Get Up To 12,000 Marriott Rewards Points For Free With Plus Points

Update 5: It’s now possible to automate this. Read our post here.

Update 4: There have been some negative changes to the way Plus Points works. You can view all of these changes by clicking here. The below post contains information on the new rules.

Update 3: My points have posted. There is a hard limit of 2,000 per month, I tried following additional properties to see if that would work and I was limited to 2,000 points. Click here to view my points.

Update 2: This promotion is actually not targeted. My issue was that I was using a Facebook account that wasn’t active. To be considered active you must have at least one friend, it then takes a period of 24 hours for it to be active. When I linked my twitter account I was able to participate straight away and received the following message.

Update: It looks like this is a targeted promotion. I’m now getting “your account is not eligible” error message for the new account I created.

Contents

1 The Offer
2 The Fine Print
3 Our Verdict
- 3.1 Easiest way to earn the points
  - 3.1.1 Twitter
  - 3.1.2 Facebook

The Offer

Direct link to offer

Marriott Rewards is following both Club Carlson & American Airlines and allowing you to earn free Marriott Rewards points for completing certain social actions associated with your link social network accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Foursquare).

Make sure your account is set to earn points & not miles. If your account is set to earn miles you will not earn any points or miles. Click here to edit your preference. If you don’t have an account you select this preference on sign up.

The Fine Print

Earn a maximum of 2,000 points every 30 day period
Limit of four social actions per day (100 points)
You’ll receive an e-mail to the e-mail listed in your Facebook or Twitter account confirming that the social action has been performed and points will post ~7 days later.
Properties need to be liked or followed for a minimum of one week for the points to post to your account
Promotion is for Marriott Rewards members only, it is not for those who are Ritz-Carlton aligned
Deal is valid from May 8th – November 8th
If you don’t already have a Marriott Rewards account you can create one to participate in this deal

Our Verdict

If you don’t have have a twitter, facebook, instagram account set up specifically for completing these deals we suggest you do so. They are only going to become more common and it’d be a shame if a friend of yours saw that you’d liked a property you’ve never actually been to as an indication of it’s quality.

Getting 2,000 points every 30 days used to be very easy (you only needed to like or follow 8 properties) it’s now much difficult and you’ll need to follow four properties per day.. It’s enough for a free stay at any category 1-2 hotel (or category 3 if you use a PointSavers Reward) which you most likely won’t be able to redeem for. It should also help you if you already have existing points and want to try for a higher award category.

I’m no longer bothering with this promotion as they nerfed it so much. For those with extra time/who value these points highly it might still be worth it.

Easiest way to earn the points

The easiest way to earn these points is to follow on twitter participating properties and earn 25 points per property. This means you’d need to like 80 properties per thirty day period to earn the maximum amount of points on offer. Here is a list of different accounts that qualify for this promotion: