Dear Friends,
As you can see from the subject line, I got these through
AXIS RESERVE.
All the 3 memberships got activated yesterday.
I also have an FYF
HDFC INFINIA card that comes with Club Marriott but I have not activated it yet.
I have accumulated 1.5L & 1L Edge Points in my and my wife's account respectively.
Please advise me on the following:
- What to do with the spare Club Marriott Membership (HDFC INFINIA)?
- I am a noob when it comes to Hotel Memberships. How to maximize the benefit. Any online resource will be of great help.
- Club Marriott is asking for a Favourite hotel. I don't have a Marriott in my city. so if I pick a random hotel can I change it later?
- Club Marriott and Marriott Bonvoy ... any additional benefit when u have both?
- Marriott Bonvoy - How book Award rooms with breakfast?
- Best way to transfer Edge Points to Hotel Partners?
- Can I transfer Egde Point from my wife's axis account to my bonvoy or ITC account?
- Anything else I should know before transferring points for my upcoming Domestic Trip? (Want to burn some points and experience 5-star stay)
Sorry for such a long query ....
Regards,
Avijeet
This is a very long question. No one has answered yet, so I shall give you a glimpse of some of the answers you want to have.
1 & 4 Club Marriott membership & Marriott Bonvoy membership are different. Its better to have both of them. Point accruals and redemptions are via Bonvoy. Also for Club Marriott memberships, you get a couple of vouchers that you can use to your benefit- (Some of them are celebration table, Room upgrades and Happy stay over).
2. Best way to learn about hotel memberships is to use google. What I know I learnt online reading a lot of stuff. Some of the high-end places people would love to redeem points for Bonvoy would be Over Water villa places in Maldives.
3. I was able to change them in the app. It's just to make that hotel your default on the app sign in page (at least what I have seen till date)
5. Marriott Bonvoy Platinum elite and titanium status is typically required for free breakfast. Otherwise they charge you. There are some hotels which gives complimentary b/f (but rare)
6. IME, the better ones will be ITC and Bonvoy. But you should know ITC hotels can also booked via Bonvoy program. Some ITC hotels will benefit better through Bonvoy (For example: check this out-
https://www.marriott.com/offers/roo...y-collection-hotel-chennai?propertycode=maalc). Also if you want to transfer points to Bonvoy, you can take the route through ITC since you will get more points.
7. It is against the TnC to transfer from your Axis ER account to someone else's account. If they close your account and confiscate your miles, it may not be worth the risk. You can transfer to your own Marriott Bonvoy or ITC account from your Axis ER account, and then transfer it to your wife's Marriott Bonvoy or ITC account. This is allowed as per TnC ( See the following links-
https://help.marriott.com/s/article/Article-22159 ;
https://www.clubitc.in/cmspage.aspx...an transfer,Member accounts per calendar year.)
8. Always have a redemption in mind before you transfer your points.
Also, to each their own. A redemption worth to you may not be worth my time (and vice versa).
