Marriott Bonvoy is the largest hotel group around the world with over 8,000 properties. Marriott Bonvoy has partnered with American Express to offer two credit cards in Canada:
In our couple, each having business expenses and being frequent travelers, it made sense for us to each subscribe to the Marriott Bonvoy® Business American Express®* Card. Explanations!
The Marriott Bonvoy® Business American Express®* Card is the best credit card for travelling self-employed professionals and small business owners.
With this welcome offer, you can earn 60,000 Marriott Bonvoy points by spending $5,000 in the first 3 months after joining.
It’s a Card we recommend keeping because each year at renewal, you get an Annual Free Night Award (for up to 35,000 points at hotels worldwide) and 15 Elite Night Credits per year, counting towards your Marriott Bonvoy Elite status.
With this Card, you earn 5 points per dollar on all purchases at Marriott Bonvoy properties. And you can earn 3 points per dollar for:
And 2 points per dollar on all other purchases.
Like all American Express Canada Cards, there is no minimum income requirement.
The welcome bonus is enough to give you several free nights at Marriott Bonvoy hotels.
For us, it was a way to top up our Marriott Bonvoy points account. As a result, we were able to take advantage of free nights at the Al Maha Hotel, a Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa, Dubai!
Read this article to discover the best destination ideas using your Marriott Bonvoy points!
Unlike the personal version which has only 2 purchase categories, our Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express Card has a 3rd category allowing us to earn 3 Marriott Bonvoy points per dollar on:
Most travel agencies, gas stations and restaurants in major cities accept American Express. And even several IGAs!
Add to that all the other purchases a company can make! On our side, for example :
For everything else, we use our Marriott Bonvoy® Business American Express®* Card on PaySimply to pay other suppliers.
Some of our PaySimply expenses:
In short, you can earn a lot of Marriott Bonvoy points through expenses that you would have had to make anyway. Either with another card or worse… by check.
We stay very regularly at Marriott Bonvoy Group hotels and use our Marriott Bonvoy® Business American Express®* Card to pay for these stays (when we’re not using our points).
By doing so, you earn 5 Marriott Bonvoy points per dollar! And this applies to any spending made in a Marriott Bonvoy-owned establishment:
So by using your Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express Card to pay for them, you too could earn 5 Marriott Bonvoy points per dollar!
These points are in addition to the points you earn for being a member of the Marriott Bonvoy loyalty program and based on your status. For example, with Titanium Elite status, I earn 75% more points.
Each year, our Marriott Bonvoy® Business American Express®* Card provides us with a 15 elite nights credit to our Marriott Bonvoy account.
With this, one immediately obtains the Silver Elite status, which gives the right to :
Also, these 15 elite nights allow us to advance more quickly to the next status. As a result, only 10 nights (25 nights) are required to achieve Gold Elite status.
Gold Elite status includes :
Or Platinum Elite status – only 35 nights left in the year (50 nights total).
With Platinum Elite status, you benefit from a host of advantages, including :
Six to eight weeks after the anniversary date of the American Express card account, we get a certificate for a free night. It is deposited directly into our Marriott Bonvoy account.
This certificate can be exchanged for a free night worth up to 35,000 points. What’s more, you can combine up to 15,000 points to get a free night worth up to 50,000 points.
Used properly, this certificate can represent several hundred dollars!
Take a look at what we were able to get recently during a trip to Europe. A 4-star hotel on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice that would have cost more than C$500 a night!
Did you know? The annual fee for your corporate credit card is considered a “management and administration fee“.
So they can be deducted from your return on line 8871, if you use your Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express Card for business expenses!
Don’t hesitate to consult your tax advisor!
This card is not exclusively reserved for executives of large companies.
In fact, as long as you have an activity that generates income or business expenses, you may be eligible for this card.
This is the case, for example, for professionals or self-employed workers who declare their business income and expenses in their annual personal income tax return to Revenu Québec or the Canada Revenue Agency.
Read our detailed article on American Express cards for the self-employed and SMEs.
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We could add to all this the range of benefits offered to American Express members (such as Front of the Line), regular promotional offers – now available online – or even the travel insurance offered by the card.
In short, all these reasons make the Marriott BonvoyMD Business American ExpressMD* Card, in our opinion, the best credit card for professionals, self-employed workers or SMEs in Canada!
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