I'm PP and got the larger miles offer right away.

USIrritated, you're missing one important thing.

If someone isn't going to get the # of nights needed for the # of nights/points promo, they won't get any megabonus points at all! Nada, buptkus.

So in that case, certs are more valuable than points. Certs now have a 1-year expiration date. And while there are some not so great shake places to redeem, there are a # of excellent places to redeem them & even at not so great places, if there's a special event & the rates go sky high that's a good use of them.

Folks, this is not an either or thing. For some points will be better. For others certs will be better. And it varies each time a promo happens, as people's travel patterns can change throughout a year.

Speaking for myself there are times when points were more important & I knew I'd hit the nights needed to get them. For others I knew I wouldn't hit the nights, so the certs became more important.

I'm just glad that, even if inconsistently, Marriott does allow changes vs. just doing a blanket no to everyone.

Cheers.

Canadian Marriott (recently become Silver b/c of Chase VISA)

- regular Stay 2 get 1 Free, Cat 1-4, 3 max. nights

Always got this offer in the last 2 years
and I see the offer fine in my "Promo Central" on marriott.com
https://www.marriott.com/rewards/promotionCentral.mi

may come in handy
I assume qualifying stay is anything that earns points, excluding probably Priceline bids

There are no MegaBonus offers which earn miles.

One thing which would increase Cat 4 certs value is if they let you use them on Cat 5 savers (20K points). Not sure why they don't do this.

OOPs, I meant points: 35,000 points for 20 nights annd 15,000 points for 5 more nights. It's been a while since I had my account changed to points rather than miles earning.

Hopefully, some hotels that were reclassified to Cat 5 this year due to past heavy use of Mega Certs, will fall back to Cat 4 because of the inability to use such certs during this year.

From your mouth to the great hotel god's ears!

I get the "a note on this promotion" error, but I am not sure why.

I maxed out on the last megabonus (50K points). I hope that does not make me ineligible.

I guess I will have to call monday.

I got the max last time and was offered the big points one this time, right when the promo apparently opened.

I just hit six stays to max out the last promotion and earn three certificates. Now I've been offered the 50,000 for 25 nights promotion, which won't work for me at all. I'll stay a maximum of 18 nights (more likely 14 nights) in the promotion period. I'll try to change on Monday to the 3 certificates for 6 stays promo, otherwise I'll likely be staying elsewhere for 1Q 2013.

On that promo, you would still get 35,000 points if you can make 20 nights. Otherwise, you might try to ask for the other smaller (40,000 maximum, with intermediate points, perhaps 25,000, at a lower step) points promo that one person reported here. I think it was mentioned in one of the early posts after the MegaBonus offers appeared, but I don't know how common it is.

Looks like I will be calling on Monday.Thanks!

So I have never gotten the nights offer.. How are people changing it? Calling MR?

Since really doubt I will achieve the nights in the offer period..

calling or e-mailing has been the norm..........