6. Bonus: How to Book Hotels Using Points
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About this bonus video
In this video, I show you the power of credit card points to book a hotel room. I show how I book a hotel room with no money out of pocket using only my Chase Marriott Bonvoy credit card points. If you like Marriott hotels, this is a solid card to add to your credit card base.
- Chase Marriott Bonvoy
- Credit Card base
- Tier 4 Credit Card
- Rewards Points
- Bonus video: Booking a flight + Hotel using only AMEX Points
Full Video Transcript
Welcome to this video I am about to show you how I am going to book a hotel room using only my points. So I have a Chase Marriott Bonvoy card, and I like Marriott as my, uh, hotel of choice or a chain of choice. I like their, I just liked their hotels. I think they’re a little bit nicer than the other ones have old name names. However, what I’m going to do is I’m on my Marriott Bonvoy account and I have the opportunity to say use points slash certificates. And I’m about to book a room for tonight. So many find hotels already know what hotel I want, but I’m just going to see if I can use this hotel. And I can’t. So here is the hotel that I can use, um, or I can book a room for. So it is Aloft Columbia. Um, Harveson, someone’s going to have you rates, and it seems like that this is going to be either $17,000, 17,500 points.
This is Columbia should review government agency. So it says something about covd. Um, so one King room, they’re both the same. And if I want to hit the, your view room details, I can do that. And I’m going to go ahead and just hit, select, all right, go ahead. Hit my information and just like this so it can sign me in. And now it’s telling me that I can pay with these points or I can use my, um, credit card. So I’m just gonna go ahead and pay with points. Cause I have, I wanna say, let me see this, uh, I have 99,000 points. So I’m going to go ahead and just book this hotel without paying out of pocket. So this is a, like, this is a judgment call too. So, um, Columbia, let me go back find hotels. So let’s just say, I think it’s $90 if it’s $92 per night, if I don’t want to use my points. So you just, you just have to ask yourself the question. Do I wanna use my points now or do I want to maximize all of my points towards another stay and get a cheaper, cheaper amount you get? Does that make sense? So, um, I don’t, I’m about to use my points. I, it just is what it is. You have view rates and then I am going to go ahead and move forward. So I have two options, a King or Queen I’m going to choose the King.
All right, just go ahead and hit book now. And that’s it. My room has been booked. I paid nothing out of pocket for this. Awesome.