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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.

Marriott to buy Starwood for $12bn – what do I think?

Marriott surprised us all yesterday by emerging as the winner of the auction to acquire the Starwood hotel group.  Of all the names that had been linked to the transaction, Marriott had not been seen .....

Marriott surprised us all yesterday by emerging as the winner of the auction to acquire the Starwood hotel .....

17 Nov 201517 November 2015 by Rob Burgess • 41 comments

Design Hotels / Starwood partnership now live with full earn and burn details

Two weeks ago I wrote about the new partnership to be launched between Design Hotels (in which Starwood is the majority, but a passive, investor) and Starwood Preferred Guest. The plan was to allow .....

Two weeks ago I wrote about the new partnership to be launched between Design Hotels (in which Starwood is the .....

13 Nov 201513 November 2015 by Rob Burgess • 4 comments

New American Express statement credit deals launched

A batch of new ‘statement credit’ offers appeared on my American Express online account yesterday. If you have a Gold, Platinum, BA, SPG, Nectar or other Amex-issued Amex card, you should .....

A batch of new ‘statement credit’ offers appeared on my American Express online account yesterday. .....

10 Nov 201510 November 2015 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments

Looking at the details of Marriott’s new ‘cash and points’ rewards

Marriott Rewards announced four changes to its programme on Monday as I outlined here.  What I didn’t know at the time was how the new ‘cash and points’ option would work. Marriott .....

Marriott Rewards announced four changes to its programme on Monday as I outlined here.  What I didn’t .....

16 Oct 201516 October 2015 by Rob Burgess • 3 comments

150 free Starwood Preferred Guest points for everyone

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how you can earn 200 Starwood Preferred Guest points for free by updating your email preferences. This is a different deal – 150 SPG points, which I value at .....

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how you can earn 200 Starwood Preferred Guest points for free by updating .....

14 Oct 201514 October 2015 by Rob Burgess • 27 comments

Marriott unveils four genuine improvements to Marriott Rewards

Marriott was due to announce a number of improvements – genuine improvements – to Marriott Rewards yesterday.  I say ‘due to’ because we were told the announcement was coming .....

Marriott was due to announce a number of improvements – genuine improvements – to Marriott .....

13 Oct 201513 October 2015 by Rob Burgess • 9 comments

40% bonus Avios on transfers from Marriott Rewards and MeliaRewards

Two transfer promotions have been launched by Iberia Plus for anyone who wants to convert their hotel points to Avios. You will need an Iberia Plus account in order to take part.  If you don’t .....

Two transfer promotions have been launched by Iberia Plus for anyone who wants to convert their hotel points .....

8 Oct 20158 October 2015 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

200 free Starwood Preferred Guest points for everyone

If you have a Starwood Preferred Guest account, here is a very easy way to pick up 200 free SPG points.  In most hotel programmes 200 points won’t get you far, but I value an SPG point at 1.5p .....

If you have a Starwood Preferred Guest account, here is a very easy way to pick up 200 free SPG points.  In .....

3 Oct 20153 October 2015 by Rob Burgess • 23 comments

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