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Couldn't resist any longer. I went ahead and pulled the plug on a Southwest TP award before the sky falls. :)

What is the typical wait for TP points to post to Alaska?

So what did you book ?

How many airline miles ( what airline ) and what category Marriott for the 5 night stay ?

How many Marriott points did it cost you ?

Just bought the 7 day package and transferred 120k points to Avios to take advantage of the 35% promotion, do anyone know how long it takes to post to Avios?

For those who want the 5 day package, best of luck, I tried calling the Australian, Hong Kong, UK and US call centre and they all refused to book the 5 day package, eventually ran out of patience and booked the 7 day package instead.

typical wait for TP points to post to Alaska?
 

I ordered my 7 Night Travel Package Category 1-5 Hotels at 01/22/17 and miles were posted to my Alaska Mileage Plan account at 02/01/2017.

Where exactly do I go in my rewards account to use the 7-night certificate?

I've never been able to successfully do this online. There are accounts upthread of people being able to add them to the Dream Tracker thing and do it from there.

I called in another one over the weekend - this time for United miles. No hold time, UA miles posted in less than 24 hours. A little bit frustrating that it isn't a few clicks in the mobile app, but overall not too much of a hassle at all.

Thanks for responding, but I meant, once I redeemed the travel package and have the 7-night certificate in my rewards account, where exactly do I go to book my hotel room?

Ah... If it's same-category and you're actually booking a 7-nighter, I just assumed it automatically attached. I could be wrong though.

I almost always end up phoning them for the hotel booking as well, as I usually don't redeem Category 5. Cat 6-8 is usually what I'm looking at, so I make the call for the cert upgrade and booking all at one shot.

Just search for availability like you would any award, then once you have found 7nights at your chosen hotel, call them up and book over the phone. They will use the TP rather than deduct points

If Michael_V already has the hotel cert in their account from previous conversion, they would just do the search for points availability and when you get to the payment page you can select to attach the certificate.

While that works for using the free night cert from the credit cards I can't get it to add my cert for a 7 night stay.

Make a reservation online only without the pts as the system would not recognize the 7 night cert due to when it actually applies, it would be split into a 5 nights and a 2 nights certs.

The only way is to call and the CSR would manually attach the cert to your booking, then you will see the 5 and 2 nights certs in the booking.

This has been discussed at least 10 times or more in the past few months, even just a couple pages before when someone tried to book online.

Nope. It does not work that way for ours, nor for many others bookings to use the Travel Package cert.

The system does NOT recognize you have a cert, just tell you you dont have sufficient points and you can buy points to finish the payment.:rolleyes:

If you have actually been successful in doing what you describe, then you are the only person who has been able to attach the cert to the existing booking. No idea about your comment of "in Their Account from Previous Conversion." What conversion you referred to?

In reality, the cert when attached, it is split into a 5 nights and a 2 nights cert - 2 certs showing in the booking - did yours done online by yourself as you claimed, showing such attachment?