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Marriott Bonvoy

Marriott Bonvoy is the loyalty scheme for Marriott hotels, which includes these brands: AC Hotels, Aloft, Autograph Collection, Bulgari, Courtyard, Delta Hotels, Design Hotels, Edition, Element, Fairfield Inn, Four Points, Gaylord, JW Marriott, Le Meridien, Marriott, Moxy, Protea, Renaissance, Residence Inn, St Regis, Sheraton, The Luxury Collection, The Ritz-Carlton, Tribute Portfolio, Springhill Suites, Towneplace Suites, W Hotels and Westin.

Our main two-part introduction to Marriott Bonvoy is here and you can learn more about the program on marriott.com here.

Check out our ‘Hotel Offers’ page here to see what bonus point offers are currently running.

More information on how you can earn more Marriott Bonvoy points with the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card is here.

You can also transfer points earned from American Express Platinum (high fee, high bonus), American Express Preferred Rewards Gold (free for a year, good bonus) and Amex Rewards Credit Card (no fee, small bonus!).

If you need to top up your Marriott Bonvoy account, you can buy points here.

25% off Starwood Preferred Guest points means buying airline miles at 1.5p

Starwood is (again) offering a 10%-25% discount when you purchase SPG Starpoints before 15th April. The link to buy points is here. The discount is staggered.  You get 10% off purchases of 5,000 .....

Starwood is (again) offering a 10%-25% discount when you purchase SPG Starpoints before 15th April. The link .....

5 Mar 20165 March 2016 by Rob Burgess • 8 comments

My review of the impressive St Regis Istanbul hotel

This is my review of the St Regis Istanbul hotel. Yesterday I reviewed my Turkish Airlines business class flight to Istanbul.  I was in the city for two nights and stayed at the new St Regis .....

This is my review of the St Regis Istanbul hotel. Yesterday I reviewed my Turkish Airlines business class .....

29 Feb 201629 February 2016 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

Check the exchange rate carefully when your hotel points post

The majority of the major hotel loyalty schemes work on the basis of how many $ you spent on your trip.  The main outlier is Accor which is € driven. This means that, for the majority of your .....

The majority of the major hotel loyalty schemes work on the basis of how many $ you spent on your trip.  The .....

3 Feb 20163 February 2016 by Rob Burgess • 16 comments

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