Marriott Bonvoy has just opened registration for its newest global promotion, which is only the program’s second of the year (the previous one ended in early May 2026). With this promotion, Bonvoy members can earn 1,500 bonus points for stays of two or more nights, and an additional 3,000 bonus points if the stay is at a resort. This is not much to get excited about, but it’s better than nothing.
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Marriott Bonvoy offering 1,500-4,500 bonus points per stay
With Marriott Bonvoy’s new global promotion, members can earn 1,500 bonus points per stay of two or more nights, plus an additional 3,000 bonus points if that stay is at a resort (for a total of 4,500 bonus points).
Registration is required for this promotion, and as you’d expect, there are some terms to be aware of:
- The promotion is valid for stays between September 22 and November 22, 2026, regardless of when they’re booked
- Registration is required prior to your first eligible stay, and registration closes on November 13, 2026; if you’re having issues with the registration link, log into your Marriott Bonvoy account and go to the “promotions” tab
- Only stays paid with cash qualify toward this promotion, so award stays (including Cash + Points stays) don’t qualify
- The bonus points will typically post within 10 days of completion of an eligible stay
- You must select Bonvoy points as your points earning preference (rather than airline miles)
- You can only earn this bonus for one room booked per stay (so if you book multiple rooms, you wouldn’t earn this multiple times)
Let me emphasize that this isn’t a targeted promotion. All too often people do have issues registering for Marriott Bonvoy promotions, but that’s due to glitches. So if you’re having issues, try a different browser, use the app instead of the website, etc.
How valuable is this Marriott Bonvoy promotion?
The math on this promotion is easy. I value Marriott Bonvoy points at 0.7 cents each, and you earn 1,500 bonus points on paid hotel stays of at least two nights, and 4,500 bonus points on paid resort stays of at least two nights. Based on my valuation, that’s like a return of $10.50 and $33, respectively.
When you consider that stays need to be paid in cash and need to be at least two nights, it’s hard to get very excited about that.
I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I have a hard time imagining that offers like this drive much incremental business. For that matter, the promotion period is quite short, and covers just two months.
Normal Bonvoy points earning rates for hotel stays
Not factoring in this promotion, Marriott Bonvoy members ordinarily earn:
- 10x Bonvoy points per dollar spent at most brands
- 5x Bonvoy points per dollar spent at select limited service brands
Then there are elite bonuses:
- Bonvoy Silver Elite members earn 10% bonus points
- Bonvoy Gold Elite members earn 25% bonus points
- Bonvoy Platinum Elite members earn 50% bonus points
- Bonvoy Titanium Elite & Ambassador Elite members earn 75% bonus points
The above doesn’t include the points you can earn for credit card spending at hotels:
- You can earn up to 6x Bonvoy points per dollar spent on most co-branded Marriott cards, including the Marriott Bonvoy Business® American Express® Card (learn more) and Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant® American Express® Card (learn more)
- Otherwise, you can earn up to 3x transferable points on hotel spending (with Amex Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, or Citi ThankYou)
As an Ambassador member with a co-branded credit card, I ordinarily earn 23.5x Bonvoy points per dollar spent at full service brands. At a valuation of 0.7 cents per point, that’s like a ~16% return on hotel spending.
Bottom line
Marriott Bonvoy has just launched its latest global promotion, so make sure you register. With this, members can earn 1,500 bonus points per stay of two or more nights, plus an additional 3,000 bonus points if that stay is at a resort, for a maximum of 4,500 bonus points per stay.
This offer is better than nothing, but it’s also really hard to get excited here, because we’re looking at a return of $10.50 per hotel stay or $33 per resort stay, and that assumes you’re staying two or more nights on a cash booking.
What do you make of Marriott Bonvoy’s new global promotion?
This is just...eh.
So, I'm on an unplanned two-night trip to Miami thanks to Bezos crashing a plane into Musk's parking lot*. Four nights from Titanium, Lifetime Platinum. Didn't even look at Marriott - the question was Accor vs Hyatt. Hyatt won out on better location/price combos, but it was a close call.
I'd like a way to sort "acceptable" hotels across a few chains and then book direct, but Marriott is just overrun with...
This is just...eh.
