Originally Posted by
LIH Prem
This is so ridiculous .. just feeding the populist belief that unearned/gifted status materially impacts those people that have earned it. (when it doesn't).
-David
Agree. Additional verbiage & underlining mine.
I know a well-known & respected FTer who has access to Marriott lounges due to UA promo. He's primarily a Hilton/IHG guy, but occasionally will stay at MAR due to gifted (pre-8/18) Gold status. He stayed 2 times, yup only 2, in the last year at MAR properties & one of the 2 properties didn't have a lounge, so he got free brekkie in the restaurant instead. As someone noted up thread, if they're not staying enough to get status the hard way, odds are they're not staying enough to really impact other elites regardless of the wailing & moaning on the forum.
Cheers.