Originally Posted by
dealhunter999
Greetings!
Need advice on how to proceed in following situation:
SPG:
334 nights,
Lifetime SPG points: 200,000 (approx, includes 50K credit card points)
Marriott:
692 nights ,
Lifetime MR Points: 1,484,000 (currently lifetime silver)
Questions:
- What will be the best strategy to get the highest lifetime status with the above data in new merged program? fyi, I will be not travelling this year except 4-5 days hotel stay.
- Is lifetime platinum status possible in this scenario?
- I was thinking of adding another 100K MR sign-up bonus points by applying for MR Premier credit card to reach lifetime gold MR status (500 nights,1.6 million points). I can do this by end of August or before.
Thanks!
What do you mean by "gold" and "platiinum"? The per-August defintino, or the post-August defintion? Are you are aware that was is now called MR Gold (50 night annual level) will be called Platinum in the new program come August, and that what is now called MR Platinum will be called Platinum Plus in the new program come august?
So lifeitme MR Gold will be new-program lifetime Platinum.
Meanwhile, SPG doesn't count lifetime points officially, and so you cannot combine lifeitme SPG points into lifetime Marriott points.
Lifetime MR platinum meaning lifetime Platinum Plus in the new program would require that you get 58 more Marriott nights this year (which you could to with 6 meetings before August), and also 516,000 more Marriott points. That'd be pretty hard unless you're sitting on hundreds off thousands of Chase Ultimate Rewards points and/or hundreds of thousands of Diners Club USA Club Rewards points.
Lifetime MR Gold meaning lifetime Platinum in the new program would not require a single night, but would require 116,000 more lifetime points. You can get that with a combination of applying for the Marriott Premier Plus card plus buying a few thousands points and/or transferring a few thousand points from United.
But how many years did you earn Platinum at SPG, how many years did you earn Platinum at Marriott, and how many years did you earn Gold at Marriott? Because there's another way of earning status in the new program based on combined nights but combined years, not combined points.