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New Amex Offers targeting Marriott properties

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Amex Offers Marriott Hotels :

American Express regularly runs Marriott “Amex Offers” and their latest batch is quite attractive depending on the ones you’re targeted for and is specific to US cardholders.

Historically, Amex rolls out one of these and then shortly thereafter follows it up with a few more. So we will be keeping an eye on additional Marriott Amex Offers in the next week or two.

A few things to note:

  • *Another thing worth noting: the terms and conditions stipulate booking must be done through Marriott.com, the app, etc. However, in the past if you were to book a qualifying Marriott Hotel property via Amex Fine Hotels and Resorts, you’d not only get all of the FHR benefits, but if you spent enough while on the property to trigger the Amex Offer, and that was paid directly to the property, you’d get a credit as well.
    • So,  if you held an Amex Platinum you could take advantage of the $200 hotel credit when pre-paying via Fine Hotels and Resorts or the Hotel Collection. You can read details on that here, and then any overage charge to the hotel and pay with the targeted Amex. This isn’t guaranteed to work, but has in the past.
  • * the exclusions explicitly mention gift cards, but in the past, if those were purchased at a property ( which isn’t always easy to do ) they have triggered the credit.

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Marriott: Spend $300 on purchases, get up to $100 back

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  • Valid through 03/31/24
  • Valid US + US Territories, the Caribbean, Canada, Mexico
  • Excludes gift cards, online retail purchases, and Marriott Bonvoy Point Purchases

Spend $1000 Marriott Homes and Villas get $250

If you weren’t aware, Marriott has a portal dedicated to Homes and Villas. Take the fam, take the squad, but whatever you do, take the Amex you linked so you can get some money back, baybayyyy.

  • Spend $1000 get $250 back
  • Valid until 04/15/2024
  • See terms for exclusions

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What we’ve seen in the past and likely to see again shortly:

 

Marriott: Spend $250 get $100

This is targeted for properties within the Marriott umbrella that aren’t “luxury” per se. Interestingly enough, Autograph Collection, AC, Le Meridien properties aren’t excluded which I’ve found to be quite nice, so if you’re still wanting up market, these could be a great option. Also, if you’re doing a roadtrip and staying in Spring Hill Suites, Fairfield, Courtyard, etc – easy way to get money back.

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Details:

  • Spend $250 get $100
  • Within the following geographical areas
    •  U.S. and U.S. territories, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean
  • Must be completed by 12/15/23
  • Excludes Marriott Vacation Club®, Marriott Grand Residence Club®, Design Hotels™, Protea Hotels®, Marriott Executive Apartments®, Homes & Villas by Marriott International, Vistana Signature Network and Vistana Residence Network. Excludes gift card purchases.
  • Not valid for online retail purchases, hotel amenities, or purchases of Marriott Bonvoy® points

Marriott Luxury Properties: Spend $500, get $200

If you’re looking for a luxurious getaway…this is an easy way to save some dough.

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Details:

  • Spend $500, get $200
  • Within the following geographical areas
    • U.S. and U.S. territories, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean
  • Ritz, St Regis, Edition, The Luxury Collection, W Hotels, JW Marriott
  • Must be completed by 12/15/23

Overall

Some great ways to save on your Marriott bookings!

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We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.

Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.

Main Cast: 

Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.

Supporting Cast:

Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on. 

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If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex℠and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners

Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.

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10 Comments

  • Kenny February 29, 2024

    American Express Gold: https://americanexpress.com/en-us/referral/KENNYB08Yx?XLINK=MYCP

    The Gold card is currently offering a 60,000 sign up bonus after $6,000 spent in 6 months.

    I find the gold card to be most useful for food purchases, earning 4x points at restaurants and grocery stores. You can recover almost all of the annual fee for the gold card $240 of the $250 if you take advantage of the monthly credits from food delivery and Uber. I like to accumulate additional Amex points by using shopping portals like Rakuten.

  • Mike R May 1, 2022

    Got my $100 today from a Le Meridian stay last week. Will get the $50 this week on a Sheraton stay. I’ve received well more than my AF back this year.

  • Marshall October 22, 2021

    I have both offers. I am actually in Hawaii using the $50 off $200. The bill is $195 so I bought candy so now the charge is $202. Now I get $50 off of a vacation I was going on already.

  • Issac jones October 22, 2021

    @ tammie, I got the same question

  • pm October 22, 2021

    I didn’t get either of these offers on any of my AmEx cards. Do I need to receive the offer by email?

  • Tammie October 22, 2021

    I don’t understand how you stack the Marriott villas credit with Amex platinum card FHR credit since the Amex terms state you must book through Marriott. Don’t you have to book through Amex travel to get the platinum card credit?

    • Miles October 22, 2021

      Hey Tammie – Sorry, I clarified it in the post – What i’m suggesting is you could book a stay at a Marriott hotel property via Fine Hotels and Resorts and receive a $200 credit via Amex Plat’s prepaid FHR benefit, but if you charged $200 while on property, since this is billed separately from the pre-paid stay and processed via the hotel, it would also trigger the Amex Offers credit.

  • Beej October 22, 2021

    Do you think the $300 amex brilliant credit will stack with the Homes and Villas offer? Thanks

  • JRG August 21, 2021

    Using the $50 off of $250 early Sep. it’s on my no-fee Amex everydaycard…

  • Efrondeur March 25, 2021

    So, can I purchase a prepaid room now and then stay in the hotel a few months from now?

    Does it need to be a single purchase or can it be multiple purchases made at once (two different hotels on different nights)?

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