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IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW REWARD BOOKINGS WORK BEFORE YOU TRANSACT.

1.   Marriott certificates can be used for any reservation that can be booked with points. To search for reward availability simply go to marriott.com and check the box to search "using points".
Marriott hotels are divided into categories. (Cheapest being category one)

What room types can you book?
You can book any STANDARD room that's available at marriott.com using reward points with no cap on the number of points. (standard room means it not an upgraded room. Every hotel lists their rooms differently, In some hotels, the standard room may even include suites)
To check, go to marriott.com and search for rooms. Make sure to check the option "Use Points/Certificates".

If it says:
Redemption - You can book that room no matter how many points it is
Redemption with Cash Upgrade - You can book however, the cert will cover the basic portion you will need to pay the additional cash upgrade fee.
Redemption with Points Upgrade - You cannot book using a certificate

2.   There are a few different types of certificates. Seven/five night certificates are the hotel portion of "Marriott travel packages" that the owner does not want or need anymore (google Marriott packages to learn more about them). Individuals many times buy these packages just to receive the airline miles and don’t end up using the hotel portion of the package. There are also single night certs given to account holders for holding a Marriott brand credit card

3.   A 7/5night-night certificate must be used for 7 consecutive nights. The reservation cannot be split up.

4.   In order to hold the room, you need a credit card. Your card will be kept for incidentals and you won't be charged for the room.

5.   MUST be booked BOOK 30 Days in Advance. THIS IS A TECHNICAL GLITCH WHICH MARRIOTT CLAIMS TO BE FIXING, HOWEVER, ITS MORE THAN A YEAR THAT THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE. In order to book with a certificate, reps must create the reservation as a points advance and then attach the cert. Marriott recently made a new rule that reservations made within 30 days aren’t eligible for points advance. If the account, you are booking with has enough points to cover the reservation you can book it as regular points and have the rep detach the points and attach the certificate.

6.   Travel package certs must be booked over the phone. Single night certs can be booked online

7.   The certificate sits on the account holders account and the elite night credits are officially credited to them. There is no way to transfer those stays to your account.

8.   If you are the traveler do not call Marriott reservations. This reservation is in someone else's account and calling may result in his/her account getting audited and the reservation canceled.

9.   The certificate covers the cost of the reservation including tax but does NOT include any resort fees, parking, and incidentals (for example food charged to the room)

10.   It's not possible to entirely remove the certificate owner from the reservation but your name is added as a secondary guest and a special code is added (M8 code) to inform the hotel that this reservation is in fact gifted to you. The hotels are very much aware of this.

You should be able to check-in as you would to a regular reservation with your own ID. You will need to provide a credit card to cover any incidentals, resort fees, and parking fees if there are any.

11.   You cannot add your Marriott account number to the reservation and generally, the hotel will go by the status on our account (which may be silver or gold at the time of check-in) however, it depends very much on the front desk rep at the time of check-in

12. Certs cannot be combined - e.g. you can't combine two 35k certificates to book a 60k room.

13. The "free fifth night" only applies to points bookings, not certificates.

See post #5805 for a history of bid/ask on these 1/5/7 night certificates of different levels
« Last edited by David61 on November 16, 2022, 12:09:46 PM »

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2420 on: October 16, 2018, 01:56:33 PM »
How do you downgrade it?
It used to work with the old travel pkgs. I thought i remember someone saying it still ca be done, Maybe i'm making a mistake

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2421 on: October 16, 2018, 01:57:05 PM »
It used to work with the old travel pkgs. I thought i remember someone saying it still ca be done, Maybe i'm making a mistake
I thought it can’t. Someone let us know

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2422 on: October 16, 2018, 02:40:43 PM »
thank you @aedo! very smooth transaction!

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2423 on: October 16, 2018, 02:51:43 PM »
BUYING - One 7-night Cat 6, $1200 OBO. will consider cat 7 please PM your offer.

BUYING - One 5-night Cat 5 or below. Please PM offers. (will consider 7-night cert offers as well)

For use in late November - early December 2018.

I'm still looking! are people holding out on selling their cert because of pricing uncertainty?

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2424 on: October 16, 2018, 03:25:08 PM »
looking to  by category 6 - 7 nights to be used in December. Pm me

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2425 on: October 16, 2018, 03:26:08 PM »
I'm still looking! are people holding out on selling their cert because of pricing uncertainty?
or maybe because you are low balling them

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2426 on: October 16, 2018, 03:54:05 PM »
I'm still looking! are people holding out on selling their cert because of pricing uncertainty?

you offer is pretty lowball on a category 6 cert for 7 nights..  doubt anyone will see you at that price

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2427 on: October 16, 2018, 07:13:30 PM »
or maybe because you are low balling them

you offer is pretty lowball on a category 6 cert for 7 nights..  doubt anyone will see you at that price

What's the price point for a 7-night cat 6 now? or what's a more reasonable asking ?

$1200 is what i paid back in April 2018 for the same hotel.

thanks!

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2428 on: October 16, 2018, 08:30:21 PM »
What's the price point for a 7-night cat 6 now? or what's a more reasonable asking ?

$1200 is what i paid back in April 2018 for the same hotel.

thanks!
well the sellers are selling for $1700 and the buyers are buying for $1200 so probably somewhere in the middle.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2429 on: October 16, 2018, 09:10:50 PM »
I'm currently staying in Tokyo cat6, bought St $1200 too, but it was back then, point are harder to get as can't buy from spg anymore and it uses more points to redeem now.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2430 on: October 16, 2018, 10:10:57 PM »
Any offers at $1300?  :)



BUYING - One 7-night Cat 6, $1300 OBO. will consider cat 7 please PM your offer.

BUYING - One 5-night Cat 5 or below. Please PM offers. (will consider 7-night cert offers as well)

For use in late November - early December 2018.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2431 on: October 16, 2018, 10:44:30 PM »
Buying cat 1-4 or 1-5 night x 2. $80 for 1-4 and $120 for 1-5

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2432 on: October 16, 2018, 11:24:43 PM »
What's the price point for a 7-night cat 6 now? or what's a more reasonable asking ?

$1200 is what i paid back in April 2018 for the same hotel.

thanks!
Prices should only have gone up, because u cant get new certs. and u can't upgrade existing ones....
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2433 on: October 16, 2018, 11:31:53 PM »
Prices should only have gone up, because u cant get new certs. and u can't upgrade existing nes....
But conversion was worse than expected...

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2434 on: October 17, 2018, 12:00:26 AM »
But conversion was worse than expected...
That's true, but doesn't take away the fact that there is still a limit. Not than anytime a certificate is needed, the buyer/broker just went ahead and bought/upgraded a cert.

Also as far as I understand, most people that speculated, bought the lowest cert. could be i'm wrong, but there is much more of that one, and not so many of the higher certs.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2435 on: October 17, 2018, 01:41:55 AM »
looking for 2 nights at a CAT 6. 10/22-10/24. $150 per night obo

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2436 on: October 17, 2018, 01:45:50 AM »
looking for 2 nights at a CAT 6. 10/22-10/24. $150 per night obo

whats with your pricing requests?

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2437 on: October 17, 2018, 01:56:14 AM »
whats with your pricing requests?

I don't know what's the rate is for a night at cat 6. that's why i put OBO

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2438 on: October 17, 2018, 06:58:59 AM »
I don't know what's the rate is for a night at cat 6. that's why i put OBO
How about 50k points x .6 = 300?

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2439 on: October 17, 2018, 08:00:53 AM »
Selling my 7 night category 6 cert. 1550 obo.