{"id":10779,"date":"2022-01-03T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=10779"},"modified":"2022-02-23T19:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T19:30:12","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-claim-the-marriott-annual-choice-benefit-straightaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/01\/03\/why-you-shouldnt-claim-the-marriott-annual-choice-benefit-straightaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you SHOULDN\u2019T claim the Marriott Annual Choice Benefit straightaway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once you\u2019ve stayed 50 or 75 nights with Marriott in a calendar year, you can claim an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/marriott-annual-choice-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Annual Choice Benefit<\/a>&nbsp;which gives you a few different options varying from night credits, suite night awards and a free night voucher. You have until January 7th to make your selection, otherwise the suite night awards will be deposited into your account by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have stayed 75 nights and are interested in choosing the free night voucher though, there is an oddity that you should be aware of. Looking at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/marriott-tnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marriott\u2019s terms and conditions<\/a>, regarding its expiry it says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Free Night Award (up to 40,000 Points) must be redeemed for a stay that occurs no later than December 31 of the year following the year in which the additional benefit is selected<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas for the suite night award:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Suite Night Awards expire on December 31 of the year following the year in which they were earned<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If it\u2019s not clear enough: for suite night award the time you make your selection is irrelevant, as the award earned in 2021 will expire on December 31st,&nbsp;<em>2022&nbsp;<\/em>regardless. However it makes a difference for the free night voucher \u2013 if you select in 2022, then the voucher will have one more year\u2019s life and expires on December 31st,&nbsp;<em>2023<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may not be super useful, but a good catch to keep in mind for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you\u2019ve stayed 50 or 75 nights with Marriott in a calendar year, you can claim an&nbsp;Annual Choice Benefit&nbsp;which gives you a few different options varying&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriott-bonvoy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11307,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}