Originally Posted by
goldenbear
with Nice to see that some of those who completed the Platinum Challenge pre-merger are seeing PP showing up now somewhere in their profile. I have not seen that on mine (either in app or online), but for now I'm fine with waiting given that there are lot of funky things still going on their integration efforts that are more important for Marriott to fix - like reservations missing and points missing, etc.
I think we won't really have confidence that everything with the 2018 Platinum Challenges will be done right until we se'e Plat Premier still active next February when the downgrades process.
I was a natural 50 night gold when I requested the status challenge, and am now Lifetime Platinum after the merger... so the additional extra effort to get the 'old Platinum' through the challenge - which was said to run through January 2020 - will be a big waste if Marriott doesn't grant PP through the end of 2019. I will also not be particularly pleased if Marriott somehow figures out a way to exclude certain PP's from their RewardsPlus Silver status agreement with United as getting UA Silver in 2019 was a major goal of my doing the challenge.
folks, wanted to get some clarification:
1. I completed the SPG challenge to stay 18 nights in 3 months before the merger. Is this the same platinum challenge that people are talking about?
2. The Marriott and SPG apps both show me as platinum elite but I’m assuming this has to fixed to PP due to the challenge. Is there a way to find out how long the Platinum status will last till? Like goldenbear said - would hate to have come all this way only to have my status downgraded in Feb 2019.