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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 #6200 on: October 23, 2020, 10:32:33 AM »
Selling the following from a gold account:

1) 7 Night cat 1-4, expiring 1/31/21 - $500 OBO
2) Free night up to 35k, expiring 1/31/21 - $100 OBO
3) Free night up to 35k, expiring 3/31/21 - $100 OBO

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6201 on: October 23, 2020, 01:35:20 PM »
2 50k certificates gold elite account
200 each

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6202 on: October 24, 2020, 12:24:34 AM »
Selling 4x 50K nights (exp 1/31/2021). Titanium Account

$200 each

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6203 on: October 24, 2020, 01:09:14 PM »
1 Marriott 50k free night cert gold elite status. Exp 1 Sep 2021. Want $130 OBO. Also have $250 Marriott eGC for $200. Reply before PMing.

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Selling Marriott certificates at below market rate to buy new iPhone
« Reply #6204 on: October 24, 2020, 07:49:23 PM »
Until midnight on Monday, October 26, I'll sell and book my Gold account certificates at these significantly discounted prices to generate funds to rationalize buying a new iPhone.

Four 50k nights available for $175 each

Three 35k nights available for $75 each

Please send me a PM or email if interested.

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Re: Selling Marriott certificates at below market rate to buy new iPhone
« Reply #6205 on: October 24, 2020, 08:37:15 PM »
Until midnight on Monday, October 26, I'll sell and book my Gold account certificates at these significantly discounted prices to generate funds to rationalize buying a new iPhone.

Four 50k nights available for $175 each

Three 35k nights available for $75 each

Please send me a PM or email if interested.

I got a query about expiration dates. All the certificates expire sometime in 2021. Among the 50k certificates, two expire at the end of January, one at the end of March and the last in mid-May. Among the 35k certificates, two expire at the end of January and the other expires at the end of June.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6206 on: October 25, 2020, 11:18:59 AM »
Selling 2 x 35k certificate from gold elite account for $100 each.  Exp: 01/31/2021
Bump. Open for offers.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6207 on: October 25, 2020, 05:02:47 PM »
1 Marriott 50k free night cert gold elite status. Exp 1 Sep 2021. Want $130 OBO. Also have $250 Marriott eGC for $200. Reply before PMing.
interested in eGC

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6208 on: October 25, 2020, 05:49:47 PM »
interested in eGC
Still have it. Will have another $600 soon. PM me.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6209 on: October 25, 2020, 08:00:26 PM »
Not selling any more Marriott nights for now. Planning to request certificate extensions as expiration dates approach next year. Stay safe!

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6210 on: October 25, 2020, 10:14:56 PM »
Looking to buy 3 35K certificates for $75 each.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6211 on: October 26, 2020, 10:29:38 AM »
Selling the hotel reservations below for cheap! Send me your offer
I also have 7night certs expiring Jan selling to best offers

W Aspen      1/10/2021   1/17/2021 - $2200
W Aspen      1/10/2021   1/17/2021 - $2200
W Aspen      1/10/2021   1/17/2021 - $2200


st regis maldives      12/7/20-12/14/20 - $2200
st regis maldives      12/7/20-12/14/20 - $2200
st regis maldives      12/7/20-12/14/20 - $2200
st regis maldives      12/7/20-12/14/20 - $2200
st regis maldives      12/7/20-12/14/20 - $2200
st regis maldives      12/7/20-12/14/20 - $2200


Ritz Calrton Aruba      01/24 - 01/31 - $2200
Ritz Calrton Aruba      01/21 - 01/28 - $2200
Ritz Calrton Aruba      01/24 - 01/31 - $2200
Ritz Calrton Aruba      01/21 - 01/28 - $2200
Ritz Calrton Aruba      01/24 - 01/31 - $2200
Ritz Calrton Aruba      01/21 - 01/28 - $2200
Ritz Calrton Aruba      01/24 - 01/31 - $2200
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Ritz Carlton Bal Harbour      01/17 - 01/24 - $2200
Ritz Carlton Bal Harbour      01/22 - 01/29 - $2200
Ritz Calrton Aruba      01/16 - 01/23  - $2200


