{"id":17484,"date":"2023-12-11T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T10:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=17484"},"modified":"2023-12-11T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T10:55:27","slug":"marriott-completely-stops-elite-benefits-on-ota-bookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/12\/11\/marriott-completely-stops-elite-benefits-on-ota-bookings\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriott completely stops elite benefits on OTA bookings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a member of a hotel loyalty program, you can earn points and enjoy certain benefits but only if booking directly via the official channels. Marriott has been more generous than its associates, making an exception for the Asia Pacific market <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/01\/24\/marriott-ceased-benefits-on-third-party-bookings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Marriott ceased benefits on third-party bookings\">until earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that point China was still left untouched, but it seems to be coming to an end as well:<\/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\/12\/marriott-ota-china.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/marriott-ota-china.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/marriott-ota-china.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/marriott-ota-china-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/marriott-ota-china-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/marriott-ota-china-520x292.png 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Starting from January 1st 2024, hotels in China will no longer offer elite benefits on OTA bookings. This means that Marriott will finally have a adherent policy globally, although it&#8217;s not good news to its members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t mean that hotels would never go out of the way, but it will be much less likely and totally at their discretion. If you see a better price elsewhere, you could always try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/marriott-brg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Marriott&#8217;s best rate guarantee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of a hotel loyalty program, you can earn points and enjoy certain benefits but only if booking directly via the official channels. Marriott&#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-17484","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\/17484","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=17484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17510,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484\/revisions\/17510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}