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It’s a double promo day for Marriott because as well as launching a new promotion for select holders of its co-branded credit cards, it has also launched a new global promotion covering stays between 10 September and 26 November 2024.
The promotion
Earn 2,000 bonus points on each stay of 2 or more nights consumed between 10 September and 26 November 2024. Earn an additional 2,000 bonus points on each stay of 2 or more nights at MGM Collection with Marriott Bonvoy destinations. Registration required.
Key terms
- Registration of your Marriott Bonvoy Account is required.
- Marriott Bonvoy Members who register for this promotion by November 12, 2024, will earn 2,000 Marriott Bonvoy bonus Points on each post-registration paid stay of two or more nights at any participating Marriott Bonvoy property, resort, or destination, plus an additional 2,000 Marriott Bonvoy bonus Points on each eligible paid stay of two or more nights at MGM Collection with Marriott Bonvoy destinations, during the 77-night promotion earning period.
- To register for this promotion, visit Earn2Ways or go to your Marriott Bonvoy account and visit the Promotions tab.
- The promotion earning period is for eligible paid nights completed between September 10, 2024, and November 26, 2024, and is only for stays booked through direct Marriott Bonvoy channels at properties participating in Marriott Bonvoy, including MGM Collection.
- There is no limit to the number of completed eligible stays of two or more nights a Member can earn bonus Points on during the promotion earning period.
- Only eligible paid stays completed after promotion registration and during the promotion earning period will qualify for any bonus Points earned with this promotion.
- Please note that a hotel must participate in Marriott Bonvoy at the time of the stay to qualify as a stay under the promotion terms.
- A “stay” is defined as consecutive nights spent at the same hotel, regardless of check-in/checkout activity on any Points-eligible rate.
- Award redemption stays, including Cash + Points Awards, Free Night Awards, or a Points redemption, are not eligible for the promotion.
- Rates available through most third-party online retailers and select travel agency rates do not qualify for this promotion.
- Paid stays at Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy are eligible for promotional credit.
- Stays at BVLGARI, The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, Marriott Executive Apartments®, and owner-occupied weeks at Marriott Vacation Club®, Grand Residences by Marriott®, Marriott Grand Residence Club, Sheraton Vacation Club, Westin Vacation Club, The Ritz-Carlton Club, The St. Regis Residence Club, and The Luxury Collection Residence Club, are not eligible for this promotion.
- Only one room at one property on each eligible paid stay is counted toward a Member’s eligible paid stay for the promotion.
- After the completed stay posts, the 2,000 bonus Points on each eligible paid stay of two or more nights at participating properties in Marriott Bonvoy will generally be awarded to the Member’s Account within 5 business days.
- For paid stays at Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy, these bonus Points will be posted up to 6 weeks after the promotion earning period ends.
- The additional 2,000 bonus Points on each eligible paid stay of two or more nights at an MGM Collection destination, will also be awarded to the Member’s Account up to 6 weeks after the promotion’s earning period ends.
- A Member who elects to earn Miles is not eligible for this promotion.
Full terms and conditions (which you should read carefully) are available on the promotion page.
Quick thoughts
If the link we’ve attached above doesn’t work, head over to the promotions page in your Bonvoy account and look for this:
As this is a non-targeted global promotion, this should be waiting for you in your account.
Overall, and just as we said when discussing the new cardholder promotion, this isn’t exactly a promotion that’s going to get many people excited.
One night stays are excluded, award stays are excluded, points and cash stays are excluded, and the effective rebate on offer is far from generous.
We value Bonvoy points at 0.6 cents each (based on the value we can get out of them with relative ease) and this means that we value the effective rebate being offered at Marriott properties at just $12/two nights. At Marriott’s MGM properties, that’s doubled to $24/two nights.
No one is going to take a look at that and think ‘I really need to make more Marriott bookings’.
Still, apart from an unusually generous double elite nights promotion launched earlier this year, this is par for the course for Marriott.
If you happen to hold a Marriott Bonvoy credit card and have been able to to register for the cardholder promo, you’ll earn 4,000 bonus points for eligible stays at Marriott properties and 6,000 bonus points for eligible stays at Marriott’s MGM properties.
That’s still not exactly amazing (although it’s clearly better), and to give you an idea of how not amazing it is, keep in mind that the effective rebate on offer at Bonvoy’s MGM properties ($36 per 2 nights) won’t cover the nightly resort fees that these properties charge.
Sure, if you have plans to stay at Marriott properties anyway, these extra points are going to be a small added bonus, but this really isn’t a promotion that aims to encourage any extra spending with Marriott.
Bottom line
Marriott Bonvoy has unveiled a new global promotion covering stays between 10 September and 26 November 2024 and as is the case with most Bonvoy promotions, this one is pretty useless.
By all means register to make sure that you don’t accidentally leave any points on the table, but please don’t use this non-event as a reason to book any Marriott stays that you we’re already considering.
