Sep 11, 2014, 3:57 pm
Last edit by: FindAWay
Lifetime points are missing from the profile section of the website and show as 0 in the Marriott mobile app. However, you may be able to use the work-around referenced in this blog post to see your current Lifetime Points.
You can still view your lifetime points online with the following steps:
If you call Marriott they can also tell you your lifetime points balance.
http://www.marriott.com/marriott/rew...te-benefits.mi As of 20 May, this process does not work. There is no link called "Night Detail" on this page.
To check lifetime balances: (HT to txpenny)
1. Click "Night Detail".
2. Click "Learn More" (under the night total)
3. Click "Marriott Rewards Overview". At this point you're probably no longer logged in (because you've been thrown to an older version of the Marriott website), so log in again.
4. Click "Nights" under your current year's nights. -> The detail you're expecting showing LT nights and points will show up like before.
Lifetime Silver Elite:
250 qualified nights
1.2 million points
Lifetime Gold Elite
500 qualified nights
1.6 million points
Lifetime Platinum Elite
750 qualified nights
2.0 million points
To check your point and night balance, log into your account and click My Account > Account Overview > Nights.
"Elite Lifetime Status is determined by your total qualified nights stayed and points earned throughout the course of your membership – including your paid nights, Elite rollover nights, meeting nights and the nights and points earned on your Marriott Rewards Credit Card."
Points used by members to buyback their previously attained Elite level will be permanently deducted from their Lifetime point balance.
If an elite's point level drops below that required for the level attained, they will drop down to the next Lifetime level until points are accumulated to get them back to the next level.
Lifetime points in addition to nights now display on your Marriott Rewards account. When logged in, click on "Nights" (the blue link below the number representing your current year nights). You'll see the detail of what comprises your current year nights as well as your Lifetime Status nights.
You can still view your lifetime points online with the following steps:
- Go to www.marriott.com and login
- Go to https://www.marriott.com/rewards/rewards-program.mi
- Click "Nights"
If you call Marriott they can also tell you your lifetime points balance.
To check lifetime balances: (HT to txpenny)
1. Click "Night Detail".
2. Click "Learn More" (under the night total)
3. Click "Marriott Rewards Overview". At this point you're probably no longer logged in (because you've been thrown to an older version of the Marriott website), so log in again.
4. Click "Nights" under your current year's nights. -> The detail you're expecting showing LT nights and points will show up like before.
Lifetime Silver Elite:
250 qualified nights
1.2 million points
Lifetime Gold Elite
500 qualified nights
1.6 million points
Lifetime Platinum Elite
750 qualified nights
2.0 million points
To check your point and night balance, log into your account and click My Account > Account Overview > Nights.
"Elite Lifetime Status is determined by your total qualified nights stayed and points earned throughout the course of your membership – including your paid nights, Elite rollover nights, meeting nights and the nights and points earned on your Marriott Rewards Credit Card."
Points used by members to buyback their previously attained Elite level will be permanently deducted from their Lifetime point balance.
If an elite's point level drops below that required for the level attained, they will drop down to the next Lifetime level until points are accumulated to get them back to the next level.
Lifetime points in addition to nights now display on your Marriott Rewards account. When logged in, click on "Nights" (the blue link below the number representing your current year nights). You'll see the detail of what comprises your current year nights as well as your Lifetime Status nights.
Lifetime Marriott Rewards elite status (Pre-Merge 2018 and earlier)
Dec 14, 2015, 5:00 pm
#1636
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: L.A.
Programs: Marriott Lifetime Titanium Elite, Delta Diamond, IHG Diamond Ambassador, Hertz President's Circle
Posts: 1,135
Is it just me, or am I finding lifetime status to be far too easy with Marriott. I just knocked out LT Platinum in less than three years.
Struggling to understand how a program gives LT in that period of time as to me that doesn't indicate loyalty. I know some will disagree, but just my two cents
Struggling to understand how a program gives LT in that period of time as to me that doesn't indicate loyalty. I know some will disagree, but just my two cents
Dec 14, 2015, 5:58 pm
#1637
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: SJC/SFO
Programs: WN A+ CP, UA 1MM/*A Gold, Mar LT Tit, IHG Plat, HH Dia
Posts: 6,285
That said, it wouldn't bother me if MR's lifetime requirements were a bit tougher. ...And I'm not even a super-heavy traveler like you. It took me 6 years of loyalty to MR to reach LT Gold. LT Plat will take me a total of about 10 as my travel has slowed a bit.
Dec 14, 2015, 6:19 pm
#1638
Moderator, Marriott Bonvoy & FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: McKinney, TX, USA
Programs: United Silver; AA Plat/2MM; Marriott LT Titanium; Hilton Gold
Posts: 11,727
Marriott's LT requirements used to be harder. A few years ago, they reduced the points and nights requirements and completely dropped the 12 years of membership requirement.
