Originally Posted by
bonzaiflyer
If you have enough points, get $1000.00 in Marriott Gift Cheques and "pay" for the $700.00 with those. Since they're supposed to be treated like cash, you'll earn points on those. Don't know what your status is, but I know they cost me 135k points for the $1000.00.
Yeah - this was my intention in the first place. It seemed to me like I would be better off paying 120k points (net after earnings) and earning night credits (this will be the first year in the past five that I'll struggle to maintain plat) plus having $300 leftover for incidentals than I would be paying 90k for the room, totally forgetting that I had only paid 75k. The weird thing was when I opened the reservation up, it showed 90k as the "cost" of the room, but obviously when I cancelled, it was my 75k points I got back.
And yes, it would cost me 90k to rebook.
Oh well. Thanks for all the help!