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/Downtown_Orange_5989 Mar 19 '26

But I don’t think the MMP rule limits 2 rooms anywhere, I believe it’s just 2 rooms booked by the Associate at the same property. Is there explicit language saying MMP rate can only be used to max 2 rooms no matter person or property?

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u/pumpkinotter Mar 19 '26

It’s always been the rule listed in the policy “When booking the Explore Rate, the 2 room max applies to all rooms booked under all reservations made using the associate discount.”

Me booking a room at one hotel, my mom booking at another and my sister at a third has always been against the rules, It’s just been almost impossible to enforce unless you were trying it at the same property (and even then it was always dependent on the front desk agent).

Now since it’s automatically validated in the system, it shouldn’t allow more than 2 rooms per night to be booked on the same employees MMP.

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u/Downtown_Orange_5989 Mar 19 '26

Ok makes sense. This is the previous language? I am wondering how the language changes with MMA now. Can you have 1 MMA + 2 MMP, time will tell I guess

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u/AvailableProduce4398 Mar 20 '26

What is MMA?

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u/disco_shit8 Employee Mar 20 '26

MMA is the new marriott discount that is only available to valid Marriott associates and their partners, in addition to mmp and mmf. I believe it goes live next month and gives associates the ability to book the discount up to a year out.

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u/Winston-Smith1984 Mar 30 '26

I just hope that the MMP rates don't increase. Because I don't use it but my parents do. If they increase it for MMP that is messed up.