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Marriott Bonvoy is offering 1,000 bonus points per night and double elite night credits on stays between 13th February and 29th April. Click here to read more and click here to register.

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A few days ago, after an unexpected delay, Marriott Rewards launched its ‘daily play’ game ’29 Ways to Stay’.

Click here to play.

The good news is that daily play now means daily win.

There are 2 MILLION prizes to be won, although most are just 50 Marriott Rewards points.  There is a huge grand prize where one person wins a 2-night stay at EVERY Marriott brand – that is 29 stays in hotel.

The game launched with confusion. The game implied that you could try to win an instant prize every day.  It turned out, however, that the game was only letting you win once – ever.  All future daily plays got you another entry in the grand draw but no more daily prizes.

Marriott has now changed the rules / fixed their dodgy IT (delete as applicable).  You can now play ’29 Ways to Stay’ each day and you could win a prize each day for another three weeks.

The daily prizes are:

  • 87 prizes of 4-night hotel stays (3 winners per brand, you don’t get to choose the brand you get)
  • 75,000 DAILY prizes of 50 Marriott Rewards points
  • 5,000 DAILY prizes of 500 Marriott Rewards points
  • 2,500 DAILY prizes of 1,000 Marriott Rewards points
  • 500 DAILY prizes of 2,000 Marriott Rewards points
  • 250 DAILY prizes of 3,000 Marriott Rewards points
  • 100 DAILY prizes of 4,000 Marriott Rewards points
  • 75 DAILY prizes of 5,000 Marriott Rewards points
  • 50 DAILY prizes of 10,000 Marriott Rewards points
  • 16 DAILY prizes of 20,000 Marriott Rewards points

Marriott states that it expects you to have a 50/50 chance each day of winning a prize.

The link to play is here.  Good luck.

How to earn Marriott Bonvoy points and status from UK credit cards

How to earn Marriott Bonvoy points and status from UK credit cards (April 2024)

There are various ways of earning Marriott Bonvoy points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses.

The official Marriott Bonvoy American Express card comes with 20,000 points for signing up, 2 points for every £1 you spend and 15 elite night credits per year.

You can apply here.

Marriott Bonvoy American Express

20,000 points sign-up bonus and 15 elite night credits each year Read our full review

You can also earn Marriott Bonvoy points by converting American Express Membership Rewards points at the rate of 2:3.

Do you know that holders of The Platinum Card from American Express receive FREE Marriott Bonvoy Gold status for as long as they hold the card?  It also comes with Hilton Honors Gold, Radisson Rewards Premium and MeliaRewards Gold status.  We reviewed American Express Platinum in detail here and you can apply here.

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

You can also earn Marriott Bonvoy points indirectly:

and for small business owners:

The conversion rate from American Express to Marriott Bonvoy points is 2:3.

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which can be used to earn Marriott Bonvoy points. 

(Want to earn more hotel points?  Click here to see our complete list of promotions from the major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.)

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Comments (130)

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  • Michael says:
    21 Oct21 October 05:11

    Sadly, this promotion is Geo-Restricted.

    I would be very interested in hearing from Marriott the reason their customers living in the Republic of Ireland are excluded from participating

    • Shoestring says:
      21 Oct21 October 05:38

      What do you call 3 Irish Lumberjacks?

      Tree fellers.

      An’ all an’ all an’ all 🙂

    • Doreen says:
      21 Oct21 October 06:36

      Spain also excluded – wonder if it is something to do with lottery laws ? 🙁

      • Nick says:
        21 Oct21 October 07:06

        It could well be. There are some interesting anomalies in the rules for some countries already. Potential winners in Canada must answer correctly a mathematical skill-testing question without aid of mechanical device or otherwise and potential winners in Argentina must answer a cultural question.

      • Marcw says:
        21 Oct21 October 08:51

        Spain is even excluded from MegaBonus. How bizarre!

