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American Express is offering card members a 35% bonus when transferring from Membership Rewards to Marriott Bonvoy. With the bonus, 1,000 Membership Rewards points will result in 1,350 Marriott Bonvoy points.
The Deal
- 35% transfer bonus when transferring Amex Membership Rewards points to Marriott Bonvoy.
Key Terms
- Minimum transfer is 1,000 Membership Rewards points.
- Redeem for this exclusive offer from 12:00 a.m. MT on 11/1/2024 to 11:59 p.m. MT on 12/31/2024 to receive 35% additional Marriott Bonvoy bonus points.
- Please allow up to eight weeks for the additional Marriott Bonvoy bonus points to be awarded.
- Marriott Bonvoy bonus points do not count towards elite tier qualification.
Quick Thoughts
Even with the transfer bonus, we wouldn’t recommend transferring Membership Rewards points to Marriott in most situations. Do it only if it’s necessary for topping up on the way to a high value Marriott award.
We value Marriott Bonvoy points at ~0.70 cents each, so with the transfer bonus you’re still getting less than 1 cent per point value – and about the same as buying Marriott points on sale at ~.9 cents each. You can generally get much better value for your Amex points by transferring to airline partners.
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AMEX coming out with a flop here compared to Chase still offering a 50% transfer bonus to Marriott (and just finished a 70% bonus the month prior). I really thought we might see an elevated bonus from AMEX after the recent Chase ones.
I guess Chase has to offer better transfer bonuses to make up for not having the same points parade AMEX has going.
Terrible deal. I wish Marriott would acknowledge the value of their points and move to permanent 1:1.5 from both Amex and Chase! Then have transfer bonuses off that. That would put them closer to on par with Hilton.