New Free Night Award Chart for the combined Marriott Rewards, Ritz-Carlton Rewards, and SPG program has been released

Not only did we find out the details of the upcoming changes to the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card yesterday, Marriott released the full free night award chart for all of their 6,500 hotels around the world. This chart will come into effect in August and overall I am quite pleased with it. Here are […]

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We have a preview of some new redemption rates with the combined Marriott Rewards-Starwood Preferred Guest program

Today Marriott released the redemption rates of 100 of their top hotels in the newly combined program that launches this August. Last week we brought you most of the details of the new program in these two posts: Marriott Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest come together with the announcement of one set of benefits Further […]

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Further details to the combination of the Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and Ritz-Carlton Rewards Programs

 On Monday we brought you the majority of the details of the unification of the Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and Ritz-Carlton Rewards programs. Some details were not provided to us in advance which are now on Marriott’s website that outlines everything. Sarah McLaughlin at the Marriott announcement event at the Ritz-Carlton Toronto on Monday […]

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Marriott Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest come together with the announcement of one set of benefits

There have been lots of rumours and some spoilers floating around the frequent traveller blogs and forums about today’s announcement from Marriott International. Some of those rumours are true while some others are not.  Invites went out to select people including ourselves for the multiple events running tonight around the world including the Ritz-Carlton Toronto […]

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Ritz-Carlton Rewards – Double Points on all stays of 2+ nights at Ritz-Carlton Hotels Worldwide

The final summer offer of Marriott’s three loyalty programs is for those of you who are members of the Ritz-Carlton Rewards programs. This is the simplest offer of the three and awards double points for every stay of 2+ nights. Easy peasy. Offer details: Double Ritz-Carlton Rewards  points for every stay of two nights or […]

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Marriott to add worldwide travel experiences for guests with PlacePass and surges past 100 million members

Marriott announced two major milestones this morning. Firstly, the hotel chain has surpassed 100 million members in their Marriott Rewards, Ritz-Carlton Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest programs. They join a league of programs that can be counted on one hand that have members in the nine figures. Secondly, they announced their investment into PlacePass, a […]

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