@Brendan @SkiAdcock Thanks. Resolved in my favor.

Thanks you beat me to it.. haha.

I have a cat 1-5 certificate thanks for the travel package award. I also have a cat 8 award reservation being hold without paying the points (asking me to attach ecert to it).

I understand that I have to pay the point difference (90k) in order to use my cat 1-5 cert on my cat 8 reservation. So I called the CSR for that. After the end of the call, the cert were used and the reservation is now confirmed. The only question is, the CSR didn't deduct my extra points for that cat 8 reservation.

I would like to see myself lucky but still want to ask for the opinion. Should I be concerned about the reservation?

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I would say yes, unfortunately. The property could very well see that a Cat 1-5 cert is applied to the reservation and tell MR that there is an improper reservation for their hotel's reward category. I'm definitely interested in the opinions of some of our more seasoned travelers/posters here too, though.

We are considering getting two TPs in order to get Southwest CPs. I anticipate using the CPs for flights with my wife as well as flights with my wife and four kids (oldest is 13).

Ideally I'd like to have one of the CPs in my name with my wife as the companion and one CP in a kid's name with another kid as the companion.

In order to do that I assume one of the TPs would have to be attached to one of my kid's MR account so the miles transfer to his/her Southwest account?

Any potential problem with having the Marriott cert in my kids account for use for a family stay?

Glad to see the packages can be used towards hotels 'on hold'. Have a Cat 6 that I am about to burn a package on, but am still undecided on which program to dump the miles into. Have quite a few AS so really don't need them there. And I'd like to use them for international premium cabin redemption but am split on which partner...

Just for the amount of miles UA seems to be the best choice. Anything else depends on where yu like to travel and airline you would use. I like AA especially for traveling on QR EY...missed the bonus window Nov 30 :(

Has anyone had any recent success booking a 5 night travel package?

I've tried 5 times over the past couple of days and have not had any luck with an agent. In the past, almost always got it done on the first call, maybe 2 calls if I was unlucky

How long ago was "in the past"?

Also, I'm assuming you're not a timeshare owner, right?

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Any ideas?

I wanted to get Cat 9 Package and get SWA miles. My hope was to get the companion pass which you have to earn in 2017 in order to get maximum use. My stay is going to end January 3rd and I was hoping to use the Free week. Any idea on how I could use the Cat 9 Vacation week and have the SWA miles hit in 2017?

My travel dates are Dec 27th through the 3rd of January. Will They allow me to submit the voucher by the end of the trip!??!

That's a great question. I'm in the same situation and was planning on just getting CP for my wife and I, but it makes more sense to get it for one of the kids. Anyone know? I'm curious how the call to marriott to order the package would go, and whether you'd be ok to speak on your child's behalf.

Correct on not being a timeshare owner. FWIW, none of the agents specifically pointed out one way or another whether they'll still available for timeshare owners - just generic "we only have 7 night packages" when i inquired about a 5 night.

How recently were you able to book one? Doing my Google research, there's a ton of data points in early 2016 (many bloggers posted about it), but few datapoints within the past few months

Yeah, unfortunately I haven't seen any public successes posted since the bloggers advertised it.

I'm trying to imagine where we might reasonably go and stay in one hotel for 7 nights...