Stay on Property at Disney for 5 Nights on Points
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If Disney World is on your family’s trip list, this points and miles strategy is for you!
Here you go! Remember, even as credit card welcome offers change. This strategy will work as long as the amount of points needed adds up to the amount needed for your stay.
Step 1: Determine which card currently offers the Earn 5 Free Night Awards promotion. These offers change frequently, so it’s helpful to know you can look at either option.
Player 1 opens a Chase Marriott Bonvoy Boundless card to earn 5 Free Night Awards (each night valued up to 50,000 points) after you spend $5,000 in 3 months.
Or the American Express Business credit card to earn 5 Free Night Awards ((each night valued up to 50,000 points) after you spend $8,000 in 6 months.
Step 2: Player 2 opens a Marriott Bonvoy Bountiful card earning 85,000 Marriott Bonvoy Points after you spend $4,000 in the first 3 months.
Step 3: Players combine points and free night certificates into one account (with the free night certificates) using Marriott’s points transfer tool to book their stay.
The free night certificates will allow you to book a room for up to 50,000 points per night. If you are looking at nights that cost more, you can use the points from the Marriott Bonvoy Bountiful card to top off your stay with these points if needed.
Marriott allows you to top off free night certificates with up to 15,000 points per night.
The Chase Marriott Bonvoy Bountiful card has an annual fee of $250.
Still, it comes with an anniversary-year free night certificate, which makes this card a long-term keeper and valuable.
Booking time!
Get ready to book your stay at Walt Disney World Dolphin, a Marriott property, and a Disney Deluxe Resort Hotel in the EPCOT Resort Area. Booking this property allows you to take advantage of the Disney on-property perks you LOVE.
1) Early park entry allows resort guests to enter any of Disney’s four parks thirty minutes before opening.
2) Disney Resorts provides complimentary transportation to the theme parks and to Disney Springs, and you get free parking if you want to drive to the parks.
3) Those spending their nights on the property can buy Lightning Lane passes beginning at 7 a.m. on the day of their park visit.
The Dolphin has double beds rather than queens and is the only property that allows 5 to a room since a rollaway bed is permitted, which is the most significant selling point for the Dolphin!
The Dolphin has laundry facilities, a spa, a kids club, a cafeteria, and a convenience store.
Final thought
Once you book the nights, you must pay the $40 per night resort fee. This is an excellent price for Disney!
Remember, if you are using just points and not free night certificates when you stay four consecutive nights at Marriott and book with points, the 5th night is free! This makes your points stretch even farther!
Opinions expressed here are the author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, hotel, airline, or other entity. This content has not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of the entities included within the post.
I found out about points and miles accidentally.
I was researching index funds and happened upon the points and miles community through creators who also post about budgets, financial independence, and investing.
Points and miles allowed those people to travel and work toward financial independence simultaneously.
Thank goodness I got started when I did. The past almost two years of travel have been something we will never forget.
Earning points and miles through credit cards is only a good choice if you have the financial discipline to use them, like cash/debit cards.
Since we started traveling with points and miles, we have had more money going into our investment and savings accounts than ever.
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