Huh? I am lifetime SPG plat. I have almost never stayed at a Marriott before so certainly not hostile towards SPG folks. But you’d be blind and stupid not to realize SPG golds, which is an easy status to attain, are flocking to Marriott because Marriott gold benefits are far better than gold ones.
If you one stays 10 nights in a row and one night in another hotel... Starwood would give 2000 points if hotels are participating with promo. With Marriott you’d get a free night so Marriott promo is better if you are generally a long stayer as I am. Starwood promo is better if you stay 1 night. Many SPG golds golds flocked to Marriott for club access. I see this promo as clearly a way to get them to go back to starwood and many Marriott folks here are saying they will go to starwood because promo better. Before there was not much incentive for Marriott loyalists to try Starwood as Starwood loyalists to try Marriott unless you tend to stay for long durations as I do or are using points at the end of year as I am because of worries of devaluation. I had 36 starwood nights booked for the remainder of the year but will only get 1000 points. If I switched two of those stays to Marriott (which I have done) I’d get one free night which is obviously more valuable. Hostile to Starwood no but able to reason yes
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scracer14
While you do benefit from jumping in and out of properties with the SPG promo, you also do for the Marriott promo... Both are based on Stays...
Not sure why this would be specifically good for someone trying to requalify as SPG Gold, because the SPG promo is still bettwer than the MR promo for someone (like myself) with 140 SPG nights and 110 Marriott nights (35 rollover).
Sounds like by the first paragraph that you have some animosity towards the SPG folks overall... I for one, did just the opposite, switch most of my stays from MR to SPG because I felt the properties gave a little better service (and got sick of paying $5-10 for water bottles in the Marriott properties)
