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How to transfer Marriott points between accounts
Marriott just made it very easy to transfer points between accounts. If you were unaware that you could do this, it’s been a perk for years, but annoyingly, the IT wouldn’t allow you to do it online and you’d have to phone it. The max is still capped at 100k points per year, but you can complete the transfer online, saving the hassle of phoning in. This should be very advantageous if you’re taking a trip with someone who has higher status than you and you’d like to split the cost and move your points into their account, or if someone is short on points, you could transfer from one Marriott account to the other to shore up the needed amount. Let’s take a look at how to do this! Shoutout to LoyaltyLobby for spotting this
Things to know before transferring points:
- You must transfer increments of 1000 points
- You can only transfer 100k from a single account
- An account can only receive 500k points in a year
- Accounts are in good standing and have each been open for at least thirty (30) days with qualifying activity,
- (90) days without qualifying activity.
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Step 1 Log in to your account
You’ll want to click on About Marriott Bonvoy, you’ll then see “Manage Points”
Step 2: Manage your points
You’ll see several options, but you want to select the one on the far right ” Share your points with other Marriott Bonvoy Members”
Step 3 – fill out the Combine Marriott Points form
This is great and quite straight forwards
Overall
This is a massive improvement and that will make transferring points from one member to another a lot easier and more straight forward
Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
The Chase Sapphire Preferred is a great starter card that earns Premium Ultimate Rewards that can be transferred into over a dozen partners many of which are US based.
Welcome Offer
60k Points after $4k spend in 3 months
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
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.
- 3x on dining
- including eligible delivery services for takeout
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Ultimate Rewards – Chase Travel Portal
- $50 Annual Credit on hotel stays purchased via Ultimate Rewards/Chase Travel
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred® continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel Portal and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including primary rental car insurance, purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 13 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in the Chase Travel center for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Primary rental car coverage is my favorite
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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