180k Amex Canada = 180k Aeroplan
180k Amex = 90k SPG = 270k Marriott = 7 nights at a category 5 and 150k Aeroplan during a 25% hotel transfer promo

30k Amex Points tradeoff for 7 nights at a category 5 isn't something I would dismiss out of hand.

150k Aeroplan is worth about the same as 120k Alaska to me. Some give and take based on stopover rules and award availability.

That's a good point. Actually now that you said this, I think I would do it next year, hopefully AP runs the same promotion.

Is it different for gold/plat? I'm seeing 5 MR to 1 AP or Avios.

The problem is that JasGIll & Zoqfotpik are talking about Amex Membership Rewards points because they misunderstood our "MR" ;) while the rest of us are discussing Marriott Rewards points.

That makes sense. Considering the context was the Marriott Travel Packages though, should have been obvious which MR it was.

Since its a cumulative bonus, it can take 4-6 weeks from the last day of the promo.

Has anyone's bonus miles from the transfer to Aeroplan posted yet?

25% bonus when converting MR points to AAdvantage miles, including TPs. Now through June 15. Since this includes all MR point to AAdvantage conversions, I started a separate thread on this for those who may not frequent this one.

Has anyone had any luck recently refunding a 7 night Cat 1-5 certificate back into points? I've HUCA'd a few times now and have had no luck.

How would this be possible? They can't get the miles back from the airlines, can they?

But then again, your post makes it sound like someone did it in the past!

I think I recall reading that you can refund the certificate only back into the account (i.e. let the airline miles stay as they are), but it's a really small amount - I would much sooner find someone else who can use the certificate than try to refund it.

Marriott will refund 45k for for the 1-5 certificate itself, and then any points you spent to buy up in package also get refunded. Hardly worth it to refund the 1-5 cert itself since I'm sure at some point in travels you can find at least a couple of nights you might be able to use a Cat 5 cert, making it worth it.

I rarely ever stay somewhere for more than 2 or 3 nights and mostly stay at hostels. I would rather have the 15k starpoints back.

I'm also trying to get this done today and every agent said it cannot be done. Is there anything special I need to say or guide them to in order to do this? I'm just asking if I can get the hotel portion refunded and that I understand I cannot get all the points back. Do I need to call a specific number?

Well it looks like on my third call, the agent noticed that my account has been notated by the other 2 agents before about this request. I guess I'm not getting this done.

In all my years on FT and as a Marriott Rewards elite member, I cannot recall ever hearing that someone was able to get points back after purchasing a Travel Package. People have been able to extend them, but never return them or even break them into non-consecutive nights at the same property. You often see threads where people are looking for advice on how to burn off the certs, which would indicate the certs cannot be redeposited as points or those threads wouldn't be necessary.