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Sopot Marriott Resort & Spa, Poland is a category 5 hotel where we redeemed our winter MegaBonus free night earned from stays at Moxy London Stratford and AC Bella Sky Copenhagen during last December’s trip to Europe. The $300 room night at a beach resort in summer made a good value Marriott Rewards redemption based…
Marriott Irvine Spectrum is the first new build full-service hotel in the chain to open in Orange County in the past decade. The 271 room property, including 50 suites, held its grand opening reception this week on March 27, following its soft opening last month. Hive & Honey is the rooftop bar of the 15-story…
Marriott Rewards is raising the points category for 1,083 hotels on March 6, 2018 and dropping points category for 248 hotels. This post lists 88 hotels rising from category 1 (7,500 points) to category 2 (10,000 points) and 241 hotels rising from category 2 to category 3 (15,000 points). Two previous articles cover hotels in…
Marriott Rewards announced a big shift in hotel reward category assignment for free nights using points. Marriott Rewards hotel list is here. 1,083 hotels rise one category on March 6, 2018, while only 248 hotels drop by one category. These include 7 Ritz-Carlton hotels (2 up, 5 down) shifting Tier level. 878 of 1,083 hotels…
Marriott MegaBonus 3K winter 2018 registration is open for the next promotion from January 16 – April 15, 2018. Earn 2,000 bonus points per stay, beginning with second stay and an additional 1,000 bonus points for stays including either a Friday or Saturday weekend night for up to 3,000 points per stay. Maximum 50,000 bonus…
Spain and UK are two countries in Europe with the largest number of Marriott Rewards hotels, both with 76 hotels. AC Hotels is a Spain-based hotel chain Marriott purchased in 2011. There are still 61 AC Hotels in Spain making up the bulk of Marriott International hotels in Spain. Nearly half of these AC hotels…
Marriott International has 48 hotels in Germany representing eight of their hotel brands and Starwood Hotels has 39 properties in eight different brands for 87 hotels across Germany in the two programs. I created a Google Maps with pins for 87 hotels including website link, address and reward category level for each hotel in Marriott…
Marriott sent me an email today titled Your Account: See Your 2017 Year in Review. I earned 50 Marriott Rewards points so far in 2017. I don’t even bother with the free social media point giveaways. Marriott actually took me to 2 cities in 2017. Pilsen, Czech Republic on a 2-night reward stay last July…
Four primary impressions of Monaco after a 6-hour walk: 1. The place is immaculately clean and tidy. I don’t recall being in another place that appeared so clean and tidy, except Disneyland and DisneyWorld. 2. There are a lot of fitness enthusiasts. Many places have healthy athletic people. What struck me about Monaco is the…
About a year ago I won an auction bid at $115 for a two night stay in a Deluxe sea view room with breakfast buffet for two at Marriott Riviera La Porte de Monaco in Cap d’Ail, France. My original plan was to stay in July during the week of the Tour de France time…