The Ritz-Carlton, Cancun      01/24 - 01/31  - $1600
      
The Ritz-Carlton Orlando,       11/29/2020 - 12/06/2021  - $1400
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The Ritz-Carlton Orlando,       01/17 - 01/24 - $1400


JW MARRIOTT MIAMI TURNBERRY       11/29/2020 - 12/06/2021  - $1100
JW MARRIOTT MIAMI TURNBERRY       11/29/2020 - 12/06/2021 - $1100
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JW MARRIOTT MIAMI TURNBERRY       01/03/2021-01/10/2021 - $1100
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Walt Disney World Swan      12/27/2020 - 01/03/2021  - $1100
Walt Disney World Dolphin      12/27/2020 - 01/03/2021 - $1100
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Walt Disney World Swan      12/10-12/17 - $1100
Walt Disney World Dolphin      12/10-12/17 - $1100
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6212 on: October 26, 2020, 02:59:49 PM »
1 Marriott 50k free night cert gold elite status. Exp 1 Sep 2021. Want $130 OBO. Also have $250 Marriott eGC for $200. Reply before PMing.

I want to emphasize that I will not respond to PMs if you don't comment here first. I will not take conversation to an email or other mediums outside of this forum (at least during initial conversation). Many have wrote me inquiring about GCs and certs. Some never replied to my post here. Some are very demanding.  I will not book you a stay for tomorrow if you don't pay me before as I won't be able to cancel in case of non-payment. I don't mind booking first, but the reservation has to be far out so I can cancel if you don't pay. I understand many are concerned with my credibility as no one wants to get scammed. I have few trades on here (please search my history), but most of my trades come from private reddit subs such as r/churningmarketplace as it is a community of trusted sellers. I also have trades on r/appleswap, r/hardwareswap and few others (same username). Please don't waste my time as this is not a source of income for me, this is us helping each other by meeting our mutual needs (you want a cheap luxury hotel, I want some free beer). If you want proof of GC balance, I can provide screenshot with date/time stamp similar to those trading communities on reddit.
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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6215 on: October 26, 2020, 03:50:08 PM »
For Sale
2 left of 1-4 7 night certs 550/each OBO
Can purchase separately or both
Gold Acct.

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6216 on: October 26, 2020, 04:36:36 PM »
I want to emphasize that I will not respond to PMs if you don't comment here first. I will not take conversation to an email or other mediums outside of this forum (at least during initial conversation). Many have wrote me inquiring about GCs and certs. Some never replied to my post here. Some are very demanding.  I will not book you a stay for tomorrow if you don't pay me before as I won't be able to cancel in case of non-payment. I don't mind booking first, but the reservation has to be far out so I can cancel if you don't pay. I understand many are concerned with my credibility as no one wants to get scammed. I have few trades on here (please search my history), but most of my trades come from private reddit subs such as r/churningmarketplace as it is a community of trusted sellers. I also have trades on r/appleswap, r/hardwareswap and few others (same username). Please don't waste my time as this is not a source of income for me, this is us helping each other by meeting our mutual needs (you want a cheap luxury hotel, I want some free beer). If you want proof of GC balance, I can provide screenshot with date/time stamp similar to those trading communities on reddit.
Marriott cert sold to "ber" Only GCs left

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6217 on: October 26, 2020, 08:57:17 PM »
Marriott cert sold to @ber Only GCs left
250 GC sold to @g8trgr8t

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6218 on: October 27, 2020, 05:43:54 PM »
250 GC sold to @g8trgr8t
smooth transaction, easy to communicate with

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Re: Marriott Certs Sale
« Reply #6219 on: October 27, 2020, 10:01:56 PM »
Subsidizing paid stays from my gold account - $25 per night