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Promo Analysis: Gaylord Resorts 3000 Marriott bonus points to April 27

Earn 2,000 Marriott Rewards bonus points per stay at any of four Gaylord Resort & Convention Center properties in the USA for stays February 3-April 27, 2014. Promotion code M11.

Gaylord Resorts are purposefully built convention hotels with over 1,000 hotel rooms and provide a self-contained environment of restaurants, activities and recreation space. There are only four of these hotels in the USA and a fifth hotel being built in Denver as the Gaylord Rockies to include 1,500 rooms and an adjacent $25 million water park in the old Denver Stapleton Airport redevelopment of Aurora, Colorado.

I have attended conventions at the Florida and Maryland Gaylord properties. These are unique hotels with huge atriums offering a plant and water-filled environment in what might be considered immense open-space lobbies.

As a Marriott Rewards Silver elite member I received a similar Gaylord Resort offer for 3,000 bonus points + $25 resort credit with Promotion Code EOS.

Loyalty Traveler Rate Analysis

M11 2,000 bonus points deal

Gaylord Palms

Gaylord Palms in Florida showed two offers when I checked the M11 rate.

$299 for 2,000 bonus points pales in comparison to the Marriott Rewards member promotion for $25 per night credit and no bonus points rate at $254.

A member can buy 2,000 points for $25 on MarriottRewards.com so a rate at $45 less per night with a $25 resort credit is the better deal.

$254 per night is still a high price to pay for the Orlando area and DisneyWorld area hotels.

Marriott Rewards Silver Elite Offer 3,000 Bonus points + $25 resort credit nightly

Using my Silver elite member offer of 3,000 bonus points + $25 resort credit nightly is the same $299 rate.

Paying $45 extra for 3,000 bonus points is still not a good deal since there is hotel tax and the rate works out to about $18 per 1,000 points.

Best deal is going for the $25 resort credit rate or possibly an even lower AAA rate with no bonuses.

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Ric Garrido of Monterey, California is writer and owner of Loyalty Traveler.

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1 Comment

  • Al March 16, 2014

    Marriott bonus points rates are normally bad deals.

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