A benefit of selected levels of Marriott elite status It is complementary and available room updates in the check-in. However, for some stays, you may want to guarantee a specific view or a larger room in the reserve instead of waiting for an update.
You can book a paid rate for the type of room you want. However, you can also sometimes redeem Marriott points For improved room types. This is what you should know.
Redeeming Marriott points for improved rooms: what to know
Marriott Bonvoy It offers two main routes to use points to update. It is possible that you can use more Marriott points to book an improved room, or you can exchange points for the standard room prize cost and then pay for cash copayments to update. However, you will not get Marriott points in the cash copayment, and will not count for the Ambassador expenses requirement.
If you want to exchange points to update, you must do it in the reservation. And unfortunately, you will not see the option to update with Marriott points on each property. Therefore, if you expect to ensure an improved room with points for an upcoming stay, you may have to verify several properties before you find one that allows you to exchange Marriott points for an improved room.
In the rest of this guide, I will discuss how Marriott’s points can redeem for an improved room. These options are available online, so you can check your options when booking on the Marriott Bonvoy website.
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How can you use Marriott Points for an improved room
You will see the option to reserve improved room types with points on some properties of Marriott Bonvoy. When booking these properties, you may be able to choose whether to pay completely at points for your update or redeem points for a standard room and pay a cash copayment for the update.
For example, consider a five night stay next year at Marriott Mena House, Cairo in Egypt. I could book a luxury room with a garden and balcony view for 114,000 Marriott points.
If I wanted to ensure a partial pyramidal view, you could pay a cash copayment of $ 500 or exchange 100,000 additional Marriott points.
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I get access to the Executive Chamber as the benefit of my titanium elite status. But if you don’t have Marriott Platinum elite status Or superior, you may want to pay a co -payment of $ 550 or 110,000 points to update a luxury room to the garden with access to the Executive Chamber. When I stayed at Marriott Mena House, Cairo earlier this year, the Executive Hall offered a modest breakfast buffet and an impressive dinner buffet with beer and came daily.
You can also pay an update copayment of $ 1,050 or 210,000 points to ensure a room with a partial pyramidal view and access to the Executive Chamber.
Marriott knows that many guests stay in Marriott Mena House, Cairo for his views to the pyramid. So, although the rooms with a view to the premium pyramid are not cheap, you can pay a cash copayment or a co -payment of points to secure one by redeeming points for your stay.
It is good that Marriott allows its members for redeeming extra points or paying an cash update rate by redeeming points. However, rates are incredibly high compared to rates paid on some properties and for some types of rooms. In addition, many Marriott properties do not offer the ability to exchange points with an option of cash update or points.
Related: His full guide to win Points of Marriott Bonvoy
Use the Night Update Awards at your Marriott Award Stay
If the update rates are too high or the property does not offer cash reimbursements or points updates, another option is to reserve a standard prize stay and then request to Night update awards.
However, the use of nightly update awards instead of reserving the type of improved room you want has several disadvantages. First, there is no guarantee that your update night awards are clarified for your stay. Secondly, you will not discover it until the five days of your stay (three days for the stays in Edition, Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis Properties) if you will get the update. Nor can you request nightly update awards on each Marriott property, so it may not be an option.
You can win nocturnal update awards as Marriott’s choice benefits Every time he accumulates 50 or 75 elite night credits per calendar year. If you have the Bonvoy Brilliant® American Express® Marriott cardYou can also choose the update night awards, since your choice of choice won in each calendar year that spends at least $ 60,000 on purchases eligible with your card.
Related: 7 ways to get an update of the hotel room
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As Marriott Titanium Elite Member, I have never redeemed Marriott’s points for an improved room. On the other hand, I have always waited for an update based on my state of Marriott Elite OA through the update night awards. I have had a decent luck with the cleaning of the nightly update awards when I travel abroad, I have often been lucky in at least a better room located as a benefit of my Mariott state.
But if I wanted to book an improved room with Marriott points, it is good to know that the points or cash updates may be available.
