I have arround 30K points and started in April this year. MAde Plat with a total stay of 24 now. Thanks to the promo of double count. The number of stays I said are the real ones. So I would have made it anyway with another stay.

My benefit with Plat are only the extra points I get on every stay. No real upgrade so far. Maybe due to the locations we have in Germany. I mainly travel here. But anyway if I see that ppl have 500K points plus I really wonder