Are the Chase certificates subject to that Aug 18 - Sept 18 blackout, too?
I was holding a reservation with a Chase 1-5 for a while. Then I saw that a better hotel was dropping to a 5 so I wanted to switch to that. I cancelled the original reservation, then called Marriott to switch the res, and she said first of all it hasn't been released yet from the other reservation, call in a couple of days (which is today). The Marriott person today first said something like "we can't do certificates", then transferred me someplace where I was on hold so long I hung up.
Not sure what to do now - I just want to have a reservation with my certificate so I'm sure I have it, and the "free" rooms don't run out or something.