on the car rental side, and the code doesn’t combine with any other promotion.

If you don’t hold one yet, the Aeroplan co-branded credit cards below are worth comparing.

Conclusion

This run is simpler and a little leaner, one code, 10,000 points off either a hotel stay or a car rental, with a 50,000-point floor on both. Booking near the floor is where it does the most work.

If you were already planning a redemption, the discount is simply worth taking. Where it gets more interesting is on a stay you were going to pay cash for anyway, because the code narrows the gap between the two enough to be worth re-running the numbers.

The booking window closes September 30, 2026, so run the numbers on your booking first and make sure the value lands where you want it.