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Got an offer for a sales applications manager role at Cisco and a Strategic AE role at Amazon - both are basically the same pay (130~ base, 220 OTE)
I don’t have any friends at either company so I was curious if anyone has experience and can shed some light on culture/ work life balance to help me make a decision? Thanks for the help guys!
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Japan is much better value. Marriott/spg are horrible redemption in europe. Dont believe the list prices either- youre paying a huge premium for the brand and can do better with local hotels. That being said, asia usually has fantastic service- courtyard service in japan will feel like JW.
Oh that’s a very good deal! But staying at one hotel for 7 nights is too long for me!
Yes, great for beach vacation, or a regional excursion (stay at one place but explore a bunch of surrounding places)
I used one for Nice France and my wife and I drank our way all up and down the Côte d'Azur. Amazing value for the points
Definitely not for U.K. I’d pick the hotel you want to stay at first then choose package that fits. You can get away with Cat 1-5 in Southeast Asia, but most more western cities you’ll have to go up to cat 7-9 if you don’t want to stay at a spring hill
To answer your actual question, the packages are a fantastic value.
SPG points transfer at 1:1 normally, so you getting more united points than a direct transfer (including the 5k bonus per 20k) plus a basically free 1 week stay. Besides the cost to upgrade the hotel category isn’t that much.
I don’t understand how this works. How to book the package? And does it mean I will get 132k miles or I need to have that miles in my account for the package ?
You need 270k mariott points and you exchange those for 132k united miles and a 7 night hotel certificate
If you have the points, call Marriott and ask to book the package
https://www.marriott.com/rewards/usepoints/morepack.mi
You don’t have to use the hotel voucher and airlines miles on the same trip. The voucher is good for a year and the miles are available in you airline account pretty quickly.
But I have to use the voucher for the same property for 7 consecutive nights? ?
One thing to add on this. If you want the miles now and can figure out the specific hotel later, you can choose a category 1-5 package and always adjust it later to a higher category package for the equivalent amount of points. One year expiration limit on the 7 night package also resets if you change to a higher tier
is this deal going away after the official merging of accounts for SPG/Marriott in aug??
also thank you everyone for all the insight!
I hope it doesn’t. If so I’m burning all my points on a few of these now.
I haven’t heard or seen anything specific on it.