Excellent Marriott Bonvoy / American Express cashback deals launched

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• Frank says:

  3 Apr3 April 05:25

  I can confirm I had the offer on both my and my partners supplementary BA Premium Amex.

• Ian says:

  3 Apr3 April 06:19

  Interesting about banning dynamic currency transfers.

  In Budapest the hotels convert automatically to Euros from the local currency so whilst it might not be to GBP it does seem that Amex allows it to other currencies.

  Incidentally even the hotels are priced in Euros on the Marriott website.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    3 Apr3 April 07:46

    The hotel charged in euros or the terminal, they can do as they wish, or they use DCC where the terminals asks you if you wish to pay in the currency of the country your card was issued in at an unfavourable exchange rate – not possible with Amex.

  • LittleNick says:

    3 Apr3 April 07:46

    I could be wrong but that doesn’t sound like a case of DCC but one where the hotel is choosing to bill everybody in Euros which has nothing to do with Amex. If there were DCC this would then give you an option for GBP once you’ve put your card in

  • RussellH says:

    3 Apr3 April 09:38

    The Forint has been steadily depreciating against other currencies for years – even against Sterling, which is quite an achievement.
    By quoting in Euro they are effectively locking in the price months ahead, knowing that the price in Forints will have increased by the time of your stay, while being able to ‘guarantee’ the price as that at the time of booking.

    • Bagoly says:

      3 Apr3 April 11:20

      Back in the early 1990s the rates in Budapest were quoted in DM, with a little sign on the reception desk “Your will be charged DM99 * the exchange rate of the day from the National Bank of Hungary”.
      Because national regulations required them to actually charge in HUF, but they didn’t want to be long HUF, i.e. currency of settlement is not always currency of exposure.
      Now they are in the EU there is probably no requirement to charge in HUF, but they seem to have remembered the old technique.

      All hotels in Caracas on booking.com do the same – quote in USD.
      Mexico City is interesting on booking.com – some quote in MXN, some in USD.

    • Lady London says:

      3 Apr3 April 13:49

      Istanbul hotels do the same.

  • Bagoly says:

    3 Apr3 April 11:21

    Congratulations to Amex for banning DCC.
    Why don’t they publicise it to card-holders, or putative card-holders, as a benefit?

• KJ says:

  3 Apr3 April 06:25

  Was available on my BAPP but not on my Platinum

• Paul says:

  3 Apr3 April 06:43

  Useless to me and I didn’t get the Hilton offer at all. Why is the USA excluded? Indeed why not global

• Jha says:

  3 Apr3 April 06:50

  I notice Greece is missing & Im going there week – shame. Wonder if its worth trying just in case its missing from the list!

  • TGLoyalty says:

    3 Apr3 April 07:49

    It’s not as it won’t work. Greek hotels are never included

    • Jha says:

      3 Apr3 April 08:08

      Ok, thanks!

• Kowalski says:

  3 Apr3 April 06:51

  Not on my BAPP either but on my Bonvoy and Platinum cards. Great timing, checked into a hotel on the list last night for a 5 night stay, so just saved £175!

• Gordon says:

  3 Apr3 April 06:54

  I have spend £300 get £100 back on my BAPP.

  • WaynedP says:

    3 Apr3 April 08:29

    +1

  • AndyC says:

    3 Apr3 April 08:37

    +1

• BJ says:

  3 Apr3 April 07:02

  Let’s be clear, it is likely only excellent if we need a last minute hotel reservation within the next 3 months or are prepared to book nonrefundable pay in advance rates. The bottom line is that anybody booking Marriott within the next 3 months almost anywhere is very likely going to be paying outrageous rates. The same is true of Hilton and IHG but to a lesser extent than Marriott. I currently have 14 hotel stays comprising a total of 57 nights between now and mid July. One each is Accor, independent and Marriott with the rest split between IHG and Hilton. All except one Hilton stay have been booked on points or BFR for at least 6 months. Despite monitoring all frequently I have so far this year failed to find any cheaper for cash or points than I paid for them, some have almost doubled in price. Having the amex offers for all three chains failed to make any difference, it still makes no sense to change any existing booking. So far the only offer I have been able to use is Hilton for my only new booking where I used in on a 72h flexible rate at Curio Westminster on a £205 rate which worked nicely. I am sorely tempted to use the Hilton offer on other cards and both the Marriott and IHG offers too but that will mean booking advanced pay rates for later this year or next at a time when I remain reluctant to book anything other than flexible rates.

  • Ken says:

    3 Apr3 April 07:22

    It’s surely excellent for any existing bookings over the next 3 months.
    Struggling to see the downside here….

    • John G says:

      3 Apr3 April 08:24

      It is also good for existing bookings where you haven’t pre-paid!

    • Ken says:

      3 Apr3 April 08:29

      I must be being very dense.

      You have 13 existing bookings where you can get £50, £75, £100 cash back depending when you stay is in the next 3 months and assuming it’s not pre paid.

      You can save these offers on multiple cards.

      struggling to see why this wouldn’t be excellent.

      • sayling says:

        3 Apr3 April 08:47

        Not dense, but I assume your assumption is wrong

    • Rob says:

      3 Apr3 April 09:10

      This is true to some extent – there is definitely, at least in London, a sharp firming up of rates in recent weeks.

      I am currently in Boston and, day before checkin, standard rooms were priced higher than the ‘junior suite with view’ I booked.

      • Paul says:

        3 Apr3 April 10:07

        Americans will be pouring into London as even with rates at ludicrous levels they are ( IC Park Lane £726 a night king cosy room no breakfast) it still less than at home. Quite mad at the moment

      • TGLoyalty says:

        3 Apr3 April 11:54

        The QRI rate has just come to an end.

        Suspect we will see another promo period soon …

      • BJ says:

        3 Apr3 April 17:02

        Just one exampmle: I’ m seeing rates at Moxy even way into next year that are higher than Hiltons in same locations – that just seems crazy to me.

        @LL? Yes that’s it, but you’re fooling nobody, we all know you’re as smart as a whip.

    • Ian M says:

      3 Apr3 April 10:12

      You don’t need to rebook to take advantage of this offer

      • TGLoyalty says:

        3 Apr3 April 11:54

        BJ would as they were all on points in his example.

        But for others that booked flexible cash rates this is excellent

      • ken says:

        3 Apr3 April 13:22

        “been booked on points or BFR for at least 6 months”

      • TGLoyalty says:

        3 Apr3 April 20:20

        Though he says all but 1 Hilton stay is points do god knows

        Might even make drinking in the bar better value than others so I don’t get the complaining.

      • BJ says:

        3 Apr3 April 21:20

        😀

        All of the 14 stays except one have been booked for 6 months (so that applies to 13 of 14 stays). The 14th stay was boojed last week using amex Hilton offer.

        On points or BFR (so some are redemptions and some are cash bookings)

        Had this been before covid it is very likely that with the current suite of amex offers I would have been able to cancel at least some of those 13 bookings and save money by rebooting them using the offers. My complaint (or rather disappointment) is that I cannot do this for any of the 13 bookings this time which is testimony to how rates have moved and how outrageously (IMO) high they have become.

        Obviously this is an excellent offer for anybody who needs to book now or soon for a stay within the next 3 months, or is prepared to book decent nonrefundable rates within the next 3 months for stays beyond June. I acknowledged as much in the very first sentence of my original comment.

        One free beer in 3 will also be a good result for some 🙂

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