        • Doreen says:
          21 Oct21 October 09:36

          Not in my case … based in Spain, have already earned 4,000 points in Megabonus. viz. EARNED: 4,000 | GOAL: EARN 2,000 BONUS POINTS ON ALL STAYS* OF TWO OR MORE NIGHTS AND 1,000 BONUS POINTS PER BRAND, STARTING WITH YOUR SECOND BRAND.
          Waiting to see if the 1,000 per brand refers to any stay or must be one of 2 nights or more

        • marcw says:
          21 Oct21 October 11:20

          Tool late then. Booked my stays elsewhere. According to MegaBonus T&Cs: “Open to legal residents of the 50 US/DC/PR, AR (excluding MZ, NQ, RN, SA, & TF), CA, CL, CN, CR, DE, DO, FR, IN, JP, KR, MX, NL, PE, UK, ZA who are Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest or The Ritz-Carlton “

  • Hilaery R says:
    21 Oct21 October 05:40

    I played today and was informed that an error had occurred ,try again.
    When I tried again …you played today came up .
    Is this a one off or will it effect other players

    • Genghis says:
      21 Oct21 October 05:47

      Marriott really needs to effect IT improvements

    • Peter K says:
      21 Oct21 October 08:27

      Try this evening. I’ve had this happen before on this comp. One day it worked in the evening when it wouldn’t in the morning, one day it didn’t.

  • Adey says:
    21 Oct21 October 06:18

    I played today, and won 50pts!

    I got the first question wrong – “Where can you find Westin?” “a) 1pm b) 2pm c) 3pm”.

    • Alastair says:
      21 Oct21 October 06:29

      The correct answer is 3pm apparently. Bizarre. I won 500 points this morning, with an email to confirm. I don’t remember getting an email for the 50 points I supposedly won on the first day, so maybe those will never show up due to the initial IT issues.

      • Tom1 says:
        21 Oct21 October 06:39

        I guess the question was supposed to be what time can you check in – not that getting the answers right/wrong seems to impact the prize.

        • Michael Jennings says:
          21 Oct21 October 09:48

          Having got the first “Where can you find Westin?” question wrong, I got a second question which was also “Where can you find Westin?” with answers being (a) North America (b) Europe (c) Australasia and (d) all of the above, or something like that. The correct answer was obviously (d), and I selected it and won 1000 points. So that’s something.

    • Nick says:
      21 Oct21 October 07:00

      I got the same, so assumed, rightly or wrongly, that it was something to do with late check out and picked 3 PM, which was, as Alastair says, correct.

      FYI, I’ve won 1 X 500 points and 2 X 50 points so far, the balance free entries, playing each day.

      According to the rules the points should post to your account 8-10 weeks after ‘verification’.

    • Graham Walsh says:
      21 Oct21 October 09:20

      I got that wrong too, but won 500 points. Basically just click bait for awareness of their hotels and brands now they’ve merged probably.

  • Lyian says:
    21 Oct21 October 06:51

    O/T. I have a $400 AA voucher. Do you know if I can use on any code share flights in Europe? Ideally from Manchester. Thanks in advance.

    • Jonathan says:
      21 Oct21 October 06:59

      If you mean shorthaul then no. You can only book eg. A MAN-LHR codeshare as part of an international trip.

    • RIccatti says:
      21 Oct21 October 07:01

      Look up yourself on aa.com.

      • Ian O says:
        21 Oct21 October 08:04

        Thanks I did and struggled to clarify as there are codeshares to Paris etc. Hence the question on here! ????

        • Nick says:
          21 Oct21 October 09:27

          Your voucher is valid on anything AA can ticket itself on 001 paper, it doesn’t have to be entirely AA codes. However the distinction is small – as stated above, AA can’t book intra-Europe flights without a connection attached, so you’ll be looking at travelling westbound.

  • John says:
    21 Oct21 October 07:02

    After 50 points on the first day, I had a string of sweep entries, read the rules which imply only one prize ever, and gave up until seeing this article.

    Pleasantly surprised to win 1000 points just now.

  • Mark2 says:
    21 Oct21 October 07:09

    I play every day on each of several family accounts. I always win at least 50 points with occasionally 500 and receive an email every time. Not as good as last years NFL game, but worth a few seconds effprt.

  • Max says:
    21 Oct21 October 07:45

    I assume the answers do not matter 🙂

  • Rob says:
    21 Oct21 October 07:48

    Thanks for the heads up on the Marriot game I’ve given up checking 500 points for me 50 for my wife

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