Originally Posted by
darthbimmer
BTW, with rollover nights posting I just made LT Plat. I'm stoked that I can rely on platinum benefits without worrying about the annual status chase.
By my math, I'm 216 nights short of lifetime-platinum status. I'm going for lifetime-platinum in 2018, as I normally do 125-150 butt-in-bed nights per year with Marriott and an additional 30-50 nights at non-Marriott hotels per year. If I can do four or five events to collect the Rewarding Events bonus then I very well could finish the year with lifetime-platinum status, which should position me reasonably well in the new, combined Marriott, Ritz-Carlton and SPG program that will probably be announced in June and will take effect in January 2019.
As they say, go big or go home.