Not exact matches
We determined the rewards
rate on the
Marriott Rewards ® Premier Credit Card to be anywhere between 0.8 % and 4 % when you use it for hotel stays - that is because you get anywhere between 1 and 5
points for every $ 1 you spend.
I booked a room a few months in advance and got a decent
rate as a Gold member of
Marriott reward
points.
Together with nice
points earning
rate, each year you get a complimentary night at
Marriott properties (categories 1 - 5), and a free 5th night if you redeem your
points for 4 consecutive night at
Marriott properties.
However, these free night awards are restricted to Starwood and
Marriott stays with redemption
rates of 50,000
points or less.
You can also transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards to Ritz - Carlton (
Marriott) at a 1:1 ratio, but because of redemption
rates for award stays, you're better off using Chase
points elsewhere (or just to top off your Ritz - Carlton account).
The
Marriott Rewards loyalty program will grant you 600 travel
points for each eligible stay to redeem for Southwest Airlines flights and 10
Marriott points per $ 1 spent on room
rates and qualifying charges at
Marriott.
Looking for hotels that offer PointSavers
rates or are expensive because of an event or the time of year will give you more bang for each
Marriott point you redeem.
Marriott properties fall into nine different categories that range from 7,500 to 45,000
points per night at standard
rates, or 6,000 to 40,000
points per night at PointSavers
rates.
A
Marriott Rewards ® Premier Credit Card will cost you a little less ($ 85 / yr versus $ 95 / yr) and earn
points at a higher
rate.
It has a great
points earning
rate for purchases at SPG ® and
Marriott properties, great redemption
rate for hotel stays, and a bonus for
points transfer to partner airlines.
Since
Marriott and Ritz - Carlton
points are interchangeable, you could also use the sign - up bonus for a two - night stay at a Tier 4 Ritz - Carlton property like the Ritz - Carlton Half Moon Bay, at a
rate of 50,000
points per night when booked at the PointSavers level, versus paying north of $ 600 per night.
The current sign - up bonus for the
Marriott Rewards Premier Business Card is a great opportunity to stock up on
points, especially if you're planning to travel during the peak summer season, when out - of - pocket
rates can go through the roof.
Marriott points are incredibly useful for stays at
Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels, and they can also be transferred to the Starwood Preferred Guest Program (at a 3:1 transfer
rate) and used for SPG stays or transferred to SPG partner airlines.
Earn 2.5
points or 1 air mile per $ 1 on the room
rate at
Marriott Executive Apartments.
Hilton and
Marriott both have a best -
rate guarantee, so if you see a better deal elsewhere, contact the hotel's reservation desk and ask to have it matched, with
points awarded for a direct booking.
More reasonably, there are some outstanding
Marriott properties featured in the PointsAway Book staring at Category 3, offering PointSavers
rates at 10,000
points or standard
rates at 15,000.
Marriott Rewards
points transfer to Flying Blue at different
rates depending how many
points you transfer:
Marriott Rewards does offer the ability to transfer your
points into other rewards programs, but the transfer
rates are dismal compared to the SPG ® program (which offers plenty of airline mileage programs with much better transfer
rates).
Since
Marriott recently acquired the Starwood Preferred Guest ® hotel collection, your
Marriott Rewards
points can be transferred into SPG ®
points (and vice-versa) at a
rate of 3:1 once you link your accounts.
Get 4,000 additional Membership Rewards
points (or $ 40 statement credit) one - time by using your enrolled Card to spend $ 200 + on room
rate and room charges, when you pay for your stay with JW
Marriott from 3/30/18 to 6/18/2018.
Get a one - time award of 2,000 additional Membership Rewards
points by using your enrolled Card to spend a total of $ 100 + on room
rate and room charges with a participating Courtyard by
Marriott property by 12/31/2016.
Because Tiffany's
Marriott points would only cover one night at this
rate, we decided simply looking for the best deal on a quality property made more sense than hinging the trip on using those
points.
Even if Lauren had hundreds of thousands of Ultimate Rewards
points, I wouldn't recommend using them toward a
Marriott stay given the relatively affordable nightly
rates available.
For a week's stay on the island,
Marriott's property would require an eye watering 240,000
points, which is actually a discount from the normal daily
rate because travelers receive a 5th night free when booking 4 award nights with
Marriott.
