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 1649208 times)

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 #3420 on: April 02, 2019, 04:43:01 PM »
buying Marriott 7night cat4 certs at $450

Offline joe1234

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Jul 2015
  • Posts: 2071
  • Total likes: 535
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 19
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3421 on: April 02, 2019, 09:17:40 PM »
selling one night up to 25k points, silver account for $100 obo

Offline gurtyb

  • Dansdeals Bronze Elite
  • *
  • Join Date: Aug 2012
  • Posts: 33
  • Total likes: 0
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: NY
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3422 on: April 02, 2019, 10:22:46 PM »
Selling 7 night category 6 travel certificate with TITANIUM status for $2,000. 

Offline Emyhk

  • Dansdeals Bronze Elite
  • *
  • Join Date: Jul 2017
  • Posts: 39
  • Total likes: 0
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3423 on: April 03, 2019, 08:47:13 AM »
Looking to buy 2 nights for Ritz Carlton Herzliya. 100k points or 2 nights from one account. Paying at least $540+

Offline Belmar Boy

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite
  • ****
  • Join Date: Nov 2014
  • Posts: 352
  • Total likes: 8
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
    • View Profile
  • Location: Lakewood, NJ
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3424 on: April 03, 2019, 09:45:04 AM »
Selling:
One night category 1-4 from Platinum - $120 OBO
One night category 1-4 from Gold - $110 OBO
(from separate accounts)

Offline letav_aved

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Jan 2016
  • Posts: 1161
  • Total likes: 76
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: Midwest
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3425 on: April 03, 2019, 10:24:03 AM »
buying a 5 night cat 5 for $700

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 #3426 on: April 03, 2019, 12:24:23 PM »
Thank you so much to @mochjas for a great transaction!

Offline mochjas

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Oct 2015
  • Posts: 9699
  • Total likes: 1069
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 123
    • View Profile
  • Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Titanium Elite, AA EX PLAT, Jetblue Mosaic, Qatar Gold, United Silver
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3427 on: April 03, 2019, 12:26:25 PM »
Thank you so much to @mochjas for a great transaction!
same thank you as well!

Offline troner100

  • Dansdeals Gold Elite
  • ***
  • Join Date: Jun 2017
  • Posts: 151
  • Total likes: 6
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3428 on: April 03, 2019, 12:52:25 PM »
Looking for several cat 5 certs
Please pm me

Offline YesThatsMe

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite + Lifetime Silver Elite
  • *****
  • Join Date: May 2017
  • Posts: 736
  • Total likes: 128
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3429 on: April 03, 2019, 02:39:23 PM »

@DickPickles , @gurtyb or anyone with 7 night cat 6, I'm a buyer at $1,700

Offline letav_aved

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Jan 2016
  • Posts: 1161
  • Total likes: 76
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: Midwest
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3430 on: April 03, 2019, 09:05:14 PM »
buying 7 night 1-4 certificate

Offline txtmax4

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Presidential Platinum Elite
  • *********
  • Join Date: Dec 2009
  • Posts: 6954
  • Total likes: 12
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 1
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3431 on: April 03, 2019, 09:53:51 PM »
If You See Something, Say Something!!

Offline fest

  • Dansdeals Bronze Elite
  • *
  • Join Date: May 2009
  • Posts: 33
  • Total likes: 1
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3432 on: April 03, 2019, 10:13:53 PM »
selling 1 cat 6 seven night cert for 1750

Offline letav_aved

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Jan 2016
  • Posts: 1161
  • Total likes: 76
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: Midwest
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3433 on: April 03, 2019, 10:25:41 PM »
buying 7 night 1-4 certificate
@$475, you book for me

Offline karl1402

  • Dansdeals Gold Elite
  • ***
  • Join Date: Apr 2017
  • Posts: 102
  • Total likes: 2
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3434 on: April 04, 2019, 06:22:13 AM »
Selling one night (35k) on a platinum elite account. $200

Price now $165. PM please

Offline letav_aved

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Jan 2016
  • Posts: 1161
  • Total likes: 76
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: Midwest
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3435 on: April 04, 2019, 09:34:54 AM »
Need a 7 night 1-4, for booking today. You book for me, $500.00
PM ME

Offline Petar

  • Dansdeals Silver Elite
  • **
  • Join Date: Mar 2019
  • Posts: 57
  • Total likes: 3
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: Michigan
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3436 on: April 04, 2019, 02:28:56 PM »
How does cat 1-4 certificate work.
Category based only or point per night .
For example there is a cat 5 hotel but 25k/ night points value.

So will cat 1-4 work in such case ?

Offline mochada

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Aug 2011
  • Posts: 1164
  • Total likes: 13
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3437 on: April 04, 2019, 04:01:38 PM »
One night category 1-4 (upto 25k) from Gold - $120 OBO

Offline knowitall

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite + Lifetime Silver Elite
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2013
  • Posts: 747
  • Total likes: 194
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: 08701
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3438 on: April 04, 2019, 04:36:13 PM »
Selling one marriott cat 1-4 7 night cert titanium account for $600

Offline letav_aved

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Jan 2016
  • Posts: 1161
  • Total likes: 76
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 2
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: Midwest
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3439 on: April 04, 2019, 10:29:37 PM »
Still buying 1-4 7 night @$475