Marriott Bonvoy spans more hotel brands than any other loyalty programme an Asia traveller is likely to meet, from Fairfield to St. Regis. The tier thresholds, expiry rule and earn rates below are quoted from the programme’s own terms.
Elite tiers
Tiers are set by qualifying nights in a calendar year. Only Ambassador Elite adds a spend threshold.
| Tier | The terms say | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Elite | “Marriott Bonvoy - Silver Elite: 10 to 24 Qualifying Nights” | 10% bonus on base points |
| Gold Elite | “Marriott Bonvoy - Gold Elite: 25 to 49 Qualifying Nights” | 25% bonus, 2 p.m. late checkout, enhanced room upgrades |
| Platinum Elite | “Marriott Bonvoy - Platinum Elite: 50 to 74 Qualifying Nights” | 50% bonus, 4 p.m. late checkout, guaranteed lounge access, choice of welcome gift |
| Titanium Elite | “Marriott Bonvoy - Titanium Elite: 75 Qualifying Nights and higher” | 75% bonus, 48-hour guaranteed room availability, a second annual choice benefit that can include a free night award |
| Ambassador Elite | “Marriott Bonvoy - Ambassador Elite: 100 or more Qualifying Nights and at least $23,000 US Dollars in annual qualifying spend” | A personal ambassador and Your24, a flexible check-in and check-out window |
Silver Elite needs 10 qualifying nights inside the same calendar year.
Points expiry
“If a Member Account is inactive for twenty-four (24) consecutive months, that Member Account will forfeit all accumulated Points.”
You do not need a hotel stay to keep the account active. The terms say a member stays active by “earning Points or Miles, redeeming Points, or purchasing Points (as described in 2.9) in the Loyalty Program at least once every twenty-four (24) months”.
Two things that might seem to count do not. The terms name them: “activities that do not count toward maintaining an active status in the Loyalty Program include, but are not limited to: A. Gifting or transferring Points; B. Receiving Points as a gift or transfer”. A relative topping up your balance will not, on its own, stop an inactive account from forfeiting its points.
Earn rates, and what a point is worth
Section 2.1 of the terms sets the standard earn rate: “Ten (10) base Points for each U.S. dollar, or the currency equivalent, that is incurred and paid for by the Member on Qualifying Charges.”
The exceptions matter on an Asia trip because they lean towards longer-stay brands:
- Five base points per dollar “at Apartments by Marriott Bonvoy, City Express, Element, Four Points Flex, Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy, Marriott Executive Apartments, Protea Hotels, Residence Inn, and TownePlace Suites.” A serviced apartment earns at half the rate of a hotel.
- Design Hotels earn “four (4) base Points for each U.S. dollar spent on Qualifying Charges”, with no Elite bonus points or night credit at all.
- The Ritz-Carlton Club and St. Regis Residence Club properties are “earning partner for Elite Night Credit… only” and do not earn points.
The terms do not say what a point is worth when you redeem it. Marriott prices awards dynamically and publishes no fixed conversion, so any cents-per-point figure you have seen is somebody’s average.
Co-branded cards have their own Section 6 in the terms. The night credits attach to each card’s own terms, not to the programme’s status rules.
Book direct to earn
Marriott’s own channels are where points and elite night credit come from. Book the same room through a third-party travel site and you generally get the room at that site’s price, with no points, no night credit toward the tier thresholds, and no reset of the twenty-four month expiry clock.
An online travel agent may be cheaper, and if you do not care about Bonvoy the cheaper room is the better one. If you do care, the discount and the points are a trade.
Bookings go through marriott.com; the programme terms quoted above are published here.
Corrections
18 September 2026. This page said Marriott’s programme terms “do not say how many points a stay earns per dollar spent”, and added that if you had seen an earn rate quoted “it isn’t coming from Marriott’s own program terms.”
That was wrong. Section 2.1 of the terms states ten base points per US dollar, with a named list of brands earning five and Design Hotels earning four.
Two related claims in the same sentence were treated differently. Redemption value is unpublished, because Marriott prices awards dynamically, so that half stays. Co-branded cards are addressed in their own section of the terms, so the page no longer says they are unmentioned.