Barry Moltz, small business expert and speaker Favorite business credit card: Starwood Preferred Guest Business card «Rewards accumulated with this card are flexible since it has a 2:1
rate for SPG and
Marriott, plus 1:1
point transfer to most frequent - flier partners.
If you are looking at staying at a Category 1
Marriott hotel and it's available at a PointSavers
rate, you can book the room for only 6,000
points per night.
Marriott also recently acquired Starwood hotels, and, though you can't book Starwood hotel stays from your Ritz - Carlton account, you can transfer your
points to the Starwood program at a reasonable 3:1
rate.
A
Marriott Rewards ® Premier Credit Card will cost you a little less ($ 85 / yr versus $ 95 / yr) and earn
points at a higher
rate.
Earn 10 Ritz - Carlton Rewards
points or 2 airline miles for every $ 1 spent on your room
rate at Ritz - Carlton and
Marriott hotels worldwide.
Earn 2.5
points or 1 air mile per $ 1 on the room
rate at
Marriott Executive Apartments.
The earning
rates on the card are not that good besides earning 5
points for every $ 1 spent at
Marriott locations.
The transfer
rate is 1 Starpoint = 3
Marriott / Ritz Carlton Rewards
Points.
On another stay at the
Marriott Renaissance in Phoenix, I earned 10,017
points on a $ 319 base
rate for a 31 % return (or $ 100 back).
Since
Marriott points can be transferred to SPG at a
rate of 3:1, some people might be interested in converting their 80,000 sign - up bonuses into 26,666 SPG
points.
I'm then staying next door to the convention center for 5 nights using 140,000
Marriott Rewards
points (vs a cash
rate of about $ 4,000).
This hotel's standard
rate is usually over $ 100 a night, so that's $ 1,200 in value that you can get from 100,000
Marriott points.
Marriott Rewards
points will only be available as a Look No Further Best
Rate Guarantee reward option if the guest making the claim is a
Marriott Rewards Member at the time the claim is submitted.
You receive less value on your
points, but you can still get cool stuff for a good
rate through the
Marriott 10K Collection.
When submitting the claim, the guest must choose either the
Marriott Rewards
points award option or the discount off the lower
rate option.
Category 6 hotels require 30,000
Marriott Reward
Points for a free night but, at those rates, you'd be nuts to redeem points at this hotel if you were planning to visit Dr
Points for a free night but, at those
rates, you'd be nuts to redeem
points at this hotel if you were planning to visit Dr
points at this hotel if you were planning to visit Dresden.
The reason why
Marriott Flight and Hotel packages are often cited as a great use of
Marriott Rewards
points is because, essentially, they allow you to purchase airline miles at a ratio of 1
Marriott Rewards
point to 1 airline mile /
point... and that's a very good exchange
rate.
The
points issued by most of the big hotel chains (
Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Club Carlson) are typically worth well short of 1 cent each and the accrual
rates from the corresponding credit cards don't fully compensate for these pathetic valuations.
It looks like,
Marriott is slowly adding properties with Cash +
Points rates.
If you're going to transfer less than 200,000
Marriott Rewards
points to AAdvantage you're limited to transferring them in a straight
points to miles swap at the following conversion
rates (click to enlarge):
Eventually I came across the JW
Marriott Cannes which had standard
points room availability for just 40,000
points a night where the daily room
rate was $ 1,300 (929 Euro)!
You can convert your AMEX MR
points to
Marriott Rewards by first transferring them to SPG Starpoints (2:1
rate).
The transfer needs to be performed at the hotel program's website and the conversion
rate of hotel
points to Avios will vary based on the program and in some cases, such as with
Marriott, will be based on the number of
points being transferred.
SPG
points transfer to
Marriott at
rate of 3:1.
Earlier this year it was announced that the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas would become part of
Marriott's Autograph Collection, and up to this
point we've been waiting to find out what the redemption
rates would be for those wishing to use their
Marriott Rewards Balances on a trip to the sun.
Just a quick note to highlight a promotion that
Marriott is currently running in the UK which allows guests to book a special weekend
rate which will get them a bonus 2,000
Marriott Rewards
Points & breakfast during their stay.