Topic Wiki

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 »

Author Topic: Marriott Certs Sale  (Read 1649284 times)

Offline rivkyw

  • Dansdeals Silver Elite
  • **
  • Join Date: Mar 2012
  • Posts: 63
  • Total likes: 11
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: brooklyn
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5660 on: March 14, 2020, 10:58:18 PM »

For Sale

1- 7 night certificate category 1-5 Gold account
Expires March 2021 $924 OBO

1-7 night certificate category 1-4 Platinum account
Expires November 2020 $625
Please pm if interested

OBO  for consideration




bump

Offline JENinNORCAL

  • DansDeals Copper Elite
  • *
  • Join Date: Mar 2019
  • Posts: 20
  • Total likes: 3
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
  • Gender: Female
    • View Profile
  • Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5661 on: March 14, 2020, 11:20:15 PM »
BUMP: $240 if you buy both.

Just want to thank @cnn001 for working with me on having to cancel my cert stays due to my cruise getting canceled.  Great, upstanding seller and would love to do business again!  Thank you!!

Offline leeboy

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite + Lifetime Silver Elite
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2010
  • Posts: 501
  • Total likes: 41
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 1
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5662 on: March 15, 2020, 11:58:47 AM »
Selling Marriott Certs 7nights. No Status

Category 5 - $900
Category 6 - $1100
Category 7 - $1400
Category 8 - $1800

I have a few cat5 with short expiration may 30 and will sell at $800

Offline leeboy

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite + Lifetime Silver Elite
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2010
  • Posts: 501
  • Total likes: 41
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 1
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5663 on: March 16, 2020, 04:21:29 PM »
Loads of cancellations due to corona virus. If you are still willing to travel Selling reservations for $1k each OBO


Selling rooms
NYC st. Regis - 4/9/2020 -    4/16/2020
NYC st. Regis - 4/9/2020 -    4/16/2020
NYC st. Regis -03/30/2020 - 04/07/2020
NYC st. Regis -03/30/2020 - 04/07/2020
‐----‐--------
St Regis Bal Harbour- 4/7/2020   - 4/14/2020
St Regis Bal Harbour- 4/14/2020 -    4/19/2020
St Regi Bal Harbour       03/24/2020 - 03/31/2020
St Regi Bal Harbour       03/31/2020 - 04/07/2020
St Regi Bal Harbour       04/07/2020 - 04/14/2020
St Regi Bal Harbour       04/07/2020 - 04/14/2020
‐----‐--------
The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour,      03/19 - 03/26
The Ritz-Carlton Bal Harbour,      03/11 - 03/18
Ritz Carlton Bal Harbour      03/17/2020 - 03/24/2020
Ritz Carlton Bal Harbour      03/24/2020 - 03/31/2020

Offline yungermanchik

  • Dansdeals Presidential Platinum Elite
  • ********
  • Join Date: Nov 2018
  • Posts: 2667
  • Total likes: 2047
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
    • View Profile
  • Location: Previous Signatures: If you chapped hana'ah from a post, like it; You think you know the answers and things are the way they seem.. it just ain't so -The Rebbe from Lublin-
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5664 on: March 18, 2020, 08:46:39 AM »
email from marriott
Quote
I am pleased to share that all Marriott Bonvoy Members, except for those who reside in mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan, who have Free Night Awards as part of a credit card benefit and have an expiration date of March 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, will be extended through January 31, 2021. Please note that the revised expiration date reflected on your account by the end of April 2020.
Small people talk about other people.
Average people talk about things
BIG PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IDEAS.

Offline ah giten

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Oct 2015
  • Posts: 1976
  • Total likes: 391
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 6
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5665 on: March 18, 2020, 01:58:58 PM »
smooth transaction with @sniks
Thanks

Offline Danlover111

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Dec 2016
  • Posts: 1457
  • Total likes: 166
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: Jackson
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5666 on: March 22, 2020, 03:55:46 AM »
email from marriott
i have 2
Expires: 12/18/2020
Expires: 06/02/2020

do i have to email them to extend them?

Offline yungermanchik

  • Dansdeals Presidential Platinum Elite
  • ********
  • Join Date: Nov 2018
  • Posts: 2667
  • Total likes: 2047
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
    • View Profile
  • Location: Previous Signatures: If you chapped hana'ah from a post, like it; You think you know the answers and things are the way they seem.. it just ain't so -The Rebbe from Lublin-
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5667 on: March 22, 2020, 09:19:31 AM »
i have 2
Expires: 12/18/2020
Expires: 06/02/2020

do i have to email them to extend them?
The wording sounds like it's automatic. anyway you can check your account May 1 since yours wouldn't expire before then  regardless.
Small people talk about other people.
Average people talk about things
BIG PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IDEAS.

