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Marriott Bonvoy

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.

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Yesterday, I did my best to respond to an email I received asking ‘What is the best credit card for earning Avios points?’. Because you can earn Avios points both directly and indirectly .....

Yesterday, I did my best to respond to an email I received asking ‘What is the best credit card for .....

by Rob Burgess4 comments

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I recently had an email asking ‘What is the best credit card for earning Avios points?’. This is .....

by Rob Burgess20 comments

Marriott launches its new hotel promotion – the same but, erm, worse

The Summer hotel promotions are starting to drift out from the major chains.  Starwood launched ‘Double Take’ on May 1st. Marriott Rewards is now following up bringing back its .....

The Summer hotel promotions are starting to drift out from the major chains.  Starwood launched ‘Double .....

by Rob Burgess3 comments

Yet more new good hotel redemption options in Nice and Cannes

I have been running an unofficial series of posts on Head for Points about good hotels for redeeming your loyalty points in the south of France.  This is because it is a popular weekend break .....

I have been running an unofficial series of posts on Head for Points about good hotels for redeeming your .....

by Rob Burgess1 comment

Credit cards worth keeping, unused, just for their benefits

Back in August, I wrote this article about the three different types of credit cards you can hold. To summarise, these are: Cards you get just for the sign-up bonus, and will cancel soon afterwards .....

Back in August, I wrote this article about the three different types of credit cards you can hold. To .....

by Rob Burgess24 comments

Introducing Starwood’s ‘Earn Your Dreams’ hotel promotion

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I recently wrote about ‘Double Take’, the official Starwood promotion for the May to July .....

by Rob Burgess3 comments

Last chance: buy SPG Starpoints at 25% discount

As I posted back in mid-March, Starwood is currently offering a 15%-25% discount when you purchase SPG Starpoints before 30th April. The link to buy is here. At the top end, 20,000 points will cost .....

As I posted back in mid-March, Starwood is currently offering a 15%-25% discount when you purchase SPG .....

by Rob Burgess6 comments

Starwood launches ‘Double Take’ double points promotion

Starwood, the aloft, Element, Four Points, Le Meridien, The Luxury Collection, St Regis. Sheraton, W, Westin hotel group, has released details of its new promotion. Called ‘Double Take’, .....

Starwood, the aloft, Element, Four Points, Le Meridien, The Luxury Collection, St Regis. Sheraton, W, Westin .....

by Rob Burgess4 comments

Review: the Starwood Preferred Guest / SPG American Express credit card

This is the 15th of my series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether of not they are worth applying for. These articles will be linked to the relevant sections .....

This is the 15th of my series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether .....

by Rob Burgess4 comments

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