Win $10,000, Pizza For A Year Or Free Trips From These Travel Contests

21.02.2024 - 16:09 / forbes.com / Marriott Bonvoy

Everyone loves a good deal, but the best promotions in travel are the ones that are free. If you’re planning to take a trip that you booked during recent Valentine’s Day getaway offers, or just want to try your luck. These travel-related contests and giveaways could have you on the road in no time.

As the official hotel partner of the NCAA and the 2024 March Madness tournament, Marriott Bonvoy is launching a Score Big with Marriott Bonvoy Game Day Rituals contest. Through March 11, Marriott Bonvoy members can enter on the contest website where they can share their favorite game day rituals, no matter how eccentric they are. One fan and a guest will win an special experience at the Women’s Final Four tournament in Cleveland plus flights, transportation, hotel stay, courtside seats, and food and beverage vouchers. The tickets are for the Semi Final and Championship games plus to experience a game day rituals session with women's college basketball coach Sydney Carter. Even if you don’t win, you can use Marriott points to bid on similar experiences via Marriott Bonvoy Moments.

Days Inn by Wyndham is launching a first-of-its-kind competition to find its version of interns during the solar eclipse. These solar “sun-terns” will receive $10,000 for their time while getting the opportunity to capture the solar eclipse from a helicopter. The brand is leaning into this solar event because it has more than 260 Days Inn hotels within the path of totality. These include properties from Niagara Falls to San Antonio.

Sharing their experience via social media, the winner will also receive a paid hotel room for two guests, photography course from an expert, a travel stipend to cover flights, food and ground transportation, and branded swag. Best of all, the winner will get instant Diamond status within the Wyndham Rewards program. Enter by visiting the contest website before March 5, and submit a 200 word essay about why this is exciting to you plus a photo example of your past work. Finally, a photo of you with your travel partner could seal the deal to “ten grand.”

In honor of National Pizza Day, which took place earlier this month, one lucky winner will score a free pizza each week for an entire year. It’s not just any old pie, it’s “apizza,” the term used in New Haven, Connecticut (home to some of the country’s best pizza) to refer to the dough that has been fermented and charred for smoky flavor notable in its chewy, coal-fired crust. Enter before Feb. 29 by following @InfoNewHaven and @CTbites on Instagram and liking and tagging a friend on the contest posts. For a bonus entry, share a post to their story and tag both brands. The winner receives a year’s worth of apizza from local New Haven pizzerias, two