New Marriott Bonvoy / American Express hotel cashback deals launched

Marriott Bonvoy has launched two cashback deals for American Express cardholders. If targeted, you will find these under the ‘Offers’ tab for one or more of your cards on the Amex website or app. You need to register to take advantage.

The two offers are:

• £100 back when you spend £500 at a selection of European hotels

• £75 back when you spend £200 at a selection of European hotels (exclusive to Marriott Bonvoy American Express cardholders)

The offers seem to be widely available. My wife and I have it five times between us, including on supplementary cards.

The offer is limited to the first 50,000 cardholders to save it. HfP readers could hit this target on their own, especially as many can register multiple cards, so don’t delay in signing up.

The offer for Marriott Bonvoy American Express cardholders appears on both main and supplementary cards.

As we wrote last year, this is an EXCELLENT reason for every holder of this card to get a free supplementary card for their partner. With this cashback offer typically running twice per year, you could get £300 of cashback credits between two of you.

What is the small print?

Very little.

The offers run to 18th June 2025. Cumulative spending is OK.

Whilst the rules say that you need to pay at the hotel, this is not the case with Marriott cashback offers. Pre-paid bookings are handled directly by hotels, not centrally, and so trigger the cashback.

Note that many hotels do not actually bother charging you in advance for pre-paid rooms. If you are booking for a stay later than the closing date of 18th June, you may end up having to call the hotel and begging them to take your money.

It is perfectly acceptable for you to ask, if paying at check out, to split your bill across multiple credit cards.

The rules say that ‘transactions must be made in GBP’. Ignore this, it is complete nonsense. Amex has banned Dynamic Currency Conversion – when a retailer abroad offers you choice of paying in local currency or in £, using a very dodgy exchange rate – so it is impossible to pay in GBP even if you wanted to.

Where can you stay?

The list of participating hotels is very long. It covers hotels in:

• Austria
• Belgium
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Ireland (this is rarely seen on Marriott cashback deals)
• Italy
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom

The reason that certain countries like Portugal never appear in these offers is that Amex does not offer directly issued consumer cards there.

This offer stacks with the current Marriott Bonvoy promotion

You can earn the cashback on top of earning bonus points and nights with the current Marriott Bonvoy promotion.

Until 28th April, you will earn:

• 1,000 bonus Marriott Bonvoy points per night

• double elite night credits

This offer only applies to cash stays.

I value a Bonvoy point at 0.5p so this is equivalent to a £5 bonus per night. For many people, the double elite night credits will be more important.

Our full article on the current promotion is here. You can register here. Note that registration closes early on 14th April so do it now if you think that this promotion might persuade you to do a stay.

The home page for Marriott Bonvoy bookings is here.

PS. Our latest review of the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card is here. It does seem that offering ‘enhanced’ cashback deals like this one has become a regular extra benefit for Marriott Bonvoy American Express cardholders.