Originally Posted by
WCT3U
There was a thread here a month or so back, which I can't find at the moment, about this. You can get stay credits if you charge something to your room. Get a soda, charge it to your room, and pay with your credit card. Then you'll have a folio and a stay.
That may occasionally work due to mistakes in posting but you should not count on that - it's the same idea for award stays / priceline / hotwire / other non-qualifying stay rates.