Signed up for the card on the last day of the 5 free nights offer - finally got my certificates and I'm finding it hard to book or gain access to "even more Hotel and Resort options across our 30 distinctive Brands.​" It seems deliberate how many of their nicer hotels are only 5K points out of reach (after "topping off" to 65K). Seeing London and Paris hotels going for 70K per night on average.

Any advice is much appreciated.

Hi everyone,

Looking at the $95 AF card and the 5 free nights is a nice deal but beyond the SUB, the other benefits seem alright and I am almost positive it would preclude me from any other Marriott cards in the near future. I travel quite a bit for work and would like to maintain plat with the Brilliant (may even pull the trigger on the 95k pts due to upcoming travel & wanting to maintain status) I have got plenty of benefits out of even the “inflated” plat (free breakfast personally, additional pts, marginally better service, late checkout) so do not want to downgrade to silver. Input is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Hoping to get some advice. I will be traveling late next month and we'll be staying at a Marriott's property for 3 weeks with a total cost of around $6,000. I was originally going to put this on to my Chase Sapphire Reserve but while researching I came across the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless credit card which has a bonus of 5 free nights each night award valued up to 50,000 points so a total of 250,000 points. This seems to be significantly better value than my Chase Sapphire reward of 30,000 points. Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this or knows of a better offer that I should look into? Thanks in advance for your help