Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
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.
News in brief: British Airways subcontracting at Gatwick British Airways has ‘wet leased’ an Airbus A320 and a Boeing 757 to work at Gatwick during July. These will come from Titan .....
News in brief: British Airways subcontracting at Gatwick British Airways has ‘wet leased’ an .....
14 Jun 201514 June 2015 • 12 comments
I have just booked a couple of nights at the new JW Marriott in Venice on the back of peer pressure after my kids read ‘Olivia Goes To Venice’. Whilst I ended up using cash, when .....
I have just booked a couple of nights at the new JW Marriott in Venice on the back of peer pressure after my .....
12 Jun 201512 June 2015 • 9 comments
Marriott Rewards has launched a new promotion offering 2,000 bonus Avios (or other airline miles) at 250 hotels across Europe this Summer. There are 250 hotels taking part which are featured on this .....
Marriott Rewards has launched a new promotion offering 2,000 bonus Avios (or other airline miles) at 250 .....
11 Jun 201511 June 2015 • 3 comments
Back in 2013, I wrote an article encouraging people to sign up for Starwood Preferred Guest even if they had no interest in staying with them in the short term. This was because Starwood had been .....
Back in 2013, I wrote an article encouraging people to sign up for Starwood Preferred Guest even if they had .....
8 Jun 20158 June 2015 • 19 comments
Starwood, the hotel group behind Le Meridien / Westin / W / Aloft / Luxury Collection / St Regis etc, set out a blueprint to revitalise its tired Sheraton brand on Monday. There is little doubt that .....
Starwood, the hotel group behind Le Meridien / Westin / W / Aloft / Luxury Collection / St Regis etc, set out .....
3 Jun 20153 June 2015 • 10 comments
I think I have been overdoing the exclamation marks in article headlines recently. That is unlikely to a problem with the Summer Starwood Preferred Guest promotion. (There is a Sheraton-only .....
I think I have been overdoing the exclamation marks in article headlines recently. That is unlikely to a .....
2 Jun 20152 June 2015 • 8 comments
Until 13th July, British Airways is offering a 25% bonus (10% with Starwood) if you transfer hotel points from seven major loyalty schemes into Avios. Etihad Guest is offering a similar deal until .....
Until 13th July, British Airways is offering a 25% bonus (10% with Starwood) if you transfer hotel points from .....
9 May 20159 May 2015 • 11 comments
A lot of good hotel promotions ended on April 30th with no obvious replacements. As we are now into May, I thought it was worth doing a quick recap of the best hotel promotions currently .....
A lot of good hotel promotions ended on April 30th with no obvious replacements. As we are now into .....
3 May 20153 May 2015 • 21 comments
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the ‘Autograph’ collection of hotels promoted by Marriott. This is a group of independent hotels which have chosen to work with Marriott for marketing .....
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the ‘Autograph’ collection of hotels promoted by Marriott. .....
3 May 20153 May 2015 • 8 comments
It’s back, on the fairly regular ‘every nine months’ timetable. I’m talking about the ‘25% bonus when you transfer your hotel points to British Airways Avios‘ .....
It’s back, on the fairly regular ‘every nine months’ timetable. I’m talking about the .....
2 May 20152 May 2015 • 22 comments
This page contains links to the ‘buy miles’ or ‘buy points’ sections of the major airline and hotel schemes. Click on the link to be taken directly to the ‘buy’ .....
This page contains links to the ‘buy miles’ or ‘buy points’ sections of the major .....
30 Apr 201530 April 2015 • Leave a comment
There has been quite a bit of Starwood coverage on Head for Points over the last week or so. One thing that came to mind during all this is that I have never written about SPG Hot Escapes, which is .....
There has been quite a bit of Starwood coverage on Head for Points over the last week or so. One thing that .....
24 Apr 201524 April 2015 • 5 comments
This is my review of the Aloft London Excel hotel at the Excel centre in East London. The Aloft website is here if you want to find out more. When Starwood invited me to try out the SPG Suite at the .....
This is my review of the Aloft London Excel hotel at the Excel centre in East London. The Aloft website is .....
22 Apr 201522 April 2015 • 14 comments
Starwood is (again) offering a 10%-25% discount when you purchase SPG Starpoints before 31st May. The link to buy is here. The discount is staggered. You get 10% off purchases of up to 9500 points, .....
Starwood is (again) offering a 10%-25% discount when you purchase SPG Starpoints before 31st May. The link to .....
22 Apr 201522 April 2015 • 13 comments
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