This is exactly what I had been waiting for. Club Marriott membership is finally valid at The St. Regis Mumbai.

Even though I’ve been a member at various luxury hotels over the past few years, I had always wanted to be a member at The St. Regis Mumbai. The St. Regis Mumbai defines luxury in the city like no other. The 38 floor building is not only India’s tallest hotel building but also houses my favourite restaurant, Seven Kitchens. Perched on the top floor, the all-day dining venue, welcomes guests with captivating views and bright natural light that showcases an expansive buffet of celebrated international offerings and, on Sunday, a destination brunch.

Knowing my new Club Marriott member status and appreciation for Seven Kitchen, it wasn’t a surprise for my girl gang when I recommended the restaurant for our monthly catch up session. The membership entitles members to a certificate offering a 25% off on the Special Ladies Luncheon up to forty ladies on a table at Seven Kitchens. The luncheon was decked with a lavish spread of gourmet salads, cheeses, wood-fire pizzas, pasta, steamed dumplings, wok-fried noodles and more.

What’s really special about this particular membership is that it’s not just about dining, accommodation or lifestyle benefits; it also focuses on offering exquisite experiences to its guests.

The St. Regis is known for its iconic Afternoon Tea. Tea is something I’m extremely fond of, so I took the first opportunity I got to experience the service myself using the Club Marriott from The St. Regis Mumbai’s certificate offering a 30% off on The St. Regis Afternoon Tea. The experience let us indulge in exquisite creativity through the Art Tour and gave our taste buds a real sense of pleasure with a range of culinary snacks, desserts, a range of Indian teas and flavoured coffees. With an option to choose from over 10 brews, the tea service was quite impressive. I particularly liked the Darjeeling Secind Flush paired with freshly baked raisin scones with homemade preserve and clotted cream.

Club Marriott’s latest offering in the city also gives its members guest list access to highest night club in Mumbai. Set on the 37th floor, XXO lets one enjoy a panoramic view of South Mumbai & Arabian Sea with the city’s elite crowd till 3:00 am. Now I’m on the hunt for the perfect occasion to be celebrated with this one of a kind experience.

I can’t wait to experience all that this membership has to offer throughout the coming year including up to a 50% off at the restaurants, celebration cakes and wines, room night stays at the hotel, a room upgrade, access to the Athletic Club, a 15% off at the Iridium Spa and more.

Club Marriott’s got great news for members across the country. Members can now enjoy a 15% off across 9 food and beverage venues and a 10% off on the Best Available Rate on the base category of rooms at The St. Regis Mumbai.

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The Westin Kolkata Rajarhat opened its doors to guests in 2017. With the opening of The Westin Kolkata Rajarhat, Kolkata welcomes its first Westin property in the heart of the business city. Operated by hotel giant, Marriott International, the hotel is the second Marriott hotel in the city.

Committed to The Westin’s focus on well being, The Westin Kolkata Rajarhat emphasises on wellness through specially dedicated programs. For instance, the Run Westin program, highlights running trail in the vicinity and the Gear Lending Program takes care of fitness gear.

The Westin Kolkata Rajarhat also brings Westin’s signature dining experience to the city for the first time ever. Overlooking the city landscape, Seasonal Tastes’s global menu is well designed using super foods like avocado, wild salmon, walnuts, apples, soy and oats.

The Westin Kolkata Rajarhat is making it’s way to be a part of the Club Marriott program. It will give members the opportunity to avail lucrative dining, stay and lifestyle discounts.

Club Marriott has curated an unimaginable ensemble of benefits for members to be availed at The Westin Kolkata Rajarhat and a range of Marriott properties across India and other parts of Asia Pacific. Set to launch in August 2018, the program will bring the following benefits to it’s members and more :

• 30% off on the Food and Beverage bill up to a maximum of twenty (20) guests on a table.
• 20% off on select services at the Salon and the Spa.
• 20% off on the Best Available Rate on the base category of rooms.
• Member’s Day on Wednesdays – Avail a 50% off on the total food bill and a 30% off on the total beverage bill up to a maximum of eight (8) guests at Seasonal Tastes.
• One (1) certificate entitling the Bearer to a 100% off on a buffet lunch or dinner for two (2) guests at Seasonal Tastes
• One (1) certificate entitling the Bearer to a 100% off on a one night stay in the base category of rooms.
• Two (2) certificates entitling the Member to a 50% off on select therapy treatments at the Spa.

Enrol yourself in the newest loyalty program in Kolkata and open the door to a range of benefits to enhance your lifestyle.

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Over the past year I’ve thoroughly enjoyed using my Club Marriott membership at JW Marriott Hotel Bengaluru. Complimentary meals, stays and kid’s centred activities, they’ve got it all. Not just JW Marriott Hotel Bengaluru, the membership also lets me enjoy a couple of benefits during my weekend stay at the near by Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel.