Dec 14, 2015, 7:00 pm
#1639
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 981
they should just add a level at 1000 nights. perhaps ambasador level (which as most of us who are ambassadors know, is mostly worthless...perhaps slightly better than platinum premier)
Dec 15, 2015, 7:25 am
#1640
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: MCI
Programs: AA Gold 1MM, AS MVP, UA Silver, WN A-List, Marriott LT Titanium, HH Diamond
Posts: 52,579
Is it just me, or am I finding lifetime status to be far too easy with Marriott. I just knocked out LT Platinum in less than three years.
Struggling to understand how a program gives LT in that period of time as to me that doesn't indicate loyalty. I know some will disagree, but just my two cents
Struggling to understand how a program gives LT in that period of time as to me that doesn't indicate loyalty. I know some will disagree, but just my two cents
I imagine MR's thinking was 75 nights/year = Platinum, x10 years = Lifetime Platinum. 10 years of status seems worth some kind of long term status. But then there are frequent travelers such as you who stay 250+ nights/year and do it in less than 3.
That said, it wouldn't bother me if MR's lifetime requirements were a bit tougher. ...And I'm not even a super-heavy traveler like you. It took me 6 years of loyalty to MR to reach LT Gold. LT Plat will take me a total of about 10 as my travel has slowed a bit.
That said, it wouldn't bother me if MR's lifetime requirements were a bit tougher. ...And I'm not even a super-heavy traveler like you. It took me 6 years of loyalty to MR to reach LT Gold. LT Plat will take me a total of about 10 as my travel has slowed a bit.
Since Marriott Rewards in general doesn't promise suite upgrades, there isn't really much downside to adding a few more elites. We aren't competing with other elites for a scarce resource like we sometimes think we are at Hyatt or Starwood, where our hopes for a real suite are higher (artificially or otherwise). I'm occasionally in a Marriott lounge that's somewhat crowded - although less often than you'd think from reading some threads here - but I don't think this is due to LT elites who wouldn't be elite anyway...
Marriott made the LT tiers a little easier *and* much more publicized...both are a sign that they are happy and eager to add more LT elites. They just have to keep it meaningful/aspirational, which it still is...
Dec 15, 2015, 5:26 pm
#1641
Join Date: May 2009
Location: PHL
Posts: 2,842
In theory, it would seem like you could. Although most LT point counters never go down, I get why this one can in this specific situation...preventing, say, 50 of us from getting together for a little Let's Make Everyone LT Plat party...
I guess we have to look at it from Marriott's perspective: it costs them next to nothing to make us LT Gold or Plat. Whether the guest got it from 20 years of casual stays or 2-3 years living at a Residence Inn, their *future* stays are more likely to be Marriott if they have the LT card.
Since Marriott Rewards in general doesn't promise suite upgrades, there isn't really much downside to adding a few more elites. We aren't competing with other elites for a scarce resource like we sometimes think we are at Hyatt or Starwood, where our hopes for a real suite are higher (artificially or otherwise). I'm occasionally in a Marriott lounge that's somewhat crowded - although less often than you'd think from reading some threads here - but I don't think this is due to LT elites who wouldn't be elite anyway...
Marriott made the LT tiers a little easier *and* much more publicized...both are a sign that they are happy and eager to add more LT elites. They just have to keep it meaningful/aspirational, which it still is...
I guess we have to look at it from Marriott's perspective: it costs them next to nothing to make us LT Gold or Plat. Whether the guest got it from 20 years of casual stays or 2-3 years living at a Residence Inn, their *future* stays are more likely to be Marriott if they have the LT card.
Since Marriott Rewards in general doesn't promise suite upgrades, there isn't really much downside to adding a few more elites. We aren't competing with other elites for a scarce resource like we sometimes think we are at Hyatt or Starwood, where our hopes for a real suite are higher (artificially or otherwise). I'm occasionally in a Marriott lounge that's somewhat crowded - although less often than you'd think from reading some threads here - but I don't think this is due to LT elites who wouldn't be elite anyway...
Marriott made the LT tiers a little easier *and* much more publicized...both are a sign that they are happy and eager to add more LT elites. They just have to keep it meaningful/aspirational, which it still is...
Dec 15, 2015, 6:42 pm
#1642
Join Date: Jul 2001
Programs: Marriott LT Tit; Hyatt Explorist; Hilton CC Gold; IHG CC Plt; Hertz (MR) 5 star
Posts: 5,536
You've got to stay at the Napa Valley Marriott on a summer weekend. It was the busiest lounge I've ever seen.
Dec 16, 2015, 6:09 pm
#1644
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,934
The average person who just barely qualifies for Marriott Plat (or Gold) status doesn't perceive the LT requirements as being all that easy to begin with. It's not that many people who stay 250 nights a year in hotels and spend all of those 250 nights solely in one hotel program. (Yet that's what's required to get Marriott LT Plat status in 3 years.)
