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 1651030 times)

Offline keepsmiling123

  • Dansdeals Lifetime Platinum Elite
  • *******
  • Join Date: Dec 2014
  • Posts: 1271
  • Total likes: 27
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 9
  • Gender: Male
    • View Profile
  • Location: United States
  • Programs: UR, SPG, MR, UA
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5380 on: February 04, 2020, 11:28:58 PM »
Selling 8 MT 35k certs
$135 per cert

Offline ybraustein

  • Dansdeals Bronze Elite
  • *
  • Join Date: Mar 2019
  • Posts: 40
  • Total likes: 1
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: brooklyn
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5381 on: February 05, 2020, 06:07:09 AM »
Platinum elite acc (everything same acc)
Expiring 06/20 2× Cert 35k - 130$each
Expiring 1-04/23/20 1-11/03/20 2×Cert 50k - 250$ each *sold*
7 night award cat 5 -780$ expiring 03/06/20
OBO
[/quote]

Offline arbai89

  • DansDeals Copper Elite
  • *
  • Join Date: Aug 2019
  • Posts: 3
  • Total likes: 0
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: NYC
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5382 on: February 05, 2020, 10:04:11 AM »
Selling 7N Cat 1-4 $600 obo

Expires 7/30/2020
Gold Status

Offline cnn001

  • Dansdeals Gold Elite
  • ***
  • Join Date: Jun 2015
  • Posts: 104
  • Total likes: 3
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5383 on: February 05, 2020, 11:25:37 AM »
2 35k-certificates on the same gold account, exp 09/20. Asking for $130/night. Thanks.

Offline todaystheday

  • DansDeals Copper Elite
  • *
  • Join Date: Jan 2020
  • Posts: 10
  • Total likes: 0
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: montreal
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5384 on: February 05, 2020, 11:55:35 AM »
Who's credit card number goes on the reservation when selling a certificate? Buyer or seller?

Offline 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 #5385 on: February 05, 2020, 12:12:43 PM »
Who's credit card number goes on the reservation when selling a certificate? Buyer or seller?
doesn't make a differance it's used to hold not pay for incedentals. But is risk if buyer cancels that cc on file pays a fee

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 #5386 on: February 05, 2020, 12:39:02 PM »
Who's credit card number goes on the reservation when selling a certificate? Buyer or seller?
use a fake one or an empty gift card

Offline Yitzshpitz

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite + Lifetime Silver Elite
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2014
  • Posts: 662
  • Total likes: 55
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5387 on: February 05, 2020, 12:49:51 PM »
Selling 1 Marriot Free award night up to 35k. Exp 2/25/20
@125 or BO

Offline atojbk

  • DansDeals Copper Elite
  • *
  • Join Date: Apr 2019
  • Posts: 8
  • Total likes: 0
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5388 on: February 05, 2020, 02:30:07 PM »
selling 50k cert, expires 6/2/20 for $250

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 #5389 on: February 05, 2020, 02:32:28 PM »
use a fake one or an empty gift card
who cares, if the person who checks must give c.c. upon check in?

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 #5390 on: February 05, 2020, 02:41:19 PM »
who cares, if the person who checks must give c.c. upon check in?
lets say the buyer cancels past the cancellation policy? The hotel can charge the hold to the CC used for booking as well.

Offline SuitCase

  • DansDeals Copper Elite
  • *
  • Join Date: May 2017
  • Posts: 13
  • Total likes: 0
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: NYC
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5391 on: February 05, 2020, 04:00:40 PM »
50k night expiring Feb 8 now $195. Please buy it! :D
Gone now! Thanks!

Offline todaystheday

  • DansDeals Copper Elite
  • *
  • Join Date: Jan 2020
  • Posts: 10
  • Total likes: 0
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: montreal
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5392 on: February 05, 2020, 04:54:03 PM »
Selling:
35k cert exp 05/02/2020  - $125
35k cert exp 07/11/2020  - $130
35k cert exp 11/15/2020  - $150
7 nights category 1-4  exp 07/17/2020  $600 * sold to @leonz1985
7 nights category 5  exp 07/17/2020  - $900

all from the same gold account
OBO

Offline atwnsw

  • Dansdeals Gold Elite
  • ***
  • Join Date: Jun 2019
  • Posts: 122
  • Total likes: 6
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5393 on: February 05, 2020, 05:22:44 PM »
Selling
1 free night (35k) for $125.
Expires 5/20
Gold Status

Bump...

Offline godofchurning

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite
  • ****
  • Join Date: Feb 2019
  • Posts: 301
  • Total likes: 16
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5394 on: February 05, 2020, 09:54:57 PM »
Titanium until Feb 2021
Selling 7 Night Cat 5 for $1200
or willing to exchange with Cat 4 7 Night for $600

Offline doodums

  • Dansdeals Silver Elite
  • **
  • Join Date: Jan 2018
  • Posts: 56
  • Total likes: 8
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5395 on: February 06, 2020, 02:46:52 AM »
Selling 2 x 60k FN cert from Platinum Elite account. Expires 3/11.  $315 each.
Also have P2 selling 2 x 60k FN cert from Platinum Elite account. Expires 4/15.  $315 each.  Please PM! :)

Offline Mordeyj

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite + Lifetime Silver Elite
  • *****
  • Join Date: May 2013
  • Posts: 577
  • Total likes: 8
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 5
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5396 on: February 06, 2020, 04:04:57 AM »
Buying 7 night 1-4 $500

Offline shloim4334

  • Dansdeals Silver Elite
  • **
  • Join Date: Dec 2017
  • Posts: 68
  • Total likes: 2
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Location: Israel
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5397 on: February 06, 2020, 06:11:07 AM »
Selling 7 night cat 1-4, Silver account.
Exp. 8/12 2020
$550

Offline moka

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite + Lifetime Silver Elite
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2013
  • Posts: 719
  • Total likes: 26
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 5
    • View Profile
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5398 on: February 06, 2020, 10:47:37 AM »
selling one 35K night, expires 2/1/21 $150 obo
gold account

Offline Stallion114

  • Dansdeals Platinum Elite
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jun 2019
  • Posts: 281
  • Total likes: 25
  • DansDeals.com Hat Tips 0
    • View Profile
  • Programs: Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, IHG Spire, Choice Diamond, Wyndham Diamond, Hyatt Globalist
Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #5399 on: February 06, 2020, 10:57:01 AM »
Selling 2 1-4 7 night certs from same account 600 each