Earlier in the week Marriott Bonvoy revealed their next buy points offer. This is Marriott’s fourth offer on buying points since taking over SPG, who was famous for their offers! All the previous offers were discounts on the price of the points while this time they take a new approach and keep the pricing at the base amount but are adding bonus points. When you 2,000 or more Bonvoy points you’ll receive a 50% bonus and they have also increased the maximum number of points you can buy from 50,000 to 100,000 annually with this promotion. Note that you can only buy 50,000 points in one transaction so you would have to complete 2 transactions to get to the annual maximum. Marriott points are sold a flat rate so you are paying the same amount per point if you buy 2,000 points or 50,000 points. With a 50% bonus the per point cost drops to 0.83 cents (US) or about 1.1 cents in Canadian dollars. This is the lowest price we have seen for Marriott points to date but still not as low as we saw with SPG. With that being said 0.83 cents US is a pretty good price seeing that you can easily achieve well over 1 cent US per point on award night redemptions – more so if you take advantage of the 5th night free benefit.
For example, Rewards Canada’s most recent redemption was just over 1.4 cents (C$) so such a redemption would be advantageous if you bought the points at 1.1 cents each – that’s only of course if you don’t already have tons of points in your account which we did. And that 1.4 cents was only for four nights as that's all our schedule allowed, had we had more time we could have received a fifth night for free and have bumped that up to about 1.75 cents per point.
Chances are I won't be buying points this time as we still have well over 7 figures in our accounts but for those of you who are on the low end this could be an opportune time to buy some - as long as you know you can use them soon and will come out ahead.
Offer details:
50% Bonus Bonvoy Points when you buy 2,000 or more points online. Buy points here. Until Mar 25, 20
You can buy a maximum of 100,000 points annually with this promotion.
Here are some more Marriott Bonvoy Bonus Points offers to check out:
- Earn up to 10,000 Bonus Bonvoy Points + receive a hotel credit for stays of 2+ nights for Friday, Saturday or Sunday nights in a suite at any one of 12 Marriott Hotels in Azerbaijan, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia, Romania, or Turkey. Full details & online booking.
- 25,000 Bonus Bonvoy Points for stays of 2 or more nights at the French Leave Resort, Autograph Collection Governor’s Harbour Eleuthera. Full details & online booking
- 1,000 bonus Bonvoy points and receive 20% off best available rate, free buffet breakfast daily, Wi-Fi at The St. Regis Mauritius Resort or the Westin Turtle Bay Resort & Spa. Full details & online booking
- Find the most complete list of Marriott Bonus Points offers right here!
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