I think this has been alluded to in other threads, but I needto let off steam!!

I cannot believe how bad the "offers" are at the moment. A few examples: Marriott Rewards Members Offer - Stay three nights receive 1000 bonus points. Wow! So for a Plat in the UK it means paying a higher rate for B&B (as opposed to room only and free breakfast) just to get about 5 pounds worth of points and you have to stay for 3 nights to get it!

Long Weekend rate- Get a late check out till 4pm. Again as a Plat I would get a cheaper rate anyway and I could probably negotiate the late checkout. I doubt it is greatly appreciated by many travellers and I bet it comes with strings, such as subject to availability.

I am sure there are others out there, too. Nothing tangible as an enticement to go away for the weekend. Some of the rates out there at the moment are astronomical as well. I am perplexed as to why some very ordinary hotels think that close on 200 pounds (my pound sign has disappeared!) for a room with dinner and B&B and a pair of slippers and a bottle of hair conditioner is acceptable as a weekend rate.

Still as far as I can see the hotels are always jampacked, mainly with coach parties, hen weekends and the Tesco Clubcard brigade. All of whom seem to give the staff a headache!!! Its time Marriott thought more of the quiet individuals who want a good value weekend ....

What about the Marriott Visa MegaBonus? http://boardingarea.com/blogs/loyalt...kup-promotion/

Not a bad deal at all (though limiting as it maxes out at 2 free nights).

Yes, I know about the MegaBonus (I hate to be a "I am aPlat with so many nights bragger but as I pay for all my stays for leisure and am on 98 nights so far, I am always aware of offers!), but there are usually other offers as well as this. Through summer there was the 20% off rates (even though it was Advance Purchase), spring there were 3 for 2 offers as well as a 20% off as well as Marriott Reward rates with free dinners etc.

I am just commenting on the lack of worthwhile weekend offers.

And given no BOGOs this autumn, makes it doubly worse.

Cheers.

"...Still as far as I can see the hotels are always jampacked..."

Well, there it is. Why would they offer anything more lucrative when they are full?

If you're ok with hotel hopping* (or it's "natural" for you to stay only one night per hotel at a time), there's also the More Stays More Miles Promo (which you only see if you change your preference to miles, at least temporarily). Starting with the 2nd miles-earning stay after registering, it earns 1000 bonus miles, then 1500 bonus miles (for the next stays), then 2000 bonus miles per stay thereafter (until you've earned 30000 bonus miles on the 17th stay). BA, Delta, Gol, LAN , Lufthansa, and United are the six airlines participating.

If you collect miles with one of these, it could be a great offer; if you don't, it obviously will be another "appalling" offer for you.

*As with all hotel programs, a "stay" is defined as "any number of consecutive nights at the same hotel, no matter how many times you check in or check out". That's why to maximize this promo you have to change hotels every night, though you can bounce back and forth between just two hotels in the simplest case.

And if they offered those great rates, you can bet the nosiy hen parties, etc. would be all over them as well.

OK, I give up. Why is everyone so dismissive on this board??? I am just saying that usually there are usually some reasonable offers, available to everyone.

And when I say the hotels are jampacked I am qualifying this with the fact that a lot of hotels achieve this by filling them with coach parties on reduced rates, people who use Tesco Clubcard vouchers (a loyalty scheme run by a big supermarket whereby you can triple the points at Marriott) and Hen Parties who seem to not care what they pay.

No wonder I never bother posting...

Agreed - this is a big There is not much incentive to stay Marriott this fall/early winter.

Dismissive? From what I can see, about half of the posts have been essentially in agreement with yours. A couple of posts were from people who were trying to be helpful by pointing out promotions that you may have missed. My post contained a different point of view than yours. I'm sorry if that bothered you.