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Sep 27, 2016, 9:29 am

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Originally Posted by rrgg

The lately discussed Marriott deals to get discounted UA miles or discounted miles & nights seems to require that you're in RewardsPlus. However I'm not eligible for RewardsPlus as far as I can tell, since I'm no longer UA Gold (and am only Marriott gold via SPG).

Have I misunderstood how this works?

This is not an authoritative answer. I was curious, so I went digging. The only thing I can see is that you have to have linked your Marriott and United accounts, not that you have to have a specific status. Here's the Marriott page on RewardsPlus.