A Guide To Marriott BreakAway Program

Marriott has relationships with many businesses around the world to offer corporate rates, benefits, and other perks to convince them to stay at a Marriott property. Marriott is one of the largest hotel programs in the world so it’s no secret they want to lure business travelers and reward loyalty with their Bonvoy program.

Typically Marriott corporate benefits are only available when the employee is actually traveling on business. However, this new program is designed to build on it even further. Introducing the Marriott BreakAway Program, designed for employees of businesses when they travel for leisure.

Marriott BreakAway Program Benefits

With this new program Marriott is offering substantial discounts on leisure travel to top global partners. Most notably Marriott is offering 30% off standard rates as the main benefit to the BreakAway program. Here are all the benefits Marriott is offering.

• Up to 30% off standard rates
• Rates good for travel between Thursdays and Sundays
• Friday or Saturday night stay required
• Some resorts offer discounts midweek without weekend stay restrictions
• Choose from participating hotels across our portfolio of 30 brands and 7,200 hotels around the world
• Hotels stays are eligible for Marriott Bonvoy™ points and Elite status

Marriott BreakAway Program Code

In order to receive the rate you will need to search with the code “XML” on Marriott Bonvoy website.

Here are some of the rates we found when searching with the code.

At the W London we found a rate of £445 compared to the normal of £470. Not exactly that great of a discount at a mere 6%.

At the Westin Rome we found a similar discount with the BreakAway Program offering €279 compared to average of €295.

While we didn’t have great luck finding discounts the dates you travel will make the most impact. Also note some hotels require you to stay on a Friday or Saturday so make sure to alter your dates if you are not finding availability.

Marriott BreakAway Participating Companies

Not all companies that have corporate rates with Marriott participate in the Breakaway program. However, a substantial number of them do. We have listed all companies in the list below.

Summary & Takeaways

It’s nice to see Marriott continue to reward business travelers even when they are not traveling for business. It shows the brands commitment to their business partners and we expect this was asked for by many travelers that want a corporate rate when traveling for leisure.

We will continue to keep an eye on Marriott’s business traveler offering for changes and improvements. This is a good start to still getting a better rate if you work for an affiliated company.