{"id":8984,"date":"2020-11-15T17:28:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T17:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2020-11-15T17:28:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T17:28:18","slug":"marriott-offering-free-photo-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/11\/15\/marriott-offering-free-photo-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriott offering free photo books?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just received an email from Marriott, with <em>A Thank You Gift<\/em> in the title. I thought it&#8217;s a targeted offer (finally!) and got very excited for a second, but after I clicked through&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/marriott-shutterfly-offer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/marriott-shutterfly-offer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8983\" width=\"400\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/marriott-shutterfly-offer.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/marriott-shutterfly-offer-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/marriott-shutterfly-offer-768x322.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a campaign from a company called Shutterfly. You are provided with an offer code that entitles you to a complimentary 20-page photo book when signing up as a new member. I didn&#8217;t proceed, but I&#8217;m not convinced it&#8217;s really &#8220;free&#8221; either, as I guess you&#8217;ll need to pay at least the postage in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/marriott-promotions-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">targeted promotions<\/a>, I received one from Marriott in February 2019, which was the first and, thus far the last too&#8230; I&#8217;ve seen different variants that people have received in the last couple of months:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Stay twice earn 22,500 points<\/li><li>Stay three times earn 9,000 points<\/li><li>Stay three times earn 18,000 points<\/li><li>Stay once (including weekend) earn 18,000 points<\/li><li>Double points on weekend stays<\/li><li>Double points on two-night stays<\/li><li>Stay twice earn two free night awards<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check if you&#8217;re targeted by any of them by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/marriott-promotions-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">visiting the Promotion Centre<\/a>. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s not possible to have them manually added to your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just received an email from Marriott, with A Thank You Gift in the title. I thought it&#8217;s a targeted offer (finally!) and got very excited for&#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":[112],"class_list":["post-8984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriott-bonvoy","tag-hotel-promotion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","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=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8985,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}