Mega Bonus Promo Important Update!!
 

Yes, I know there is a pre-existing thread on the Mega Bonus promo but the information that I am going to convey below, may not be read by all since they may already have attained their promotion goals.

I was given a 10 Day/20,000 points promo and I just reached same. In contacting MR Guest Relations, I aksed if there was any way I might qualify for the additional points i.e. 5 additional days to net another 15,000 points.

The guest relations advisor said that my challenge was based upon my past stay patterns, but that she would be happy to annotate my account to indicate that if I were to fulfill the adidtional days, I would get the additional points.

Moreover, in response to my inquiry whether I would lose the 20,000 bonus points already earned by re-writing my promotion, she indicated that will not happen, and that this will be essentially a "no-penalty" additional goal that I could meet, but that I would not be penalized for faililng to do so.

Therefore, if there are others who believe that they also may surpass their original challenge and might be able to make the next rung on the ladder, by all means contact MR and ask them if they will treat you in the same manner as I was treated.

YMMV, as I dealt with a rep from the Marriott Plat Elite line and I have no idea how others will be treated.

Good Luck!

Did the CSR state that you WILL get the points or that you should get the points? In other words, is someone down the line going to make a further determination that should be given the additional points.

I got a 15 day / 25K challenge and would love another 10K.

I will get the points. Sorry for any confusion, and I hope they do likewise for others similarly situated.

They are going to absolutely love you in SLC! :D They can expect my phone call tomorrow since I'm already over by about ten nights!

Thanks for the heads up and this and I would love to see if it works for anyone else...I got the 25k posted and will easly make it to the next level.

annerj

ANNERJ --

I did not know that they had a 25K level, how many nights did you have to do?

In any event, I thought that the most one could earn is 35K, am I wrong?

In any event, good luck to all!

Can someone remind me of what the original different levels were (yes, I could search but that wouldn't increase my post count ;) )? I got the measley 7 days (I think) / 10,000 points that I probably hit within the first 7 days of the promotion. I'm well into the 50-60 night range since the promo began now.

Plus, anyone know what the "stay pattern" was for the different awards? I did 270 nights last year and got the measley 10K. Was I penalized because of the attitude: "We don't need to give him the 35K - he's going to stay with us regardless!"

it was 15 nights/25,000 points for me.

Let me just say WOW 270 nights....I think your handle should be "TheRoadisHOME2ME".

I just got off the phone with Marriott (1-888-marriott) and was told that the promotion that I received would be the only one I could do. And that additional nights would get me nothing and there was no way they could change me to a higher night/reward promo.

Please post back if anyone has any luck stepping up their promo.

Same result here. I was given the 7 nights 10K option and have made the 7 nights already, although the 7th night yet to post.

Well, I am sorry if they are not allowing you to do this, but I indicated that YMMV.

Moreover, I hope that I did not get that Marriott employee in any difficulty, although past Marriott responses to individuals trying to help us have been pretty brutal to those who have tried to do so -- and I am not discussing Socrates, here.

I could have given it some thought and not posted my good luck with respect to this promotion and instead have kept this under my hat and thereby probably would have suceeded in gaining additional points, but I consider this a community and I decided to share the wealth as much as possible.

I have yet to stay the additional nights that I would have needed to obtain the additional bonus, and if my actions result in my not getting any additional bonus points, so be it.

However, I encourage all of you to to visit the Hyatt board and review the thread that I had started about a specific and unknown Hyatt bonus, as well as Hyatt's very different attitude towards my dissemination of same.

The different reactions to these similar issues by these two corporate entities, as well as the one that I cited above, is the central reason why I identify myself as more of a "Hyatt" person than a "Marriott" person.

Q.E.D.

NJ

My earlier post wasn't meant to mean I didn't appreciate your letting in on your good fortune, because I do. After all, isn't that the spirit of FT?

Maybe being a Plat, the elite line was willing to do more than for this lowly silver. ;)

Oh, I wasn't offended by your post...
 

TCook,

Don't worry, I didn't take your post that way. I think it pretty silly for Marriott not to encourage people to stay more at their properties. After all, isn't that what that bonus is all about??

And, if people wanted to be able to earn more points by permitting them to reach another goal, shouldn't they let them?

I posted that article that Marriott plays it very tough with its franchisees and I have always felt that in some way, they have taken their best customers for granted by virtue that they are a behemoth and apparently have no porblems filling their rooms.

For instance, isn't it really penny anty for them to deny the extension of a comp breakfast for at least their Platinum members on weekends?

Although the property may offer that themselves, with Hilton offering that to every gifted Gold member, isn't pretty cheap for Marriott not to insist that their highest tier -- which stay at least 25 nights above the Hilton Diamond level -- and therfore, probably stay about 70 nights above even the most newbie Gold -- Gold after 4 stays/night -- get a comp breakfast on the weekends? That, and their tier levels are entirely out of whack with their competition, and this forum has seen a number of defections to other programs, and rarely, I think, people who defect from another program to Marriott.

So, no, I did not take your post the wrong way, but if it is true that they are limiting the "add on" bonus to higher tier members, I think that is just silly, and worse, a bad business move.

Just my 2 breakfast's worth.

NJ

Or to deny Plats comp breakfast at Courtyard every day.