You know that jar of loose change you’ve been collecting for a rainy day? Now you can take those coins to a Coinstar Kiosk to exchange them for a voucher to use at any Marriott worldwide — without having to pay an additional coin-counting fee.
Coinstar has added the Marriott eTravelCard as an option when you redeem your lose change. If you opt for the eTravelCard, instead of doing the traditional cash payout, you’ll get to skip the coin counting fee and get the full value to apply to your hotel stay. Best of all, the Marriott eTravelCard never expires.
When saving for our most recent Disneyland trips, my family collected coins in a jar as a way to show my 4-year-old son that it takes a lot of money to pay for a Disneyland trip. Every time we had some lose change, we would call it “Disneyland Money” and have him add it to the jar. We eventually cashed in the coins using the Coinstar at our local grocery store and used the money to buy him a special souvenir during the trip.
Now that the Marriott eTravelCard is an option, this is a great way to literally save your pennies each week to pay for your trip. And best of all, you won’t have to hand count all that change. Coinstar does all the work for you.
