Marriott International

Marriott International is the world's largest hotel company by room count, so pick your brand and dates, then book through ShopBack before you pay, where ShopBack Cashback works like a discount, only easier than a promo code. It operates a portfolio of roughly thirty brands spanning luxury, premium, select-service, longer-stay, and vacation rentals across every US state and every populated continent. Bookings for every brand in the portfolio route through marriott.com and the Marriott Bonvoy app under one loyalty account, which is why US travelers usually see the parent Marriott name rather than the individual brand at checkout.

The luxury tier includes The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, JW Marriott, W Hotels, EDITION, The Luxury Collection, and Bulgari Hotels. The premium tier includes Marriott Hotels, Sheraton, Westin, Le Meridien, Renaissance, Autograph Collection, Design Hotels, Delta Hotels, Tribute Portfolio, and Marriott Vacation Club. The select and longer-stay tier includes Courtyard by Marriott, Four Points, SpringHill Suites, Fairfield by Marriott, Residence Inn, TownePlace Suites, Element, Aloft, AC Hotels, Moxy, and Protea Hotels. Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy is the parent vacation-rental marketplace competing with Airbnb and Vrbo.

The tier signals the experience, not the loyalty currency, since every Marriott brand earns and redeems on the same Bonvoy account. Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, JW Marriott, W, EDITION, Luxury Collection, and Bulgari are the top of the ladder for special-occasion stays and destination resorts. Marriott Hotels, Sheraton, Westin, Le Meridien, Renaissance, Autograph, and Delta anchor business travel and mid-length leisure trips in city cores. Courtyard, Four Points, SpringHill, Fairfield, Residence Inn, TownePlace, Aloft, AC, and Moxy carry the everyday and longer-stay use cases at lower nightly rates. Element and Residence Inn are the extended-stay picks with kitchens for stays over four nights.

Marriott Bonvoy is the loyalty program covering every brand in the Marriott portfolio and is one of the largest hotel loyalty programs in the world by member count. Members earn base points on eligible stays and qualifying charges, plus elite bonuses at Silver, Gold, Platinum, Titanium, and Ambassador tiers. Points redeem for free nights on a dynamic chart across the full brand portfolio, plus transfers to airline partners and access to Bonvoy Moments experiences. Booking direct on marriott.com or the Bonvoy app is the standard path to earn points and elite night credit. For a deeper look, see Marriott Bonvoy vs Hilton Honors vs World of Hyatt US 2026.

Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy is Marriott's vacation-rental marketplace covering professionally managed whole-home rentals in leisure destinations across the US, Caribbean, Europe, and Mexico. It is Marriott's direct competitor to Airbnb and Vrbo, with the added feature that Bonvoy members earn and redeem points on eligible rental stays. Listings are curated to a professional-management standard, which typically means multi-day minimums and cleaning fees rather than the full range of hosted-room options seen on Airbnb. For a deeper look, see Marriott Bonvoy 2026 Devaluation: What Changed and How to Adapt.

Marriott has full-tier coverage in every top-thirty US metro. Courtyard, Fairfield, Residence Inn, and Springhill Suites carry the highway and suburban footprint, so US road-trippers usually find one within a short drive of any interstate exit. City cores lean on Marriott Hotels, Renaissance, Sheraton, Westin, Autograph, and Moxy. The strongest luxury clusters sit in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Las Vegas, Aspen, Nashville, Chicago, Boston, and Washington DC, plus destination resorts in Hawaii, Sedona, Palm Springs, and the Florida coast.

For domestic city stays, booking two to four weeks ahead typically balances availability and rate. For beach and mountain resort weeks (Christmas, spring break, July fourth, Thanksgiving), six to nine months ahead is normal because Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, and JW resorts sell peak dates first. For Bonvoy award nights, watching the dynamic points chart around off-peak dates typically produces the strongest points-to-dollar redemption, especially on shoulder-season Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis stays. Pair flexible-date searches with going through ShopBack before you pay, so part of what you spend on the stay comes back as Cashback.

