Marriott Rewards - 2011 Rollover

SueDonJ · Jan 7, 2011

I'm checking every day to see when the calendar will flip on MR accounts to 2011. Last year it was about the second week of January, wasn't it?

Anyway, we just stayed 5 nights over the weekend - 12/30/10-1/4/11. Yesterday two more 2010 Elite Nights Stayed showed up in my account, presumably 12/30 and 31? So that means when the calendar flips I should see 3 Elite Nights Stayed, right? (Actually I'm glad to see the two nights because I forgot to make sure to charge something to the room which is usually the advice given here on TUG - nice that it worked how it should without that insurance.)

This is probably another of my :doh:

stupid MR questions but this shows up in that little grey box on the first page:

Last Recorded Transaction:
12/30/2010 - 01/04/2011
Marriott's SurfWatch
Total Earnings: 500 points

So where did the 500 points come from if nothing was charged to the room?!?!

DebbieF · Jan 7, 2011

Sue, are you a platinum MR member? I know my husband gets 500 pts. for his stays at the hotels. I am not sure that goes for resorts as well, but maybe.

Debbie

SueDonJ · Jan 7, 2011

DebbieF said:
Sue, are you a platinum MR member? I know my husband gets 500 pts. for his stays at the hotels. I am not sure that goes for resorts as well, but maybe.

Debbie

Oh, thank you! Yes, we're Plat, and that must be it. I wonder if we got the same 500 during other Plat stays and I just never noticed because there were also charges to the rooms? I try to track the Elite Nights closely but should probably start looking more at Point totals. Like I said, DOH!

You bring up a good question, though, about whether resort stays are supposed to count for this bonus if owners are using Weeks or MR/DC Points. Cash stays of course we'd expect the bonus but this one was on DC Points. Hmmmm.

Michigan Czar · Jan 7, 2011

SueDonJ said:
Oh, thank you! Yes, we're Plat, and that must be it. I wonder if we got the same 500 during other Plat stays and I just never noticed because there were also charges to the rooms? I try to track the Elite Nights closely but should probably start looking more at Point totals. Like I said, DOH!

You bring up a good question, though, about whether resort stays are supposed to count for this bonus if owners are using Weeks or MR/DC Points. Cash stays of course we'd expect the bonus but this one was on DC Points. Hmmmm.

It doesn't matter what type of stay it is, if you are platinum your are entitled to the platinum arrival gift or the choice of the platinum point gift. At MVCI they only offer the points.

SueDonJ · Jan 7, 2011

Michigan Czar said:
It doesn't matter what type of stay it is, if you are platinum your are entitled to the platinum arrival gift or the choice of the platinum point gift. At MVCI they only offer the points.

Good to know, thanks.

dioxide45 · Jan 7, 2011

We have even been given the 500 points a couple times when just being gold.

kds4 · Jan 7, 2011

I forgot to make sure to charge something to the room which is usually the advice given here on TUG

I'll plead ignorance and ask what the significance is of charging something to the room? As a Platinum Premier myself, I am always interested in hearing of ways to maximize benefits I may have been ignorant of.

dioxide45 · Jan 7, 2011

kds4 said:
I forgot to make sure to charge something to the room which is usually the advice given here on TUG

I'll plead ignorance and ask what the significance is of charging something to the room? As a Platinum Premier myself, I am always interested in hearing of ways to maximize benefits I may have been ignorant of.

Tug mantra is that one should make a charge to their room so that the resort has something to report back to Marriott Rewards to grant points for those charges. In doing so, one will also get credited for elite nights for the stay.

I don't think this is overly important. We have had stays without charging anything to the resort and have had the elite nights post. This also seems to be the same experience Sue had. That said, it sure doesn't hurt to charge something to the room to be on the safe side. Even a $1 candy bar in the Marketplace will do.

kds4 · Jan 7, 2011

I had never thought of it that way. Although, come to think of it, we charged our kids activity fees to the room when we went to MGV last year, and did see the elite night credit. I will keep that in mind from now on.

pwrshift · Jan 7, 2011

500 x $0.0125 = $6.25 Not much to get excited about. :ponder:

Brian

dioxide45 said:
We have even been given the 500 points a couple times when just being gold.

dioxide45 · Jan 7, 2011

pwrshift said:
500 x $0.0125 = $6.25 Not much to get excited about.

Brian

I agree, but if they are giving them away for free, I will take em.

SueDonJ · Jan 8, 2011

kds4 said:
I had never thought of it that way. Although, come to think of it, we charged our kids activity fees to the room when we went to MGV last year, and did see the elite night credit. I will keep that in mind from now on.

