Of course, other people can travel the patterns I do and stay a lot of nights at Marriott properties. I have currently 107 nights at Marriott properties this year. I should be around 160 nights, or more, before I am done. My last night stayed was in Renton, WA last week and some fellow FTer had some lame excuse that he was in San Diego at some convention.

Convention or the BA Grill? Seems like a no brainer to me as the meat at the BA Grill is fabulous.

Back to the night stays, I like Marriott because, as a Platinum, I have some benefits that are wonderful. I also have a lot of points and am accumulating them for future personal stays. I could switch to Hilton Honors or Priority Club for the remainder of the year and probably become Platinum on them but I am staying with Marriott so I can rack up the points.

Back to BritBen, best of luck with which ever program you select. ^