Status for next year
 

Hi. New to forum, currently platinum (expires Feb 2012) but wondering what my likely status will be next year? Can I guarantee a 'soft landing' to gold, or should I make that extra night (tonight).
Against my account it says:
Thanks.

I wouldn't stay another night as you will only fall back to gold next year anyway and should have 39 rollover nights going into 2012. If you don't already have the Chase Premier card get it and you will get an extra 15 nights pushing you to 54 nights and on your way back to Platinum.

Thanks AA Novice. So you're saying that I'll most likely be given gold status and 39 points to carry over, whereas if I stayed the extra night I'd qualify for gold but have 0 nights carried over? Or would I have 40 night carried over?

Applied for the new credit card in UK so that gets me additional 10 - if I get to carry those days over should hopefully regain platinum next year.

At worst Marriott will only drop you to Gold (they have been known to look at your last 3 years or so of stays and let you keep Plat based on that.)

You won't get any roll-over nights as you would not have any nights over the 50 needed for Gold.

The way I'm reading OP's nights is that only 21 nights will rollover (31 - 10 (silver tier)) instead of 49 - 10. I agree OP will still be at gold.

Since I'm a LT Plat, I admit that I haven't really scrutinized all the roll-over ins and outs. But, I thought that if the OP drops to Gold, only the nights over the Gold level (i.e. nights over 50) would be rolled over.

I don't want to start new topic so I'm gonna ask here.
I just saw message when I logged in to my account and it says:

Membership Level:
Platinum (7 Elite nights)
Congratulations, you have renewed at Platinum Elite status for 2011.

I've shifted my stays this year to Hilton hence only 7 nights at MR (long story). But why does it say Congratulations and 2011? Never seen that before. They are saying 'congratulations and goodbye'? Just wondering what does it mean :)

That's a very good point. I re-read the original post and I am now thinking that, since OP is currently a Plat, there will be 0 nights rolled over, but will drop to Gold for the new year.

This may not be the case necessarily, but I also saw a message like that for one day about a month ago, and when I called MR yesterday (to initially ask about doing the Gold Challenge since I was slated to lose Gold status with only thirty-something nights), the rep told me that I will be Gold (i.e., maintain my status) through Jan2013. He told me that corporate reviews usage and also looks sometimes at the past 3 years and grants status based on that sometimes (even when you don't necessarily reach that status). So, it may or may not be that, but it's probably worth a call to MR to check!

I've never hit 75 nights in a year but consistently stay about 15-18 nights a quarter. MR put me at Platinum about 3 years ago and have kept me there ever since. Not sure why but I'll take it. This year I'm at an all time high of 71 nights and I'll be shocked if they drop me below Platinum. With the economy still not chugging along, I'm not sure they're dropping anyone.

Just logged in to my account and the message is gone :)

I'm a Plat who shifted to Starwood in fall 2010. I didn't really requal Plat in 2010 and I didn't come close in 2011, only reaching 40 total EQN including the credit card nights.

So I'm expecting to drop to Gold. I'm wondering if I'll have zero rollover nights or 30 rollover nights. If the answer is zero, then in a weird sort of way I'd almost rather get dumped all the way back to Silver and have the 30 rollover nights, knowing that I can just slog through 5 actual room-nights as a Silver and then qualify for Gold through Feb 2014.

I believe the rollover based on status of the this year (PLAT for you) and therefore, no rollover nights. I really don't know if you will drop to Silver but please let us know next year.

gold in 2011 but not enough nights to keep gold in 2012
will I still be gold till end of february? have some reservations in feb and hoping still gold
thanks

yes, until 29 feb.............

GREAT! thanks for quick response

Hello, new to this forum, but I came across this topic in a google search, and was wondering if anyone could help me out. I am (was) currently Gold Elite with Marriott. I had 47 nights as of 12/29/11 and completed 3 stays before the end of 2011. (12/29, 12/30, 12/31). Strange thing happened mid stay. My status dropped from Gold to Silver randomly on the evening of the 30th. NOT the 31st. And it still says 47 nights this year, so it doesnt appear that the count reset at year end. It just seems to have randomly demoted me. I understand that those last 3 nights probably havent gone through the MR system yet, but I technically have 50 night in 2011, so will I still be gold for 2012? I have 2 stays coming up this week, and I want/need to gold perks on these nights. I am going to call them and figure it out, but figured I might get some insight as to why I was dropped BEFORE the end of the year, even though I made 50 nights by 1/1/12. Any advice would be great! Thanks in advance!

First, welcome to FT.

Second, I would double check my status again. Marriott status is good through the end of Feb. So if you didn't get the needed nights in this year, you should still be Gold for the next 2 months. Marriott probably does this for reasons just like yours (to give those last few stays time to post.) But Marriott has a tendency to "play" with their status requirements/system around the end of the year and quite often people will see their status bumped up/down/all around for a day or so until they get everything fixed up. So hopefully, if you check again, your status should be back to Gold.

Third, if for some reason you still see your status as Silver, I would give MR a call and ask them why your status dropped as that isn't the norm for status levels. Did you by chance receive your status through a challenge (and didn't meet the challenge requirements so they dropped you back?) or something similar? But in any case, the MR CSRs should be able to help you. It might be worth waiting a couple of days for your last few stays to post before you call though as then they will be able to easily see that you did get 50 nights in 2011 and should be able to bump you up to Gold manually, if the system didn't do it automatically.

I will use this thread since it is related. When will the EQN counter be reset? I checked my account today. It shows the same number of EQN as before new year.

Just a guess, but Marriott may be waiting a week or so to allow for all nights/stays in 2011 to post before they close it off and zero all the yearly counts.

Marriott was kind to me for 2012
 

I just got a letter telling me I can still be Plat for 2012. I only had 52 stay credits in 2011, and in 2010 I only just barely made Plat. Almost all of my credits were from my Chase card, and a week from my Marriott time share. Wonder if they want to keep their time share folks happy? Thanks, Marriott!:)

There is some logic to Marriott's keeping you at Plat. Given there isn't a large difference in Plat and Gold benefits, Marriott doesn't incur much more "expense" by giving you Plat status. You would get CL access and room upgrades anyway. And by keeping you at the Plat level, you will hopefully have a more favorable view of Marriott. Thus keeping or moving more stays with them.

I would like to follow up on my question. Yesterday I've decided to go thru may junk mail which I've been neglecting since late December.
To my big surprise I saw big silver envelope saying Platinum Elite 2012 Benefits. When I opened it, there was a Plat card with a letter and Plat Member Handbook :)
After staying only 7 paid nights in 2011 at MR properties "they" are happy to extend my status for another year :D
I guess somebody saw how much business they've lost. From 175 nights a year to 7 its a pretty big jump.

Also in my mail was another envelope from Hilton.
I've got Silver status from Hilton after staying 9 nights with them (started Hilton in October of last year).

I've got two freebies :) Now if only US would push me up one level up to be CP for another year ;)

there are several threads on Marriott's 3-year averaging to maintain status

[QUOTE=bwiadca;17869375]After staying only 7 paid nights in 2011 at MR properties "they" are happy to extend my status for another year....I guess somebody saw how much business they've lost. From 175 nights a year to 7 its a pretty big jump. /QUOTE]