Originally Posted by nacho

+1 Especially for us who based in Europe AND not travel on business. We don't have people paying for our hotel nights. We earned our Gold with our own $ and we can't even get a credit card to give us elite nights.

I will be done with Marriott if I don't get my Gold benefits. I'll move my stays to IHG because even as a Plat I got lounge access even on 5k PB nights. It's also much easier to be a IHG Plat than Marriott Plat.