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Old Apr 18, 2018 | 6:16 am
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Canada101
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
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Originally Posted by ftrichard
While I understand that there are SPG LTPs who have over the years accrued significantly more than the bare minimum threshold of 10 years and 500 nights to the extent that they’ve got >750 or >1000 or >1500 or whatever accumulated nights they’ve got... please explain how being grandfathered to the new MPG (or whatever) LTP has materially devalued/disadvantaged/kicked-in-the-teeth your benefits in the new programme.
The basic fact that Marriott has seen it fit to grandfather their own MR LTPs into a new, special category which appears to be closed off for all others is a material devaluation/disadvantage/kick-in-the-teeth when that same grandfathering isn't made available to SPG LTPs with the exact same stay (and in some cases even better) histories as those with MR. If the devaluation isn't material then why would Marriott see fit to create an entire LT category at all?

In other words, if it wasn't material, why is there even a LTPP? Why isn't everyone mapped to the same LT status?

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