Marriott Bonvoy Boundless™ Credit Card (Formerly Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Plus Credit Card) Review [2019.9 Update] – A new 100k offer after spending $5k in three months is now available. The $95 annual fee is not waived the first year. I believe $95 for an extra 25k points is good value, but that will depend on your situation. Application Link…
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Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant American Express Card (Formerly Starwood Preferred Guest American Express Luxury Card) Review 2019.9 Update: Some readers have received emails containing an upgrade offer for this card. Upgrading the AmEx Marriott Bonvoy card to this card and spending $5000 within 3 months, you will get 125k bonus points! This is already the best offer we’ve ever seen on this…
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Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express Card (Formerly Starwood Preferred Guest Business Credit Card from American Express) Review 2019.9 Update: The 100k offer has returned! The minimum spend is $5000 within 3 months. This offer is set to expire on 10/23/19. Application Link AmEx Marriott Bonvoy Business (If you can’t open it, try incognito mode) Benefits 100k offer: earn 100,000 Marriott points after you…
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Marriott Bonvoy Bold™ Credit Card Review Application Link Chase Marriott Bonvoy Bold Benefits 50k offer: Earn 50,000 Marriott points by spending $2,000 in the first 3 months from account opening. Marriott point is now the most flexible points (after the merger with SPG). We estimate that Marriott points are worth about 0.7 cents/point, see below for a brief introduction. So…
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Marriott Bonvoy American Express Card (Formerly The Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express) Review 2019.8 Update: This card is still available via product change. 2019.2 Update: AmEx SPG is rebranded as AmEx Marriott Bonvoy for current card holders (it does not accept new applications). Application Link This card is no longer available to apply, but you can get it by…
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After its merge with SPG program, Marriott incorporated a lot of legacy SPG policies, including the No Blackout Dates policy, stating that if a standard room is available for sale by any means, it should be redeemable using points. However, we recently found that Marriott has changed its no Blackout Dates policy without announcement. Here’s the new policy: 3.2.n. The…
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Starting from Aug 26, 2018, AmEx and Chase work together to limit the bonuses on their Marriott & SPG co-branded credit cards. Now AmEx SPG cards can affect the eligibility of Chase Marriott credit cards, and vice versa. Here’s a summary of the limits. Chase Co-branded Credit Cards Chase cards have their own limits: Chase 5/24 rule: Chase Marriott Premier…
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As you may be aware, Marriott and Starwood Hotels merged their IT systems and points on August 18, 2018 (five days ago). This was a huge deal in the points and miles world because Starwood points were being converted into Marriott points, accounts were being merged, there was a travel package bonanza, lots of IT issues, and brand new credit…
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Chase Ritz-Carlton Credit Card Review 2019.8 Update: This card is still available via product change. 2019.1 Update: This card stopped accepting new applications since 2018.7. But it is still available via product change. Note that you won’t get sign up bonus by product change. FIY, it seems since 2018.7, Chase has changed the material of the card to the same one…
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We now have an Instagram account: instagram.com/uscreditcardguide, follow us if you like our trip reports! Changsha is an “under-the-radar” city in central China. You may have never heard of it, but it is actually the powerhouse of China’s domestic TV entertainment industry. In recent years Changsha, like other cities in China, saw a rapid expansion of the tourism industry. China…
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(For better viewing experiences, a desktop browser is recommended.) Data exclusively provided by Yeek. Marriott has just revealed its revamped award charts for more than 6,000 hotels worldwide yesterday. Here we will walk you through some important analyses of the new chart. Overall distribution of Marriott hotel categories post-August To our delight, most (~90%) of the hotels will be classified…
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Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card Review 2019 Update: You can upgrade this card to the new Chase Marriott Bonvoy Boundless card. Here is the upgrade link. The best upgrade offer recently seen is 50k. Application Link This card no longer accepts new applications. If you are lucky to have this legacy credit card, you can still enjoy its original…
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Disclaimer: The following passage is the author’s sole interpretations of Marriott’s policy and may not reflect the opinions held by US Credit Card Guide or Marriott International and its affiliates. The author bears no responsibility for the inaccuracies/inconsistencies of such interpretations and any consequences arising from such inaccuracies/inconsistencies. Everyone in the game of points-and-miles by now should have probably heard…
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Well this was developing FAST! A couple of days ago we shared the news that the SPG website will go down on August 1st. Back then we were wondering why Marriott and SPG had not made any official announcement, particularly given how close we were to the purported deadline. Now, two pieces of new information just emerged and may shed…
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1. Brief Introduction to Marriott Hotel Group Established in 1957, Marriott Hotel’s headquarters lies in Washington D.C, with over 4,000 hotels and resorts across the world. After they acquired the Starwood Hotels Group in November 2015, this number increased to over 6,000 hotels in 122 countries all over the world. This is the hotel breakdown: Marriott hotels (the top half)…
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