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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 #4480 on: September 15, 2019, 10:02:53 AM »
Correct
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4481 on: September 15, 2019, 12:44:22 PM »
selling
1x cat 1-4 marriot 7 night cert exp 10/23/19
gold elite account
$525 OBO

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4482 on: September 15, 2019, 02:13:45 PM »
1 Marriott up to 40k certificate expiration 12/31/2019  from ambassdar account  $150

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4483 on: September 15, 2019, 02:18:07 PM »
1 Marriott up to 40k certificate expiration 12/31/2019  from ambassdar account  $150
Just FYI they are now worth a bit more. IMHO
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4484 on: September 15, 2019, 02:19:32 PM »
For Sale!
Gold Elite
Free Night (up to 50,000 points)
Exp. 8/5/2020
$250

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4485 on: September 15, 2019, 02:59:18 PM »
5 night cat 5
$900 OBO

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4486 on: September 15, 2019, 03:34:57 PM »
My Marriott points are expiring soon, if I book a room on points and cancel it, would it extend the life of my points?

It would not, I believe.
When you cancel and the system auto redeposit the points, the system actually goes into and revises the point deduction entry to show as zero point.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4487 on: September 15, 2019, 04:05:41 PM »
Correct

any way to avoid 3rd person fee (child)?

once you factor in parking, extra person fee, wifi, resort fee etc.... its tempting to not waste my points (50k/night on avg) and just use Airbnb instead.

tried to do a booking last night for HI and was shocked that I was getting hit with near an extra $100/night in add-ons.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4488 on: September 15, 2019, 04:25:47 PM »
any way to avoid 3rd person fee (child)?

once you factor in parking, extra person fee, wifi, resort fee etc.... its tempting to not waste my points (50k/night on avg) and just use Airbnb instead.

tried to do a booking last night for HI and was shocked that I was getting hit with near an extra $100/night in add-ons.
If there is a couch why disclose the 3rd person and why dont you just park off site, if that's possible.

I'm not cheap, but have done it many times, parked smack in front of hotel, faster then garage parking and didn't pay 50 for the convenience of parking 3 stories underground and walking up.
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4489 on: September 15, 2019, 05:13:29 PM »
5 night cat 5
$900 OBO

buying or selling

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4490 on: September 15, 2019, 06:54:00 PM »
Selling 1x 35k expiring 1/3/20 for $140 from Gold Elite account.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4491 on: September 15, 2019, 07:52:25 PM »


Selling Free night up to 40K points, from a Titanium Elite account - $190- Expires Dec 31, 2019.
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4492 on: September 15, 2019, 10:24:44 PM »
selling a 60k cert @$320

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4493 on: September 15, 2019, 11:51:39 PM »
Selling a 5 night cat 5
$900 OBO

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4494 on: September 16, 2019, 09:27:31 AM »
Bumping:
2x 35k nights - 10/22/2019 and 6/2/2020
-$125 OBO
2x 50k nights - 10/22/2019 and 12/24/2019
-$230 OBO

Gold Elite account

Willing to negotiate. These are already the lowest prices on here.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4495 on: September 16, 2019, 09:36:26 AM »
Selling a 5 night cat 5
$900 OBO



Way to expensive, I buy 7 nights at less than that.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4496 on: September 16, 2019, 10:53:10 AM »
Selling:

1 x 7-night Cat 1-4, expires 02/05/2020, silver account: $525

1 x 35k night, expires 07/02/2020, silver account: $135

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4497 on: September 16, 2019, 11:53:21 AM »
Selling 1-night 35k cert, expires 10/2, Platinum account for $135.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4498 on: September 16, 2019, 02:47:55 PM »
Selling 1-night 35k cert, expires 10/2, Platinum account for $135.
Sold at $125

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #4499 on: September 16, 2019, 08:35:30 PM »
Selling 1 35k night at $150 PM me -


$130  Expiring soon- can be booked for further date
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