REGISTER NOW for Marriott’s new ‘1000 bonus points and double elite nights’ hotel promotion

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• MT says:

  29 Jan29 January 07:28

  Just what we need another promo that hands out status even easier and swells the number of Elites!

  While I still stay at Marriott, the fact there are so many Elites and many hotels now really cannot offer what the status suggests you should get, is a major reason I moved a good percentage of my stays away in the last couple of years. Just dilutes the program to far in my opinion.

  • Dominic says:

    29 Jan29 January 09:47

    Honestly depends where you are in the world. I have no issues in the Middle East or Asia having benefits recognized – they typically go above and beyond the minimum, in my experience.

    I’d also say at Plat level, you probably aren’t swelling all that much – if you do 25 nights, odds are you stay very regularly, so it wouldn’t surprise me if many of those getting 25 are on their way to 50 (particularly if they have the amex)

  • n1368585 says:

    29 Jan29 January 18:47

    Try being Hilton Diamond (or Gold after Hilton’s latest debit card offerings).
    Not much better over here.

• Matt says:

  29 Jan29 January 07:55

  Im currently platinum and it says im not eligble to register….but I had the same status and could take part last year….anyone have any ideas ?

  • Matt says:

    29 Jan29 January 08:22

    for anyone with the same issue…i just emailed Marriot directly and they manually enrolled me within an hour of sending the email! great service.

    • John R says:

      29 Jan29 January 08:56

      What email address did you use?

    • Sam says:

      30 Jan30 January 15:27

      Can you see that you’re registered in the app? When I called them, they told me they have registered me but it’s still showing up empty on the app

  • Rob says:

    29 Jan29 January 09:07

    Message them.

• Niall says:

  29 Jan29 January 09:17

  I respectfully disagree with the description of the Platinum upgrade benefit as ‘a decent upgrade’. It’s been discussed many times here and elsewhere that there are simply too many Marriott elites, especially from the US where Platinum status can be gained from a credit card. Many Marriott hotels are simply not respecting providing full upgrade benefits or late check out.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    29 Jan29 January 09:19

    Where are you staying? Is it all US stays

    I normally always get upgraded in some way 45 actual nights last year and was never refused late check out all U.K. and Europe stats.

  • Yorkie Aid says:

    29 Jan29 January 09:40

    Certainly not my experience. I have been Titanium for the last two years largely due to this particular offer running and I have found recognition and benefits excellent. Stays throughout South America, Europe and UK.

    • meta says:

      29 Jan29 January 12:01

      I find all of Europe and UK really weak on providing benefits and I have been Titanium and Platinum now staying 35+ nights even without the promo. Late checkout is more often than not denying and then having to argue. Hence why I am not staying in Marriott hotels much in Europe, UK. If I do, I check at the time of booking what the benefits the hotel will actually honour.

      In Asia I do get most benefits, but increasingly in Japan it’s impossible to get an upgrade and to be honest Japanese Marriott hotels seemed to have gone downhill with service. This is also possibly also down to overtourism.

      The best treatment is generally in South America, where I get top suites including sometimes presidential suites even as a Platinum.

      So I tend to disagree it provides decent benefits. In any case benefits are only provided if you do your own research and that should be a caveat to any such sweep statements.

      • Pangolin says:

        29 Jan29 January 12:39

        That’s odd. I’ve been 50/50 Platinum/Titanium since 2017, most of my stays are in Europe and I’ve never once been denied a late checkout.
        One thing is that I don’t ask for late checkout, I simply tell them to put 4pm checkout on the cards at the front desk. I’ve never stayed at a resort hotel.

        Japan is known to be an outlier when it comes to Asia in terms of upgrades. Everywhere else it’s pretty much rich pickings (only exception might be something like Chinese New Year).

        Interesting to hear about South America anyway!

  • Pangolin says:

    29 Jan29 January 10:04

    Then go to places which aren’t dominated by US travellers holding the right credit cards.

    If you’re not getting decent upgrades as Plat in Asia or EMEA then you’re doing something wrong.

