Starwood VIP: is there a status above platinum? [Master Thread]
Jan 9, 2007, 4:25 am
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Starwood VIP: is there a status above platinum? [Master Thread]
I was at an SPG hotel recently and needed to print something out and the attendant at the exec lounge let me use her computer and there was a sticker along the top of the monitor that I had plenty of time to read.
It showed the various levels of SPG status, what was needed to get them and what the benefits were. Above Platinum was 'VIP Preferred' and the single stated benefit, above all the other levels of course, was guaranteed suite upgrade with at least 7 days notice. It also said that this level was 'invite only'.
I have searched on here and found no mention of it before which surprised me, please correct me if I am wrong...
Does anyone know what criteria need to be fulflilled to achieve this staus level?
It showed the various levels of SPG status, what was needed to get them and what the benefits were. Above Platinum was 'VIP Preferred' and the single stated benefit, above all the other levels of course, was guaranteed suite upgrade with at least 7 days notice. It also said that this level was 'invite only'.
I have searched on here and found no mention of it before which surprised me, please correct me if I am wrong...
Does anyone know what criteria need to be fulflilled to achieve this staus level?
Jan 9, 2007, 4:50 am
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.... Given that one of the potential criteria is to own an SPG branded property, I seem to recall various hypothetical discussions on here as to what was the most run-down, flea-bitten 4-Pts franchise that you could pick up cheap and.......
Now if only ALL the investors got VIP preferred, we could probably get an FT-*Wood consortium going, and I know there's some properties that we'd all desperately like to see under new management....
Willard the Bear - And guaranteed suite upgrades for bears, naturally!
Now if only ALL the investors got VIP preferred, we could probably get an FT-*Wood consortium going, and I know there's some properties that we'd all desperately like to see under new management....
Willard the Bear - And guaranteed suite upgrades for bears, naturally!
Jan 9, 2007, 5:23 am
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Jan 9, 2007, 6:59 am
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well
i think that the GMs will put other GMs in a deluxe suite or a bigger suite, i dont think that any of the GMs risk that other owners tell others GMs they know that GM x put him only in a junior suite
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Jan 9, 2007, 6:59 am
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VIP Status
Well I own 4 *wood properties and have been a *wood Platinum for over 10 years and no one has invited me to have VIP status...so much for that. William..what's the story here?
Jan 9, 2007, 11:20 am
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Good luck.
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William R. Sanders
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Jan 9, 2007, 12:12 pm
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If you indeed own four Starwood properties then you are among a very elite group. Care to share with us which ones they are?
Jan 9, 2007, 3:42 pm
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Although this is second hand info, the father-in-law of one of my colleagues is supposedly VIP Preferred, apparently as a result of a personal relationship with a *wood exec who bumped him up from Plat. Apparently there isn't a whole lot of difference and I heard about one situation where he was initially denied an upgrade upon presenting his VIP card because that property "only gives upgrades to Platinum members."
Jan 10, 2007, 3:00 pm
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When you say that, do you mean four vacation properties, or four hotels? There's a huge, huge difference.
Jan 10, 2007, 3:40 pm
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My ex-boyfriend had Starwood VIP status. He was a corporate officer in a Fortune 500 company that had some sort of arrangement with Starwood that Starwood was their preferred hotel. He got the card within weeks of getting this position. We got some pretty sweet suite upgrades after that. 
Jan 10, 2007, 3:47 pm
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My ex-boyfriend had Starwood VIP status. He was a corporate officer in a Fortune 500 company that had some sort of arrangement with Starwood that Starwood was their preferred hotel. He got the card within weeks of getting this position. We got some pretty sweet suite upgrades after that.
A committed FlyerTalker would have kept the ol' boy around -- just for those suite upgrades!
Jan 10, 2007, 7:51 pm
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My ex-boyfriend had Starwood VIP status. He was a corporate officer in a Fortune 500 company that had some sort of arrangement with Starwood that Starwood was their preferred hotel. He got the card within weeks of getting this position. We got some pretty sweet suite upgrades after that.
Heck, if my wife wouldn't mind, I might date him.
ROFL
Jan 11, 2007, 1:02 pm
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Dec 6, 2007, 4:00 am
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Starwood VIP level
My guess is this question has been answered before but the search engine doesn't let you search for words less than 4 letters.
I was walking though the Westin Sukhumvit in Bangkok and saw an ad for Starwood that showed 4 cards - silver, gold, platinum and VIP. Having been platinum for several years in a row in excess of 100 nights a year, I wondered what the VIP card was given out for.
Thanks
I was walking though the Westin Sukhumvit in Bangkok and saw an ad for Starwood that showed 4 cards - silver, gold, platinum and VIP. Having been platinum for several years in a row in excess of 100 nights a year, I wondered what the VIP card was given out for.
Thanks
Jan 5, 2008, 11:12 am
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VIP levels
1.) Did anybody ever get an invitation to VIP 1 level?
2.) How does this work? Do you get an invitation letter from the hotel director or starwood CEO?
3.) Assunming that you are a CEO of a blue chip company or a member of parlament (ie minister) or a showbiz celebrity :-:, how does you get such an invitation? Who can you than turn to?
2.) How does this work? Do you get an invitation letter from the hotel director or starwood CEO?
3.) Assunming that you are a CEO of a blue chip company or a member of parlament (ie minister) or a showbiz celebrity :-:, how does you get such an invitation? Who can you than turn to?