Find out how to redeem Marriott factors for upgraded rooms

For some journeys, you may want — or want — an upgraded room sort. Maybe you want more room for your loved ones or a one-bedroom suite to let the one you love sleep whilst you’re on early morning work calls. Fortunately, you’ll be able to redeem Marriott factors for upgraded rooms at some properties. This is what you must know.

Some tiers of Marriott elite status provide complimentary, space-available upgrades at check-in. Nonetheless, for some journeys, you need to know effectively earlier than check-in that you’ve got secured a greater or larger room. For these stays, it’s possible you’ll need to redeem Marriott points for an upgraded room sort.

Marriott Bonvoy affords two major avenues if you wish to use Marriott factors to improve. You could possibly use extra Marriott factors to e-book an upgraded room, otherwise you could possibly redeem factors for the usual room award price after which pay a money copay to improve.

Nonetheless, if you wish to redeem factors to improve, you have to accomplish that at reserving. And sadly, you will not see the choice to improve with Marriott factors at each property. So, should you’re hoping to safe an upgraded room with factors for an upcoming keep, it’s possible you’ll must examine a number of properties earlier than you discover one that permits you to redeem Marriott factors for an upgraded room.

Within the the rest of this information, I am going to focus on how one can redeem Marriott factors for an upgraded room. These choices can be found on-line, so you’ll be able to examine your choices when reserving on the Marriott Bonvoy web site.

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For instance, take into account a five-night keep later this 12 months on the Sheraton Grand Rio Lodge & Resort in Brazil. I might e-book a regular room with a partial ocean view and balcony for 137,000 Marriott factors or a combination of money and factors (though I do not advocate this because you would not get a fifth night free on your award stay).

However, I might redeem 40,000 to 50,000 extra Marriott factors or pay a $200 to $250 money improve for a low-floor oceanfront room with a balcony.

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Nonetheless, if I wished a room with one king mattress, I might be higher off reserving a high-floor oceanfront balcony room for a similar price because the low-floor room.

If you happen to do not already get membership lounge entry as a Marriott Platinum Elite member or greater, it is perhaps price redeeming 70,000 to 80,000 extra factors than can be required for the standard room — or paying a $350 or $400 money improve — for a excessive flooring partial-ocean view room with membership lounge entry.

Once I stayed at this property in 2022, the membership lounge’s nightly foods and drinks choices probably made up for the factors or money distinction for company who utilized the lounge and its bartenders every night time.

If you happen to desire to e-book a collection with factors, you are able to do so through a redemption with factors improve or a redemption with money improve.

You can even redeem Marriott factors for a collection with membership lounge entry, though these money improve and factors improve charges are even greater.

It is good that Marriott lets its members redeem additional factors or pay a money improve charge when redeeming factors. Nonetheless, discovering alternatives to take action in some locations could be irritating, as many Marriott properties do not provide the power to redeem factors with a money or factors improve choice. Additionally, you will not know whether or not these are choices till you click on by means of to have a look at room sorts for a selected award keep.

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Say the improve charges aren’t possible for you, or the property would not let members improve award stays with extra factors or money. An alternate choice is to e-book a regular award keep in a non-upgraded room after which request to make use of nightly upgrade awards (previously suite night time awards).

You may discover a number of main downsides when utilizing nightly improve awards as an alternative of reserving the upgraded room sort you need. First, there isn’t any assure your nightly improve awards will clear in your keep. Second, you will not discover out till inside three days of your keep whether or not you’ve got been upgraded. You can also’t request nightly improve awards at some resorts, so this won’t even be an choice.

You may earn nightly improve awards as Marriott Choice Benefits every time you accrue 50 or 75 elite night time credit per calendar 12 months. You may earn elite night time credit by staying with Marriott, however it’s also possible to earn as much as 40 elite night time credit per calendar 12 months simply by having a personal and business Marriott credit card.

When you’ve got the Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant® American Express® Card and Marriott Bonvoy Business® American Express® Card, you will mechanically get 40 elite night time credit per 12 months. Plus, the Marriott Brilliant Amex affords computerized Platinum Elite standing and you may choose an earned alternative award every calendar 12 months you spend at the very least $60,000 on eligible purchases together with your Marriott Sensible Amex.

Nonetheless, I desire to pay much less annual charges with the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless® Credit Card and Marriott Business Amex. I can earn one elite night time credit score for each $5,000 I spend with my Marriott Boundless Card.

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As a Marriott Titanium Elite member, I’ve solely redeemed Marriott factors for the standard room. I’ve sometimes used suite night time awards (now referred to as nightly improve awards) to safe an upgraded room sort earlier than arrival, and I’ve usually lucked into at the very least a better-located room as a perk of my Marriott elite standing.

Nonetheless, if I wished to order an upgraded room with Marriott factors, it is good to know that factors or money upgrades could also be out there.