Originally Posted by
cxauhk (Post # 124)
Would like a bit of advice from the more seasoned. I made it to Platinum a few days before the end of the 2024. What would be the best choice from "Select Nightly Upgrade Award" or "Add Elite Night Credits"? I don't expect to hit another 50 nights in 2025.
Originally Posted by
SPN Lifer (Post # 125)
If you have not yet achieved Marriott BONV°Y lifetime Platinum Elite status, every 5 Elite Qualifying Nights (EQN) help get you closer.
Originally Posted by
s3m (Post # 126)
Elite night credits are valuable if you expect to be short on the nights required to meet your target level. For example, if you achieve 45 nights in 2025 then the 5 Elite Night Credits would be good for keeping you at Platinum in 2026. If you don't expect to be in that situation then they have almost no value (they will still count towards lifetime status).
Since this is a 2024 Annual Choice Benefit (ACB), the 5 EQN would apply to the 2024 total, not 2025.
See Posts 86 & 127,
supra (January 2025 EQN apply to 2024);
cf. Posts # 54 (December EQN selection applies to 2024) & 56 (waiting until January to select EQN to see if needed to reach 75 in 2024).
EQN cannot be "extended" for a year through selection in early January, as one could formerly do with the 40K-point Free Night Award (FNA) until this year.