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Worst Loyalty programme (Bonvoy) and Customer Care ever
I spent months contacting Bonvoy’s customer care via email. When I finally got a reply, I felt I was talking to people who clearly did not Listen and did not Care. My points are expiring at the end of the year and I wanted to understand if it was possible to extend them as I am not able to travel due to Covid (I am in a risk category). I wanted to get more time before I can start using the points, I got for spending a lot of money in their hotels. I was told if I didn’t book, I’d lose my points. Customer Care via email was pretty bad, so I called them and made a complaint. I was told 5 days for a reply but after one month and 2 email reminders …. Nothing Today I called again (UK number advertised does not work) I had to talk to 3 people to get hold of the right number. One of them refused to help me. He was the rudest person I ever met. He simply did not care about me, kept on shouting on me and refused to transfer me to the Bonvoy team. He even refused to hang up so that I could give some feedback over the phone. Finally he transferred me so that I could not leave some feedback about the service. The third person finally transferred my to someone claiming to be a manager (but in his email signature he was no manager). He apologised for not replying to my emails and with a very defiant tone he told me that ‘Marriott had been very generous in extending my points for the last 2 years’ and that the lockdown was over and I could have travelled (even if I explained I was in a risk category). Then I pointed out that the extension was because of the lockdown so he slightly changed his tone and told me I ONLY had to spend around $12 dollars to extend my points and that this was very generous of Marriott …. again I then asked to put all this on an email, and he did this time but the email was very different. In the email, the pseudo manager said that I had misunderstood him and anyone I spoke to. He also told me that I should have read the terms and conditions of their ‘loyalty’ programme before applying or complaining about it (as if Covid was my choice). All this shows how disconnected from reality Marriott Bonvoy is and how little their Customer Care really cares about guests. Maybe screaming to customers, interrupting us, telling us that we are lucky their company extended our points during lockdown … is how they ‘care’