Having used my card a decent amount, I knew it could be trusted while planning an international trip as well. I logged onto the Club Marriott website to check their participating hotels in Australia and the number of benefits offered there. The website mentioned 16 participating hotels in Australia with the following available benefits:

• Up to a 20% off on the food and beverage bill at the restaurants for up to a maximum of ten (10) guests. Savings on premium wines and spirits at select hotels.
• Up to a 20% off on the Weekend Best Available Rates.

Our travel itinerary included Sydney, Gold Coast and Melbourne, and luckily enough we found a participating Marriott hotel at each of our destinations where the Club Marriott discounts were available.

We spent a total of 2 weekends in Australia and were able to avail the 20% discount on the Best Available Rate on rooms on both occasions. Keeping that aside, we got a 20% on each meal we consumed at the hotels and let me tell you that this accounted for a huge part of our total saving.

The benefits we availed during our trip were far more valuable than the card itself. I’m so glad to have purchased the membership in the first place and then to have planned my trip ‘Down Under’ with it.

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10 years! My wife and I completed a milestone in our marriage and planned a special staycation to celebrate our special day. We bought the Club Marriott membership and headed to the JW Marriott Mumbai Juhu. Here’s a rundown of the amazing benefits we availed during our staycation and you can too!

1. Complimentary room night stay – Level 3 of the Club Marriott membership at JW Marriott Mumbai Juhu got us a free room night stay in a Suite. It possibly had the greatest view one could get while sitting by a window in a hotel room – a view of the hotel’s pool, palm trees and the infinite beach. It was a view worth a million bucks. Staying in a Suite came with extra perks like access to the Executive Lounge, where we enjoyed several conversations while we sipped martinis and binged on finger food.
2. Lunch for two at Lotus Café – With a choice between Indian, Italian and Asian, we enjoyed one of the best buffets in Mumbai at absolutely no cost. With views of the blooming lotus pond, our complimentary buffet lunch was nothing short of scrumptious. The membership also got us a 30% discount for all our other meals at other restaurants of the hotel – Dashanzi, Mezzo Mezzo and Saffron.
3. Complimentary Wine – On the day of our anniversary, we decided to dress up and go to Dashazi for a romantic meal where the Club Marriott membership card entitled us to a 30% off on the total food & beverage bill. We ordered the vegetarian dimsum basket to get the most of their overwhelming dimsum menu of over 15 kinds. To top the already decadent meal, I used the certificate offering a complimentary bottle of house wine to surprise my wife and to raise a toast to the wonderful life we’ve spent together.
4. 50% off at the Spa – No staycation is complete without a relaxing massage. Quan Spa is one of the better spas in Mumbai, using two off the five certificates available at the Spa, we got one 60 minute full body massage each. Our spa certificates helped us both get massages for the price of one.

This is all we could pack in our one day short trip. However, there is so much more the Club Marriott membership offers at the hotel – 20% at the Salon and Bakery, 50% off on the laundry service, up to a 50% off on room rates and complimentary access to the pool and services at the Salon.

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My husband has had a Club Marriott membership issued by The Westin Gurgaon, New Delhi for some time now. The membership also came with a Club Marriott spouse card that I never thought much about. One day I was chatting with my husband, asking him to recommend a good place for me to host the next Kitty Party. He suggested The Westin Gurgaon and asked me to go through the bunch of certificates that came along with the membership. It’s only when I went through the certificate booklet that I discovered the 50% off on dining and 30% off on beverages certificate applicable on large tables, just ideal for our Kitty Party – the monthly girls only outings, cozy lunches and fun-filled evenings.

The Club Marriott membership was a hit in our group and we have tried to use it to get benefits at our successive Kitty lunches.

Tuesday is Club Marriott Member’s Day and the hotel offers a 50% discount on dining. We had used all certificates offering discounts on large tables and was not hosting the next Kitty anyway, however my membership card worked and got a discount on our food and beverage bill. As I sat there enjoying my time with my friends, I noticed that the restaurant had a few other Kitty Party groups as well, possibly enjoying the same Club Marriott benefits. It seemed as though we had adopted the trend of using a membership card for a Kitty very late.

Once we started using the membership for our Kitties there was no looking back!

Once we started using the membership for our Kitties there was no looking back! We planned a weekend Kitty Getaway in Jaipur, the room benefits worked wonderfully well at the new JW Marriott. What a wonderful hotel! We had an absolutely relaxing and indulgent weekend.

We have already used the card to get discounts at the JW Marriott @ Aerocity and Le Méridien New Delhi. We are now planning to use the card at Le Méridien Gurgaon. So many hotels and one card. It offers incomparable experiences at multiple hotels and does not cost that much either. We even recovered the membership fee by the discounts we got on our 1st lunch. Go, get one for yourself too.

