Marriott Rewards Points for small money
 

What are the best ways to accumulate 2m Marriott Rewards Points for small money?

Other programs offer ways to earn many points for little money, e.g. SPG 2,000 points per BRG claim, Hilton double miles, etc.

Are there some ways to collect Marriott points for a good price?

MegaBonus!

Platinum + Marriott Visa = 20pts per $ at most properties (Not RI).
Couple that with Megabonus.

Is there a megabonus going on right now? I havent seen one in a while? :confused:

Marriott cc is no option for many of us because they are not US-based (me included).

Yes, Spring MegaBonus ends 4/30. It started 2/1. You may be able to get them to backfill it.... maybe.

May I suggest using a question mark in your thread titles where the initial post is a question (i.e. How do I get MR for small money?) rather than information (e.g. Click here to find out how to get MR for small money).

Just in case your OP omitted the second "m" after your number, can you clarify if you meant:

2,000 MR points; or
2,000,000 MR points

I want to find a way to collect for as little money as possible 2,000,000 (i.e. 2m) Marriott points in order to get the lifetime status.

Well in that case, getting them quickly won't really matter since you'll also need to be a member of the program for 11 years (i think) and stay 1,000 nights. I'm assuming you want lifetime Platinum status since you're aiming for 2 million points.

The requirement is 12 years.

Just to clarify:

Marriott lifetime status cannot be earned from points alone.

Marriott lifetime status requires points and nights and years of being the program, all three.

So it seems to me that you've made a mistake about how Marriott lifestatus is earned (I presume that you haven't already been in the program years and that you haven't already stayed many hundreds of nights over those years), and thus you should not spend anything on these points, as they will not get you what you're after.

Hmmm? I thought the requirements are
a) Twelve years membership (with at least one year in the requested status)
b) 1,000 nights
c) 2 m MR points

Is there also a certain number of stays required?

• Twelve years of membership will be possible, I have now been in the program since 2006. 1,000 night credits will be possible.
• I stated to hold weekly meetings in my local CY (instead of my local Regus office).
• 2 m points? That's the big problem for me...

Do I see something wrong? Why should I not collect and buy every possible MR point?

You've got everything correct. I assume that you're getting 10 nights' credit for each meeting so I can see where earning points will be an issue.

Have you considered getting a post office box in the US and trying to get a Marriott Rewards Visa by using that address?
I use my Marriott Rewards Visa for all of my purchases because I'm trying to get another 80,000 points over the next two years.

Another way to get points is to buy points. You can buy up to 50,000 points per year at a cost of US $12.50 per 1000 points (1.25 cents per point).

I don't know if this will work, but I think that you can buy a Marriott timeshare and convert your interest in the property to Marriott Rewards points. There are resale timeshares available on ebay for low prices. I'll let someone else more familiar with this to comment; I may be giving you bad information.

You have correctly stated that your biggest barrier to getting lifetime platinum will be points accumulation.

Sorry, a typo, which I've since corrected in my previous post. I was referring to 1,000 nights (I just stated in without a number because I didn't know the exact number).

You don't have to have 2m MR points in your account. You only need to have ever earned lifetime 2m MR points, whether they're still there or not. (Lifetime points are all the points you've earned since you became a Marriott Rewards member, whether you redeemed them since or not.)

How can you not have a big start on lifetime MR points if you have such a big head start on 12 years and 1000 nights? Were you always earning miles on all your stays? :confused:

2m points is 2000 points for each of 1000 nights. At 10 points/$ (at many of the brands), you'd automatically have that if you earned points (rather than nights) on all your stays and paid $200/night on average, assuming no bonuses ever. If you particpated in bonuses, you'd get 2m points on 1000 nights at a signficantly lower cost-per-night average.