Originally Posted by
GetawaysRus
If one has a fair number of Marriott points now, and if one uses AA as their primary carrier, it would be attractive to take a travel package in June 2010 (before the drop dead date of June 30, 2010) because this would allow you to sock away some AA miles now.
If I understand this, you are saying that if I take a category 5 travel package during June 2010, but later decide that I want to use the hotel portion at a category 6 or higher hotel, I'd be able to upgrade the hotel portion of the package. Is that right? Would I just "pay' the difference in points between the cat 5 package and the higher category hotel's package?
What about the other direction? What if one takes a cat 6 (or higher) travel package now but realizes later that you'd like to use it at a cat 5 hotel?
I am exactly the type of traveler that this poster has described. AA is my primary carrier and I have a boatload of MR points as I accumulate way more than I spend. I am trying to build up my AA account for 3 J (or F if the slim chance that they exist) awards to AU for 2011; Part of my plan is/was to burn two travel packages to get 240K miles although I wasn't planning on redeeming until I actually wanted to book the miles in order to keep the travel certs alive as long as possible.
I echo this posters questions about the "what if I want to upgrade/downgrade a cert"?
I see these listed on CC as well.. how easy are these certs to trade in another persons name if it came down to that?