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.
The CC certainly helps and any rollover nights help too. If it is your first year with the program (i.e. you have no status) and get the card, spend say 10K then your at 18 nights without staying one night in an actual hotel. Stay 25 nights and you are a silver at 43 nights... 33 rollover. Do the same, 25 nights (~2 nights per month), 18 CC nights next year and you make Plat.
That said, once plat you will only rollover 1 night. Keeping plat is going to be much harder.
I dunno, I guess my point is if you know how the system works you should be able to get plat only staying 25 nights. Also, if you can yearly get Gold then the CC can get you pretty much the rest of the way to Plat.