Originally Posted by pinniped
Do MR Silvers get the EEO packages in the mail? If they do, then that is your single biggest benefit of the status. It is the biggest benefit of Gold status, too - those 2nd night free certs and other goodies.
I don't know how many different editions were mailed out last year, but I received 1 as Silver. It arrived well into the validity period, leaving little opportunity to use them. It's almost as if someone at the MR office said "Oh look, we have some of those coupon books left over. Let's send them to those Silvers so they can see what they're missing."
Ironically my one planned use was a reservation during the big Northeast power failure last summer... I couldn't go because there was almost nowhere to buy gas enroute and the hotel was not accepting new guests during the outage.