I believe it is this one:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/starw...-benefits.html

Thank you!

Your information is inconsistent with mine. I asked Amex how long I could use my old card for in this situation that was told 60 days from the first email.

This is pretty worthless. What does "soon" mean? For personal cards, it's 60 days according to what I was told or 45 days according to what alien was told. That's really not very soon.

Another inconsistency: I recently received my new purple card and it has no contactless technology included. I have a secondary cardholder, whose new card does! Amex didn't bother to ask what we wanted, they just sent them at random.

It took four attempts for American Express to send me an SPG card with contactless. Problem seemed to be that each time their records showed that a contactless card had been sent, and each time I had to persuade them that it was missing from the physical card.

I got the SPG Amex in August and completed my 3K spend within the 3 months; the points for the third month posted to my account yesterday. But I am not seeing any 30K bonus. When is that supposed to show up?

Hi travelmad478,

Could you please email us your account details to the below address? That way we can check the conditions of the promotion you are registered for.

Best regards,

Alice Kons
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

[email protected]

Thanks very much--I'll do that momentarily.

We got a notice that your email could not be delivered because it appears to have contained a credit card number. All we really need is your SPG account number, so if you could delete any sensitive data and re-send, it would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

William R. Sanders
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

[email protected]

Sorry--sending that now.

I'm close to the $30K spend on a new SPG Biz card, and since I don't have plans to very soon stay in a SPG hotel, I wonder how should I time hitting the $30K threshold.

The offer terms mention "Please allow 12-16 weeks after your Eligible Purchases equal or exceed such amount for the applicable year for enrollment to become effective."

What is the approximate time that others here have had to wait between hitting the spend threshold and getting the Gold level?

There's a separate thread devoted to this very topic: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/starw...ld-status.html.

Free premium in-room Internet access - question
 

Does a stay booked with starpoints through the SPG.com site qualify for the Free premium in-room Internet access benefit from the Starwood Preferred Guest Amex credit card?

I ask because the qualifier in the description "Booking requirements apply" with the extra footnotes - is not entirely clear to me what a "qualifying rate" means.

I've tried looking through this thread and other related threads, but difficult to find this information in the 185+ pages.

Thanks!

If you have the SPG Business (OPEN) American Express card, Free Night Awards would qualify for this benefit.

Best regards,

William R. Sanders
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide

[email protected]

Anyone spending money on this card might want to put that on pause due to the coming Marriott merger:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/starw...t-reached.html

I, for one, will not be using this card at all until I'm convinced that my SPG points will have some real value down the road. I'm clearly sitting on too many already. If one SPG point becomes one Marriott point . . .

I wonder if MAR would be able to do a dual-conversion. 1 MR point for every 1 *P that was earned via CC spend (so just like base spend on the Chase card I think), and 5 MR points for every 1 *P that was earned via a hotel stay (the current base earn ratio). Probably impossible to figure that out though for each person.

But yeah, 1:1 would be a total disaster. Even in Amex stays and transitions to the new program, that's going to be a huge devaluation of the card.

Hopefully we'll have some notice about the conversion...