Originally Posted by
platbrownguy
I dallied on getting the WoH card until recently (my wife and I alternate taking the hard pulls, so I got her the card a while back). When I applied for the WoH card a few months ago, one of the options was two Cat 7 certs instead of the usual 50k points, so I did that. I'm going to requal for Globalist in the next few weeks so I guess I could have held out and used three Cat 7 certs in a row, but I wanted to go ahead and book the Andaz Maui at Thanksgiving while there was redemption availability to be had.
I did have to call to get the redemption to work with multiple certificates -- if there's availability for the two nights individually, then there will almost certainly be availability for both nights together, as long as the room type is the same.
I know you can book two individual nights, but AFAIK there’s no way to use them both for one reservation is what I’m saying.
Of course you could book two adjoining night stays back to back, and contact the hotel to have them connected which most do accommodate. I was just seeing if you knew a way to use two in one single reservation. So it sounds like in your case you made 3 reservations since the two Certificates were used each individually and one paid night.
The only downside to that is nicer hotels tend to block our award nights for one night stays, but if you’re booking 2-3 nights then Award stays magically open up.
For example: Try checking award availability for Hyatt Centric Waikiki for a 1 night stay any time in the next 6 months pick one night at random. And it will say there’s no award availability for that night. But if you try it with a 3 night stay you can book your 3 nights award stay with points.
How is that possible if the first night of the stay was previously blocked out?
Sorry for the rant I just went through this whole thing with them.
But I am hopeful there’s a good way to use two Category certificates in one reservation.