TD · Visa
Best if you book through Expedia
Six and eight points a dollar sounds enormous until you learn a TD Rewards point is worth half a cent. It is a 3% card with an Expedia lock-in.
Rates and features verified 2026-08-18Full terms and conditions
What we like, and what we don’t
Worth having
- 6 points a dollar on groceries, dining and transit works out to 3% back
- Very generous caps: $25,000 each on groceries, dining and transit
- $100 annual travel credit on Expedia For TD bookings of $500 or more
- Four complimentary lounge visits a year, which is four more than most cards here
- Full travel package including 21 days of medical, trip cancellation, interruption and flight delay
Watch out for
- TD Rewards points are worth half a cent, so every multiplier on the page needs halving in your head
- 8x on travel applies only through Expedia For TD. Book anywhere else and you get the 2x base rate
- The $100 travel credit is also locked to Expedia For TD and needs a single $500 booking
- No gas or drugstore bonus category
- Lounge visits beyond the fourth cost US$32, and every guest costs US$32
- TD's own offer terms page carries two contradictory end dates and a different bonus size from the product page
What this card earns
- Groceries
- 6x
- Dining and restaurants
- 6x
- Recurring bills and subscriptions
- 4x
- Transit
- 6x
- Entertainment
- 4x
- Everything else
- 2x
- Bonus rates apply up to
- $100,000 of annual spending after that, the base rate
- What we value a point at
- 0.5¢
The earning fine print
The big multipliers look dramatic because TD Rewards points are worth half a cent. 6 points a dollar is 3% back, not 6%. 8 points a dollar on travel applies ONLY to bookings made through Expedia For TD; travel booked anywhere else earns the 2 point base rate, so travel is recorded at base here. Gas and drugstore are not bonus categories. The caps are unusual: groceries, dining and transit each get their own $25,000 annual cap, while recurring bills and streaming SHARE a single $25,000 cap between them. That is $100,000 of bonus-eligible spending a year, which is our arithmetic rather than a TD figure. TD never says whether "annual" means the calendar year, the statement year or your anniversary.
The welcome offer
- Welcome bonus
- 20,000 points after you spend $0, within 1 month
- Second tier
- 126,000 points after you spend $7,500, within 6 months
- Also included
- The first-year annual fee is waived
What the offer actually requires
146,000 points sounds enormous and is worth about $730 at TD's own Expedia redemption rate of 200 points to the dollar. Reaching it requires $7,500 of spending in 180 days. TD headlines "up to $1,300 in value" by adding the fee rebates, the $100 travel credit and a birthday bonus. Existing cardholders are excluded, as is anyone who has held or closed this card in the last 12 months. TD's own offer terms page carries two contradictory end dates and a different bonus size from the product page, so treat the exact figures as unstable.
Fees and interest rates
- Annual fee
- $139 waived the first year
- Additional card
- $50
- Foreign transaction fee
- 2.5%
- Dishonoured payment fee
- $48
- Purchase APR
- 21.99%
- Cash advance APR
- 22.99%
- Balance transfer APR
- 22.99%
- Balance transfer fee
- 3%
Who can get this card
- Minimum personal income
- $60,000
- Minimum household income
- $100,000
Insurance and benefits
- Travel medical
- $2,000,000 first 21 days of a trip
- Trip cancellation
- $1,500
- Trip interruption
- $5,000
- Flight delay
- $500
- Baggage delay
- $1,000
- Mobile device
- $1,000
- Rental car damage waiver
- Included
- Purchase protection
- Included
- Extended warranty
- Included
- Airport lounge
- 4 free visits a year
- Annual travel credit
- $100
- Concierge
- Included
What the benefits really mean
Lounge access is 4 complimentary visits per MEMBERSHIP year for the primary cardholder only, through the Visa Airport Companion programme. Every visit after that and every guest costs US$32. TD markets "1,200+ global lounges" on the product page and mentions the per-visit fee only in the welcome guide. The $100 travel credit requires a single Expedia For TD booking of $500 or more and resets each calendar year. Travel medical covers 21 days, dropping to 4 days at 65 and over. Purchase security and extended warranty share a $60,000 lifetime limit across all your TD cards. CAUTION: TD's application PDF shows 20.99% for purchases against 21.99% on its live pages.
Our verdict
A perfectly decent 3% card wearing the costume of a 6% card. That is not dishonest exactly, because TD publishes the 200 points to the dollar redemption rate, but almost nobody does that arithmetic before applying.
The real question is whether you want your travel spending routed through Expedia For TD. The 8x rate and the $100 credit both require it, and if you prefer booking direct with airlines and hotels then two thirds of this card's pitch does not apply to you.
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Where this came from. td.com product page, welcome guide, offer terms page, TD Rewards redemption pages, benefit coverages guide. We take every figure from the issuer’s own pages, never from another comparison site, and we leave a field blank rather than guess at it.