Originally Posted by
RogerD408
It does seem Marriott has avoided answering this question, at least from the searches I've tried. However,
https://thepointsguy.com/2016/01/whe...status-expire/ does say:
... and there is nothing to the contrary that I can find. I think you will be safe planning something for Feb, but I would not try to push it out to Mar. And this is not like some of the airlines do where if you book it while valid it's good. It's got to be valid when staying.
Where did the "instead of March" come from in the quote from TPG? I'm not aware of any status lasting through March of the following year unless it's one of the systems that assigns rolling qualification year dates, such as BA.