Well lets see, next month I'm doing 14 days at cat 7 for 300,000. Next year I'll get 10 days for 280,000...wonderful!!! My plan will be to reserve a couple trips before the change is made to burn through some points. Since I'm already plat through 2/2010, next year I'll just do 35 nights to keep gold with my premier cc. I'll do this just to keep concierge lounge access but will then shift the balance to SPG. Not that SPG is great, but at least at their top tier I might get a shot at a suite once in a while.

I'll be going for the status match tomorrow AM and will be canceling and re-booking about a dozen nights already reserved for the next 6 weeks as soon as it goes through.

Good plan Marriott, it only cost you about 30-40 nights/year from me.

What a year. First NWA pisses me off by not matching any of DL's double EQM offers and now Marriott drops the value of my already earned hotel currency by about 20%. I think I'll go look at my 401K statement and cheer myself up