{"id":14406,"date":"2023-01-01T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T15:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=14406"},"modified":"2023-01-01T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T15:44:27","slug":"the-quirk-of-marriotts-annual-choice-benefit-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/01\/01\/the-quirk-of-marriotts-annual-choice-benefit-stays\/","title":{"rendered":"The quirk of Marriott&#8217;s annual choice benefit stays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marriott has something called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/marriott-annual-choice-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Annual Choice Benefit<\/a>, which offers members a gift when they reach the 50- and 75-night milestones in a calendar year. When you reach 75 nights, one of the gifts you can choose is a free night award worth up to 40,000 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s something interesting about the FNA though, as its expiry date used to be one year from date when you <em>select <\/em>it. As you have until January 7th to make your choice, it means that FNAs selected in January were one year longer in expiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the terms and conditions have changed in 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Free Night Award (with a redemption value of up to 40,000 Points) must be redeemed for a stay that occurs no later than December 31, 2023.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Which made me think that they&#8217;ve fixed the bug. Well obviously it&#8217;s not the case, as a friend&#8217;s friend has just picked the FNA and the expiry is still showing as the end of 2024:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/marriott-choice-benefit-40k-free-night-expiry.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/marriott-choice-benefit-40k-free-night-expiry.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/marriott-choice-benefit-40k-free-night-expiry.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/marriott-choice-benefit-40k-free-night-expiry-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not a super useful quirkiness. However, one more year&#8217;s validity gives you more flexibility at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriott has something called Annual Choice Benefit, which offers members a gift when they reach the 50- and 75-night milestones in a calendar year. When you&#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-14406","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\/14406","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=14406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14409,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14406\/revisions\/14409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}