Here’s how Marriott Bonvoy members will earn and be rewarded at Sonder hotels and apartments
The world’s largest hotel company continues to think outside the box of its traditional brands.
Last year, Marriott International announced a partnership with Sonder Holdings — a short-term rental platform of apartment-style residential units largely in major cities. The deal encompasses more than 10,500 rooms and is a major boost to Marriott’s overall growth, as well as expansion beyond traditional hotel stays. The new offering will fall under the new “Sonder by Marriott Bonvoy” brand.
Thousands of Sonder rooms joined the Marriott system in 2024, and roughly 1,500 more rooms are in the Sonder development pipeline. Sonder operates apartment-style developments and smaller boutique hotels across North America, Europe and the Middle East.
Marriott Bonvoy members are now able to earn and redeem points on stays at roughly 200 Sonder properties as part of early access to the program integration. However, full integration across Marriott’s digital platforms won’t come until later this year.
Earn Marriott points and elite night credits at Sonder hotels
Marriott Bonvoy members can earn points, elite night credits and bonus points if they book off the Sonder website and add their Marriott Bonvoy number to the reservation before completing it. As of March 2025, the Bonvoy terms and conditions show the following benefits:
Sonder hotels
- Earn 10 Marriott Bonvoy points per dollar spent on a nightly room rate.
- Earn one elite night credit per qualifying night.
Sonder apartments
- Earn 5 Marriott Bonvoy points per dollar spent on a nightly room rate.
- Earn one elite night credit per qualifying night.
Elite status benefits
Silver Elite
- Ultimate Reservation Guarantee
- 10% Marriott Bonvoy elite bonus points on qualifying charges
- Priority late checkout (based on availability)
Gold Elite
- Ultimate Reservation Guarantee
- 25% Marriott Bonvoy elite bonus points on qualifying charges
- Elite welcome gift of 500 Marriott Bonvoy points per stay
- Complimentary 2 p.m. late checkout (based on availability)
- Enhanced room upgrades (based on availability)
Platinum Elite
- Ultimate Reservation Guarantee
- 50% Marriott Bonvoy elite bonus points on qualifying charges
- Complimentary 4 p.m. late checkout (subject to availability, with a 2 p.m. late checkout guarantee for stays at Sonder apartments)
- Elite welcome gift of 1,000 Marriott Bonvoy points per stay
- Enhanced room upgrades (based on availability)
- Dedicated elite support
Titanium Elite
- Ultimate Reservation Guarantee
- 75% Marriott Bonvoy elite bonus points on qualifying charges
- Complimentary 4 p.m. late checkout (subject to availability, with a 2 p.m. late checkout guarantee for stays at Sonder apartments)
- Elite welcome gift of 1,000 Marriott Bonvoy points per stay
- Enhanced room upgrades (based on availability)
- Dedicated elite support
- 48-hour guaranteed availability (applies to standard rooms only at Sonder apartments)
Ambassador Elite
- Ultimate Reservation Guarantee
- 75% Marriott Bonvoy elite bonus points on qualifying charges
- Complimentary 4 p.m. late checkout (subject to availability, with a 2 p.m. late checkout guarantee for stays at Sonder apartments)
- Elite welcome gift of 1,000 Marriott Bonvoy points per stay
- Enhanced room upgrades (based on availability)
- Dedicated elite support
- 48-hour guaranteed availability (applies to standard rooms only at Sonder apartments)
- Your24 flexible check-in and checkout benefit
- Ambassador service
Marriott Bonvoy members looking to redeem points for a Sonder stay need to book through Sonder’s call center at 1-415-849-2740. The ability to do this through Marriott’s own booking channels will arrive early next year when full Sonder integration is expected to be completed.
Where Sonder fits into the Marriott Bonvoy ecosystem
When the partnership was first announced, it was not made public whether Sonder properties, which also appear as Airbnb listings for some units, would continue to list on other short-term rental booking channels following the Marriott integration.
Sonder joins a growing list of Marriott offerings geared toward longer-term stays that are a bit more upscale than its extended-stay brands like Residence Inn and Element. Marriott currently operates brands like Marriott Executive Apartments, Apartments by Marriott Bonvoy and Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy.
“Sonder has a digital-first operating model and is available exclusively in urban markets, which we expect to appeal largely to younger travelers,” a Marriott spokesperson said in a statement to TPG. “This model distinguishes it from Marriott’s current longer stay and apartment-style accommodations – such as Apartments by Marriott Bonvoy and Marriott Executive Apartments – but we see it as very complementary to these other brand offerings.”
Sonder would also be more of an urban-focused brand compared to Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy. But if you’re scratching your head as to why a hotel company like Marriott wants to get into the short-term rental business after the hotel industry fought so hard against entities like Airbnb, there’s a key differentiator here. Unlike Airbnb, Sonder operates its properties under long-term master lease agreements and registers them as hotels. Thus, it continued operating in New York City after the city’s Airbnb ban went into effect in 2023.
Consider this deal a continuation of the ongoing partnerships-over-mergers trend taking place in the industry, per a Bernstein report from August. The analysis shows how the Sonder-Marriott partnership is the latest in an ongoing partnership push like that of Hilton and Small Luxury Hotels of the World or Marriott and MGM Resorts International.
For travelers, that means more ways to earn and redeem points in new places, which is always a good thing.
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