Marriott Reward points

[Jsme]

Does anyone know how they work?
We have Rad points, Hilton points and Marriott points.
I know with the Hilton rewards program you can buy points to help you maek enough to book a room. I have plenty of those points, but I will be staying at a Marriott in 2006 pre cruise and I do not have enough points to stay free. Does anyone know if you can buy pints or use the current points you have to upgrade your room to a suite or conceirge?

 

[bonnielynn]

I use marriott's points.. I have been told that you can buy some points if you dont have enough to make a free trip.. call them and check it out.
Right now they are having a fall discount for cocoa beach.. we got our room for j10,000 pts... can't beat that..

Hope that helps..

 

[TammiMcMan]

Yes, you can purchase points. They are $10 per 1,000 points. As far as upgrading, you must already be using points to pay for your room. You can either utilize more points for an upgrade or some hotels allow you to pay the difference in cash. Most hotels require 5000 points for a single upgrade per night. So if you have a standard room booked at 50,000 points and you want to upgrade to a lake view, you would need 55,000 points. If you wanted to go up 2 levels to a deluxe lake view, you would need the initial 50,000 + 5,000 single upgrade + 5,000 single upgrade for a total of 60,000 points. There's not a set rewards credit though, so you'd need to check with the hotel you're staying in to find out what their requirements are.

Tammi

 

[Jsme]

We only have 19,000 and some change I need 25,000 for the precruise room in Miami.

 

[TammiMcMan]

Unfortunately, the purchase points program wouldn't work for you then. You can only purchase up to 10% of the total points needed. You need 25,000 so that means you can only purchase an additional 2500. Added to the 19,000 you already have, that only brings you up to 21,500. Not enough redeemable points.

Sorry about that,
Tammi

 

[Jsme]

Yeah would not be enough. We are going on the Freedom of the Seas next November and I have found a bunch over at Cruise Critic that are going down. They all are stayin at the Marriott. We are suppose to be getting some good rates though. They are trying to get the Marriott to threw in a free room for the pre party. It is going to be a wild cruise.

 

[daisy112878]

I don't know if you have one but they have a Marriott Reward Visa. We have one and it's great. We get so many points from that thing. We've used points to go to Tampa for a bowl game over this past new years and we're using points for our pre-cruise room. I know if you sign up you get something like 15,000 bonus points or something. Plus they do double and triple points all the time. If you're interested here's the link:
http://www.firstusa.com/cgi-bin/web...me=marriott_familyofcards&page=cont&mkid=6BMV

We've been really happy with them and have no problems with them over the last 3 years of having it.