I’m delighted to announce our subsequent in-person occasion: the Prince of Travel Signature Event, Vancouver 2023.
This full-day occasion will happen on Saturday, Might 6, 2023 on the Versante Hotel, and I can’t wait to see you there.
Our member pre-sale begins as of in the present day, March 17, whereas Normal Admission gross sales will start as of subsequent Monday, March 20.
Prince of Journey Signature Occasion, third Version
In-person occasions have been a significant focus for us at Prince of Journey in recent times, and we’ve had the pleasure of welcoming you to numerous gatherings throughout Canada:
This 12 months, we’ll be bringing our Signature Occasion sequence again to Vancouver. As all the time, we’ve been targeted on pulling out all of the stops to make our occasions as nice as they are often, and we’re eager to experiment with a couple of new and attention-grabbing parts at each occasion we host.
You’ll discover all the main points at our official Vancouver 2023 event page, and I’ll contact upon among the highlights of the occasion beneath.
Welcome to Vancouver 2023
Our occasion will happen from 9:00am–3:45pm on Saturday, Might 6, 2023, on the Versante Hotel in Richmond.
Versante Lodge is an unbiased boutique property located simply minutes from Vancouver Worldwide Airport, and it little doubt ranks as probably the most luxurious resort in all of Richmond.
Observe that in contrast to our previous two Signature Occasions, this one might be a full-day affair from the morning to the afternoon – with lunch supplied, in fact!
Sponsor
We’re thrilled to welcome again HSBC Financial institution Canada because the sponsor of this Prince of Journey Signature Occasion, following their participation at our Montreal occasion final 12 months.
As a part of HSBC’s sponsorship, you possibly can stay up for the next:
- Current an energetic HSBC bank card to obtain extra perks on the occasion, similar to precedence check-in, complimentary HSBC swag, and entry right into a prize draw for a $500 (CAD) pay as you go Mastercard courtesy of HSBC.
- Meet HSBC representatives on the occasion to debate your banking, bank card, and portfolio administration wants and join an HSBC product when you’re .
Particular Visitors
We’re honoured to welcome a YouTube energy couple from south of the border as our particular visitors at this occasion: Sebastian Fung and Mandy Hong, who might be becoming a member of me for a presentation on US bank cards.
Sebastian is the face of the Ask Sebby YouTube channel and is among the main consultants on US bank card methods and aspirational factors redemptions.
Mandy is Sebby’s companion in crime and covers subjects in bank cards, private finance, and journey on her personal Mandy Roams YouTube channel.
The Agenda
We’ll begin with visitor registration at 8:15am, adopted by opening remarks at 9am.
The primary session of the day is “Journey Tips of the Fashionable Period”, a panel dialogue amongst myself, Amy, Josh, and Kirin from the Prince of Journey workforce.
As a part of this round-table dialogue, we’ll be sharing our experiences round the entire journey methods we use to optimize our journeys, together with journey planning assets, FX options, baggage, SIM playing cards, navigation instruments, and extra.
After a short networking break, I’ll be joined by Prince of Journey workforce member Rachel for a presentation on “Maximizing Oneworld Redemptions”.
We speak loads about Aeroplan and Star Alliance, however there’s loads of worth to be extracted within the Oneworld ecosystem too. Rachel will stroll you thru how you can maximize every of the foremost Oneworld loyalty applications, after which I’ll lead a dwell demonstration of reserving a British Airways Avios multi-carrier award – primarily based on locations instructed by the viewers, in fact. 😉
After that, it’s time for lunch, which might be hosted in Bruno, Versante Lodge’s signature restaurant. I’ve dined at Bruno many instances and have discovered the meals to be persistently top-notch, so I can’t watch for our visitors to expertise their cooking as nicely.
For the primary of our two afternoon classes, I’ll be joined by our visitors Sebastian Fung and Mandy Hong for a chat on “Superior US Credit score Playing cards”.
Sebby and Mandy have a few years of expertise in navigating the early, center, and late phases of an optimized US bank card technique, and so they’re right here to share their knowledge with us, whereas I’ll be specializing in bringing the Canadian perspective to the US credit card game.
What follows subsequent is our major afternoon networking interval, which is able to happen in Alaïa, Versante Lodge’s Twelfth-floor bar and lounge house. There might be a bar service supplied right here, so you possibly can alternate your drink ticket(s) for a free drink or order extra drinks as nicely.
Lastly, we’ll wrap up the day with “Methods to Use Shopping for Teams” by Prince of Journey workforce member Rohin.
Shopping for teams allow you to earn rewards just by making retail purchases on behalf of the group, and Rohin will dive deep into this distinctive alternative and share with you the ins and outs of how all of it really works.
The occasion formally involves an finish at 3:45pm for everybody besides a choose group of VIP visitors – however extra on that beneath.
Meals & Drink
Attendees will obtain a catered lunch within the Bruno restaurant, in addition to one (1) complimentary drink voucher, which will be exchanged for beer, wine, fundamental spirits, and non-alcoholic drinks – both throughout lunch at Bruno, or on the bar at Alaïa in the course of the networking interval.
Prince of Journey Royal Platinum members will obtain one (1) extra complimentary drink voucher.
Visitors who buy the VIP Expertise may also obtain one (1) extra complimentary drink voucher.
Extra drinks might be obtainable for buy in the course of the afternoon networking session.
As well as, there might be a espresso, tea, and light-weight snack unfold on provide within the morning, from the registration interval by means of to the top of the primary networking session.
VIP Expertise
Impressed by the work of Anshul from Points, Miles & Bling on a latest Vancouver gathering he hosted, we’ve added a really thrilling part to the occasion: the chance to take a scenic seaplane flight throughout the town!
