Originally Posted by yeunganson

There are silver linings. Those who book corporate retreats, conferences and meetings, they can always get the hotel to pay out those 10 nights through hotel's own pocket using the "e-bonus" tool. In fact, in previous Marriott Get Plat For $800 thread, a member got comped Platinum status for a year because of hotel screw up if I recall correctly (although the poster was going for the eligible nights and not the annual status).. I am pretty confident if you bring in 100,000 per conference/meeting/corporate retreat and you do a few of those a year, they will make it work.