Originally Posted by
ChanelCinq
That’s so dumb. I understand not getting points but I don’t understand not getting night credit. So someone that stays 100 nights per year but their company booked the hotel rooms on a non Marriott site and that person has zero status. That seems weird.
So does everyone book their own travel? Even people that don’t work for themselves?
Who books the travel is not determinative of anything. Specifically, corporate booked doesn't matter; corporate billed does. As do the specific terms of the corporate rate, which may waive program benefits.
It actually all makes quite a bit of sense from Marriott's perspective. They don't want to give benefits on a rate that's already subject to a negotiated discount which takes into account a waiver of program benefits.
Originally Posted by
iknowthings
A rate cannot be eligible for nights and not points, with the exception of redemption rates (Cash + Points, etc). It's either eligible for both or neither. Third party rates are eligible for neither.
That's actually not universal, at least not in practice. I've gotten some wonky results on corporate event stays that were central billed and theoretically not supposed to earn, including elite benefits and stay credit, but no points for the room, only my incidental spend .