Marriott Free Night Award Redemption (FULL GUIDE)
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- čas přidán 17. 12. 2023
- Every Marriott Chase and Amex co branded credits cards (aside from the Bold) offer ways to earn Free Night Award Certificates aka "FNA" or "FNC". Often it can be confusing on how to earn these free night award certificates and how to actually be able to use them. This video is a full guide covering everything you need to know about Marriott Free Night Award Certificates plus I go through a real redemption of my own!
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Thank you very much. Just exactly what I'm looking for 😊
Stayed at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara, Santa Barbara earlier this year. Used my 85K FNC from my Amex Bonvoy Brilliant, then topped off with 10,500 points for a standard king room that was going for 95,500 points or $1,175 per night on a Saturday.
😳 unreal!
That hotel is lovely 🥰
Thank you for the blog shoutout, Mark! Hopefully the unofficial award chart helps those planning out their FNC redemptions 🙂
Of course! That blog post was awesome hopefully it gets a lot of traffic I found it extremely useful while researching for this video!
My fiance and I lives in NYC. We did a stay-cation this year Jan/2023 at The Ritz-Carlton Central Park for her birthday. We used the 85,000 FNC from The Ritz-Carlton Card for the stay. That one night was going for 84,000 points and the room price was $950.00. Needless to say we got super value!! PS i emailed ahead of our stay of the birthday occasion and management provided us with a small beautiful birthday cake in our room!!
That’s great value and excellent service!
I took advantage of the $5k spend on Boundless for 5 50K FNC's and used them to book 2 nights + 5,000 pts in Hiroshima, JP (Sheraton Grand) and 3 nights + 10,000 pts at the W Osaka, JP in mid-May.
Being flexible with your dates as you mentioned, is definitely helpful!
I got the same offer 5 at 50k each. You sure we can split it into 2 different hotels stay? I thought we need to book a consecutive stays at 1 hotel??
Amazing!!
@@theinternationalist1357 oh you absolutely can use the FNA's multiple Marriott properties. You could even do one different night at 5 hotels if you wanted to 🤷
@@CreditOneSux ok that just changes my stays 😊 thank you 🙏
Thanks for the info. Booking a property for post Alaska cruise in Seattle this June. Very helpful!
I just got the boundless with 5 free nights
Just went through this when booking 4 nights in NYC. Trip is Thursday-Monday but the properties I were looking at in Midtown or Chelsea were all just barely over the 65k limit on Saturday night. Ended up splitting the stay into two different hotels, 2 nights in Midtown and then 2 nights in LES near Chinatown.
Nice work around!
Can we put the name in the booking according to us ?
Really interesting comparison of the FNCs with the hotel categories! For the expiration on the FNCs, do you just have to book before that expiration or do the hotel nights actually have to fall before that expiration as well?
They’ll let you book up to the end of the expiration month but that’s it. So for example the ones I used expire on May 20, 2024 but I could have booked a bit later up to the end of May but no dates in June. Hope that makes sense!
I would probably use the refundable rates for points evaluation. When you use points, you generally get good cancellation policies. So the refundable rate is probably a better comparison.
That raises things to right at .5 cpp. Still low but better!
Appreciate the honest walk-through. Some overseas sites are more valuable.
No problem! It can be tricky at times
Mark, thanks for showing how to redeem the FNC’s. I guess you could keep checking and if the rates come down, you could cancel and rebook at the lower rate.. anyway, you’ll enjoy Asheville. It’s a cool place. There’s also the Biltmore estate and the blue ridge parkway to see.
Thanks Paul! I'm going to keep checking around with dates and might move the trip up or back a little if I can get more value!
Ritz Sarasota off peak during July/August Sn-Fri you can use the 50k plus/minus 5-15k extra.
I can’t see the breakdown in points per night on the app. Probably have to sign on computer to see the drop down box right?
I got the boundless card when it was offering the 5 50k nights. I was dumb to think I could use those to go to Maldives or something like that. Instead, I realized at the last minute they were expiring, but thanks to the calendar search I was able to find some pretty good deals last minute. I redeemed mine for a weekend at San Juan Capistrano, a weekend at the Ritz, Marina del Rey, and one night at the Proper in Santa Monica.
Nice last second redemption!
Just got a boundless with the 5 free nights, I the Ritz product change is still available in 11 months.
Nice! I think it'll will still be an option then
I was looking at Marriott in North Carolina, and similarly was getting about 0.5 cpp. The value just wasn't very good. I end up booking the Kimpton in Asheville instead
Was hoping for closer to .8 cpp but it is what it is I guess
I was thinking about staying at the Swan or Dolphin at Disney World. Those are Marriotts inside Disney. I was also seeing redemptions at around 0.45 cpp so I decided to do something else. I think Marriott does this on popular vacation destination properties. It's frustrating that they target tourists.
It’s definitely by design which is why they’ve changed to FNC for welcome offers instead of just a large amount of points. They’re able to control usage and not give up their best rooms for reward stays. Definitely frustrating for us!
I have the 5 FNC. Could I split them up? Like 2 nights on one trip and 3 nights on another trip? Thanks for any advice...
You can split them up however you would like!
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My Ritz-Carlton FNC got me the Maui Ritz-Carlton this Christmas...cash price $2,000...for a $450 annual fee...2.35 CPP.
🤯 best one yet!
Best redemption 2 35k nights Resident Inn Maui $750+ per night
That’s insane!!
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FNC mania 😁
Great video Mark! I couldn't imagine how low CPP Marriott points are (264$ / 75,000)*100% = 0.35CPP?? How come points guy evaluates to be 0.8CPP
Thank you! From what I’ve seen the best redemption options for FNC and Marriott points in general are internationally. TPG says .8cpp but that’s for redemptions at luxury resorts based outside of the US. For domestic stays .5 cpp is much closer to the average. At off peak travel times at US luxury resorts you can find 1cpp or higher but it’s definitely not the average