Originally Posted by
AJNEDC
I am not follow your line of reasoning. According to the Bonvoy literature:
10 nights = silver status
25 nights = gold status
You seem to be stating that if you are granted silver status automatically, you will still need to stay 25 more nights to get to gold. I am saying that cannot be correct. By my calculations, if you are granted silver status you will only need to stay an additional 15 nights before reaching gold (25-10).
No. Incorrect. Your quotations are correct. 10 nights = silver status. But not the reverse. Silver status does not add 10 nights.
That's where your assumption is incorrect. That's what people here have been telling you in multiple posts.
Your credit card may give you a certain level of status but that does not add the equivalent number of EQNs to your annual total. Just check your Bonvoy account numbers if you think there's some doubt here. I'm not an expert on US credit cards but if your card gave you Silver status and 15 EQNs then there's clearly no correlation between the card EQNs and the Bonvoy status (which would require 10 EQNs) that it gives you.
You want Platinum? Your Bonvoy account must count up to 50 (or pay for that US card that gives Platinum).