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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 #2280 on: September 24, 2018, 03:01:15 PM »
selling marriott 1-4 (new category)   7 night from Platinum Premiere Elite Account for $625

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2281 on: September 24, 2018, 08:37:54 PM »
seeking one or two nights for November, 35k category

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2282 on: September 25, 2018, 07:00:40 AM »
Selling category 6 7 night cert. 1400 if we can get it done today.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2283 on: September 25, 2018, 11:24:54 PM »
Selling New Cat 1-4 7 Nights Cert $600 Gold account.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2284 on: September 25, 2018, 11:46:33 PM »
Tachlis, it seems Cat 6 is slowly going down in asking price and is now at $1,400. But did anyone actually get this much for one?

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Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2285 on: September 25, 2018, 11:51:09 PM »
Where do you see asking is 1400? I see one non distressed post at 1400, the rest 1500...

Regardless, if you are looking to buy or sell, please post price
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2286 on: September 26, 2018, 10:49:10 AM »
Still looking, 7 night is fine too, will pay extra

Close, got it.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2287 on: September 26, 2018, 10:55:25 AM »
Tachlis, it seems Cat 6 is slowly going down in asking price and is now at $1,400. But did anyone actually get this much for one?

Looks to me like someone is in the market for a cat 6 certificate...

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2288 on: September 26, 2018, 12:24:24 PM »
Selling Marriott certs
Category 1-4. 7 night
Category 1-4. 5 night
Category 5. 7 night
Category 5. 5 night
Category 6. 7 night
Category 6. 5 night

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2289 on: September 26, 2018, 12:42:26 PM »
Selling Marriott certs
Category 1-4. 7 night
Category 1-4. 5 night
Category 5. 7 night
Category 5. 5 night
Category 6. 7 night
Category 6. 5 night

Need to post prices.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2290 on: September 27, 2018, 12:45:41 AM »
Cat 7 cert that can be cancelled for 360k mt @ $2400

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2291 on: September 27, 2018, 01:57:28 PM »
selling a 7 night category 1-4 cert for $450.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2292 on: September 28, 2018, 01:43:27 AM »
Buying a 7 night Cat 1-4 cert for $425

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2293 on: September 28, 2018, 08:42:08 AM »
Buying cat 6,  up to four certificates

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2294 on: September 28, 2018, 04:17:22 PM »
Subsidizing award and paid stays on my Marriott account.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2295 on: September 28, 2018, 04:36:28 PM »
selling my $300 spg luxury card spend for $250

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2296 on: September 28, 2018, 04:37:17 PM »
selling my $300 spg luxury card spend for $250
I have 2 cards available

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2297 on: September 28, 2018, 05:22:02 PM »
What are new Category 5 certificates going for?
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2298 on: September 28, 2018, 10:30:20 PM »
[SELL] - 2x 7 Night, Category 6 Certificates

Negotiable, as I admit there is not much basis for the market value on these yet, but calculating price based on points value of >2K after accounting for free night option.

Will offer at $1,850, each, for now.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #2299 on: September 29, 2018, 05:21:36 PM »
[SELL] - 2x 7 Night, Category 6 Certificates

Negotiable, as I admit there is not much basis for the market value on these yet, but calculating price based on points value of >2K after accounting for free night option.

Will offer at $1,850, each, for now.

Not sure why the demand is not there. The value is well above all the lowball offers I've gotten of 1000-1200.