Use your Marriott Rewards credit card at London’s hip Great Northern Hotel, a Starwood property (Image: Starwood)
Members of Starwood Preferred Guest, Marriott Rewards, Ritz-Carlton Rewards and JetBlue’s TrueBlue program have new options for racking up program points through credit card usage.
Marriott and Starwood said that effective immediately, U.S. holders of the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card by American Express will earn two Starpoints for every eligible dollar they spend with the card at any hotel that’s in the Marriott Rewards program.
On the flip side, U.S. holders of the Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card from Chase and The Ritz-Carlton Rewards Credit Card from JPMorgan will get five points in those loyalty programs for every eligible dollar spent on the cards at hotels that participate in Starwood Preferred Guest.
It’s the latest step in ongoing efforts by Marriott, Ritz-Carlton and Starwood to integrate their guest loyalty programs following the merger of Marriott and Starwood. Earlier, the companies said that loyalty members can link their accounts at members.marriott.com to achieve elite status matching and unlimited points transfers. At a meeting in New York, Marriott CEO said that members were linking accounts at a rapid clip– about 100,000 per day!
Citi cardholders can now move program points into JetBlue’s TrueBlue program.. (Image: JetBlue)
Meanwhile, banking giant Citi announced that JetBlue’s TrueBlue has become the 14th travel loyalty program to link up with its ThankYou Rewards program.
The company said that Citi Premier and Prestige cardholders will be able to transfer ThankYou points into JetBlue program points at a rate of 1.25 to 1, and Preferred cardholders can do so at a 2-to-1 rate.
Eligible Citi cardholders can transfer points to JetBlue at www.thankyou.com/transfer or by calling 1-800-Thankyou.
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Chris, Just looked at the Bugaboo add. That is a pretty slick bag system. I may have to check it out. Only available at Neiman Marcus Store @ Lenox square so I did flinch though. Better put it on my list to Santa!
Yes, typo. 2-to-1 rate should say Preferred. We fixed it. Thanks for pointing this out.
“Citi Premier and Prestige cardholders will be able to transfer ThankYou
points into JetBlue program points at a rate of 1.25 to 1, and Prestige cardholders can do so at a 2-to-1 rate.”
Typo?