r/marriott

I stayed here 2 months ago in February 2026

Great place, awesome location

I see a lot of Facebook pages floating around of associates selling their discount forms. I’m curious as to how many people will be able to continue this when people aren’t able to have a physical guarantee they are on a list.

Favorite NYC Marriotts?

Would love to know what everyone thinks? Planning a one night stay for my birthday. Thinking luxury brands BUT also would pay for an upgraded room at a lower classed brand. Midtown ideally, as we want to be able to walk to dinner and see a broadway show. Love a room with a balcony or a terrace!

I’ve combed the subreddit and the rest of the internet for opinions on the Santa Clara Marriott vs. Delta Hotels Silicon Valley. This is for a 5‑day business trip, but I still need to be reasonably close to the airport and would prefer a club lounge plus an onsite restaurant/bar that why I'm between these two. Any thoughts from anyone that has stayed at either?

I am currently Gold Elite with Marriott with 0 nights this year and 83k points. Due to booking with AMEX travel, I do not get the nights counted towards my Marriott account. This is why I want to get a brand card.

I am using an AMEX plat card for all my purchases, I am a HEAVY traveler for work. Work expenses all of my travel and food, I can use my own personal card for all of the payments. I also get to decide the locations of my hotels/flights/rentals. I am currently National Executive Elite and use them for all rental cars.

I am also open to downgrading my AMEX plat card.

• Current cards: (list cards, limits, opening date)
  • Amex Plat, August 2025
  • CSP January 2025 (not used often)
• FICO Score: 760
• Income: $120,000 - $150,000
• Average monthly spend and categories:
  • dining $1500
  • groceries: $0
  • gas: $120
  • Hotel (Marriott): At least $4800
  • Flight (I travel from New Orleans to Spokane WA): $1200 average
• Open to Business Cards: Yes
• What's the purpose of your next card? Maximizing the value of my travel time, as I spend 20 days of the month in a Marriott hotel.
• Are you OK with category spending or do you want a general spending card? I use AMEX plat for everything at the moment, would like my hotel spending card to be Marriott. I am also considering a dedicated airline card.

I’m traveling to Minneapolis this May and I’m trying to find the best hotel to spend points in. Any recommendations?

Evening All!

Has anyone stayed here with their Bonvoy Brilliant AXP? did it cover you free breakfast and executive lounge? I am trying to take advantage of the perks, this is my first time using the card, perk wise.

I never got the chance to travel much since my mother has gotten older, and she is going with me to Pattaya and Bangkok, she asked me to take her. This is all for her, and she likes to be pampered, sadly this her last trip. I like to make it the best for her, she keeps talking about Thailand, we do not leave till July! I never seen her this happy, I did my job!

I saw a YT video review, where the gentlemen was having tea at 1pm, will this be a free service to us? I am debating if I should use my points to book this room or just pay it, I like to use these points down the road at the Ritz.

I have used the Chase IHG, which gives me Platinum, I got free breakfast, room upgrades, and the mini bar! I like surprises!

I may need to book 2 separate hotels in the same city during the same dates. In this case, would I be getting nights from each hotel or Id only get credited for 1 night even though I have 2 marriott properties booked?

Hello all, travelling to Varcelona next month and stucj between Hotel Arts and Edition to stay in.

For context, its going to be an award stay, but Arts is cheaper.

My main concern is location since Arts seems to have bigger rooms and nicer amenities but is a little out of the way.

Let me know your recommendations and experiences at these properties!

Hi all,

I'm wondering if my old EID will pop up and show my old info from my last marriott, i had quit in a month. This was a few years ago.

The new hotel I most recently received an offer from is franchised, and the old one i worked at was/is franchised. Regretfully, I had left on really bad terms. To the point where i am sure they marked me as non-rehireable.

Is it guaranteed when the new hotel creates my EID/MGS, they are able to see my old deactivated EIDs given the birthday and name matches?
Thank you in advance.

I stayed at an all-inclusive Royalton property back in December of last year and had a few issues:

- We were moved to 3 different rooms over our 4-night stay, only 1 of which actually matched the room type we booked (2/4 nights)

- Even once in the room type we booked, the swim-out pool had no water in it

- I bit into a burger at one of the restaurants and nearly shattered my tooth on a compressed ball of metal. Took the metal back to the restaurant and they said they would be involving management, took the ball and never got back to me (obviously on me for not taking a picture first, phone was in my room not with me)

After 4 months of frustratingly slow responses (once or twice a month regardless of phone calls to Marriott HQ and the resort itself) they finally offered me 1/2 a night back and 25k points.

I pushed back and they have now offered 1 night off my 4-night stay, and 25k points.

I still feel like this does not come close to compensating the insanely bad experience we had, but at the pace they've been responding I don't want to continue fighting this for another 4 months.

The last Marriott rep I spoke to said they would escalate it beyond the hotel and handle it themselves, but I never heard back from anybody other than the hotel.

Looking for advice on how I should approach or if I should just take the offer.

Isn’t this a bit of a scam ? Found myself browsing a big city the other day, the rates seemed obscenely high, hit up an OBE that I’m also on the highest member tier in, which showed me the desire property at a approximately 40% lower rate ($379 vs $203). Did the whole price match guarantee spiel, only for the Marriott/property to come back and say that they couldn’t honor it because it was a member rate on the OBE - brother, your f-ing rate is a “member exclusive” rate too. I’ve already moved my business elsewhere for the most part, but are they just taking the p-ss at this point ? With the exception a a few dozen five star properties around the world Marriotts have all become select service properties in practice that charge well above market average nightly rates, for what ?

And this isn’t a Bonvoy complaint, but about loyalty in general, it’s really not worth it anymore unless you’re ambassador who makes a ton of last minute reservations and jumps between time zones to take advantage some perks. Becoming a free agent has already reduced my annual travel expenses by 30% and I’ve not had one had experience saving five figures doing so.

TLDR, is it normal for them to find a copout for best rate guarantee ? If you’re paying yourself/your own business, sorry to exclude the corporate rate travelers, why do you stick with Marriott ?

Lifetime Titanium Elite and repeated guest at Pier One Sydney and upgrades not given despite request using nightly Upgrade Award requests and plenty of rooms available. All suite categories showing availability even at 4pm on door of checkin. Makes the whole program kinda worthless as no lounge at property either. Given a one level upgrade to a partial water view water view again despite 8+ categories above available for booking.