El Boocho

Danger is my middle name... Anything more than the minimum to pass means you overstudied!

X-ON

It seems that there is very little coordination between what IT is currently doing and other parts of the corporation,IT seem to be doing their own race.

My guess is that a welcome email to LTers will occur after the launch of Bonvoy.

When it comes to to double counting 2018 years I had 3 nights YTD on the 18 Aug and ended the year with 90+ nights (50+ nights at SPG brands) and I remember that the app was tracking my P and PP renewal during the 2nd half of 2018 so I definitely should earn one P year for 2018.

I think what MAR has lost most in this merger is the trust from some of their most loyal and profitable customers otherwise we would not been having this discussion of potential claw backs after almost 6M after system was officially declared stable, worrying that our 2018 activity would be ignored ... In my opinion this could have been mitigated with more communication about what was going on ... I suspect that one of the reasons for the lack of communication is that that senior management had very poor visibility what was really going. They either did not understand or they did not bothered to find out ... In any event a very low mark for senior management at least for the optics visa vi their customers ...

Anyhow I think they can still salvage it if Bonvoy becomes like SPG 2.0 which at least I think they want to it to be.... get suite upgrade pool enforced, clarify the breakfast benefit and lounge access, i.e. reduce the wiggle room for properties to sidestep the actual T&C. Stop the practice to force properties to remove extra benefits offered to P+ ...

hockeyinsider

Folks, stop giving Marriott ideas by posting on here how Marriott screwed up the maths.

UA-NYC

I'm not sure that we'll actually get a "congrats!" note from Marriott...this is the same Marriott that couldn't be bothered to send them out when you hit Platinum each year (can't speak for the other levels)

SPG sent it about 5 minutes after your Plat-qualifying stay/night posted...

Ord Liza

I received emails from Marriott, at least in 2014 and 2017. (I either didn't in the other years or I threw them away.) I know this seems hard to believe, but Marriott really was a different company as far as customer focus went. Given the current state of affairs, I'm not expecting an email this year.

rny321

Congratulations! Although I had more than 2MM MR points, I intended to barely cross the 750 night mark for combined nights. Instead, I unexpectedly received 45 lifetime nights for having one personal and two business cards plus credit for multiple rooms which put me well over 750. Too bad additional nights for multiple credit cards and rooms aren't likely to be added to this year's totals.

seanp7

Sweep occurred for me.
Nights: 1324
Years as Platinum: 15

Website and App correctly reflecting LTPP. Color me shocked! ^

bosman

I was a bit nervous as I was just over the line, but sweep happened and I am correctly LTPPE:

Combined Nights 754
MR Points 2,005,800

stimpy

OK, but database interpretation is clearly having issue when I see this....

Years as Silver, Gold or Platinum: 28

Hopefully the routines that determine status are better constructed.

naumank

CCIE_Flyer

There's already precedent for this sort of thing, actually. At one point last year Marriott was saying that they'd double counted LT nights during a period of time (can't recall the exact details). My account never reflected this alleged over counting, yet when the claw-back script was executed my account was docked by something like a few dozen LT nights. I still remained over a thousand night and there was so much nonsense going on that I never pursued it (and the only reason I even considered doing so was to just make a point that the mistake was real and that it was potentially harmful to others without so much of a safety buffer).

california09

Quick update - thanks to Lurker my case is now being evaluated and I've received email correspondence. Will keep all posted.

Note - someone I think misinterpreted my 9 years as saying not counting 2018. I'm frankly not sure where 9 plat years came from. I've been plat in Ritz Carlton every year since 2012 (so 7 years including last year) and had at least 6 years platinum for SPG (I haven't looked beyond that, it might be more). So the 9 is frankly confusing.

Fortunately looks like I'm in the minority (most people's seem good).

MSPeconomist

josep

I just noticed my status changed to LTPPE recently, both on the Website and App. It was Lifetime Platinum Elite the previous time I checked.
The Nights count is correct at 1,661.
But Platinum Years is not correct, as it says 9 years and should be 10 (achieved during 2018) - I suppose the years count will be updated soon.

naumank

Did you have an issue with Marriott extending "light" platinum status to members in previous years? How many people benefited from the double counting of LT nights to reach LTPP? I assume it's a minuscule percentage. Then you (LTPP) will be competing with regular PP members anyway which I assume is a much bigger number than LTPP. So the impact to you will be unnoticeable.