Awesome, thanks! Do you know if you can use more than 1 Marriott gift card to pay for a stay, or are you limited to 1 gift card transaction per stay?

You should be able to use more than 1.

I have used more than 1 GCs to pay for many a stay - much to the consternation of one poor clerk, who had to pass about 4 or 5 of my cards with bits of cash left on them... :p

If you were able to consistely earn 10 pts (plus elite bonus and promo bonus, if any) for buying gift cards at any hotel (of the right brand, as noted above), you could turn around and use them to pay for your next hotel stay, on which you'd also earn 10 pts (plus elite bonus and promo bonus, if any). And on that hotel stay, you could repeat!

So from Mariott's perspective, it makes little sense for them to allow a dependable loophole for earning double of all hotel points (including double elite bonus and double promo bonus) just for recursively buying gift cards on every stay and then redeeming them on the next stay (while buying more gfit cards on that same stay).

(I know some people may thinking "can I earn points on gift cards I'm buying for someone else", but the problem is that there's nothing preventing you from using the gift cards yourself, and then if it worked for gift cards bought for someone else, it would also work for gift cards bought for yourself. And there's plenty of precedent already of people buying gift cards for themselves just to take advntage of online gift card promos and/or discounts.)

Bonus points from gift cards
 

Just wondering when the bonus points from the 10x bonus on gift card purchases might post. The promo ended Dec 31, 2012.

I contacted MI Fulfillment Svcs about that and was told the bonus points would post around mid February.

I just want to update to other readers that indeed you'll get 5 points for every dollar spent on Marriott GC using Marriott Visa - Canadian :)

I have the same Qs too. I am planning to use my Marriott GC at Miami hotels and I want to make sure that I will get 10 points ( for Marriott hotels) for every dollar spent on the Marriott GC.

Thanks for the thread guys :)

assuming that the hotel understands how to correctly post the usage of your GC to the Invoice you're paying, what makes you think you wouldn't??????

If your rate is eligible to earn points, it does not matter what method of payment you use, you will get points.
You can combine methods...cash, credit card, gift card - and get points.

Generally no issues using multiple gift cards. I used 3 for a stay yesterday. Stay total was just under $1000. I had 3 gift cards with me individually worth $75, $75 and $1100. I could have paid for it with the high value gift card, but that would have meant I'd still be carrying 3 physical gift cards with me. The front desk att. was kind enough to "empty out" my lower valued gift cards and leave me with just a single gift card with slightly over $250.

still with a cavaet that the prop still has to properly code the usage of the GC, whether you used 1, 3 or 1000; ie. have had several times where my bill was say $500 and I gave the prop a $400 GC and $100 on Visa but the way the prop showed on my Invoice I had ONLY paid $100 so points limited to this amount and no points for using GC (and afterwards, no way of showing original amount and GC usage to claim proper points)..............
moral - check your Invoice before you leave the prop............

This is definitely true! I used them in Madrid a few times. Some hotels just treated them at the normal exchange rate. But, the AC Carlton Madrid charged it as a 1.56 dollar=1 euro exchange rate!!!!! They said the Marriott system does that automatically despite the exchange rate being 1.35 in banks...a little bit higher, I understand, but that much! Very deceiptful (despite it saying on the cheque that it is the hotel's rate, what tiny discount hotel charges that much more).:mad::confused:

Totally agree that the bogus exchange rates charged on Bonus Bucks or Marriott Cheques are a scam (since no actual currency conversion ever occurs), but legally I don't think you can do much about it. Just save 'em for dollar-denominated stays. Gift cards have been no problem in my experience...they are posted at fair rates.

I would write to Marriott complain about this if I were you. They can't just charge you whatever they feel like.