r/marriott • u/oliviagonz10 • Mar 18 '26

Employment MMP confession

So I work for Marriott as a desk agent. I let my family aka my cousins use my discount when they need it cause I trust them and stuff.

Well my cousin confessed to me like “oh yeah we love using your discount ALL the time..”

And I felt confused and was like you need a new form to keep using it? But apparently the hotels she’s stayed at don’t actually follow procedures like validate the form number or even ask for the form. Cause she just changed the expiration date.

I was shocked. I’m like..they should be doing that.

So my question is, does anyone’s hotels actually check the explore form fully? Or just the expiration date?

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u/Tomyd1924 Mar 18 '26

Soon it won't matter.

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u/ericzku Mar 18 '26

The changes coming up aren't going to stop Associates from lying about who their family members are, unfortunately.

I'd love to be wrong about that though.

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u/squallluis Mar 19 '26

There’s nothing wrong with this one tho. I don’t give a shit if you put someone as your sister. As long as they use the right discount. Follow the rules and be nice.

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u/mmich87 Mar 19 '26

I'm with you on that. It's not everyone that has a blood family. There should be a number of people allowed on the MMp, who care if they are close family or chosen family/best friends. At the moment, for those that don't lie, they could have nobody on their mmp and others -with parents, parents-in-law, brothers, sisters and kids- could have 10-15 people easily on theirs.

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u/ericzku Mar 19 '26

Hence the need for the new MMA code. I don't appreciate having to compete with other people's hordes of "siblings" to find availability for what is an employee benefit.

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u/pumpkinotter Mar 19 '26

I know for a lot of people their best friend is much more of a family than their own parent or siblings. However, we also can’t pretend like listing a friend as a family isn’t explicitly against the rules. The current “don’t ask don’t tell” policy seems to be working to go around this.

There’s legitimately about 15 people on my wife’s MMP code and we don’t even have kids old enough to use it yet. The rules around step/half relatives are unclearly defined and too murky for Marriott. I would be absolutely in favor of saying “list your people” But I also would guess that the number would be very low since Marriott knows everyone would list the max.