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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 #3640 on: May 19, 2019, 02:21:33 AM »
Selling my 4 nights from the 29ways to stay promo for $1275. My nights are capped at 50k each night (once the peak/off peak chart begins, these will work for cat 7 in low peak and cat 6 at peak season)

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3641 on: May 19, 2019, 08:10:33 AM »
Sell one 25k certificate at $120 and one 35k certificate at $180 from Titanium. Expiring in November.
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3642 on: May 19, 2019, 12:48:30 PM »
Selling one 7 night cat 1-5 $800 expires 8/20/2019

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3643 on: May 20, 2019, 03:53:51 AM »
Selling my 4 nights from the 29ways to stay promo for $1275. My nights are capped at 50k each night (once the peak/off peak chart begins, these will work for cat 7 in low peak and cat 6 at peak season)
Nights can be used on separate stays (not required to stay 4 consecutive nights)
$650 for 2, or 1200 all 4. Platinum elite account. Refs. available

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3644 on: May 20, 2019, 04:21:49 AM »
Want to thank @easygoing77 for 7 day certificate stay which i completed recently.
Extremely helpful in booking process and maintained email communication throughout. Highly recommended for future transactions. Would definitely deal again in future.


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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3645 on: May 20, 2019, 11:28:06 AM »
Does anyone have a 7-night Cat-6? If you do, please PM me and let me know.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3646 on: May 20, 2019, 03:23:05 PM »
selling
1 marriott 35k Certs - $180

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3647 on: May 20, 2019, 03:59:26 PM »
I'm in need of some elite nights.  Willing to subsidize stays for 30/night through my platinum account. PM me if interested. PM me and we will see if we can work out the details

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3648 on: May 21, 2019, 01:16:04 PM »
Looking for several nights good for cat 3.
Single nights.

Please pm
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3649 on: May 21, 2019, 01:35:53 PM »
Selling two 35K free nights - $210 each. Plat Elite account.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3650 on: May 21, 2019, 03:28:27 PM »
sold 2 35K - thanks @PGA smooth transaction

now available: Plat elite account
1 35K night @ $210
1 50K night @ $300

sold 50K night- thanks @Jacobd

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3651 on: May 21, 2019, 06:39:15 PM »
Selling 2x 35K nights on same gold account for $380 total

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3652 on: May 21, 2019, 07:26:53 PM »
Buying Marriott 60k cert. and 25k cert.
Prefer account with status

that expires mid July.
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3653 on: May 21, 2019, 11:51:38 PM »
Selling 1 category 5 cert (35k) expiring 1/3/20 for $175 from Gold Elite account.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3654 on: May 21, 2019, 11:53:44 PM »
Selling one 7 night cat 1-4 @$575.
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3655 on: May 22, 2019, 10:06:56 AM »
I have 2 Category 7 Marriott Certificates (60k points)

PM for offers

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3656 on: May 22, 2019, 02:17:35 PM »
4 different accounts:
One night Cat. 1-5 from Gold $175 OBO
One night Cat. 1-5 from Gold $175 OBO
One night Cat. 1-5 from Silver $165 OBO
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3657 on: May 22, 2019, 03:09:37 PM »
Selling two 35K free nights - $200 each. Plat Elite account.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale 7 NIGHTS CAT 1-4 $450
« Reply #3658 on: May 22, 2019, 08:22:43 PM »
Selling 7 Night Cat 1-4 Marriott Certificate for $450 from a Platinum Elite account.

It expires 10/1/2019.

PM Me if interested and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. I'll try to check PMs every day at least once. If you know location and dates, let me know in PM and I can check availability and confirm payment if you're interested.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #3659 on: May 23, 2019, 03:46:01 PM »
I've got 3 35k certs for sale. Gold Elite account. $195 each. Payment through Cash App or Paypal.

Cert 1 - Expires December 5th, 2019
Cert 2 - Expires May 6, 2020
Cert 3 - Expires May 7, 2020

Cheers!
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