It’s now possible to transfer Marriott points to Starbucks Stars at a rate of 1,000 Marriott : 100 Starbucks stars. Marriott isn’t the most valuable currency, but Starbucks is even worse when you consider this transfer rate.
As a reminder Starbucks stars can be redeemed for the following:
- 25 Stars: Customize your drink
- 100 Stars: Brewed hot or iced coffee or tea, bakery item, packaged snack, and more
- 200 Stars: Handcrafted drink (Cold Brew, lattes, and more) or hot breakfast
- 300 Stars: Sandwich, protein box, or at-home coffee
- 400 Stars: Select Starbucks merchandise
I don’t think transferring makes sense unless you have a small amount of Marriott points and don’t plan to use the program in the future.
I never stay at Marriott properties but have accrued some Marriott points through their Uber partnership. This may be a use for what is currently useless points.
Hmm, honestly this is not bad for a niche use-case.
I would love it if it went the other way. 100 Starbucks stars for 1,000 Marriott points (or even 500) would be something I could get behind.
1,000 Marriott points are worth ~$7. Convert 1,000 Marriott points to 100 stars and you can order a Iced Trenta Coffee with two shots of espresso and vanilla syrup, a drink that would normally cost you over $8 . You make +$1 value and you get a nice caffeine buzz.
It’s hard to give a fixed value to Marriott points, because the primary method by which Marriott assigns points to hotels is based on how much points are redeemed at that hotel, not cost. So expensive hotels in places where few people redeem may require few points, and inexpensive hotels in places where lots of people redeem a lot may require a lot of points.
Marriott does do modest swings around that value based on cost, but that’s a very secondary factor. The primary factor remains points redemption history.
In fact, this is the way Marriott point pricing has worked since even before they started doing secondary cost pricing, even before Marriott merged with SPG, etc.
One of the big clues was individual people who stayed a lot on points at a single hotel that was low priced on points, and then suddenly they noticed that the points required had shot up, even though the paid price had not changed much. I don’t know if this was the first clue or not, but I did hear about it.
(Bad) I’m dying lol
Free 1000 Marriott Points for linking accounts
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Another BONVOY turd
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