Post-8/18/18 Marriott Rewards changes / Website and App mistakes and glitches

[thinze3]

I merged my Marriott and SPG accounts yesterday

I had 25K Marriott Points and 12K SPG points which should equal 36K MRP.

It looked to me like the conversion had already been done. Probably a couple of days ago. The number of points that it showed in my SPG account seemed to be about three times more than what I thought I had. TH

 

[StevenTing]

I'm having trouble accessing the Marriott.com website from my office computer. I receive an "Access Denied" message. However I'm able to access from my cell phone through our corporate guess network. Kind of annoying as I was doing some comparisons with their "Cash + Points program." I'm testing to see if you get the 5th night free if you use the Cash + Points. If so, it's the best way to use points as you're essentially paying 0.0076 to 0.0083 for the additional points. Much better than the retail rate of 0.0125.

 

[mas]

I can't say definitely, but I seem to remember reading a discussion over on FT and the consensus was that only full points payment for the stay warrants the 5th night free. Any cash including Cash + Points transactions didn't qualify for the 5th night free.