Cashback is a great way to reduce the cost of travelling – if you are very price-conscious or get to make your own travel arrangements for work 😉 – then it might also influence the hotel chain that you choose. If two similar hotels are both charging $100 per night, you would save money by booking the hotel chain offering 7% cashback instead of the hotel chain offering none…

For today only (until midnight Pacific time), Topcashback is offering 7% cashback on Marriott Bonvoy hotels worldwide. The normal rate is 3%.

If you have some flexible Marriott bookings where the underlying rate hasn’t changed, you might want to cancel and re-book to take advantage of the higher cashback rebate…

Am I still booking direct?

The question comes up occasionally, so I’ll be as clear as possible. When you use a cashback website to click through to a hotel chain website, you are definitely booking DIRECT and qualifying to earn points, elite status credit, etc.

In my experience, you can also make a successful Best Rate Guarantee claim and still earn cashback for the booking. (based on the final, lower room rate)

And, naturally, you don’t have to actually stay at the hotel during the period of increased cashback. What matters is the date of making the reservation…

Not a Member Yet? Earn an Easy $10 On Top…

If you are not yet a member of Topcashback, you can earn an additional $10. Simply sign up using this referral link – http://www.topcashback.com/join-us/inside-flyer/ref/craigsowerby – and earn $10 of cashback.

It’s really quite simple to earn $10 of cashback. If you are signing up to book this Marriott offer, you would only need to pay a pre-tax rate of $143 in order to earn $10 of cashback.  So it really couldn’t be easier to earn a $20 rebate ($10 signup bonus + $10 cashback) on a $145 Marriott stay…