Ends Today! Targeted: Earn 7.5K Bonus Marriott Points Per Month For Spending $5K On The Marriott Bonvoy Business AMEX
Update: DEAD! Don’t miss it if this becomes alive again. Sign up for deal notification alerts here!
Final Day To Register Your Marriott Bonvoy/Former Starwood Consumer AMEX To Earn Up To 3 Points Per Dollar Once Again, But Should You?
Update: Today is the final day to register for this promotion. If this link doesn't work you can also try looking in your AMEX...
HOT! Stay At The S. Regis Bal Harbour From Just $279 Plus Tax/Resort Fee!
Marriott is offering discounts on select resorts with special rates promo code: D3Q
You can save 15% off regular rates on 3 night stays and...
Earn A 75,000 Point Bonus On The Chase Marriott Bonvoy Boundless Consumer Card, Plus Where You Can Use Anniversary Nights!
Welcome bonus:
Signup for the Chase Marriott Bonvoy Boundless Consumer Card and you will earn 75K Marriott bonus points for opening this card and spending...
The @SPGAssist Twitter Account Has Been #Bonvoyed
Earlier this month I wrote about my experience being #Bonvoyed.
Just about every SPG loyalist feels #Bonvoyed in one way or another, so when some...
5 Marriott Hotels That Were Slated To Move Up To Category 8 Will Remain At Category 7!
Hundreds of Marriott hotels changed categories early this morning.
But as usual, not all hotels slated to change categories actually wind up changing categories. Hotel...
Final Hours To Lock In Hotel Bargains Before Marriott 2019 Category Changes: Category 8 Pricing, 346 Hotels Getting More Expensive, 37 Getting Less Expensive
Update: Today is the final day to lock in your hotel reservations now before they get more expensive!
Bonvoyed: Here’s What I Did With My Tier 4-5 Travel Package Certificate
Marriott pulled a fast one on loyalty members last August. Their social media representatives made posts implying that Marriott would treat members who purchased...
Roundup Of Benefits And Tomorrow’s Changes For 7 AMEX And Chase Marriott And Starwood Cards; Last Chance For An SPG Card!
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The Starwood Consumer AMEX Will Give One More Year (With Some Caveats) Of 3 Points Per Dollar Earnings!
I just got back from an amazing experience at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse (more about that soon!) and am catching up with the news from...
Marriott Rewards Will Be Renamed Marriott Bonvoy As They Are Big Enough To Call Themselves Just About Anything
On February 13th, Marriott will discontinue the Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest, and Ritz Carlton Rewards names.
Replacing those names will be the new unified...
Marriott Forces Al Maha Dubai To Restore Full Board And Activities On Award Stays
The Al Maha Luxury Collection Resort & Spa in Dubai was one of the very few bright spots of the SPG-Marriott merger. It went...
Ends Tonight! Get A 30% Bonus When You Transfer Hotel Points Into Air Canada Aeroplan Miles
Update: This offer ends tonight!
Marriott’s Latest Fiasco: A Massive Data Breach
As I wrote previously, the Marriott-Starwood merger has been one fiasco after another. The company that claims to live by the Golden Rule has failed...
Goodbye To The S. Regis Princeville Resort In Kauai
The S. Regis Princeville Resort in Kauai has left the Marriott program.
It's not the first former SPG hotel to leave Marriott. The S. Regis,...
Final Day To Play Marriott’s 29 Ways To Stay Game And Win Points Or Stays
Update: 11/8: Today is the last day to play, what have you won so far?
Bid Marriott Points Now On Once-In-A-Lifetime World Series Experiences; My History Using Miles For Baseball Memories
I've used 8 figures of miles earned from credit cards to fly myself and my family around the world in first class cabins and...
Get A 35% Bonus When You Transfer Marriott Points Into Air Canada Aeroplan Miles
Update: Today is the last day to get this bonus!
Marriott’s Latest Fiasco: Clawing Back Lifetime Nights
On Sunday I wrote about the plethora of fiascos, unforced errors, and downright sleaziness that have summed up the past few weeks since Marriott...