Yep, me too! We haven't ever had the problems that some have reported on TUG with telephone reps being unwilling to attach MR numbers to pending MVCI reservations or with Elite nights not showing up after resort stays, but reading about it happening to other TUGgers means it could happen anytime. This is the first stay where we didn't charge something to the unit and I didn't think of the TUG mantra until I saw the $0.00 balance on the bill the morning we checked out. "DOH! Hope those elite nights post without a problem ..."

SueDonJ · Jan 8, 2011

pwrshift said:
500 x $0.0125 = $6.25 Not much to get excited about.

Brian

Brian, it must be all those six-zillion-points round-the-world Travel Packages you've used that have made you so jaded.

I'll take 500 MR Points any old time they want to give them to me!

TheTimeTraveler · Jan 8, 2011

SueDonJ said:
Brian, it must be all those six-zillion-points round-the-world Travel Packages you've used that have made you so jaded. I'll take 500 MR Points any old time they want to give them to me!

Speaking of around the world travel packages, what does Marriott now require for this perk? Is it 2,000,000 Marriott Reward Points?

.

kjd · Jan 8, 2011

The travel package that I was aware of was put together by a salesperson at one of those owners meetings. I never saw it advertised but that doesn't mean that Marriott didn't tout it. As I recall, it was about 2 million points. The salesperson did it by combining several travel packages. I think the entire trip took over a month.

It was used to get people to ooooh and aaaah over the Reward Points system and make you want to buy another TS. However on a broader scale, I believe some people did do the trip. I wonder if they put it together themselves. I don't recall any official program that was discussed at the meeting.

wof45 · Jan 8, 2011

i don't remember seeing it with Marriott, but it is pretty common for expats in the middle east to use these once a year.

for instance, there is a round the world ticket with Delta for 180,000 miles coach or 340,000 miles first with no backtracking and six stops max. You could stay at Marriotts as you go.

pwrshift · Jan 8, 2011

SueDonJ said:
Brian, it must be all those six-zillion-points round-the-world Travel Packages you've used that have made you so jaded. I'll take 500 MR Points any old time they want to give them to me!

I just feel the wine & cheese plate a better value than 500 points gift.

Brian

dioxide45 · Jan 8, 2011

pwrshift said:
I just feel the wine & cheese plate a better value than 500 points gift.

Brian

It is, when it is available. However, they don't offer it at the MVCI properties.

pwrshift · Jan 8, 2011

dioxide45 said:
It is, when it is available. However, they don't offer it at the MVCI properties.

Why would I expect that at MVCI...they don't even make my bed in the morning or leave me turn town chocolates at night.

Brian

SueDonJ · Jan 9, 2011

Heads up - check your accounts. Looks like they've changed the calendars and we're in 2011.

BUT I'm not seeing Rollover Nights. Plat status is there, the 3 Nights Stayed (for 1/1-3) are there, the 30 Rollover Nights that I should be seeing are not there. Hmmm. Anybody else?

{edited to add} I should have known, FlyerTalk is right on top of this. Rollover Nights should show up in the next few days.

rthib · Jan 9, 2011

Rollover now posted - but rollover does not rollover

My rollover nights posted, but the rollover nights from previous year were subtracted, so rollovers are posted but might be fewer than you thought.

SueDonJ · Jan 9, 2011

rthib said:
My rollover nights posted, but the rollover nights from previous year were subtracted, so rollovers are posted but might be fewer than you thought.

Hmmm. I saved this post from Marriott Concierge at FlyerTalk, it says excess nights should roll multiple years. I don't remember seeing a correction to it since it's been posted but will search around a bit ...

dioxide45 · Jan 9, 2011

SueDonJ said:
Hmmm. I saved this post from Marriott Concierge at FlyerTalk, it says excess nights should roll multiple years. I don't remember seeing a correction to it since it's been posted but will search around a bit ...

So if someone had 85 nights this year, but 7 were rolled over from 2009, they will start out with 3 rollover nights.

SueDonJ · Jan 9, 2011

dioxide45 said:
So if someone had 85 nights this year, but 7 were rolled over from 2009, they will start out with 3 rollover nights.

I don't know. MC says this, "I had said that extra nights will not roll multiple years, when in fact they will. For example, if you were Platinum and stayed 200 nights in 2009, you have 125 rolled over into 2010. Assuming you don't stay a single night in 2010, you will still begin 2011 with 50 nights that will have rolled over from the excess of that original 200." So he's rolling nights over multiple years, right? Ending 2009 with 200 nights, even without more nights, Plat/125 rolls over to 2010 and then Plat/50 rolls over into 2011.

I left a post on that FT thread ...

TheTimeTraveler · Jan 9, 2011

dioxide45 said:
So if someone had 85 nights this year, but 7 were rolled over from 2009, they will start out with 3 rollover nights.

Why wouldn't it be 10 Rollover Nights?

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