Originally Posted by
oncelost77
I travel a lot but my wife does not. When she travels, we are together. I travel alone.
1. Should she still have an account?
2. Can she be one of my five referrals?
3. When we travel together, should we split the stays per accts somehow?
Any other advice for a newbie! Thanks for reading and thanks for all the info. This site has a wealth of info.
BT
Welcome to FT.
I can see an advantage to each person having their own account if each person has a Marriott credit card to go with the respective rewards account since promos are offered by the credit card company. For example, last year Visa offered a free night if $500.00 per month was spent for three consecutive months. Other people on Ft got different amounts to be spent. Mr b1513 and I both got the offer and took advantage of the promos so, all in all, we got 4 free nights because the promo was offered to us twice.
If you travel a lot and you have hit the maximum bonus points allowed for a particular promo then you could switch and your wife could start receiving the bonus points.
That being said, it's better to rack up the stays/ nights on one account rather than splitting them between two accounts especially since she never travels alone.
Bobette