Marriott Bonvoy’s “Week of Wonders”: Book Award Stays at 15% Off

Marriott Bonvoy has launched a limited-time promotion known as “Week of Wonders“, which gives members a number of deals to choose from. The most exciting offer available during this promotion is the “Wonders of Discovery” deal, in which members can get 15% off award stays for the month of October.

We first saw this promotion show up around this time in 2020 and again in 2021, and now it’s back for another round in 2022.

Let’s take a look at the various offers available through the Week of Wonders.

Wonders of Discovery: 15% Off Award Stays for October 2022

For bookings made between October 6–13 for travel until the end of October, members will get a 15% discount off of the regular reward cost. The discount is available at over 4,500 hotels worldwide, but not all properties are participating in the promotion.

If you have an upcoming award stay, you could benefit from cancelling it and rebooking at a lower rate under the Week of Wonders promotion. Since Marriott uses dynamic pricing on award stays, it may be difficult to ascertain if you’re actually getting a 15% discount, though.

For example, if you’re planning on attending The Travel Summit, you could book a stay at the W Toronto for 45,000–49,000 Marriott Bonvoy points per night. This is down from the regular cost of ~53,000–60,000 points per night for most of the month of November.

This also brings down the cost of the redemption to below 50,000 points, so you’d be eligible to redeem a Free Night Award worth 35,000 points and top it up with additional points. 

While this isn’t the most exciting promotion we’ve seen from Marriott, it’s always a welcome scenario to be able to save a few points for redemptions that you were going to otherwise make. Just be sure to check the cancellation policy for your original booking, and verify that you’ll actually be getting some points back with the new booking with dynamic pricing.

The Other “Wonders”

Under the current Week of Wonders, there are a number of other deals (each named as a different “Wonder”), but nothing is really that exciting. In fact, many of them leave me wondering how many people will actually make use of them.

The Wonders of Escape deal gives members a 20% discount on cash bookings made between October 6–13 for stays between November 3, 2022 and January 16, 2023. Note that the discount is only valid for pre-paid bookings at…