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LAST CHANCE, ENDS TUESDAY: Get 60,000 Marriott Bonvoy points sign-up bonus with the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card

You can currently get a huge sign-up bonus of 60,000 Marriott Bonvoy points on the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card. You can apply here.

This is the biggest bonus ever offered on this credit card and is TRIPLE the standard amount.

This is worth roughly £300 of free Marriott stays, based on our 0.5p per point valuation, or 25,000 Avios or other airline miles if converted.

There are four good reasons to hold this card long term, and not just for the sign-up bonus:

• you get 15 elite night credits EVERY YEAR in Marriott Bonvoy – this means, for example, that Platinum only requres 35 nights instead of the usual 50. Even better, these nights count towards Lifetime Status.

• you get Silver Elite status in Marriott Bonvoy every year, because it is triggered automatically by the 15 elite night credits

• you get Gold Elite status in Marriott Bonvoy if you spend £15,000 on the card in a membership year

• you get a free night voucher worth up to 25,000 Bonvoy points if you spend £25,000 on the card in a membership year

There is an annual fee of £95 per year. The on-going earning rate is 2 Bonvoy points per £1 spent.

To learn more, click here for our full article on the offer. Please read the bit about whether you qualify for the sign-up bonus.

You can apply here. The offer ends on Tuesday night.

The representative APR is 53.7% variable, including the annual fee.  The representative APR on purchases is 30.0% variable.

This week’s top travel news stories:

Rob visits the new YOTELPAD Stratford hotel and asks YOTEL’s CEO …. what is a YOTELPAD?

Air India schedules its newest (and best) planes to London from September, image above

easyJet launches flights to Derry

Get 5,000 Virgin Points via Clubcard for OVO Energy customers – including existing ones

Air France launches flights to Kilimanjaro

Virgin Atlantic is the second most punctual UK airline …. but which is the worst?

BA Cityflyer to start flights from Gatwick to Chambery

…. whilst British Airways drops Gatwick to Amsterdam

Delta launches flights from London Heathrow to Orlando

What Amex benefits can you get at BST Hyde Park 2024?

Travel deals of the week:

Save an extra £300 in the British Airways and BA Holidays sale this weekend

Fly business class to Dubai from £1,126 with Lufthansa/SWISS – very good availability from January 2025

citizenM launches a new hotel sale with free breakfast and all bookings fully cancellable

British Airways and Avios news:

Get 600 FREE Avios when you join ‘Avios for Thoughts’

Don’t waste your time using ‘Part Pay with Avios’ on Finnair – the maths isn’t pretty

Credit card news:

How to get free hotel status from UK credit cards

A new £150 Air France KLM Amex cashback deal has arrived

Review: Virgin Atlantic Reward Plus Mastercard

Review: Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard – now with a sign-up bonus

How to earn miles with 39 different airlines on the Marriott Amex card – the 60,000 points bonus ends on Tuesday

Reviews:

Conny heads to Switzerland to take a look at Park Hyatt Zurich. Image NOT above!

Meanwhile, Rhys heads to Vegas and checks out the new Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, image above, as part of the Virgin Atlantic 40th birthday celebrations

Hotel news:

Use IHG One Rewards points for VIP packages to Wilderness Festival

Other travel news:

Delta launches new luxury Missoni amenity kits

Are Business Plus seats the next big thing in premium travel?

That’s all, folks

Our latest round-up of miles and points offers closing soon is here and will be updated on headforpoints.com on Sunday morning.

Don’t forget to visit our forum if you have any questions relating to frequent flyer or hotel loyalty programmes or loyalty credit cards.

See you next Saturday,

Rob, Rhys and Katie @ Head for Points