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UA-NYC
I fall into the same camp
7 years of Plat / 700 nights.
I also agree I bet both years needed and stays go away as any sort of LT calculation.
I'd say, hey they may make LTP now 1,000 nights / 2.5MM points or so once they combine...but that would also move the goalposts on a lot of long time MR elites and alienate over half of the members.
We shall see...
Agree LTP with MR requires 750 nights and 2M points so moving it to 1000 will certainly not be popular. My hypothesis is that MPG will introduce a new tier above platinum then dilute the benefits of platinum Hyatt style with some impossible too use vouchers/awards or something similar and move the real perks up the food chain. I also suspect that nights and money spent (some variation of points) will be the determining factors for life time tier.
My real concern is that the SPG lifetime nights are butts in bed nights vs. the MR lifetime nights contaminated with rollover nights, bonus nights etc. The exSPG members are here risking getting the real short end of the stick since if MR and SPG will count equal at judgment day
one year from now; I bet you a steak dinner that if lifetime nights from MR and SPG are migrated equally into MPG then this new top lifetime tier will be dominated of exMR members.
Even after we adjust for the difference in population, ie. there will be more exMR than exSPG in MPG so we must first adjust for that important difference.
But maybe that's the natural order Marriott bought Starwood after all.