Originally Posted by
drgmobile
I am confused by this as there is another thread about a problem someone had when they had two rooms booked the same evening at different hotels because of a flight issue. In that case, they were not able to get credit for the second room. So is the policy that you can't earn credit for two rooms booked at separate hotels if the stay is the same night but you can get credit for up to three rooms all booked for the same nights as long as they are in the same hotel? That seems like an odd inconsistency.
Fair question: The other post you are referencing was about multiple nights for the same individual (another FAQ, here:
FAQ: Points & credit for same-night, overlapping and nested stays at different hotels)
So the rules are basically (now, and not historic ones, where the rules were different on both):
- You can earn points for up to 3 rooms per night, for one member: If all the bookings/rooms are at the exact same dates for check-in/out. Must be paid for by the same member. You only get one elite nights credit but get points for 3 rooms.
- One member can only earn a night and points credit for a single hotel in a single calendar night (i.e. max of 365 nights/year). You can only get one nights credit, and if you book two hotels on the same night, the one that will count and earn points+nights (without intervention) is the stay that posts first to Marriott (typically the earlier or shorter stay), which isn't necessarily the hotel where a person physically stayed, or the one with the most nights/most points earned.