I booked a stay at Marriott Wardman Park in DC about 3-4 weeks ago. I was able to get my stay at $99 a night which is a great rate considering it is normally 200-300 a night, and the CSR just told me the current rate is $469 (which is insane of course). I did not check the local promotions before I booked as i am new to Marriott, and still learning the program/chain/website. Now I see that there is a promotion for this hotel that gets me some perks at the Zoo, a stuffed toy for my kid, and free self parking (this alone would net me about 150 savings).

I do not see a way to add a code to my existing reservation online. I called and was told that since I did a prepaid special rate that is not changeable they could not add it. Does this seem right? I am not changing the reservation. I still want to stay, I just want to take advantage of the local promotion in combination with my stay. Do any of you have any tips to get in on the promotion that I have not tried yet?

The upside to a prepaid rate is you can lock in a lower rate. The downside to a prepaid rate is if something comes along later you're basically out of luck. If it had been one promotion to another you could probably switch, but since it's a prepaid don't think you can.

Cheers.

These kinds of promotions can sometimes be a great deal, especially the parking promos. However, there would be a different rate for the promotion - you can't add the promotion to a different rate code.

It probably won't work, but if you can find the incremental cost of the zoo rate over the prepaid rate and it's still worth it, you can try calling the hotel manager to see if you could buy up to the zoo rate.

thanks, since the hotel is booked now and is going for such a high rate a buy up would probably not be a good choice. Guess I will just stick with what I have.