On the official Starwood/Marriott merger post on Flyertalk there is a lot of interesting information and the official ‘Starwood Lurker’ account is constantly adding new tips, replying to questions and being helpful in general. One thing that has been rumored is the ability to be use your free night certificates at properties that cost more than 35,000 points by paying the difference in points.
Q: If I have credit card free night certificate and want to stay in hotel which requires more than 35K points, can I use my own points to make up the difference? This would be very useful as there often no hotels at a given location that are available for low amount of points.
A; Not currently but we are looking to add this functionality in the future. <added by Starwood Lurker 04Jun2018>
If they did add this functionality then it would make the free night certificates a lot more useful as you wouldn’t be as limited in your options. It’s possible they’d also add an additional fee for doing this and that would decrease the value obviously but at this stage we can only hope that won’t be the case.
Hat tip to Chong786
