Cam:

It was just a suggestion for you to be able to get or keep the silver status 20% point boost for your board meeting stays for a year ... Isn't the annual fee on the MR Visa card waived for the first year? You can use it once for the 5,000 point bonus, keep it for 12 months to maintain or get silver status point boost, perhaps using it just for your required stays at Marriott and the extra bonus points they earn on that card, and ditch the card when the annual fee comes up ... which gets you a bit closer to the 200k choice award, while getting silver status for a year for free. Meanwhile, if your board meeting related stays this year total 15 nights, you can maintain the status for free for next year without the card.

Hope this helps.

-David



[This message has been edited by LIH Prem (edited 01-31-2001).]