The travel package certificates never seem to attach when making the reservation online. You pretty much have to call to attach the certificate. The reservation will also always have an error message about the certificate not being the correct certificate for the reservation. The travel package certs are a little strange this way. They don't work exactly like your regular hotel certificate.

You can only combine by transferring the points from one account to the next first. Marriott currently only permits this when transferring between spouses.

Thank you.

I appreciate your concern for my compliance of the terms of program. At the moment, I have multiple accounts under my controls, each of them belonging to someone in my family.

I reviewed this thread before posting my question. I am glad to be corrected, if you point to me where, on this thread, the question of pooling points for travel packages had been answered.

that's not what you originally stated which was:
""I have points in multiple accounts.....""
which you now desire to change from "I" to family members........

and, I did state this and other threads on this subject, such as.......
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marri...ervations.html

You stated "asked and answered in the positive both in this thread and others"

So you used "both" and "and" there, even though your statement didn't apply to "this thread."

Ok. You got me. My language was imprecise.

Let's call it a draw.

-done-

I concur. DW recently booked a travel package award and we transferred the points from my account to hers. In order to do this they wanted her to have a hotel points reservation. Don't ask me why since you should be able to redeem a travel package reward without having the hotel stay booked.

I don't think we're talking about the same thing. I have redeemed a travel package without making a corresponding reservation, although now that you mention it, the time when I got the points transfer from someone else I may have had to.

But the dummy reservation was separate. This was due to the fact that the additional points were a gift, so I had to make another reservation so that the amount of points I needed was the same as what the gift was supposed to be.

Yes and no on this.

First, while the T&Cs state transfers only between spouses, Marriott will actually allow the transfers to occur between any two accounts. This has been done by FTers here (myself included) and has even been noted by Marriott Concierge as well. And while Marriott "could" stop that practice at any time, there has been no indications that they are thinking about it or planning on doing so. So we are probably fairly safe on this still being available for the near future.

Second, while you are correct in that in a single award transaction, only two accounts can be combined, it is possible to get points combined from more than 2 accounts. Basically, one combines from account #1 and #2 for an award. Then you cancel that award. All points will go to account #1. Repeat with account #1 and #3. Repeat with account #1 and #4, and so on....

Of course you would have to find larger and larger awards to keep pulling points from each of the accounts, but it can be done. And make sure you use awards that can be cancelled (i.e. don't use a TP award as you can't return the airline miles once they have been deposited.)

Having trouble finding 5 night package chart
 

I am a vacation club owner, and used the instructions provided in a previous travel package thread to find the chart for the five night travel packages. I apologize, if I missed a later thread, but I can't find the chart on the vacation club website. Trying to book a package before the May 15 change. Thanks for your help.

There is no chart on the website that I know of. Just call Marriott Rewards once you book your hotel nights. They will change from points to package and let you know the costs. It is something like 235K points for 5 nights at a cat 1-5 property for 5 nights and 120K miles.

Billy

It used to be on the my-vacationclub.com website under "Program Enhancements", but I see it is no longer available. I did an online chat with a rep and they indicated that the chart had been pulled down to make changes due to the changes in the program. Most likely because of the new category 9.

Good. I was looking for it a few weeks ago. I thought I was losing my mind-which I may be.

I had cut and pasted the chart into a Word document. It is outdated as far as category 9 hotels, but it may still help you (Sorry, I can't get the columns to line up on the post):

Note: 5 Night Travel Package Awards below are only available to Marriott Vacation Club owners only.

Participating Airlines: Aeromexico, Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Atlantic Hawaiian Airlines, Mexicana, Northwest, United Air Lines, US Airways, Varig Brasil, Virgin

5 Hotel Nights 50K Miles 70K Miles 100K Miles 120K Miles
Category 1-5 165,000 185,000 215,000 235,000
Category 6 180,000 200,000 230,000 250,000
Category 7 200,000 220,000 250,000 270,000
Category 8 230,000 250,000 280,000 300,000

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