Marriott Choice Benefits Live (i.e. Suite Night Awards)
For those (like me!) that have been waiting to finally be able to select your extra benefit for having 50 or 75 total nights year to date between your SPG and Marriott accounts, you...
Marriott Allows Downgrade of Old Travel Packages
The Internet had been abuzz since the launch of the new program and Marriott's mapping of old to new, leaving some package holders mapped to a category exactly the same as one they could...
Marriott Travel Packages: A Very Plausible Outcome
Flyertalk reader Maxcalls shares a very detailed discussion he had with a Marriott call center employee in India regarding what will happen to Travel Packages after August 17th. You can read his post here.
The...
Marriott Travel Packages WON’T Convert to Points (Apparently)
There has been an amazing flurry of conjecture the last couple of months about what would happen to Marriott Travel Packages booked before August 18th (at the current rates. A lot of speculation on the...
Review: Berlin Marriott Hotel
Since the "Starriott" merger, I've found myself staying with Marriott whenever possible to take advantage of my new found Marriott Platinum Elite benefits. Lounge access and breakfast is a nice perk that can really...
Marriott Limits Rewarding Events / Qualifying Night Credits
With all the tweaks Marriott has made in the merger with SPG to end all possible gaming if the system, perceived or otherwise, it’s no surprise this is happening.
Loyalty Lobby reports that beginning August...
RANT: It’s getting A LOT harder to earn Marriott points
We've all been *very* caught up in the combination of the Starwood Preferred Guest program and Marriott Rewards.
Many of us old SPG loyalists are saddened by the loss of the "personal touch" and connection...
Aug. 18th is now Marriott program launch date
Yesterday, I wrote that, while people were expecting August 1st to be the go-live date for the new combined Marriott/SPG program, I didn't think that was going to happen.
And it won't.
As you can see,...
Aug 1 is likely NOT the Marriott launch date for the combined Marriott/SPG program
I've been wondering for a while about the actual launch date of the new combined program. We'd been told since day one that it would combine in August 2018.
Somewhere along the way we all...
New Marriott Members can get a Free Night
While I tend to assume most people reading MilesTalk already have a Marriott account, there's certainly room to think that SOME of you do not....
If you do not, and you plan to have at...
