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The Offer
No direct link, targeted offer
- Get a 1x statement credit by using your enrolled card to spend $200+ on room rate and room charges when you pay for your stay with JW Marriott hotels from 3/30/18 until 6/18/18
- Same offer is also available for 4,000 Membership Rewards points instead of $40
The Fine Print
- Valid from 3/30/18 to 6/18/2018
- Offer valid only at JW Marriott® locations in the US
Our Verdict
Even if your stay is after 6/18/2018 then you should be able to prepay before that date and have no issues. You can also get another 2.5% cash back by going through a portal. If they sell gift cards then those should also trigger the offer if you purchase them at the front desk.
Hat tip to reader Nick & Running With Miles
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Is this only valid at JW Marriott’s or will any Marriott work to trigger the offer?
Datapoints on which JWs sell gift cards at their front desks?
Guessing that you’re asking because we’ve been alerted … that $200 JW gift cards bought at their front desk, but not their gift shops, will somehow count towards triggering the Amex offer — notwithstanding that there’s explicit wording in the offer itself that it won’t apply to purchase of gift cards. Say Doc, or anybody, can we confirm that never mind the explicit terms of the offer, that gc’s bought at “the JW front desk” will count towards this Amex offer?
Even if it does, lot of work to find a JW…. There’s only 27 of them in all of North America. (including the one next to the IHG Willard in DC…. I should know, my miserably tiny window on the 12th floor of the Willard last week stared into the very boring side of the JW.)
http://www.marriott.com/jw-marriott/locations.mi#North%20America
These offers always say GC are excluded, in practice I’ve never seen it enforced. When you make a purchase at the front desk it just codes as a regular stay rather than a GC purchase. YMMV as always
When you say “these” offers do you means just Marriott or all hotel offers tend to work this way?
Generally all, I know Hyatt is the same. I don’t know any off the top of my head where the front desk will code GC separately, but I could very well be wrong and YMMV as always.
I’ve bought GCs from the front desk of a Courtyard before – it triggered the relevant Amex Offer
I work next door to the JW Marriott in downtown Houston. Will try and report!
Are you able to report back on whether this triggered the offer or not? Thanks!
Got this on 3/4 cards. SPG Business card did not have this offer.
Can a JW Marriott gift card be used at another Stariott brand?
Only Marriott and RC brands. Starwood properties don’t accept as of now.
I always get the dollar offers never the points. I don’t suppose there is any way to change that.
I get the points offers on the cards that I pay annual fee.
On the free cards I get dollar offers.
Amongst the MR earning cards I have, I have some AU cards with their SSN attached, I’ve other AU cards without SSN attached (for my folks back home who don’t work/study/live in the US). I find that the MR offers are attached to those cards with SSN attached and vice versa.
How do you add AU cards without SSN? It never lets me proceed…
Thanks.
Call up Amex or use the chat function. Say you wanna add a person. YMMV, but sometimes if you say you don’t have their SSN, they’ll activate anyway since you’re authorizing it. Otherwise, you can turn in something like a passport or visa with ID to confirm the person is real.
I have a 7 day trip planned to Cancun at the JW there in this time frame, think I can purchase gift cards at a JW here and use them there on room charges?
U.S. locations only as per T&C
The gift cards are usable only in the US?
had research previously on Marriott.com. gift cards valid at all properties. u should check yourself to confirm.
No the offer is only on locations in US. Your plan should work
Just a heads up you have Hyatt Regency instead of JW Marriott under the first bullet point of the offer. Anyway, got the offer in my Blue Business and added it thanks! Wish I was targeted for the Hyatt Recency too….
Guessing Doc did a cut ‘n paste from the news two days ago of the similar Hyatt Regency offer. I too wish I’d received the Hyatt promo — There are almost 100 of them located in North America. (only 23 of the JW’s)
Unanswered question:…. (which I’ve seen raised repeatedly here)…. Does purchase of hotel gift cards for these Amex offers count — if purchased at the requisite “hotel front desk” — and notwithstanding explicit wording in the Amex offer that gc’s will not count…. ? Any data points or previous threads on just this question?
I actually did so successfully on a similar Hyatt Place offer several years ago (e.g., bought gc’s at at HP front desk)– but don’t remember then any “no-no” verbiage in the amex offer terms. Maybe memory faulty.
Thanks, will fix.