Originally Posted by cmculp

I'm a former HH diamond who defected to Marriott about 8 years ago. I'm now a lowly blue, but signed up for the fast track offer (so now silver) and have 4 stays over the next 2 weeks pending. It would help a lot if one of them was an award stay. Firewind implies that the award stays count (and a search turns up some guidance that they count toward annual status, but a careful reading of the T&C gives no firm indication that they count in the fast track. How does one know for sure??