Offline simplicity

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Feb 2019
  • Posts: 1012
  • Total likes: 100
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 4
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: Lakewood
  • Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5668 on: March 26, 2020, 12:51:29 AM »
PSA: call Marriott and ask to extend your free night certificate, just did it and they extended it for 1 year from today, no problem, B'H!

Offline g8trgr8t

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jun 2016
  • Posts: 354
  • Total likes: 117
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
    • My Albums
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5669 on: March 28, 2020, 10:39:30 PM »
PSA: call Marriott and ask to extend your free night certificate, just did it and they extended it for 1 year from today, no problem, B'H!

I had to call to recover some free night certs from cancelled reservation and rep told me tonight that all certs will be extended until Jan 31 2021. Not sure when the extensions will post as the certs that she returned still showed their original expiration dates in August of 2020

Offline upside down

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite + Lifetime Silver Elite
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2013
  • Posts: 547
  • Total likes: 3
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 12
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5670 on: April 06, 2020, 08:57:16 PM »
Selling 35K 1 night certificate. Silver Elite Status.
$120 OBO. Please PM me

Offline simplicity

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Feb 2019
  • Posts: 1012
  • Total likes: 100
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 4
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: Lakewood
  • Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5671 on: April 06, 2020, 09:00:49 PM »
I had to call to recover some free night certs from cancelled reservation and rep told me tonight that all certs will be extended until Jan 31 2021. Not sure when the extensions will post as the certs that she returned still showed their original expiration dates in August of 2020
i wouldn’t rely on that, rather make the call now when you have time and have the upper hand as you still have the cert in acc

Offline @Yehuda

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Oct 2013
  • Posts: 9693
  • Total likes: 187
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 5
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5672 on: April 17, 2020, 11:16:53 AM »
Buying a lot of 35k certs at $115 for those looking to just get rid of them.

Offline ralf

  • Dansdeals Gold Elite
  • ***
  • Join Date: May 2015
  • Posts: 109
  • Total likes: 0
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 3
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5673 on: April 20, 2020, 01:04:19 AM »
selling
3x 1 night 35k certs on one Gold elite account exp 1/31/2021-3/6/2021
2x 1 night 35k certs on another gold elite account exp 1/31/2021
$125 each

Offline yellowj

  • Dansdeals Gold Elite
  • ***
  • Join Date: Mar 2015
  • Posts: 205
  • Total likes: 2
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5674 on: April 21, 2020, 02:09:09 PM »
Looking for a Cat 1-4 7n certificate, Nov exp, $600 obo

Offline Willie

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite
  • ****
  • Join Date: Apr 2015
  • Posts: 282
  • Total likes: 32
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
    • View Profile
  • Location: NYC
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5675 on: April 29, 2020, 10:02:27 AM »
Buying a lot of 35k certs at $115 for those looking to just get rid of them.
PM me

Offline a good yeshiva bachur

  • Dansdeals Presidential Platinum Elite
  • ********
  • Join Date: Dec 2015
  • Posts: 2675
  • Total likes: 123
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 9
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5676 on: April 30, 2020, 01:02:09 PM »
Selling 2x 35K night certificates. Gold Elite Status. $175 OBO. Please PM me

Online yelped

  • Dansdeals Lifetime 10K Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Mar 2015
  • Posts: 10465
  • Total likes: 3823
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 43
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5677 on: April 30, 2020, 03:03:47 PM »
Selling 2x 35K night certificates. Gold Elite Status. $175 OBO. Please PM me
For both?

Offline a good yeshiva bachur

  • Dansdeals Presidential Platinum Elite
  • ********
  • Join Date: Dec 2015
  • Posts: 2675
  • Total likes: 123
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 9
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5678 on: April 30, 2020, 05:43:26 PM »

Online yeshivabucher

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Mar 2018
  • Posts: 2140
  • Total likes: 660
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 6
    • View Profile
  • Location: Monsey
  • Programs: Travel Agent, Marriott Gold, Hertz PC, National EE, Uber VIP, SPG Gold
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5679 on: April 30, 2020, 05:52:35 PM »
each
rate before the world crashed was 135ish good luck