Marriott Bonvoy American Express – can it be better than Barclaycard or BAPP ?

[Talay]

I am revisiting the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card and I have about £150k+ a year of card expenses which could go onto any card.

I have the BAPP but never usually use the 241 voucher. I have the Barclaycard Avios card.

If one Avios is worth 1p and one Bonvoy is worth 0.5p then doesn’t this devalue the Bonvoy earnings by 33% if I switch spending from BAPP as I’d lose 1.5p of Avios and gain 1p of Bonvoy ?

Or am I missing something ?

[Sam]

Have you looked at the Amex bus plat? £10k spend per month nets additional 10 MR

[BBbetter]

Talay wrote:

Or am I missing something ?

Yes, the difference in annual fee.
Setting aside the voucher, you need to spend 40k more on BAPP than the bonvoy card, just to recoup the incremental cost.
But if you value the voucher at £200, then yes, you gain more avios but lose the flexibility of bonvoy points.