Originally Posted by
SkiAdcock
They did, partly because some of what they were up for wasn't their strength as sophiegirl pointed out a while ago.
But I seriously doubt the Gold/Plat challenge had anything to do w/ the inaugural FT Awards & more to do w/ wanting to capture other chains' elites without just matching status.
Cheers.
Could be true, as the challenge is a stay based challenge, unlike their prior empahasis on nights based challenges and a nights based elite scheme.
All that I will note is that if you are offering up to 3 free nights by making 6 separate stays in essentially a 3 month period, it is pretty easy to add 3 more nights to ensure that you will have Platinum status to enjoy your redemption of those 3 nights that now extend for an additional year!