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Old Aug 3, 2018, 5:30 pm
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CJKatl
 
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Originally Posted by tcdtcd

Are you sure on this? Every Marriott/SPG agent I've talked to (3 or 4 in last week) and everything I read on both websites says 50 nights in 2018, from either program or combined, gets you Platinum for 2019 and counts as a Plat consecutive year for LT. True?
You need 75 nights to hit legacy MR Plat but if you hit legacy MR Gold it will map to Plat in the new program and count as a year of Plat towards LT status. While technically true that you need 75 nights for Plat under the legacy MR program it is misleading to say you need 75 nights for 2019 Plat.
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