theOtherHolmes

Apparently some people have received targeted offer for double points for stays of two nights or more..

I didn’t.

DELee

Not me either.

Oh well. Just starting to book travel for my next set of trips. Guess who's getting nothing....

David

longtimereader firstimeposter

I’m usually in the boat of what’s the point of earning the status if you’re not going to use it and I have blindly continued to book SPG / Marriott with or without a promo even after I’ve hit my 100+ night. Plus I think Marriott has the best properties in the world thanks largely to legacy SPG.

Sitting at 124 nights and enough spend to hit Ambassador, I’m going to test the waters with Hyatt. I’ve moved my October bookings to Hyatt for their double and triple point promo and I’m doing a 20-night Globalist status challenge. Never thought I’d be that guy but Ambassador status is getting less and less special to me every year and with the weak promo last quarter and no current promo, my business is being moved. $3k-$5k lost by Marriott and if I enjoy Hyatt I’ll probably split Globalist / Titanium in future years instead of pushing 150-175 Marriott nights and Ambassador status.

UKTraveller4Fun

I find myself in a very similar position, I am staying just as much in hotels as I ever did and Ambassador level is maintained but my overall Marriott nights are going to be quite a bit lower this year, the rest going elsewhere as just fed up with Marriott and their way of doing business and frankly an IT system that tells me its being stubborn half the time, combine that with what seems to be a slow but sure devaluation from even when Bonvoy launched its an easy choice to stay elsewhere. I don't think Marriott get the people who stay 125-200 nights a year generally in the higher cat hotels, its something that has been lost with the merger. Sure people out there will have had different experiences but thats mine and a few people I know!

Marriott15

How did you go about getting this status match challenge with Hyatt?

yvrnycracer

Man and here I thought there was something wrong with my account. Glad to see it’s not only me that is not receiving any offers. I had a peer tell me they got the double night credit offer and they stay way less and pay considerably lower rates than me (given budgets and destinations) so was surprised to not see anything in the last few months.

I typically book maximum a week out and am surprised upgrades are becoming less as well especially at some hotels I’m at that are not overly full.

longtimereader firstimeposter

I had the opportunity with both a corporate link and through my AA EXP status.

jrich7970

So, at one point a few years ago, there was talk of people getting promos and others not. I was in the "not" category and called up the plat line (titanium didn't exist yet), and they enrolled me for the promo.

I might try that this time, because I wasn't targeted.

Does anyone know (or might guess) who is being targeted? I'm a titanium with over 100 nights already, so I'll be one next year. Maybe they're going after lower tiers.

But my family *loves* to use my points, so I could alway use more.

UA-NYC

Hyatt Globalist has the best top tier benefits in the industry, bar one - hard not to love it once you try it!

txpenny

You sure spend a lot of time in the Marriott forum for somebody that has "abandoned Marriott".

BrightlyBob

Which one? Accor?

bhrubin

The lady doth protest too much. Even Shakespeare got it.

Some who cannot qualify for Ambassador status have moved onto Hyatt since they can still qualify for Globalist status. They often want or need top tier status with some hotel group more than anything—so they won’t srick with Marriott since top tier is so much harder to achieve now.

And Hyatt does offer nice Globalist benefits, even if they aren’t overall as impressive when there isn’t a Hyatt property to be found anywhere within 100 miles of our needed locations!

But the Hyatt Place triple points fall promo doesn’t do so much for most of us anyway.

kaizen7

For Asia and Europe, Accor actually can provide better footprint than Marriott.
That is if you happy with Ibises and Mercures

But to be honest, their recent acquisition of Raffles and Fairmont, did improve their upper luxury offering (more to the Raffles though)

Stay at Raffles Singapore recently and their service really was on the whole different level than St Regis Singapore.

escape4

7 pages in this thread to find out there is actually NOT a Q4 promo (yet?)

escape4

3 stays of 2 nights = 6 nights, bonus 120 EUR so 20 EUR discount per night? Is that correct? If so, then I do not agree it's a very good promo for all situations - I guess it depends if the target during the promo is to stay at Ibis or Raffles, if it's the former then yes I agree with you, but if it's the latter then this promo is not worth much. I would rather take Hilton's 3x and stay at the finest Waldorfs in Q4.

It's been quite a long time since Marriott has had a juicy promo, which is unfortunate. Not that it will drive a big chunk of my business but it might help to have a good one once in a while.