WillBarrett_68

What you're legally obliged to do and what a hotel has as their policy are two different things.

The US does not have a national ID system or a requirement to carry ID with you either.

BrightlyBob

You’ll not be asked for ID in the U.K. as long as your profile shows a U.K. address and you confirm that. However they will want to hold a credit card and if the names don’t match that could cause issues...

unseasoned

I am a Titanium elite currently at 70 Elite Nights this year. With the automatic status extension, is there any reason to go out of my way and actually stay the five extra nights to make it a full 75? If I have travel coming up this year, is there any reason to stay Marriott or should I be looking into/taking advantage of deals elsewhere?

Assuming I don’t stay any more nights at Marriott this year, I was planning to select the 5 elite night for my platinum gift to reach titanium, then select 5 SNAs for the titanium gift. Would that work? (That’s why the 5 elite night option exists right?) Is there an earlier deadline where I need to execute this strategy by, for all of those to go smoothly, or can I wait until January and see how things ended up playing out?

Horace

That would work.

Another option would be to pick a free night up to 40K as your 75-night Annual Choice Benefit.

It all depends on whether the 5 SNAs or the 40K night would be more valuable to you. It depends on your pattern of hotel stays. Some people on this board find SNAs to be incredibly valuable. Others find them worthless. Most people agree that a free 40K night has value.

If you reach 75 mights with additional hotel nights, you could have both.

rucksack

You could also get the credit card if you don’t have it already. The elite night credits post shortly after your card is approved.

craigthemif

The free night is often worth more than 5 SNAs, especially unused ones. So take the 5 elite nights now for 50 and the free night at 75.

Choose the free night on January 2nd and it should be valid until the end of 2023.

WasKnown

Caveat with the free night is that Marriott is eliminating award charts which will probably devalue the peak of the FNC significantly.

bsagator

Well as the title says, I unexpectedly ended up with 72 nights after my sister who was visiting for Christmas tested positive for Covid on her drive down to LA from SF, and so I ended up booking her a hotel for 8 nights which left me in this predicament. I can book a room in the Los Angeles area for as low as $50/night with my discount, so I was wondering, is Titanium worth $150 + taxes over Platinum?

escapefromphl

If you actually will stay more than 25 nights next year, I would say $150 would be worth it. You can get a 40K award night as a "choice award" as well which is probably worth $200.

ryw

Titanium also gives you complementary United silver status. If you fly on United several times a year but not enough to get status organically, I’d say it’s easy to get $150 of value from it.

As others said it’s pretty easy to get $150 of value if you choose the 40k free night certificate as your 75 night gift too.

bsagator

I should easily hit 25. I have 6 nights booked in Prague next week alone.

bobu

Its worth it just for the 40k cert you would get.

bsagator

Thanks everyone. I'm all booked. Found a room for $45/night and booked it.

fliesdelta

May I ask where you found a Marriott property in LA for $45/night?

bsagator

A immediate family member works for Marriott.