Originally Posted by
texdoc
That is why I figured the 49 nights are part of the 201. You couldn't get 201 nights this calendar year. If you spent almost every night for the last 4 mos + 49 nights you could get 201.
I'm sure I had some rollover nights from last year, which would account for some of the 201 nights. Before rollover nights, I normally ended the year with 450+nights anyway. This is because I use a lot of extended stay hotels and if I'm only leaving for 2-4 nights, I'll stay checked in to that hotel and leave some of my stuff behind rather than lug it to wherever I'm going for my short trip. Also, most cities/states rebate the hotel taxes after 30/60/90 consecutive nights, so If I'm staying at hotel X for $149/night for 100 nights and my taxes are 16%, I'm saving $2,384 in taxes during my entire stay. If I have to leave that hotel for, say, 3 nights after I've only been checked in for 30 days, I'll forfeit the $2,384 savings, so it is cheaper to pay $149/night x the 3 nights I'll be gone ($447 total) and just not use the room.
In the above example, I can actually leave that hotel for a total of 16 nights and stay ahead. I may choose to leave it checked in for more nights if I am in a situation where I have a bunch of "stuff" with me. I might figure it is cheaper (for me) to end up burning up my $2384 savings from the tax abatement and even pay money out of pocket if I can avoid having to lug a bunch of stuff around when I'm leaving for short trips.
So, back to my question above, if I have 201 nights YTD and some of them are rollover, what is the significance of the "49 rollover nights" figure. That number seems way too low to be the rollover nights brought over from 2009, but could it be the rollover nights that will be attributed to 2011? That would make more sense. If I recall correctly, you cannot rollover any nights in to the next year until you've completed 75 paid stays (thus you can't stay 225 nights and then rollover for 3 years. The rollover counter only starts for the next year after you've completed your 75th stay), so if that's the case, maybe I rolled over 77 nights from 2009. The math would be: 201 Elite Qualifying Nights for 2010 made up of 77 rollover nights from 2009 and 124 paid stays in 2010. So if that is correct, 124 nights in 2010 minus the 75 required for Plat = 49 extra nights rolling over in to 2011. Of course, 77 nights seems awful low but I don't keep good records on total stays because I never have problems with re-qualification.
Of course that's just an educated guess.