Dec 16, 2015, 7:39 pm
#1645
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: LA
Posts: 1,281
The average person who just barely qualifies for Marriott Plat (or Gold) status doesn't perceive the LT requirements as being all that easy to begin with. It's not that many people who stay 250 nights a year in hotels and spend all of those 250 nights solely in one hotel program. (Yet that's what's required to get Marriott LT Plat status in 3 years.)
Dec 16, 2015, 8:08 pm
#1646
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: MSP
Programs: DL PM, MM, NR; HH Diamond, Bonvoy LT Gold, Hyatt Explorist, IHG Diamond, others
Posts: 12,159
Except that SPG itself has even easier (for some) LT requirements, and Marriott won't necessarily want to alienate both Marriott elites well on the way to LT status nor SPG elites well on the way to LT status there by making requirements that are harder than both those of Marriott currently and those of SPG currently.
The average person who just barely qualifies for Marriott Plat (or Gold) status doesn't perceive the LT requirements as being all that easy to begin with. It's not that many people who stay 250 nights a year in hotels and spend all of those 250 nights solely in one hotel program. (Yet that's what's required to get Marriott LT Plat status in 3 years.)
The average person who just barely qualifies for Marriott Plat (or Gold) status doesn't perceive the LT requirements as being all that easy to begin with. It's not that many people who stay 250 nights a year in hotels and spend all of those 250 nights solely in one hotel program. (Yet that's what's required to get Marriott LT Plat status in 3 years.)
If you spend 180 nights the first year, you roll over 105 nights, so with the 180 actual nights the second year you get 285. You roll over another 105 to the third year, another 285. So you have 750 after 3 years.
Dec 16, 2015, 8:52 pm
#1647
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: The place where it gets so hot in the summer some planes can't take off.
Programs: Marriott LT Titanium, WoH Globalist, National EE, United Platinum
Posts: 1,446
Quote:
Originally Posted by sdsearch
Except that SPG itself has even easier (for some) LT requirements, and Marriott won't necessarily want to alienate both Marriott elites well on the way to LT status nor SPG elites well on the way to LT status there by making requirements that are harder than both those of Marriott currently and those of SPG currently.
The average person who just barely qualifies for Marriott Plat (or Gold) status doesn't perceive the LT requirements as being all that easy to begin with. It's not that many people who stay 250 nights a year in hotels and spend all of those 250 nights solely in one hotel program. (Yet that's what's required to get Marriott LT Plat status in 3 years.)
It doesn't take 250 nights a year.
If you spend 180 nights the first year, you roll over 105 nights, so with the 180 actual nights the second year you get 285. You roll over another 105 to the third year, another 285. So you have 750 after 3 years.
Originally Posted by sdsearch
Except that SPG itself has even easier (for some) LT requirements, and Marriott won't necessarily want to alienate both Marriott elites well on the way to LT status nor SPG elites well on the way to LT status there by making requirements that are harder than both those of Marriott currently and those of SPG currently.
The average person who just barely qualifies for Marriott Plat (or Gold) status doesn't perceive the LT requirements as being all that easy to begin with. It's not that many people who stay 250 nights a year in hotels and spend all of those 250 nights solely in one hotel program. (Yet that's what's required to get Marriott LT Plat status in 3 years.)
It doesn't take 250 nights a year.
If you spend 180 nights the first year, you roll over 105 nights, so with the 180 actual nights the second year you get 285. You roll over another 105 to the third year, another 285. So you have 750 after 3 years.
In exchange they have received $30-$35k in room plus bar tabs this year and have locked me in for another year minimum. Also as someone mentioned, LT status probably puts marriotts higher on the list when someone is considering where to stay.
Dec 16, 2015, 9:49 pm
#1648
Suspended
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 827
not for all of us -
although I qualified for LT last year for next years Taiwan trip booked Hyatt and for EU trip I booked Hiltons in Zurich, Florence, Innsbuck, Budapest and Prague and only Marriotts in Tuscany and Lucerne as I choose location over brand.
although I qualified for LT last year for next years Taiwan trip booked Hyatt and for EU trip I booked Hiltons in Zurich, Florence, Innsbuck, Budapest and Prague and only Marriotts in Tuscany and Lucerne as I choose location over brand.
Dec 16, 2015, 10:05 pm
#1649
Join Date: Jul 2001
Programs: Marriott LT Tit; Hyatt Explorist; Hilton CC Gold; IHG CC Plt; Hertz (MR) 5 star
Posts: 5,536
Dec 16, 2015, 10:47 pm
#1650
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: LA
Posts: 1,281
Since I no longer have to reach a certain number of nights to achieve Platinum each year, I may only opt to spend 30 nights as sometimes Marriott doesn't offer the best option / location for me, so then perhaps I stay at a different brand, whereas in the past, I may have stayed there. They basically only kept me loyal for 3 years. My two cents.
What Marriott needs is a true level above and beyond PP, and something that truly gives a benefit like Hyatt Courtesy Card, but guess I'll save that for a different topic.