Originally Posted by
DELee
Following up - I can now see my 50 nights annual choice benefits (
https://choice-benefit.marriott.com/):
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Unlike the current wiki for this thread (for the donation option for 50 nights which indicates UNICEF), the donation option I am given is to "WE" as shown above.
Most likely choices I'm considering are either the 5 elite nights - which would put me over 75 for 2020...triggering the 75 night annual choice - or 5 SNAs - which I've come to detest with how poorly properties are only really giving 1 level upgrades and mostly not to suites.
David
<tl;dr> Went with the 5 EQNs @ the 50 night ACB level and just now selected and have the 1 Free NIght Award in my account - only took 3 days...
FWIW, by going through this effort, found out how fast/slow the current Marriott system reacts to your ACB selections.
As noted, selected the 5 Elite Night Credits (EQNs) as my 50 night Annual Choice Benefit.
While I received an e-mail from Marriott almost immediately confirming my choice, it took another 24 hours before the EQNs were added to my 2020 nights.
Additionally, it then took the ACB process another 24 hours before it was actually ready to offer me the 75 night ACB level selections:
So, selected the 1 Free Night Award, hit the confirm/confirm/confirm and then both the website and e-mail confirmed that I was confirmed for the 1 FNA. Accessing my activity page (
https://www.marriott.com/loyalty/myAccount/activity.mihttps://www.marriott.com/loyalty/myAccount/activity.mi) shows that the 1 FNA is already credited.
However, now when I access my account's overview page, my YTD spend graphic is gone:
So, if Marriott wanted to incentivize me to spend more on rooms this year, there's no info (at least on the website) as to how much I've spent (and, yes, I know that I've only spent $56) but they're not making it easy to know what it takes to get to Ambassador.
FWIW, just checked, the iPhone app shows/provides my 2020 night count and YTD spend.
David