Originally Posted by
COMike78
Would be nice to see some sort of official communication from Marriott to everyone with an active (either attached or not attached) certificate. Otherwise I take everything that is posted on this topic with a Costco-sized grain of salt.
That first link also does not inspire a great deal of confidence since it looks nothing like an official Marriott site...
All of these travel bloggers are falling over themselves to be the source of "breaking news!" or some irrelevant nugget of half-truth that will allow them to brag about how they were FIRST. It has gotten so many people here on FT and elsewhere worked up trying to imagine scenarios of TP-riches with once in a lifetime stays in a $1500/night over the water bungalows for a Cat 8 cert. The reality is most of these people are finding things out not much more quickly than the general public in most cases...