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Old Oct 18, 2022 | 10:02 am
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Originally Posted by ftrichard

it would be possible to become Lifetime Platinum with only 5 qualifying years of 50 nights if you qualify every other year for 5 years - each one of this 50-night years giving 2 eligible Lifetime Platinum years (though you'd have some gaps in eligibility in the first few months of the odd, 50-night qualifying, years 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9.
Yes it would work that way. But nobody would try it because:
  1. You can't get anywhere near 600 nights with only 50 nights every second year
  2. You would be doing 50 nights every second year without any elite status benefits
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