Our Marriott Bonvoy Wishlist | Coffee Break Ep41 | 1-14-25
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4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode Greg and Nick will talk about the things they wish Marriott would add to their program to make it a really great program. They argue these things shouldn't even have to cost Marriott that much to implement.
Read more about our Marriott Bonvoy Wishlist here.
(01:24) - Fix the Platinum Elite free breakfast benefit
Find our resource for figuring out whether or not you get free breakfast here.
(05:00) - Clear Nightly Upgrade Awards from the time of booking
(08:21) - Remove the 15K limit on free night certificate top-offs
(11:11) - Waive resort fees on free night stays
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.4 | This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling coffee break. |
| 0:24.6 | Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:30.2 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. |
| 0:34.4 | Enjoy. |
| 0:36.8 | On today's coffee break, we're going to talk about our Marriott Bonvoy wish list. |
| 0:41.7 | What are the things that we really wish Marriott would add to their Bonvoy program to make |
| 0:46.4 | it a truly solid rewards program? |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, you know, there are things that we think they could do to improve. |
| 0:51.6 | And I think these would be big improvements that probably |
| 0:55.8 | wouldn't have to cost the program a ton, or at least should be reasonable enough because |
| 1:01.0 | some of their competitors offer much better options in the same sort of categories. So we'll |
| 1:06.6 | talk more about that in a second. Wherever you're watching or listening, don't forget to like |
| 1:09.6 | this video. Give us a thumbs up. Don't forget to click the subscribe button so that you can get more of these shows every single time you're logging on here because we're publishing quite a few each week at the full length frequent mile around the air coffee break and then a number of other things that are coming out so there you have all that let's talk about what they can do Marriott do, Greg, to sort of win us over? What's on the wish list? Yeah, the first thing, |
| 1:31.4 | the first thing I could do to turn Bonvoy from a bad word into a good word is fix their elite |
| 1:37.3 | breakfast benefit. Oh, tell me about it. Tell me about it. Here. They promise free breakfast for platinum elites and hire. |
| 1:49.0 | And what they mean is consult this 50-page document to figure out whether you're going to get free breakfast, whether you're going to get a $10 credit, whether |
| 2:01.2 | there's no breakfast for you because you made the mistake of staying at a Ritz Carlton or |
| 2:07.0 | one of these other exempt brands or, you know, it just goes on and on and on the exempt exceptions, |
| 2:15.1 | the, you know, limitations and the, you know, it feels like penny pinching, too, |
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