A question that has been asked by many and to which I have not had the answer to is ‘What will the Membership Rewards conversion rate be to the new Marriott/SPG program”! Many American Express cardholders (primarily Cobalt and Gold Rewards Card) have been wondering this and now we have the answer: We now know […]
Tag: Starwood Preferred Guest
July 19 Update: The Marriott Rewards Starwood Preferred Guest Merger – All the resources you need
We are only a few weeks away from the complete integration of the Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and Ritz-Carlton Rewards programs. Sometime in August they will become one program and to help navigate this for our readers we have compiled all of our articles and posts onto one page: The Marriott Rewards Starwood Preferred […]
Marriott Travel Packages will lose a lot of value come August
Back on June 28 Marriott revealed where all their 6,500 hotels will fall into in their new free night award charts. On that day they also revealed the details of what is happening to the very valuable Travel Packages redemption option. Marriott travel packages provided some huge value if you were able to earn enough […]
July 6 Update: Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card will get Elite Night Credits, 30K mbna Alaska card offer is not limited time and 15 new retailers added to AIR MILES Shops
American Express has sent out letters to those who have the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card outlining the details of the changes to the card that are coming on August 4th. We provided this information in our post “New earn rates and benefits revealed for the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express” but […]
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 […]
New earn rates and benefits revealed for the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express
For sometime now we’ve known what the earn rates and benefits will be on current and new U.S. issued Marriott and Starwood credit cards from Chase and American Express respectively. Here in Canada we have not, we have only been able to speculate on what changes will happen to the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card […]
Transferring Starpoints between Starwood Preferred Guest accounts with the same residential address
Earlier this week I posted a step by step guide to redeeming points from the American Express Cobalt Card (or any Membership Rewards card for that matter) to Starwood Preferred Guest. This is all in anticipation that the conversion ratio will be changing when SPG and Marriott Rewards become one program in August. In that […]