Originally Posted by
fozziedoggie
Also, she doesn't need to make the booking in her name at all, you can use the free night for whomever you wish. The hotel collects their fee/monies from HHonors; they don't care who sits in the room. Just have her make a reservation for you only, and advise she is going to redeem her free credit card night. ^
Last time I tried that on the Citi Weekend Cert, they said they can't do it. They did it all the time for me for points stay but they claimed that they can't do it on a certificate stay. So instead they put the other person's name as a 2nd guest and it was fine.
It seems strange to me that they can't do it as after they book the cert stay, the cert gets converted into points and it looks just like a points stay on the reservation on my end.