Marriott Bonvoy has opened registration for its new global promotion that has two elements to it. You’ll earn 2,500 bonus points per paid stay, as well as one bonus elite night credit for each different hotel brand of theirs you stay at during the promotion period.
The Deal
- Earn 2,500 bonus points per stay + 1 additional elite night credit for each Marriott brand you stay at.
- Direct link to registration.
Key Terms
- Registration of your Marriott Bonvoy Account is required.
- Marriott Bonvoy members who register for this promotion between 12:00am on February 10, 2026, and 11:59pm on April 26, 2026, will earn 2,500 bonus Points on each post-registration eligible paid stay during the 75-day promotion earning period. In addition, you will earn one bonus Elite Night Credit for each different eligible hotel brand at which you stay during the 75-day promotion earning period.
- The promotion earning period is for eligible paid stays completed between 12:00am on February 25, 2026, and 11:59pm on May 10, 2026, and is only for stays booked through Marriott Channels and other Qualifying Channels which include, but are not limited to: Marriott Websites, the Mobile Apps, Participating Properties, and the Customer Engagement Centers.
- A “stay” is defined as consecutive nights spent at the same property on a points-eligible rate, regardless of check-in/check-out activity, under the same one reservation or multiple back-to-back reservations.
- Please note that a hotel must participate in Marriott Bonvoy at the time of the stay to qualify as a stay under the promotion terms.
- There is no limit to the number of completed eligible paid stays a Member can earn bonus Points and bonus Elite Night Credit on during the promotion earning period.
- Only eligible paid stays completed after promotion registration and during the promotion earning period will qualify for any bonus Points and bonus Elite Night Credits earned with this promotion.
- Eligible paid stays at Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy are eligible for promotional credit. For eligible paid stays at Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy, these bonus Points and bonus Elite Night Credit will be posted up to 6 weeks after the promotion earning period ends.
- Award redemption stays, including Cash + Points Awards, Free Night Awards, or a Points redemption stay, are not eligible for the promotion.
- Rates available through most third-party online retailers and select travel agency rates do not qualify for this promotion (“Non-Qualifying Rate”).
- Stays at BVLGARI, The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, Marriott Executive Apartments, and owner-occupied weeks at Marriott Vacation Club, Grand Residences by Marriott, Marriott Grand Residence Club, Sheraton Vacation Club, Westin Vacation Club, The Ritz-Carlton Club, The St. Regis Residence Club, and The Luxury Collection Residence Club, are not eligible for bonus Points or bonus Elite Night Credits for this promotion.
- Only one room at one property per stay is counted toward a member’s eligible paid stays for the promotion.
- The 2,500 bonus Points will be awarded to the member’s Account within 10 business days after checkout and will post with the stay.
- One bonus Elite Night Credit per each brand stay will be posted up to 6 weeks after the Promotion has ended.
- Elite Night Credits will count only toward the status year in which they are posted.
Quick Thoughts
This new promotion doesn’t give much of an incentive to stay at Marriott properties for a lot of people seeing as the 2,500 bonus points are awarded per stay rather than per night. 2,500 points are worth ~$17.50, so it’s a decent enough return when you have a cheap one night paid stay, but it’s less impressive for more expensive stays.
Those who are trying to earn Marriott Bonvoy elite status will likely appreciate this new promotion though thanks to the bonus elite night credits on offer. However, do note that it’s only one bonus elite night credit per brand, rather than per night. That means if you book week-long stays at three different Marriott brands, you’ll only earn three bonus elite night credits rather than 21. You will earn your standard 21 elite night credits too, so in that scenario you’d end up with 24 elite night credits total.
This promotion is only valid for paid stays; stays booked with points, free night certificates, or with Cash + Points are ineligible for both the bonus points and bonus elite nights.
Marriott’s IT isn’t great and there always seem to be promotion registration issues for some people. When trying to register last night, I was getting an error message. I thought I was logged in to my account, but evidently I wasn’t. After logging in, I was able to successfully register; if you find yourself in a similar position, you might need to click back through to the registration page after logging in as it didn’t redirect back to that page for me.
If you continue having problems with registering, try clicking through from this main Promotions page. Alternatively, try registering in the Marriott app as sometimes people have success via that method when it’s not working on their website.
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This is the most ridiculous promotion Marriot has ever offered, very disappointing!!! I am a current Titanium member, a lifetime Platinum with 717 nights stayed. I guess for such a bad promotion, I can start building up with Hilton as I am a Gold member with them as well.
Does this mean:
1) a stay needs to be a minimum of 2 nights? and
2) limitation on multiple back to back reservationss means that If I’m staying for a week and book 1x 3 night stay and 1x 4 night stay, they can’t be back to back bookings and there needs to be a 1 day gap between them?
I don’t understand the limitation because clearly if its a different brand then it needs to be a different hotel so why put a limit on back to back bookings?
No, a stay doesn’t need to be two nights. It’s just clarifying that if you book two or more consecutive one night stays at the same property (or a three night stay and then a four night stay consecutively at the same property), you’ll only earn one set of 2,500 bonus points rather than 2,500 bonus points for each of the one night stays you booked.
If it’s a different brand you’re booking each time (e.g. one night at a Marriott, the next night at a Fairfield, the next night at a Residence Inn, etc.), you would earn 2,500 bonus points and a bonus elite night credit for each of those as those would be regarded as different stays as they’d all be at different properties.
Can we clarify if MGM stays count as a BRAND or even a qualifying paid NIGHT? They don’t say. I’m assuming NOT.
Looks like I was wrong:
“For any stays at MGM Collection properties, if I book a stay through MGM’s booking portal, will the stay be eligible for earning in this promotion?No, only stays booked through direct Marriott Bonvoy® channels at properties participating in Marriott Bonvoy®, including MGM Collection, will be eligible for promotion credit.”
So the usual rules–have to book thru Marriott app (and pay higher rates) for any points or elite night credit as you’d expect, but it does count.
P1 registered without issue.
P2 still cannot register using the many different methods (computer, app, direct link registration.). Silly Marriott IT still has issues with things like this.
Stays at a Residence Inn are not specifically excluded….nor included???
“Sorry, this promotion is not available
This could be because:
You are not eligible for it
It has expired
You’re trying to access a miles promotion and are a points-earner, or vice versa. If this is the case, you can easily change your earning preferences.”
>My profile is set to earn points.
That’s the message I initially saw too. Try going to Marriott.com, logging in, then clicking through to the registration page using the link above to see if that works (it did for me).
Even the app would not register me. Not enought reward to pursue it.
I cannot get it to work for me either, tried everything.
Dang it! My W Algarve stay is a week after the promotion ends.
I also found the T&C confusing…The website states:
A “stay” is defined as consecutive nights spent at the same property on a points-eligible rate, regardless of check-in/check-out activity, under the same one reservation or multiple back-to-back reservations.
It suggests that Marriott is attempting (through badly written language) to prevent a member booking consecutive one day reservations for the same individual at the same property to accrue additional benefits.
One would hope that a two night minimum stay would be specifically delineated.
However, hope and reality are often light years apart..
Yep, I think that wording is just to try to confirm that two consecutive one night stays at the same property will be regarded as one stay, not two.
Never mind the award stays not being eligible, what’s up with the consecutive nights language? Does that mean a stay must be a two night minimum?
No, there’s nothing in the terms about a two night minimum stay. I think what they’re trying to clarify (but not superbly well) is that if you book, say, three consecutive nights at the same property but as one night stays, that’ll be regarded as one stay that’ll earn you 2,500 bonus points, rather than as three separate stays earning 7,500 bonus points.