30 Elite Night Credits with Marriott Credit Cards

You earn Marriott elite status by staying at their hotels for a certain number of nights per year. Elite night credits through credit cards make that easier. Each calendar year you can receive credit for 15 nights towards the next level of Marriott Bonvoy Elite status. However, until now Marriott had a limit of 15 elite night credits per Marriott Bonvoy member. That seems to have changed today with many people seeing 15 elite night credits in their accounts. That is 15 from a personal credit card and 15 more from a business card.

This is apparently a new policy and not just a glitch. Here are the terms that you can find on your Marriott credit cards:

A maximum of 15 Elite Night Credits will be provided per Marriott Bonvoy Member Account, unless you have both a small business Marriott Bonvoy Card account and a consumer Marriott Bonvoy Card account; then, you may receive a combined maximum of 30 Elite Night Credits (15 per Card account). This benefit is not exclusive to Credit Cards offered by American Express.

So having both a personal and a business card gets you 30 elite night credits which means Gold status. And you are just 20 nights away from Platinum.

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