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Old Jan 13, 2020 | 4:24 am
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mhle
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Switzerland
Programs: AY Platinum Lumo, LX Senator, SK Life-time Gold, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond
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Originally Posted by kanamurva
But if I drop to gold, I will get one LH voucher from gold, 3 from reaching plat (+1 gold card) and 3 from starting new season as plat (+1 gold card). So according to my math, renewing plat would “cost” me 4 LH vouchers + 1 gold card. That’s a quite a lot of value left at the table right? The only downside is that as a gold one gets only +15% tier points instead of plat +25 %.
Is this math really correct? I cannot see how you get the extra give-away gold card? If you drop to Gold, you will miss one give-away gold card. If you re-qualify to Platinum, you get the missed give-away gold card later during the year. But you get one extra set of Gold benefits by dropping to Gold and then re-qualifying? Similarly as you get one extra set of Platinum benefits by dropping from Lumo to Platinum and then re-qualifying. Or am I thinking wrong?
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