For all you folks that have redeemed MR for travel packages in the last couple weeks are you let the cert. float or attaching it? I may redeem for a 1>5 Cat. package this week.

Hi, I just transferred 200k SPG points to Marriott but it has been almost an hour and the points have not shown up yet. Is anyone having trouble or experiencing delay? TIA.

However AA program while no stopovers, many changes are free for everyone. And if miles are coming out from one account, fee is charged in full on the first ticket with only $25 per subsequent ticket.

AS now charges $125 per ticket. Given the current policy CX has adopted, it makes long range bookings very difficult, not to mention married segments are unbookable by AS or BA. With AA you can book the married segment, ticketed it and later use drop segment provision to drop the unneeded segment - if your itinerary meets the criteria, drop segment is free. Can't even do this with AS or BA as they need non-married segment availability to book to begin with.

Personally I would give a consideration on AA's still free changes feature (and the 5 days award hold feature).

It should be instant, but lately can take longer, even overnight.

You can do the following to verify it.

To see it in your Marriott account

1) Use the app to check the balance.
2) Use the site, under Activity, use the ALL option to pull up your activity details - if the transfer is successful you would see the activity there but only shows up with the ALL option, AND does not included in your account balance online!

Thanks so much for your response. I was able to see it on some pages and not others. Called in and verified that the points are there even though they don't appear on the website.

Attached Cat 9 package

Waiting now day 3 for a SPG to SPG transfer (family).

I'm thinking of canceling it and doing a SPG -> Marriott and then using the family pool to redeem the specific award? (this should be instant).

Is today the last day? Or do we have until the 17th?

Both...
 

If you know where and when you want to stay, and especially if the hotel is staying the same or going up in points cost, I think you will be wise to attach it. If Marriott will still allow one year extensions from the date of request or Cat changes, you should mitigate any possible losses. In my case, since the TPs are being seriously devalued, I decided to buy 13 TPs, only 3 of which are attached, all Cat 9s (I know dates, hotels and they are going up in cost). The value of getting two airlines' FF balance up to 7 figures hedges at least somewhat against whatever Marriott might do to floating certs (I'm floating across all Cats to spread the risk). I'm of course hoping they will treat these fairly, but I had too many points to just sit by and watch them devalue significantly. Ymmv. Cheers.

Any recent experience with redeeming TPs to obtain Korean Air miles? It's been 10 days since redemption and still no love in my Skypass account. Makes me greatly appreciate Korean's super generous hold policy.

Yes, I agree. There're a few other benefits that AA has over AS besides the ones you mention. For instance, the ability to mix multiple partners on the same itinerary, or the ability to add Cathay Dragon intra-Asia flights to your CX flight to HKG. However, the cost differential vs AS is substantial.

Booked my first travel package yesterday and the UA miles were in my account today.

I am currently on hold while I am booking a second package, but was told that they will expedite the AS miles from the usual 1-3 weeks to something quicker.

As a note, this is now the seventh Marriott associate I have asked about which package to purchase if my desired property will move down categories come August. This is the fifth of the seven that has advised me to purchase the lower priced category and attach it after the change (even after I asked if a floater certificate will be canceled and they said no). Only two advised to attach it to a reservation but they also had no clear answers.

Obviously, the Marriott associates do not have any depth or breadth of information, but the point is if their own associates have very little knowledge about these changes and are advising members in certain directions, and if Marriott decides to do something in a different direction than that, it seems reasonable that Marriott would need to, from at least a PR/member relationship standpoint, make this right by their members in some way.

That super generous hold policy is now history. Hope they honor yours since you did it before their policy change. Also, pre-8/18, you get substantially fewer miles if you select KE for your TP.

Called the toll-free number yesterday past midnight and got a knowledgeable representative after waiting on hold for 5-10 minutes. Was able to change the name on my account and order a travel package in under 2 minutes.

Not once was I asked for my Marriott Rewards number or even my name! Someone spoofing my phone number could have easily emptied my account in a few minutes. :eek:

If I only have 200K points, is it worth to exchange 7nights (c1-5) + 50K AS miles? or use to stay for hotel?
Really not sure if I will stay in one place for 7 nights

Perhaps.You will likely waste some nights or have a hard time using it unless you can get over 80k in MR value at the hotel. Also, keep in mind you will be able to exchange 120k MR points for 50k AS miles (you can even do it now by exchanging the 120k MR points for 40k SPG points). No rush since this won't change. Cheers.