Well just racked up another $20k in charges and earned another 1 night Ritz Stay. Here is the catch though, the certs you earn this year expire on Dec. 30, 2005. Yup, they expire THIS year. I asked the rep when the Ritz Certs expired, and she told me that they will expire this year. She said that they may discontinue the Ritz Cert award and subsitute it with another similar type program (such as with another hotel) after this year. I can confirm this as I received the cert today and it does indeed expire at the end of this year. I was really hoping to use the ones that I earn this year next year. Now I got too many certs to use from last year and the ones I'll earn this year.