All Canadian travelers without exception should take advantage of the great deal on the Marriott Bonvoy American Express Card — it’s literally the ONLY deal we recommend for EVERYONE without exceptions. You can get lots of free hotels, so here’s a teaser of the best uses of those Marriott Bonvoy points.
We’ll help you with lots more content to maximize your points. By the way, if you are among the hundreds of Flytrippers fans who have already gotten the deal, you can now also get the Marriott Bonvoy Business Amex Card — no incorporated business required, but there are special instructions.
Here are the best uses for Marriott points.
Basics of Marriott points
Our Flytrippers Valuation of Marriott Bonvoy points is ≈ 0.9¢/pt but they can be worth so much more too, if you use them right.
To use Marriott points well and maximize Marriott points, there are the same 3 ways as for all the different rewards:
- Maximize the quantity of the trips you get
- Maximize the value of the trips you get
- Maximize the flexibility of the trips you get
You can read how Marriott Bonvoy points work for full details.
The Marriott Bonvoy Amex Card deal gives you 53,000 Marriott points and those are always worth hundreds of dollars. It’s worth ≈ $477 based on our Flytrippers Valuation but it obviously varies and it can even be worth $2000!
Best uses to maximize the quantity
It’s the way to maximize Marriott Bonvoy points that we prefer at Flytrippers, since it’s literally our mission to help you travel for less.
It’s also the one we’ve covered the most to date, and one that’s quite simple: just plan trips around these hotels, plain and simple.
We’ve got plenty of content if you want examples.
More general posts on the best places where you can maximize the amount of travel with your points:
- 5 great countries where you can get ≈ 17 free nights
- 26 great countries where you can get ≈ 10 nights free
Start of a new series showing you more specifically the list of the best hotels:
Series that shows you concrete itinerary ideas in countries where there are the best hotels:
- Colombia
- Türkiye
- Egypt
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Cambodia
- Other countries coming soon
Series that shows you concretely what you can visit in the cities with the best hotels:
- Kevin’s cheap safari at $687 for 6 days (South Africa)
- Kevin’s diving trip at $499 for 6 days (Egypt)
- My trip to the edge of the world’s largest waterfalls (Zambia)
- 9 things to do in Bucharest (Romania)
- 5 great destinations on the island of Bali (Indonesia)
- 14 things to do in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
- 14 things to do on Penang Island (Malaysia)
- 10 things to do in Melaka/Malacca (Malaysia)
- 11 things to do in Panama City (Panama)
- 10 things to do in Cali (Colombia)
- Our writer Charlotte’s visit to Santa Marta and Tayrona Park (Colombia)
- Other cities coming soon
We promise you plenty more examples to help you, thanks to our newly expanded team (thanks to those who applied in the most recent hiring round, by the way)!
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Best uses to maximize value
It’s the way to maximize Marriott Bonvoy points that many travelers prefer, to save a higher amount or get the good feeling of having something very valuable for free.
So we’ll cover that a lot more to help you if that’s what you want.
In the meantime, good examples are the ones that cost 35,000 to 50,000 points per night but are worth $500 or even $2000!
It’s the ones where you can use your Marriott free night certificate very well:
- 31 examples of hotels that are very expensive in cash
- 26 other examples of hotels that are very expensive in cash
- Other examples coming soon
There are hundreds of them, and we’ll do the same work of listing examples for you as with maximizing quantity. But to maximize value, the hotels in question really vary more depending on the dates. It honestly gives you less choice, but it can be worth so much more!
Don’t miss these great examples!
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Best uses to maximize flexibility
It’s the way to maximize Marriott Bonvoy points that is objectively not a good use in terms of value or quantity of trips.
Just book any of the 8000+ Marriott hotels around the world. If you want to simplify your life, the best use is the hotel that’s where you want to go on the dates you want to go there without making any effort, regardless of the price in points and cash.
This will almost certainly give you less value, of course.
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Summary
The best uses of Marriott Bonvoy points are plentiful, but the hotels really depend on what you prefer to maximize. Don’t miss out on plenty of other content to help you maximize your points from the Marriott Bonvoy Amex Card!
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