too much biatching from some of you as well to respond to all but for those of you who are bragging about a few years ago.. BFD..

to those who said I got what I was promised; no I didn't, I thought we were all playing by the same rules or at least most of us were.. apparantly not

Well since marriott is giving away the house at Plat level and then bending me forward with the new rate redemption and new categories.. the economy is something we all deal with and b/c my travel is not being cut I shouldn't have my benefits diluted b/c yours are..

some of you chose to do 125+ nights but thats your choice as you only had to do 75 per the stated t&c's.. why one would go over is beyond me.. i can think of some reasons but all in all I see no reason to give MR a 76th night.

I think it may be time to drop my nights by 33% to (give or take a few) 50 nights (want to make sure I maintain gold).. I can give those other nights to Hyatt where I'm diamond, SPG (plat), and go back to Hilton (now gold) and make diamond there.

either I will keep the freebie at MR or just go with the new Hh Diamond.. its my (or my employers) dime that I choose to spend where I want on the brand I want. When MR (or is it MI) allows me to get Plat with some unwritten amount less than 75 (which I plan to test including the cc nights) then I'll know what the real rules are and can make a better decision on to whether MR is the right chain to allocate 75 nights too.

Now a nice double night/stay credit could change that strategy by making it a bit more even up front.

maybe MR should go to a revenue based program; not sure it would solve everything but it might be a step in the right direction