So, I'm on an unplanned two-night trip to Miami thanks to Bezos crashing a plane into Musk's parking lot*. Four nights from Titanium, Lifetime Platinum. Didn't even look at Marriott - the question was Accor vs Hyatt. Hyatt won out on better location/price combos, but it was a close call.
I'd like a way to sort "acceptable" hotels across a few chains and then book direct, but Marriott is just overrun with too much select service mush and I didn't see a compelling reason to book with them at this point since I'll probably limp out Titanium regardless.
*I'm being facetious, of course. Obviously neither was directly involved.
Says I’m ineligible:
“This could be because:
You are not eligible for it
It has expired
You're trying to access a miles promotion and are a points-earner, or vice versa. If this is the case, you can easily change your earning preferences.”
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Wuttt
Got the targeted double elite credit nights for all paid stays through October 31
I never saw my extra nights post from the earlier promotion.
meh
They allocated all the points for promo to compensate Sebastian for a broken light bulb and an egg incorrectly cooked for breakfast.
We see more and more benefits for loyalty shrink! Your cost goes up, they claim they are doing U a favor? For travelers U have to put your dollars somewhere. The problem is one loyalty plan follows the others!
It's peculiar that Marriott doesn't offer a higher earning rate for Ambassador. Even something small would go a long way toward differentiating the tier.
The excuse for earning it tends to be “well I just get there naturally”.
Will never excuse the fact it’s the most abysmal ROI on $23k spend (pretax) in the T&L space.
Agreed. They should give 100% points bonus for AMB.
That’s what HH, IHG and Accor offer to their Diamond members.
It’s actually quite odd that MB maxes out at 75%
And Hyatt maxes out at 30% (though the milestones at least take the edge off there).
You’d think as such Christians they wouldn’t be quite so tight. I would prefer complimentary arrival water on my table to a thick bible in the draw.
This is what I got...
Earn up to 5,000 bonus points on eligible paid stays that include a Friday or Saturday night.
Register today.
Stay at any of our hotels and resorts worldwide participating in Marriott Bonvoy now through 11/30/2026.
Get 2,000 bonus points after the first stay* that includes a Friday or Saturday night, and 3,000 bonus points after the second stay that includes a Friday or Saturday night.
Can I be...
This is what I got...
Earn up to 5,000 bonus points on eligible paid stays that include a Friday or Saturday night.
Register today.
Stay at any of our hotels and resorts worldwide participating in Marriott Bonvoy now through 11/30/2026.
Get 2,000 bonus points after the first stay* that includes a Friday or Saturday night, and 3,000 bonus points after the second stay that includes a Friday or Saturday night.
Can I be honest? I'm at 71 nights. This is so bleeping weak that I'm tempted to only book the Fri/Sat nights on a stay with Marriott and just go via AAH or someone like that for any other paid nights. 5000 points max is weak enough that I had a momentary temptation to decline to register out of spite.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I think it's time to start giving some gift horses a full dental exam. At some point the offer comes across as so weak as to be insulting.
I think CSR gets 4x at hotels, not 3x?
These promotions are so weak there is no way they actually impact customers' behavior. Probably more out there for franchisees, so that Marriott can send a deck at the end of each year and have a slide about "a global promo driving loyalty" etc.
I would have not been happy at all with this promotion since I would have missed it by *literally* a day for my stays. But then I checked my Marriott account and saw a promo for 4500 bonus points on my first paid stay and 7500 bonus points on my next paid stay, all until Oct 31. So it's better than what is described here.
The reward rate on paid stays at the major networks is unappealing. Hyatt Globalist = 6.5 * 1.5 CPP = 9.75%. Marriott = 15 * 0.7 CPP = 10.5%. Etc. Throw in the watering down of tier benefits. A person will serve themselves well to consider previously foregone opportunities at non-network properties.
Coincidentally I was just checking my Marriott account and the promotion that came up was for double elite credit nights for all paid stays through November 30, though I wonder if that’s targeted and not for all members.
It’s obviously targeted so consider yourself lucky.
Lucky,
Whatchu’ talking about?
You need to rephrase this:
“ To be clear, with this offer you only earn one bonus elite night per stay at a [new brand], so if staying at a [new brand] for five nights, you wouldn’t earn five bonus elite nights.”
The T&Cs do not state this “new brand” requirement, whatever you think it is.