Ho Lee Fuk, this is like armageddon to me personally. Although I'm LT Plat and used to stay exclusively at Marriott, I've accumulated some 600,000+ SPG points via credit cards over the years thinking they were the best currency for my later years. What a screwing, you know they ain't going to convert at a favorable ratio.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop this merger on anticompetitive grounds (like that will ever happen in the good ole USA...)