Top Up Your Marriott Free Night Award Certificate

I’m still shaking my head that I somehow missed the news that you can now top up your Marriott free night award certificates by adding up to 15,000 points to secure a more expensive property.

Top Up Your Marriott Free Night Award Certificate By Adding Up to 15,000 Points

Earlier this week I wrote about my decision to spend a quick overnight layover in Paris at the Marriott CDG Airport Hotel, which was 32,000 points per night. I chose that property because I had an expiring 35K certificate and, at the time, I thought my choice was to get this property for free or pay over 400USD to stay at the Sheraton inside the airport, because it cost 44,000 points per night.

What I missed was a policy change made earlier this year that you can now combine points with the value of the free night certificate:

Additionally, the value of your Free Night Award can be combined with up to 15,000 points.

I could have saved myself an immense amount of stress nad time by adding 9,000 Bonvoy points to the 35K certificate to stay at the in-terminal Sheraton CDG.

So yes, I feel like a fool, though now I know.

I like this policy quite a bit and appreciate it. How I wish I would have just been aware of it a little earlier…

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