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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 9:24 pm
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oldsmoboi
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Programs: Marriott Platinum, USDM Gold, National Exec Elite, IHG Dumped-now Kettle, SPG Platinum
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Originally Posted by BostonFlyer1624
While the benefit of rollover nights is helpful, I would say Marriott has one of the most difficult elite status' to maintain compared to other hotel chains. Staying 75 nights per year is a hell of a lot of time in a hotel room.
well that's what I was kind of getting at with rollover nights. If one year I'm at 120 nights and the next year I'm at 60 nights I can still maintain my platinum status into the next year after that.

50% of my travel is structured and planned. The other 50% of my travel is what I would call "emergency" based, last minute travel that I can't predict or plan on. The beginning of 2012 had one really huge emergency in my department that required me spending 6 work weeks straight in hotels and going home on weekends.... on top of my planned travel for the time which was still required.
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