So for Cat. 4 or Cat. 5 it is advantageous (versus redeeming four days worth of points) to redeem a Travel Package even if only staying five days?

I haven't done a travelling package since 2016 (SAN) and 2017 (WAS). I really liked getting those UA miles then!

Sorry I have only done the calculations for 7 nights not 5. The 7 night also included the free 5th night.

Not necessarily...

Leaving aside the fact that most airline miles aren't worth the 60k --> 25k ratio, you'd be better off with a 5, 10 or 15 night award stay than a 7 nighter.

If you absolutely MUST stay one week in the same place with all nights peak award pricing and you are short of miles to take the whole family, then a Travel Package is at least relatively straightforward and not disastrously value-destroying...

You're right, in the past some of the travel packages (particularly for Hawaii and for Europe) were really 2, 2, and 3 night stays that could be used at the same or different hotels within the 7-day period. I used one to stay in Prague, Vienna, and Budapest, but that was more than 10 years ago, and Marriott quit offering that package. Pity.

It would really be nice if they'd offer such packages again.

Wishful thinking! I’d settle for the ability to upgrade existing package categories.

Can you still get 5 night travel packages? I only see the seven on the website.

Those were never meant to be available to the general public, only Marriott Vacation Club owners (even though I know a lot of people managed to get them). I think Marriott cracked down on that so perhaps you need to go through MVC website, or call in to request them.

5 night packages still offered 55k/110k miles? Anyone know what the cost was for each category (1-4/5/6/7/8)?

Cant attach my cat 1-5 travel package
 

Just curious if anyone else went through this. Basically after 20 phone calls it became clear that the system was not allowing my travel.package to be attached to a reservation. The csr resolution team came.up with the idea to cancel out.my package and give me points to make up for it and use the points for my upcoming res. All that happened is they added a bunch of points and deducted them so I gained nothing and my reservation still shows that I need addl points... After weeks of reaching out all I'm getting is crickets. So o have no travel.package and no Marriott points in lieu of.it. It's not like this a missing 500 points welcome gift thing, this is over 100k points I'm missing. Not sure what else to do at this point

I’m guessing they gave you the residual points for refunding the cert and made you a res at full value... should reach out to the lurkers... I’m glad I’m done with all my travel package certs.

Reached out to lurkers last week again, still no response. My res shows no certificate from points attached, and I confirmed that with Marriotr reservations- wants me to attach certificate after I have 150000 points in my acct. Really happy this is my last travel certificate and that I'm never ordering another one.

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Travel Package 7 Night Voucher Cat 5
 

I currently have a Category 5 voucher from the old travel packages that was converted to the new packages. It is set to expire in August of this year so i'm looking at possibilities for bookings. I know Marriott introduced the off-peak points pricing recently. For my specific property, I noticed i'm getting a PointSaver rate of 35k for Mon-Thursday and 45k for Friday--Sunday. The total point value is 240k for 7 nights (it appears to taking off one night for the fifth free night on the website). Based on this, I don't believe there is anyway to use a Category 5 voucher to book a Category 6 hotel through some method. However, I just want to confirm if there isn't some way to make this work through Marriott.

Absolutely no way to do it

The TP certs restrict you to category level, unlike the credit card free night certs that restrict you to 35K (or 50K pts). So you can use the TP certs at peak times as long as you choose the category you purchased. The 35K free night certs cannot be used at a cat 5 property at peak times. However the 40K cert (75 night choice benefit) can be used at a cat 6 off peak. Hope that makes sense. :)