Best deal? Marriott Rewards, airline miles, other, etc?

[julsmom]

My husband travels constantly for work. He has accrued a couple hundred thousand Marriott Reward points & less airline miles. We plan to travel to Cocoa Beach in Fall, with a few days at WDW. We are trying to work out the best possible deal. We can get our beach hotel with points, but other than that I want to make sure wont miss any other benefits or anything.

Does anyone have any advice? Especially ideas for the Disney tickets.

 

[Momto3cuties]

My husband also accrues Marriott points from traveling. We used points for our stay at a Marriott Vacation Club in Orlando for our WDW trip this year. Ultimately we went with the Y.E.S. Program for our park tickets, as my 2 boys love science and it was a wonderful experience for them. Before deciding this we had planned to buy a Marriott gift card with points and then use that to buy our tickets from the concierge at the Marriott. We did buy the Marriott gift card and we used it for lunch/drinks/snacks by the pool.

 

[julsmom]

My husband also accrues Marriott points from traveling. We used points for our stay at a Marriott Vacation Club in Orlando for our WDW trip this year. Ultimately we went with the Y.E.S. Program for our park tickets, as my 2 boys love science and it was a wonderful experience for them. Before deciding this we had planned to buy a Marriott gift card with points and then use that to buy our tickets from the concierge at the Marriott. We did buy the Marriott gift card and we used it for lunch/drinks/snacks by the pool.

Thank you for replying. What is the Yes program?

 

[ldo]

yes = youth education series. You can google "disney, yes, individual enrollment" and read all about it. It's really cool and a great deal on tickets. FYI--once purchased, they are date specific and non-refudnable.

 

[HM]

You can move Marriott Points to airline reward programs if you plan to fly and need more points. (We moved ours to American Airlines for a trip to England once).