  • Rob says:

    29 Jan29 January 10:09

    Late check-out is not a discussion point. It’s guaranteed, except at resorts.

    If you check in to St Regis New York then, yes, half the guests will be Plat or above – although I’ve always good upgrades there to be fair. Check into a Delta country club resort in the middle of Leicestershire somewhere and they’ll probably roll out the red carpet for a Plat.

    • meta says:

      29 Jan29 January 12:03

      You contradict your own review of St Regis New York where you had to choose between top suite upgrade or late check out.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        29 Jan29 January 12:24

        What do you expect you can’t have everything. If the suite is booked by a paying customer who has told them they are arriving at x time prior to 4pm they cant offer you it

        Where are you staying that you are fighting for 4pm I’ve literally probably been denied less than a handful of times in about 7 years as Plat/Titanium and then its either been 2/3pm which they extended to 4pm anyway on the day or they offered to provide another non-suite room instead (even in this case they ended up allowing 4pm on the morning)

      • Rob says:

        29 Jan29 January 13:13

        But that’s an improvement on the usual situation where a Platinum / Titanium won’t be upgraded if the suite has been sold for the following day.

        What would you prefer? No upgrade or being given the option to take one if you don’t stay late.

    • C says:

      30 Jan30 January 07:32

      Fact Checker: There no Delta “country club resorts” in Leicestershire! 🙂

  • Niall says:

    29 Jan29 January 13:55

    @TGLoyalty – Rarely US stays. This has/is always said that of course treatment is much better in Asia and Europe, but the number of elites in Marriott has got so out of hand now and really nothing is done by Marriott to make hotels fulfil their obligations under Bonvoy.

    @Yorkie Aid – I actually agree that titanium is much better! For a status which on paper offers little more, I have found it to be better with Titanium but still nothing compared to Hyatt Globalist. My comment was based on the article saying ‘decent upgrade’ for Platinum which I just don’t think should be said without some kind of caveat.

    @Rob it is all well and good to say late check out is not a discussion point as it’s guaranteed for Platinum and above but there is plenty of mentions of it not being honoured and Marriott do not step in and help. With Hyatt on the other hand in rare reports of benefits not being honoured, calling the concierge and asking them to speak to the hotel seems to do the trick.

    I have been Platinum or Titanium for a number of years based on stays. It’s simple to list the hotels in the last year where I’ve had either no upgrade or a super minor one when it looked like there were many better rooms (I appreciate online inventory might not always be accurate), because that’s almost all my stays with Marriott last year. Denied late check out completely last year – Imperial Riding School. Denied it initially and had to push – Protea Fire & Ice Cape Town.

• Will says:

  29 Jan29 January 12:00

  I’ve been very well received as titanium across Europe and Middle East.
  SNA’s have become a lot less reliable recently though in my experience.

  • Yorkie Aid says:

    29 Jan29 January 20:50

    I agree, after many attempts I failed to use my SNAs last year. That was the only weak spot for me.

• Elt says:

  29 Jan29 January 12:52

  Would this still work if stays booked via Emyr?

  • Rob says:

    29 Jan29 January 13:11

    Yes

• Odd says:

  29 Jan29 January 13:08

  I don’t understand the weird dates on this. Why not make it open to stays from today, the promo was announced? I’d have stayed at a Mariott in a heartbeat over the next 3 days if this promo was actually ‘from now until April 28’ like the opening banner declares.

  • Rob says:

    29 Jan29 January 13:19

    If they’d done that, surely others would be complaining that they’d have moved across stays this week but can’t because they need advanced notice!

• Lee says:

  29 Jan29 January 14:15

  I believe that Hilton and Hyatt are trying harder, rather better than Marriott nowadays.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    30 Jan30 January 01:50

    Hilton really lacks top end hotels and when they attract a few they leave as quickly as they joined.

• dan_a_man says:

  30 Jan30 January 18:37

  I am Titanium Elite and not eligible, tried various ways. Direct on the site, in app, this link above. An ambassador earlier in the comments had the same issue. Surely they didnt exclude people above Gold?

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