Marriott still offering bundles
Not necessarily, the platinum week bundle remains a good buy if you need to upgrade to a higher tier levels, i.e Executive and Presidential.
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I was just in HH this past weekend and did attended a Marriott presentation at their new Sales Gallery across the street from Grande Ocean. Wow, what a beautiful facility. I thought I had walked into a Spa. I guess they are doing pretty well, especially in that location to warrant the type of investment.
We are Chairman level members and really attended the presentation due to the high "incentive" of 50,000 MRP plus a $25 Marriott Voucher (we were staying at the Marriott Hotel and Resort this trip). We had no intention of buying anything.
Our sales rep was very respectful of our time and our standing with MVCI. He even showed us a Smiley Face
that was stamped prominently on his "dossier" about us, which he had obviously read, indicating we are good customers aka "suckers in the past".
After going through the pitch without much enthusiasm for coming up with a reason for us to buy more points at $13.05 (discounted to $11.08), I asked him about resale weeks and a bundle. He immediately got interested and went to check what was available. I asked for a couple of specific resorts including Frenchman's Cove in St. Thomas, and he came back with the entire list. After going through a few possibilities (St. Thomas had nothing), we thanked him very much and told him we weren't interested. He did say that Marriott would soon stop offering the bundles, but who knows if and when that will happen.
We were traveling with friends who went a couple of days later to their sales presentation. We told them to ask about the bundles. They ended up buying a week at Fort Lauderdale OceanPlace, which is a lockoff, along with a matching 2,000 points. This enabled them to reach President's Level status, which was their goal. The week cost $6,200 (not sure what season it was) and the matching 2000 points were at the $11.08 discounted price. In addition, they gave them $1,500 off for the cost of their trip to HH, although it wasn't on an encore package. 50,000 MR points were also given on the week purchase. He put the whole thing on his Marriott Rewards credit card so he will earn about another 140,000 MR points from the transaction.
All in, his cost per point came out at about $6.70. May still be a lot of money, but was a pretty good way to achieve their goal of President level and add to their portfolio of DC points.