Marriott Rewards offers a PointSavers discount whereby the rate for a free night using points is reduced by one category level for participating hotels. UK hotels are heavily featured for 2009. The PointSavers participating hotels list is up-to-date.
The PointSavers advertisement is up to 33% savings. This is true if you book a Marriott Rewards category 3 hotel participating in PointSavers. The regular rate of 15,000 points per night for a free night at a Category 3 hotel will be reduced by 33% to 10,000 points per night. In effect you can redeem 3 nights at a Category 3 hotel for the normal price of 2 nights.
33% is the maximum savings using PointSavers.
The savings is reduced as you go higher in category level using PointSavers.
Here is a table to show the savings by hotel category level for Marriott Rewards PointSavers.
|
Marriott Rewards Hotel Category |
Regular Points for Free Night |
PointSaver Rate |
Discount |
|
Category 1 |
7,500 |
6,000 |
20% |
|
Category 2 |
10,000 |
7,500 |
25% |
|
Category 3 |
15,000 |
10,000 |
33% |
|
Category 4 |
20,000 |
15,000 |
25% |
|
Category 5 |
25,000 |
20,000 |
20% |
|
Category 6 |
30,000 |
25,000 |
17% |
|
Category 7 |
35,000 |
30,000 |
14% |
|
Category 8 |
40,000 |
35,000 |
12.5% |
Marriott Rewards feature of “Redeem 4 nights and get the 5th night free” is applicable for PointSaver redemptions.
Ritz-Carlton PointSavers
Ritz-Carlton Hotels are part of the Marriott Hotels chain. You can redeem your Marriott Rewards points for Ritz-Carlton hotel stays, however, you do not earn Marriott Rewards points for Ritz-Carlton stays.
A great feature of Marriott Rewards is the participation of Ritz-Carlton Hotels in PointSavers. In fact, the advantage of Ritz-Carlton PointSavers is the per night rate for multi-night stays still decreases for longer stays just as the old Marriott Rewards chart did for Marriott brand hotels.
A free night using Marriott Rewards points for a Tier 2 Ritz-Carlton Hotel for a 1-night stay will cost 70,000 points regularly. A 7-night hotel stay will cost just over 35,000 points per night. The per night cost using points decreases by almost 50%.
There are four main Marriott Hotels in San Francisco all at Category 6 or 30,000 points per night. The 5th night free award saves 30,000 points. A Marriott Rewards guest will spend 180,000 points for 7 nights on a regular award at one of these San Francisco hotels. None of these hotels are currently participating in PointSavers for discount award nights.
PointSavers for 7-nights reduces the cost for a free night at a higher level Ritz-Carlton Hotel to just over 27,000 points per night for a hotel like the Ritz-Carlton San Francisco and Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, 35 miles south of San Francisco. A Marriott Rewards guest will spend 190,000 points for a 7-night PointSavers stay available through September 30, 2009. An additional 10,000 points will upgrade the guest from a Marriott or Renaissance to a Ritz-Carlton in the San Francisco area.
Ritz-Carlton PointSavers Table
|
Marriott Rewards Ritz-Carlton Hotel Category |
Regular Award Points for Ritz-Carlton |
PointSavers Award for Ritz-Carlton |
Discount |
|
Tier 1 – 1 Night |
45,000 |
35,000 |
22% |
|
Tier 1 – 2 Nights |
75,000 |
60,000 |
20% |
|
Tier 1 – 3 Nights |
100,000 |
80,000 |
20% |
|
Tier 1 – 5 Nights |
150,000 |
120,000 |
20% |
|
Tier 1 – 7 Nights |
175,000 |
140,000 |
20% |
|
Tier 2 – 1 Night |
70,000 |
50,000 |
28.6% |
|
Tier 2 – 2 Nights |
110,000 |
80,000 |
27.3% |
|
Tier 2 – 3 Nights |
150,000 |
110,000 |
26.7% |
|
Tier 2 – 5 Nights |
200,000 |
150,000 |
25% |
|
Tier 2 – 7 Nights |
250,000 |
190,000 |
24% |
|
Marriott Rewards Ritz-Carlton Hotel Category |
Regular Award Per Night Points for Ritz-Carlton |
PointSavers Per Night Points for Ritz-Carlton |
|
Tier 1 – 1 Night |
45,000 |
35,000 |
|
Tier 1 – 2 Nights |
37,500 |
30,000 |
|
Tier 1 – 3 Nights |
33,333 |
26,667 |
|
Tier 1 – 5 Nights |
30,000 |
24,000 |
|
Tier 1 – 7 Nights |
25,000 |
20,000 |
|
Tier 2 – 1 Night |
70,000 |
50,000 |
|
Tier 2 – 2 Nights |
55,000 |
40,000 |
|
Tier 2 – 3 Nights |
50,000 |
36,667 |
|
Tier 2 – 5 Nights |
40,000 |
30,000 |
|
Tier 2 – 7 Nights |
35,714 |
27,143 |
Ritz-Carlton Hotel stays are a great value for Marriott Rewards points.
Here is the link to the Summer 2009 participating hotels through September 30, 2009.
http://www.marriott.com/rewards/ritzCarltonPointSavers.mi#summer2009pointsaversrewards
Hey Marriott! PointSavers webpage update is overdue.
Marriott Rewards has not updated the PointSavers FAQ page. The webpage describing PointSavers has been out-of-date for all of 2009 since the Marriott Rewards program changes in January 2009. The FAQ provides an incorrect example for the first question:
“What type of value does PointSavers provide?
Locations participating in PointSavers are discounted by one category in Marriott Rewards point requirements.*
For example, members can stay in a Category 5 hotel while redeeming points for a Category 4 hotel. So, to stay at a Category 5 hotel for two nights at a standard redemption would require 46,000 Marriott Rewards points. The same stay with PointSavers would be 38,000 points or a 21% savings.”
http://www.marriott.com/rewards/marriottRewardsPointSaversFAQs.mi
Using the current Marriott Rewards free night redemption table the example should read:
“For example, members can stay in a Category 5 hotel while redeeming points for a Category 4 hotel. So, to stay at a Category 5 hotel for two nights at a standard redemption would require 50,000 Marriott Rewards points. The same stay with PointSavers would be 40,000 points or a 20% savings.”
