Ive found several Marriott hotels sell their rooms for less on Airbnb than at Marriott.com. Marriott isnt ok with this and cracked down on the specific properties Ive written about. However the pract
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Scott Mayerowitz, Executive Editor of The Points Guy, visited Marriotts new headquarters and shared details of an innovation project theyre working on there: rooms that use less space, because the bed
Marriott offers complimentary breakfast at most of its brands to Platinum elites and higher. Hoewver they dont really say what breakfast means. And some hotels have figured out that the terms and co
Marriott Bonvoy offers breakfast to Platinum members, but the benefit is confusing. At Courtyard hotels in North America and Europe its actually a choice between 500 points (total for the stay) or a
Marriott has the most exclusive top elite tier with published earning criteria. The Ambassador level requires not just 100 nights in hotels but also a minimum of $20,000 in spend, nearly impossible to
In 2013 the San Diego Marriott Mission Valley found its own way of remembering 9/11: 30 minutes of free mini-muffins for guests. I remember thinking at the time at least it wasnt a Marriott in Manhat
Marriott is offering a 25% discount on purchased points through December 20, 2022 when purchasing 2000 points or more.
With this promotion youre buying points for $0.009375 apiece. I believe theyre w
Marriott has acquired the City Express hotel brand an affordable mid-scale chain with 152 hotels across 75 cities in Mexico.
Best Western, Quality Inn, and Ramada are often considered midscale. But t
Marriott adopted the generous Starwood Preferred Guest transfer program for moving points into miles.
Starwood traditionally transferred points-to-miles at better than 1:1, by offering a bonus.
With
Individual hotels may still call themselves Fairfield Inns. Rebranding is expensive and thats not an expense wed likely see Marriott push onto owners right away. After all theyre even trying to reduce
Marriotts Week of Wonders is back, and some of the offers are notable, though they arent nearly generous as they were the last two years not surprising since hotels have been filling up in many marke
Sean ONeill from Skift interviewed Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano and the whole thing struck me as.. strange?
He incorrectly claims Marriott had the first hotel loyalty program. He talks about resort fe
Yesterday was a big day for Marriott fans. Amex AND Chase both launched new mid-tier Marriott cards. Plus, sign-up bonuses and perks of existing cards changed. Lets take a look.
New Marriott Cards
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Marriott began work on a new corporate headquarters before the pandemic. They had 4000 employees based in the Maryland-DC-Northern Virginia area including their existing headquarters building. Theyv
Marriott claimed over 140 million members at the end of 2019. At some brands members represent about two thirds of revenue. Based on franchise disclosures, the average Marriott Bonvoy member pays AC H
Marriott actually makes hotels pay them for the right to charge you a resort fee. Having just audited the franchise agreement for their AC Hotels and Westin brands, I found it fascinating that they c
Sean ONeill interviews a hotel marketing professor who believes hotels are underinvesting in their brands in the current environment, much to their detriment. Even one of the highlights of brand inve
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