Originally Posted by
forecheck
If it is really important to you, you should be able to get an additonal year by having 25 stays at SPG properties before the end of the year.
Is that really possible for someone who didn't sign up for SPG before Aug 18? I'm not sure, but I get the impression that the OP may have
never been an SPG member. And I don't see any way to sign up for SPG now. And the 25 stays at SPG properties before the end of the year only works for SPG members AFAIK.