Originally Posted by pinniped

But even for dining and travel, you're leaving a bunch of value on the table every single time you use it outside of Marriott.

Don't get me wrong: I like MR Plat, although I don't really miss it too much in my Gold years since there's so little difference between the two levels. It's just not worth enough to make me pay a great deal for it through the suboptimal use of credit cards.