I have a variant of the one night stay question. If I have a 5 night point stay followed by a 1 night paid stay in the same hotel (6 consecutive nights) will that count as a paid stay? I know that the answer for SPG would be probably not as they would be consolidated into a single stay whether I checked in and out or not. But I am relatively new to chasing Marriott status and was wondering if anyone knew the answer to this.