@Loquat wrote:The SPG Biz works out well in my situation because the wife and I like the Marriott properties (not to fond of how the merger is shaking out but that's another story) and with 2 monster, gas guzzling SUVs, her Civic SI, and my Scat Pack Charger, we burn through a lot of fuel and the 4x points work out well. We have no children so we dine out a lot so it works well there also. We both have cell phones and she has one for work and I've got my grandmother on our plan so we capitalize in that area to.
We accumulate a lot of Marriott Rewards points in a short period of time. I know a lot of folks didn't care for the 33% reduction in point value in the SPG-Marriott merger (and I don't blame them) but for us it was an increase as I was getting 1SPG (3Marriott points)/$ and now I'm getting 4 Marriott Points/$ and the change will easily net us an additional 1-2k points or more per month.
Most of the properties we frequent didn't have a category change with the merger and a couple actually went down in category so this has been a win-win for us...minus the hiccups of actually merging the rewards program.
Question, my wife works for marriott. Any idea if I can get the point value even with her discount. We're staying at Courtyards for $39-$49 a night pretty much every where we go so not sure if we'd still get the point perk.
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Wow.... seems like a no brainer!
@imaximous wrote:You get any bonus points charged on the credit card, but you already know you don't get the points for the stays. I too have family working at marriott/spg and the employee rate is great except not getting any points for staying at their properties. One thing I noticed recently at a Marriott in France is that I didn't even get credit for extra charges, like restaurant meals charged to my room. When I used to stay at SPG only because that's where family is, they always gave me the points for restaurant charges and parking, at least.
Anyway, sorry for the thread hijack.
You should get points (plus any elite status multiplier) for any@ charges made to the room outside of the room rate (unless it's one of the brands that didn't earn non-room-rate points prior to the big changes in August 2018). Shoot an email to the front desk to request the points or contact @MarriottRewards on Twitter. I had a similar issue with points not automatically posting for cash upgrade and other charges made to our room in Paris this year. The Twitter team took a day to get back to me, then they forwarded my request to the hotel. The hotel got back to me with an apology and stated that they should have been credited automatically and said they would put them through again. I still didn't see the points a few weeks later and followed up; the 20k or so points were in my account the following day!
