goalie

Bupkes for me

RobOnLI

I don't think this is new per se. I started the thread a month ago (or so) about the new promo I saw for double points on 2+ night stays through Feb 2022. Some people got through March 2022.

-RM

margarita girl

And here is that thread if mods want to merge.

Targeted promo: double bonus points for up to 3 months

SPN Lifer

Sorry to hear that.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bupkis

Targeted promotions can indeed be frustrating.

Intl359Widget

Bupkis as well… Marriott algorithms probably think this guy stays in a hotel every week we don’t need to reward him.

Polytonic

Since Covid? I basically never stay in a hotel (other than once late last year) and I got zilch as well.

santydrak

No promotion here (as usual). Are these promos targetting only Americans or excluding some specific countries? Are EU members important to Marriott? Or they just don’t care..

Duck1981

UK LT Plat, nada.

NA-Flyer

Damn. I didn't get any promotion for my account despite spending almost 95 nights at Marriott hotels during 2021

It seems loyalty doesn't pay off at Marriott

GoldenItalianBoy

I have a "double point" promo for every 2night stay, but I think this is a global promo for everyone

RobOnLI

It is not. The promo terms are very different for people. Some get free certs, some get free points after "n" number of stays, some get double points for 2 months, some for 3 months, etc. It's more-or-less a glorified Q1 promo but it's very inconsistent.

-RM

santydrak

I don’t have any promo 👎👎

clarkef

Promotions are not rewards for loyalty. That is part of the great marketing lie that "loyalty programs" have anything to do with loyalty. These programs are designed to incent stays at Marriott properties by increasing the return on the investment of your travel dollars, e.g. booking a $200 Marriott is ultimately least expensive than booking a $190 Hilton because I get breakfast at the Marriott which likely saves me more than the $10 difference. Accordingly, a promotion is designed to drive you to spend more money at their properties, e.g. more nights, more spending at F&B, etc. If Marriott believes that you're going to spend the same money whether or not you receive a promotion, then giving you the promotion has no upside to Marriott.

Consider. If every year, I travel extensively between January and October for business, but rarely travel in November and December, Marriott correctly assumes a promotion in the first part of the year most likely won't change my travel plans, but a good promotion around Thanksgiving and Christmas might cause me to book a vacation particularly if I were sitting on the fence about the trip. A promotion in the first half of the year is just a bonus for me, but gives Marriott nothing. An end of year promotion might mean additional revenue that it might not otherwise receive.

Of course, all of this is based on Marriott's analytics of my travel and spending patterns in the hopes of predicting my future behavior.

margarita girl

Here are some of the reasons people have come up with for not being targeted:

• I had no stays in the past year
• I had too many stays in the past year
• I don’t have any upcoming stays
• I have a bunch of upcoming stays
• I don’t live in the US
• my country is excluded
• I have LT status
• I had corn flakes for breakfast

OK, maybe not the last one.

No one has been able to figure out how Marriott chooses to hand out these promos. It’s as random as winning the lottery.

In my case, I had 110 nights last year, and a bunch of upcoming stays (most of which have now been canceled), and I was targeted for a double points promo.

I was wearing my pink panties the day I got the promo so I’m pretty sure that triggered the bonus.

gojko88

I got the same as Gold.