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Marriott Bonvoy is the loyalty scheme for Marriott hotels, which includes these brands: AC Hotels, Aloft, Autograph Collection, Bulgari, City Express, Courtyard, Delta Hotels, Design Hotels, Edition, Element, Fairfield Inn, Four Points, Gaylord, JW Marriott, Le Meridien, Marriott, Moxy, Protea, Renaissance, Residence Inn, St Regis, Sheraton, The Luxury Collection, The Ritz-Carlton, Tribute Portfolio, Springhill Suites, Towneplace Suites, W Hotels and Westin.
Our main introduction to Marriott Bonvoy is here and you can learn more about the program on marriott.com here.
Check out our ‘Hotel Offers’ page here to see what bonus point offers are currently running.
More information on how you can earn more Marriott Bonvoy points with the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card is here.
You can also transfer points earned from American Express Platinum (high fee, high bonus), American Express Preferred Rewards Gold (free for a year, good bonus) and Amex Rewards Credit Card (no fee, small bonus!).
If you need to top up your Marriott Bonvoy account, you can buy points here.
If you want to gain status at a number of hotel chains quickly, you have two options. One is to start spending every night of the week in a hotel, changing property every night to maximise your stay .....
If you want to gain status at a number of hotel chains quickly, you have two options. One is to start .....
31 Mar 201731 March 2017 • 112 comments
If all goes to plan, we will be flying to Hong Kong next week for a whistle-stop tour of Asia over Easter. Whilst there will, at some point, be a slug of flight and hotel reviews published, I .....
If all goes to plan, we will be flying to Hong Kong next week for a whistle-stop tour of Asia over Easter. .....
29 Mar 201729 March 2017 • 138 comments
News in brief: New British Airways services announced British Airways announced a number of new services yesterday for the Winter timetable. As usual, what is important here is that the two guaranteed .....
News in brief: New British Airways services announced British Airways announced a number of new services .....
29 Mar 201729 March 2017 • 47 comments
Long-term readers of Head for Points will know that I have not been the greatest fan of Marriott Rewards although I have always acknowledged that people who commit enough to earn top-tier status (75 .....
Long-term readers of Head for Points will know that I have not been the greatest fan of Marriott .....
19 Mar 201719 March 2017 • 42 comments
News in brief: Qatar Airways and Etihad launch UK sales Both Etihad and Qatar Airways have launched sales from the UK in both economy and business class. Neither of these sales are exceptional but if .....
News in brief: Qatar Airways and Etihad launch UK sales Both Etihad and Qatar Airways have launched sales from .....
16 Mar 201716 March 2017 • 42 comments
There has been quite a bit of Starwood coverage on Head for Points over the last few months as the merger with Marriott beds in. One thing I rarely write about, however, is SPG Hot Escapes, which .....
There has been quite a bit of Starwood coverage on Head for Points over the last few months as the merger with .....
15 Mar 201715 March 2017 • 13 comments
A reader asked in the comments yesterday if I could write an easy-to-understand guide to how your current credit card portfolio may impact what other cards you can get. I thought I would put .....
A reader asked in the comments yesterday if I could write an easy-to-understand guide to how your current .....
14 Mar 201714 March 2017 • 81 comments
News in brief: “Amex Seeks to Weed Out Credit-Card Churners Chasing Rewards” Bloomberg ran this headline last week. The good news is that it focuses on the US market and not the UK .....
News in brief: “Amex Seeks to Weed Out Credit-Card Churners Chasing Rewards” Bloomberg ran this .....
11 Mar 201711 March 2017 • 85 comments
News in brief: Starwood launches more concert tickets for The O2 Starwood Preferred Guest launched a new batch of concert tickets for The O2 yesterday. For just 15,000 SPG points (or 45,000 Marriott .....
News in brief: Starwood launches more concert tickets for The O2 Starwood Preferred Guest launched a new batch .....
9 Mar 20179 March 2017 • 29 comments
Our monthly credit card round-up has always been a popular article, so I’ve decided to trial a similar monthly round-up of the best hotel offers from the major chains. All of the information in .....
Our monthly credit card round-up has always been a popular article, so I’ve decided to trial a similar .....
8 Mar 20178 March 2017 • 54 comments
If you are interested in the internal workings of hotel loyalty programmes, you might find this VAT tribunal ruling of interest. Recently published, it is the result of a (failed) appeal by Whitbread .....
If you are interested in the internal workings of hotel loyalty programmes, you might find this VAT tribunal .....
2 Mar 20172 March 2017 • 19 comments
News in brief: Get up to 30% discount when you buy Starwood points Starwood is offering a 10%-30% discount when you purchase SPG Starpoints before 30th April. The link to buy is here. The discount is .....
News in brief: Get up to 30% discount when you buy Starwood points Starwood is offering a 10%-30% discount .....
2 Mar 20172 March 2017 • 69 comments
As I mentioned yesterday, I am at the Loyalty 2017 conference for three days this week. The most interesting session from Day 2 was a presentation by the head of Marriott Rewards on the integration .....
As I mentioned yesterday, I am at the Loyalty 2017 conference for three days this week. The most interesting .....
22 Feb 201722 February 2017 • 38 comments
Until 8th March, British Airways is offering a 35% bonus if you transfer hotel points from seven major loyalty schemes into Avios – click for my article on that deal. Since most of the hotel .....
Until 8th March, British Airways is offering a 35% bonus if you transfer hotel points from seven major loyalty .....
17 Feb 201717 February 2017 • 13 comments
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