Cancellation terms are set per property and per rate, not by the parent brand, so the reservation confirmation email is the source of truth. Flexible rates on most Marriott properties allow free cancellation up to a defined window before check-in, typically two to five days depending on property and season. Prepaid and advance-purchase rates are usually non-refundable in exchange for a lower nightly rate. Resort and holiday-week bookings tighten cancellation to seven to fourteen days ahead.

Marriott carries the larger brand portfolio and the higher total US room count, with the deepest luxury bench (Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, JW, W, EDITION, Bulgari, Luxury Collection) and the widest select-service footprint through Courtyard, Fairfield, and Residence Inn. Hilton counters with a tighter luxury lineup (Waldorf Astoria, LXR, Conrad), stronger extended-stay coverage through Home2 Suites and Homewood, and Hilton Honors as one of the more redemption-friendly points currencies. For breadth and brand choice Marriott usually wins; for a simpler loyalty ladder Hilton Honors often wins. Both are the two largest US hotel loyalty programs.

Marriott outnumbers IHG on total US room count and on luxury depth, with brands like Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, and JW Marriott running deeper than IHG's InterContinental and Regent. IHG counters with a strong select-service and highway footprint through Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, and Candlewood Suites, plus growing lifestyle depth in Kimpton and Hotel Indigo. Bonvoy is generally the deeper loyalty program on brand and destination breadth; IHG One Rewards runs a leaner ladder with the Points Break flat-rate promotional windows as a signature saving mechanic. See our IHG guide for the full brand list and Points Break pattern.

Marriott has far greater US property count and brand breadth. Hyatt is smaller but leans harder into luxury and all-inclusive resorts through Park Hyatt, Andaz, Alila, Miraval, Thompson, and the Inclusive Collection (Hyatt Ziva, Zilara, Secrets, Dreams, Zoetry). World of Hyatt is often called the sweeter loyalty program per stay because of an award chart with tighter category caps, though its footprint is thinner outside major cities. Marriott is the default when brand breadth or a specific destination brand matters. Hyatt is the default for all-inclusive resort trips to Mexico and the Caribbean.

Booking direct on marriott.com or the Bonvoy app is the standard path to earn Marriott Bonvoy points, elite night credit toward Silver, Gold, Platinum, Titanium, and Ambassador status, and the elite benefits (late checkout, room upgrades, welcome amenity) tied to those tiers. Booking Marriott properties through Booking.com pulls the property into the Booking Genius loyalty ladder instead, forfeits Bonvoy earning, and typically limits access to Marriott's direct-booking rate promotions. Booking.com's advantage is comparing a Marriott property against a non-Marriott property in the same neighborhood in one search. See our Booking.com guide for how Genius compares to Bonvoy.

Marriott direct earns Bonvoy points and elite night credit. Expedia bookings earn One Key Cash toward future Expedia, Hotels.com, or Vrbo bookings, and forfeit Bonvoy earning. Expedia's advantage is the flight-plus-hotel package builder that can lower total trip cost against booking flight and hotel separately, plus the ability to compare Marriott against non-Marriott options in one search. For Bonvoy loyalists who plan to stay at a Marriott brand more than a few nights a year, direct booking is usually the stronger long-term path. See our Expedia guide for how One Key stacks against Bonvoy.

Marriott competes with Airbnb and Vrbo on longer leisure stays through Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy for whole-home rentals, Residence Inn and Element for extended stays with kitchens, and Marriott Vacation Club for timeshare-style resort weeks. Airbnb has the widest inventory across unique stays, hosted rooms, and non-professionally managed listings. Vrbo focuses on entire-home rentals and family-and-group trips. For US travelers who want hotel-tier consistency plus Bonvoy earning on a longer stay, Homes & Villas or Residence Inn is usually the closest Marriott answer to a rental booking. See our Vrbo guide for how the family-rental use case compares.

Marriott's Member Rate on marriott.com and the Bonvoy app (a small percent off the flexible rate for signed-in members) is its most consistent US saving, so compare it with advance-purchase rates for your dates, then book through ShopBack before you pay, where ShopBack Cashback works like a discount, only easier than a promo code. Other options are seasonal Escape offers built around specific US regions, stay-and-earn promotions that award points on multi-stay activity in a defined window, and dynamic points redemptions on off-peak dates. Advance-purchase rates on longer stays typically undercut the flexible rate for travelers with locked dates. The current Cashback is shown on the Marriott page on ShopBack before you book.

