Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
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.
Every nine months or so, British Airways runs a co-ordinated promotion among all of the major hotel chains, offering a bonus of 25% for converting your points to Avios. The last UK outing for this .....
Every nine months or so, British Airways runs a co-ordinated promotion among all of the major hotel chains, .....
25 Sep 201425 September 2014 • 31 comments
By coincidence, two surveys from market research companies have crossed my desk in the last couple of days. Both imply that changes may be coming to popular reward schemes. Hotels.com and Welcome .....
By coincidence, two surveys from market research companies have crossed my desk in the last couple of days. .....
23 Sep 201423 September 2014 • 27 comments
Starwood, the Westin / Sheraton / W / aloft / Luxury Collection etc hotel group, has announced its promotion for the final quarter of the year. Called “More For You“, it is a very simple .....
Starwood, the Westin / Sheraton / W / aloft / Luxury Collection etc hotel group, has announced its promotion .....
15 Sep 201415 September 2014 • 2 comments
I wrote last week about how Delta Air Lines was tightening its grip on Virgin Atlantic now that it owns 49% of the UK company. Virgin will refocus on flying to destinations in North America. .....
I wrote last week about how Delta Air Lines was tightening its grip on Virgin Atlantic now that it owns 49% .....
7 Sep 20147 September 2014 • 6 comments
Starwood Hotels, owners of Sheraton, Westin, W, St Regis, Aloft etc, has recently launched a new online ‘daily play’ game called ‘Tap Into Luxury’. You can play twice per day, .....
Starwood Hotels, owners of Sheraton, Westin, W, St Regis, Aloft etc, has recently launched a new online .....
5 Sep 20145 September 2014 • 18 comments
Starwood – the Westin, W, Sheraton, St Regis, aloft etc hotel group – has teamed up with Mastercard to offer a free nights promotion. This is valid for selected hotels in the UK, .....
Starwood – the Westin, W, Sheraton, St Regis, aloft etc hotel group – has teamed up with .....
2 Sep 20142 September 2014 • 10 comments
Marriott Rewards has unveiled its promotion for the Autumn. It is called Marriott Megabonus, which gives the impression that it is a repeat of the offer of that name which has run on a regular basis .....
Marriott Rewards has unveiled its promotion for the Autumn. It is called Marriott Megabonus, which gives the .....
24 Aug 201424 August 2014 • 3 comments
I mentioned in an article on Saturday that Marriott Rewards is now an Etihad Guest partner. This means that you can convert Marriott Rewards points to Etihad and credit future stays directly into .....
I mentioned in an article on Saturday that Marriott Rewards is now an Etihad Guest partner. This means that .....
20 Aug 201420 August 2014 • 1 comment
Four interesting bits of Etihad news have popped up in recent days which I have popped together in this article. Double A380 service to Heathrow from March Etihad has 10 A380’s on order. .....
Four interesting bits of Etihad news have popped up in recent days which I have popped together in this .....
17 Aug 201417 August 2014 • 6 comments
Back in May I wrote about ‘Plus Points’. This was an easy way to earn 2,000 Marriott Rewards points per month by simply following eight Marriott hotels on Twitter or Facebook. It seems .....
Back in May I wrote about ‘Plus Points’. This was an easy way to earn 2,000 Marriott Rewards .....
25 Jul 201425 July 2014 • 9 comments
This is your final reminder that July 13th is the last day to instigate a transfer of hotel loyalty points to British Airways Executive Club in order to receive a 25% Avios bonus. The promotion is not .....
This is your final reminder that July 13th is the last day to instigate a transfer of hotel loyalty points to .....
12 Jul 201412 July 2014 • 2 comments
This is the 2nd part of my analysis into which of the UK hotel-branded credit cards are worth keeping for the long-term. If you missed Part 1 yesterday, I recommend that you click here to read .....
This is the 2nd part of my analysis into which of the UK hotel-branded credit cards are worth keeping for the .....
6 Jul 20146 July 2014 • 14 comments
Today and tomorrow, I am going to take a look at the four major hotel credit cards – Hilton, Starwood, Marriott and IHG Rewards Club – to see if any of them are worth keeping in your .....
Today and tomorrow, I am going to take a look at the four major hotel credit cards – Hilton, Starwood, .....
5 Jul 20145 July 2014 • 30 comments
The Marriott Rewards Mastercard is, to be honest, as ‘middle of the road’ and unexciting as your average Marriott hotel. I’m not sure that was ever the plan but that is how it .....
The Marriott Rewards Mastercard is, to be honest, as ‘middle of the road’ and unexciting as your .....
4 Jul 20144 July 2014 • 41 comments
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