Transfer points between spouses
Aug 14, 2016, 10:09 am
#16
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: YVR, HNL
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Do you know what would happen if you cancelled the reservation? Does it say anywhere or did the agent tell you if the points go back to your account or to your wife's? I'm just curious as, if the former, I'm sure some enterprising soul could use this to get around the 50k per year limit.
Aug 14, 2016, 1:50 pm
#17
Moderator, Marriott Bonvoy & FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: McKinney, TX, USA
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Aug 14, 2016, 8:49 pm
#18
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 1,111
Do you know what would happen if you cancelled the reservation? Does it say anywhere or did the agent tell you if the points go back to your account or to your wife's? I'm just curious as, if the former, I'm sure some enterprising soul could use this to get around the 50k per year limit.
Aug 15, 2016, 7:37 am
#19
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: South Florida
Programs: AA LTG (EXP), Hilton Silver (Dia), Marriott LTP (PP), SPG LTG (P) > MPG LTPP
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Do you know what would happen if you cancelled the reservation? Does it say anywhere or did the agent tell you if the points go back to your account or to your wife's? I'm just curious as, if the former, I'm sure some enterprising soul could use this to get around the 50k per year limit.
Jan 10, 2017, 7:13 am
#20
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, MLife Gold, Marriott Gold, HHonors Gold, Caesars Diamond, Amex Plat
Posts: 5,937
I need to transfer dad's MR to mine for a travel package. Would it be easier to transfer over first for a dummy rez, then cancel, then book TP? Or will MR allow transfer for TP with no immediate hotel rez? Or either?
Jan 10, 2017, 7:34 am
#21
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Join Date: Aug 2011
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However Travel Packages don't require an immediate hotel reservation - you just get a reward certificate.
If you're trying to grab all of your father's points, just do a dummy rez to bring your balance down to a point where you need all of his points for the travel package.
Jan 10, 2017, 3:39 pm
#22
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, MLife Gold, Marriott Gold, HHonors Gold, Caesars Diamond, Amex Plat
Posts: 5,937
You might find it easier to combine via SPG although that requires both SPG accounts to share the same address for 30 days.
However Travel Packages don't require an immediate hotel reservation - you just get a reward certificate.
If you're trying to grab all of your father's points, just do a dummy rez to bring your balance down to a point where you need all of his points for the travel package.
However Travel Packages don't require an immediate hotel reservation - you just get a reward certificate.
If you're trying to grab all of your father's points, just do a dummy rez to bring your balance down to a point where you need all of his points for the travel package.
Jul 10, 2018, 4:37 pm
#23
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: saint augustine, FL USA
Posts: 463
I have been having trouble transferring pts from my wife's MR acct to mine for use on an existing reservation (never had this problem before). So just to confirm above posts, I could transfer her MR pts to her starwood acct then to my starwood acct and then to my MR acct, right?
Jul 10, 2018, 5:09 pm
#24
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Anywhere warm
Posts: 33,741
I have been having trouble transferring pts from my wife's MR acct to mine for use on an existing reservation (never had this problem before). So just to confirm above posts, I could transfer her MR pts to her starwood acct then to my starwood acct and then to my MR acct, right?
Jul 11, 2018, 8:33 am
#25
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: South Florida
Programs: AA LTG (EXP), Hilton Silver (Dia), Marriott LTP (PP), SPG LTG (P) > MPG LTPP
Posts: 11,329
I have been having trouble transferring pts from my wife's MR acct to mine for use on an existing reservation (never had this problem before). So just to confirm above posts, I could transfer her MR pts to her starwood acct then to my starwood acct and then to my MR acct, right?