Join Marriott Rewards And Get A Free 25K Night After 2 Paid Stays
Join Marriott Rewards And Get A Free 25K Night After 2 Paid Stays
If you join Marriott Rewards via this link and make 2 paid...
The Marriott-Starwood Merger Has Been One Fiasco After Another
Mergers are never good for consumers and there are always pain points, but the Marriott-Starwood merger has crossed over into the absurd.
We knew that...
Final Day To Apply For Marriott And SPG Cards Before Cross-Bank Restrictions
Update: Offer expired!
Starting on Sunday, new rules will go into effect for Marriott and SPG Cards that will stop you from getting a signup bonus...
Should You Get The New SPG Luxury AMEX Card?
AMEX has launched the SPG Luxury card.
The card has a limited time offer for 100K Marriott points after spending $5,000 in 3 months if...
After 4 Days Of Trying, I Was Finally Able To Merge My Marriott And SPG Accounts
Marriott began their rewards program merger on Saturday and it's been a mess. But after 4 days of trying I was finally able to...
Marriott Partially Relents On Travel Package Usage And Downgrades; A Good Start But It’s Not Enough
Related posts:
There’s Only One Explanation For Marriott Concealing The Travel Package Conversion Chart: They Wanted To Fleece Their Loyalty Members
Marriott Takes The...
There’s Only One Explanation For Marriott Concealing The Travel Package Conversion Chart: They Wanted To Fleece Their Loyalty Members
Update: Marriott has just addressed some of the issues mentioned below, but not all of them. Read more here.
Related post (Read this first!): Marriott Takes...
Marriott Takes The Low Road, Chooses Worst Case Scenario For Unattached Travel Certificates
Marriott has published the following travel package conversion chart and the following statement,
For members with existing Travel Packages (booked prior to today and not yet attached...
It’s The Last Day Of Starwood Preferred Guest! Did You Remember To…
Today is the final day of one of the best loyalty program ever created, Starwood Preferred Guest, or SPG.
Marriott takes over the program tomorrow...
Marriott Answers Several Travel Package Questions, But Refuses To Answer The Biggest Question
In my last post on the fascinating ongoing travel package saga I said that there were many unknowns.
Starwood's official representative to Flyertalk, Starwood Lurker, has...
Last Chance! Book Hotel Awards Now Before The Starwood-Marriott Merger!
Update: Marriott's systems will be intermittently down starting tomorrow and will be down on 8/18 for the merger of the Marriott and SPG programs....
Marriott’s Remaining Travel Package Options: Will They Go With Points Or Category Based Certificates And What You Should Do Now
2 weeks ago I wrote a comprehensive guide to Marriott's travel packages explaining why they are so lucrative and what Marriott's options are. They...
Marriott Needs Another Month To Figure Out Travel Package Certificates; Will Option 3 Be The Winner?
A Starwood representative has just posted the following update on Marriott travel certificates:
On 8/18, our new Travel Package offering will launch along with our...
Combine Your Household’s Starwood Points Now!
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The Newest Starwood Hotel In Israel Is Now Bookable With Points! Roundup Of SPG/Marriott Hotels In Israel
The W Tel Aviv-Jaffa was originally supposed to open in the fall of 2015. That date has slipped many times as Starwood’s website has...
Reader Questions: What Makes The Marriott Travel Packages So Lucrative And Which Category Should I Buy? A Comprehensive Guide.
Related Marriott Travel Packages posts:
All About Marriott’s Lucrative Miles+Nights Travel Packages; The Best Way To Spend Your Starpoints.
Guesstimating Where Marriott Travel Packages...
A Timeline Of Upcoming Critical Dates For The Starwood AMEX Bloodbath And The Starwood-Marriott Merger!
Update: Marriott has confirmed that they will stop selling their lucrative travel packages on 8/17/18
Roundup Of Upcoming Cross-Bank Restrictions On All Marriott/Starwood Cards
Earlier I wrote about new restrictions on Marriott/Starwood bonuses.
Marriott will be keeping track of bonuses and enforcing cross-bank restrictions on all of their cards.
At...