Go through ShopBack before you pay and the Cashback tracks to your ShopBack account. Sign in to ShopBack, open the Marriott page on ShopBack, and continue to marriott.com or the linked Marriott brand site to complete the booking. On your phone, open Marriott from the ShopBack app and finish the booking there. The current Cashback is shown on the Marriott page on ShopBack before you buy.

The Marriott page on ShopBack shows the live rate.

Marriott's own rate mechanics include the Bonvoy Member Rate, advance-purchase rates, seasonal Escape offers and points promotions, and terms depend on the specific brand and rate booked. ShopBack Cashback is a separate step: go through ShopBack before you pay on marriott.com and part of what you spend comes back as Cashback.

Joining usually makes sense if you plan to book even one Marriott stay, because Marriott Bonvoy is free to join and members get Marriott's member rates, which Marriott describes as exclusive discounted rates, along with free in-room Wi-Fi and mobile check-in when they book on marriott.com or the Marriott Bonvoy app. Status perks build with nights stayed: Silver Elite starts at 10 nights a year with bonus points and priority late checkout, Gold Elite at 25 nights adds enhanced room upgrades and 2 p.m. late checkout subject to availability, and Platinum Elite at 50 nights adds a welcome gift choice. Go through ShopBack before you book and check the live rate on this page before you click through.

Marriott sells gift cards through its official gift card store, linked as Gift Cards from marriott.com, and whether a card is discounted depends on any gift card promotion Marriott is running when you buy, so check that store before you count on a discount. For a stay, open Marriott from its page on ShopBack before you pay on marriott.com and part of what you spend comes back as Cashback. The live rate is shown on this page.

Yes. Sign in to ShopBack, open this Marriott page and continue to marriott.com to book; going through ShopBack before you pay is what brings part of the stay back as Cashback. It is paid to your ShopBack account as cash, not points. Check the live rate on this page before you book.

Marriott's booking search on marriott.com has a Special Rates menu with AAA/CAA, Senior Discount and Government & Military options, next to the Lowest Regular Rate and a Corp/Promo Code field, so you can price those rates for your dates before you book. Each special rate has its own eligibility rules, so pick only a rate you qualify for and compare it against the free Bonvoy member rate for the same room, dates and cancellation terms, because the special rate is not always the lower one. Whichever rate wins, start the booking from ShopBack so the Cashback lowers what you pay, and the current Cashback is shown on the Marriott page on ShopBack before you book. read more

Marriott runs a rate guarantee for stays booked through its direct channels: marriott.com, the Marriott Bonvoy app, its reservation centers or the hotel itself. If you find a lower qualifying rate for the same hotel, room, dates, guests, inclusions and cancellation policy on a non-Marriott site, you submit a claim within 24 hours of booking and at least 24 hours before check-in, and if Marriott approves it, Marriott matches that rate and adds either a further discount or a Bonvoy points award. Rates with discounts or promo codes applied by the other site, paid-membership rates such as AAA, opaque sites and packages do not qualify, and some properties, including Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy, are excluded. The guarantee rewards booking direct, so open Marriott from its page on ShopBack before you pay on marriott.com, and check the live rate on this page.

Yes, go through ShopBack before you book: open ShopBack, continue to marriott.com from this page, then search, pick your rate and pay. Going through ShopBack before you pay is an essential step, because that is what tracks the stay to your ShopBack account. You are still booking with Marriott directly. Check the live rate on this page before you start.

Your effective price is what you pay Marriott minus the cash ShopBack returns to you after the stay. Cashback comes back as cash in your ShopBack account, so it works like a discount on the room price, not like Bonvoy points or airline miles, which you earn separately when you book direct. Effective price is the fairest way to compare two Marriott rates, such as a flexible rate and an advance-purchase rate, because the cash comes back on the eligible amount you actually pay. Check the live rate on this page to work out your own effective price.

Cashback rates, Marriott Bonvoy tier benefits and Marriott's per-property cancellation windows are subject to change; verify the current rate table on this page and the specific rate terms on marriott.com or the Bonvoy app before booking.