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It was time for one of my closest friends to get married and I had the most difficult task of finding the perfect wedding gift for him. I was sure that I wanted to get something that both of them could enjoy instead of something for their house or a gift item just for him.

I racked my brain to think of the best gifting options and zeroed in on a hotel membership. My friends are fond of good food, good wine and good travel, hence there couldn’t have been a better gift for them considering their lifestyle. I thought each time they used the membership, they will spend time together, enjoy the luxury hotel experience and will have a lot of good memories thanks to my gift. And it worked.

I asked a few other friends who frequently visit hotels to help me choose one membership from all the loyalty programs available in the market. The recommendations made it clear that I should pick a membership that is close to their home. They stay in Powai and the finest hotel complex near by was the Renaissance Mumbai, hence the answer was simple, the highly recommended Club Marriott membership. This is the food and beverage loyalty card from Marriott offering benefits at more than 250 Marriott hotels with over 1,000 restaurants across Asia Pacific.

Club Marriott membership is the most thoughtful gift for any occasion. It’s like gifting people a year long of memories they can cherish forever

I got them the membership from Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel fetching them a complimentary room stay, buffet breakfast, buffet lunch or dinner, chocolate cake, a bottle of House Wine and a huge line up of other discounted services. Due to the proximity to their home, I was hoping they’d be able to get full use of the membership benefits through frequent visits. Besides the Renaissance, Mumbai has four other gorgeous Marriott hotels at which participating hotel discounts can be availed – The Westin Mumbai Garden City, JW Marriott Mumbai Sahar, JW Marriott Mumbai Juhu and Courtyard Mumbai. If I’m not mistaken, the participating hotel benefits offer up to a 20% discount on accommodation and a 20% on the food and beverage bill.

Unlike most cards, the Club Marriott membership is valid across Asia Pacific. My friends had lined up a few travel plans to Australia and New Zealand soon after their wedding and were able to avail a 20% discount on their food and beverage bill and room stay during their visit as well as a 20% discount on weekend leisure rates at some Marriott hotels.

It was only after my friends came back from their travel did they tell me about the membership helping them cut a deal throughout their trips and how thankful they were for the gift. Now they are planning a trip to Goa with Club Marriott. It seems like the membership will take them through the 1st year of their wedding.

Not just for weddings, but I believe that the Club Marriott membership is the most thoughtful gift for any occasion. It’s like gifting people a year long of memories they can cherish forever.

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Marriott is a very big name in the hotel business and after the Starwood acquisition it has become the largest hotel company in the world. In India too, it is now the largest hotel company by number of rooms. Encompassing a staggering portfolio of 30 international brands, Marriott caters to a wide spectrum of customer profiles and preferences. Marriott recently launched the new Club Marriott membership in India and Asia Pacific. Now combined with the Eat Drink and More membership of the erstwhile Starwood Hotels, the new Club Marriott membership is now even more powerful and beneficial to its Members.

Being able to use one card across a select portfolio of Marriott hotels across Asia Pacific, such as JW Marriott, Renaissance Hotels, Courtyard by Marriott, Westin, Sheraton and Le Méridien among others was something that caught my attention in an instant. Hence, I got my first Club Marriott membership to see what the hype was about.

Club Marriott brings more joy to all on special occasion, birthdays, anniversaries and other celebration worthy moments. It allows you to the make the most of every moment without burning a hole in the pocket.

Having used the membership for a while now, I can say that with Club Marriott, Marriott Hotels is truly creating a pool of loyal customers and rewarding them for their loyalty through offers at over 250 of their hotels across Asia Pacific. I mean, up to a 20% off on the food and beverage bill and accommodation each time one dines or stays at one of these hotels is a pretty smooth deal.

I was wondering if this membership that I bought from a friendly, neighbourhood Marriott hotel gives me so many benefits and absolute value for money, why should I visit another hotel in the city at all? Just to list down a few benefits for any one looking out; a 30% off on food and beverage for up to a table of 20 guests each time you dine, group dining certificates offering up to a 50% off on food and beverage, lifestyle certificates offering limited but an interesting use of the spa, health club and pool. However, the cherry on the cake is really the free room night stay it offers for the perfect staycation.

I think this membership brings more joy to all on special occasion, birthdays, anniversaries and other celebration worthy moments. It allows you to the make the most of every moment without burning a hole in the pocket.

Club Marriott truly stands by its tagline ‘we bring more to the table’. Club Marriott comes at a basic fee and offers far more than the card value throughout the membership year.

You can check them out at www.hotelmemberships.com or at www.clubmarriott.in and get yourself a membership from your next door Marriott hotel. It’s worth every penny.

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