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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 #2180 on: August 24, 2018, 04:25:15 PM »
I didn't mean to cause a stir. I get this is a buy/sell thread and if in the future the correct thing to do is bring this to a hotel forum thread then I will do that, my apologies. I think my next question is valid for me to ask before I actually post a price. I am looking at a hotel that is a category 7, but when I put in the week I am looking for, I see the point total is 360k, I would have assumed it would be 420k (assuming this prices is 1 night free). Also, the week I am looking at is most definitely a peak week. Does this mean that I only need to purchase a category 6 certificate? I apologize for my ignorance, I haven't purchased a cert before.

1. There's no peak/off peak pricing yet
2. You need to purchase the category of that particular hotel. The certificates are currently category based, not points or points + category based.
3. Category 7 is 60k points, so a week with one free day should price out as 360k points as you see.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2181 on: August 25, 2018, 09:13:44 PM »
Buying two 5night 1-4cert @$350 for Platinum status.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2182 on: August 25, 2018, 10:47:20 PM »
selling new category 1-4
7 night package from platinum premiere account $500

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2183 on: August 26, 2018, 12:09:58 PM »
Why would these sell for more now then previously?

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2184 on: August 26, 2018, 01:07:01 PM »
Why would these sell for more now then previously?

Ain't no  more coming down the pipeline (like how artwork rises in value when the artist dies)...also tons more SPG hotels and other hotels that went down in category where you can use them, so much for versatile.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2185 on: August 26, 2018, 10:34:21 PM »
 Looking to trade a category 1-4 7-night cert plus $400 for a new category 5.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2186 on: August 27, 2018, 08:50:32 AM »
i have 2 of them so its subjective but knowing they can be switched in we have 2 years to use them - once peak kicks in a tier 9 of maximized will be 360k marriott - the cost of that in swiping will be 180k dollars most saavy dansdeals members wont be swiping  using their spg cards eitherway so buying points wont make sense and at 180k spend worse case sceanrio its worth 1800 if u used a capital one and got 2 points would be 3600 - so discount the fact thats its 7 nights and most ppl dont need that so then u have 240k marriott still costing 120k in swiping once the market starts clearing out Hence the value of 17-1800 maybe more depending on the need of the individual but since everyone just bought them and will have a year to change them at least the tier 1-3 to a 9 will give 2 years of buying power therss no rush to sell at a discount and when the right buyer comes along who needs to spend 100k spg they will easily sell for the 17-1800

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2187 on: August 27, 2018, 06:09:25 PM »
with the new changes, will there be any Cat 1-5 certs for sale anymore?

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2188 on: August 27, 2018, 11:24:54 PM »
Seeking a 7-night certificate for a new cat 6, $1100

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2189 on: August 28, 2018, 05:27:15 PM »
Seeking new category 1-4 7 night for $350 OBO

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2190 on: August 28, 2018, 05:30:40 PM »
Selling new category 1-4 7-night certificate for $500. Please do not contact me with lower offers.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2191 on: August 29, 2018, 05:35:31 AM »
Seeking 7 night for new Category 6. $1300 OBO

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2192 on: August 29, 2018, 05:40:22 AM »
New cat 6 7 night cert. 1600 firm.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2193 on: August 29, 2018, 06:57:03 AM »
Need two nights for Category 5

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2194 on: August 29, 2018, 02:42:58 PM »
1 Free Night up to 25,000 Points. $100.
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2195 on: August 29, 2018, 06:00:50 PM »
Seeking 200k Marriott point, looking to pay $.3 from a Platinum account

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2196 on: August 29, 2018, 06:02:23 PM »
Seeking 200k Marriott point, looking to pay $.3 from a Platinum account
Good luck

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2197 on: August 29, 2018, 06:13:32 PM »
Seeking 200k Marriott point, looking to pay $.3 from a Platinum account
What is that supposed to be? 30 cents? 3 cents? .3 cents?

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2198 on: August 29, 2018, 10:34:33 PM »
Seeking 200k Marriott point, looking to pay $.3 from a Platinum account

are u paying 30 cents , in which case Im happy to sell you


If you are paying.03 cents, Ill buy all your points for .05

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2199 on: August 30, 2018, 08:14:03 AM »
You guys sure love a good typo :)

.05 cents is going rate then? 

Seeking 200k Marriott points at .05 OBO

« Last Edit: August 30, 2018, 08:24:41 AM by Maurice »