Originally Posted by
hsh101
I could be wrong, but I thought the rolling 12-month qualification only applied to the first time you were qualifying for a level. In this case, I thought that you'd have to earn gold over the coming calendar year (1/01/08-12/31/08), in order to get the level back.
Not quite right. The rolling 12 month qualification is for the "next higher elite level" and not just for the first time they ever get that level.
So if a person were a Gold elite (achieved via calendar year stays or rolling 12 months stays), received 49 nights during the last 6 months of a calendar year, and then no stays recorded before March 1st of the next year, they would drop to Silver. Then if that person were to have a 1 night stay, sometime in March, they would have 50 nights within a 12 month window and would again be elevated to Gold status as that is the next higher level.