The 'old status' being retained drive me bananas. I had to restay at each of the hotels I was at with Gold to have them update in the 'local' system as Platinum ..and yes you have an extra long checking and no upgrades are not available of course because by the time you arrive they have been allocated as their records show you as Gold. :-p After you checkin try going to the club lounge... They have you as gold too :-(
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RAPC
Same here, but usually at hotels I first stayed at back when the address was correct. The other irritation is that one particular hotel was also repeatedly defaulting back to my original status of Gold on visits. This caused me to miss out on upgrades a couple of times and took the hotel doing a manual data update to correct everything.