Buy the VIP Expertise to unlock an expensive and unique post-event gathering and create lasting reminiscences together with your fellow choose group of VIP visitors.
Following the principle occasion, you’ll be a part of myself in being whisked away to Vancouver Worldwide Airport to embark on a Harbour Air seaplane flight to Bowen Island, the place we’ll get pleasure from dinner and drinks on considered one of Vancouver’s most stunning outlying islands.
Dinner will happen at Barcelona Tapas & Wine Bar, whereas drinks might be hosted on the Doc Morgan’s pub on the island.
We’ll wrap up the night with a ferry journey again to Vancouver and a limousine drop-off in Downtown Vancouver or again on the Versante Lodge.
Along with the Fly & Dine expertise, the VIP Expertise additionally consists of:
- A $250 (CAD) resort credit score, redeemable in direction of hotels booked with Prince of Travel
- An enhanced lunch with Ricky Zhang and our particular visitors Sebastian Fung and Mandy Hong within the personal eating room of Bruno, Versante Lodge’s signature restaurant
- An additional drink ticket on the occasion
- Precedence check-in
- Entrance-row seating
VIP Expertise tickets are extraordinarily restricted in amount, so remember to make your buy sooner somewhat than later!
Prize Draw
We’re thrilled to supply two spectacular grand prizes on the occasion. Fortunate attendees might stroll away with every of the next:
- Signature Suite, Versante Lodge: Win a complimentary one-night keep within the Versante Lodge’s 785-square-feet Signature Suite, a powerful nook suite with world-class facilities and sweeping views of the Richmond skyline.
- $500 Journey Enhancement Present Card: Win a $500 (CAD) pay as you go Mastercard courtesy of HSBC Financial institution Canada. It’s essential to current an energetic HSBC bank card to enter this prize draw!
As well as, the next different prizes may also be obtainable to at least one fortunate winner:
Study Extra
As talked about above, you’ll discover all the main points that it’s essential know over at our official event page.
Why You Ought to Attend
I’ve all the time championed the notion that attending in-person Miles & Factors occasions can speed up your studying course of by many orders of magnitude, as you get to be taught firsthand from a big group of fellow practitioners who’re all extraordinarily keen to debate our shared ardour with different people who find themselves simply as obsessed with the identical factor.
By making the most of occasions like these to construct your community and join with everybody else, you’re in a position to take in data and be taught the methods of the commerce a lot quicker than merely scouring for data on-line.
Over the previous few years, I’ve witnessed many people going from an absolute newbie to a seasoned practitioner in very a brief span of time.
All of those fanatics had acknowledged the worth of in-person occasions initially of their journey, taking the chance to fulfill others, make associates, arrange group chats, and alternate data over the long term in a mutually useful method.
That’s the important thing to success on this sport, when you ask me – and certainly, I personally had adopted an identical path again within the day, having picked up a couple of bits and items of data right here and there after I first began, however solely considerably boosting my studying course of upon attending an occasion in 2016.
And now, with the price of flights and lodging surging in latest instances, it’s by no means been extra necessary to fulfill and join with like-minded people who will help you increase your sport.
On our half right here at Prince of Journey, we’re trying to put collectively as many of those occasions as doable throughout a variety of kinds and codecs to facilitate these conversations and get extra folks fascinated by Miles & Factors.
In doing so, I’m satisfied that we are able to unfold the thrill of journey far and vast and assist as many individuals as doable go on some superb journeys that they’d in any other case by no means get to expertise.
Get Your Tickets Now
Normal admission tickets are priced at $259 (CAD) per particular person, and consists of entry to the principle occasion on Saturday, Might 6, together with lunch and a drink ticket.
The VIP Expertise is priced at $995 (CAD) per particular person, and consists of the entire following:
- Entry to the principle occasion
- Precedence check-in
- Font-row seating
- Enhanced lunch with Ricky Zhang, Sebastian Fung, and Mandy Hong in Bruno’s personal eating room
- One extra drink ticket
- Transportation from Versante Lodge to YVR Harbour Air terminal
- Scenic Harbour Air seaplane flight to Bowen Island
- Dinner at Barcelona Tapas & Wine Bar
- Limitless drinks at Doc Morgan’s
- Ferry to Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver
- Limousine drop-off at Sheraton Wall Centre Vancouver or Versante Lodge
- $250 (CAD) resort credit score redeemable in direction of hotels booked with Prince of Travel
Each ticket varieties might be obtainable for buy as of 9am Pacific Time on Monday, March 20.
Prince of Travel members obtain reductions and precedence entry to tickets primarily based on their membership tier:
- Royal Platinum members obtain a $60 low cost on their first ticket, and will now buy tickets as of 9am Pacific Time on Friday, March 17.
- Platinum members obtain a $40 low cost on their first ticket. Tickets might be obtainable as of 9am Pacific Time on Saturday, March 18.
- Gold members obtain a $20 low cost on their first ticket. Tickets might be obtainable as of 9am Pacific Time on Sunday, March 19.
In case you’re fascinated by attending, it’s possible you’ll view all of the occasion particulars and buy your tickets on the Prince of Travel Signature Event Vancouver 2023 official page.
Area on the venue is restricted, and lots of had been left upset at earlier occasions after they hesitated on buying tickets and the occasion reached capability. I might due to this fact advocate securing your tickets sooner somewhat than later!
If in case you have any questions concerning the occasion apart from these listed underneath Often Requested Questions on the occasion web page, don’t hesitate to succeed in out, both by way of our contact form or by leaving a remark beneath.
See you on the Prince of Journey Signature Occasion on Might 6!
