Originally offered/automatically signed up for the 35K/50K points version. Knew that the number of nights during that time period would not reach even the 35K level. Sent an e-mail through the website to MR contact. Received response moving to the Stays/Cat 1-5 Cert offer about a day later:

/WFP

MegaBonus only begins accruing on Feb 1. I have ten more nights avail in Jan before the bonus kicks in. ANY chance they'll add those nights?

Otherwise Marriott is losing my business for those nights and I'd stay in another chain. All of them have bonuses over those nights.

No chance. You can call and see what they can do, but I doubt anything related to this bonus.

There are almost always gaps between one bonus period and the next bonus period, not just at Marriott, but at most hotel programs. Have you never noticed this before???

There are typically at least multi-week gaps between bonuses at Marriott Rewards, at SPG, at Club Carlson, at Choice Privileges, at Best Western Rewards, at IHG Club (fomerly Priority Club), etc, etc.

The only hotel program that tends to start another promo within days of the previous promo ending that I can think of is Hilton HHonors. But in their case, they also dont' seem to ever announce the next promo until days before it starts, making people who have to book ahead quite annoyed, especially since many of their promos have non-participating hotels :eek:!)

So yes, if you're into always getting bonuses, you need to belong to more than one hotel program, and jump between them to "follow the bonuses". You can make one program (such as Marriott) your primary, meaing that's what you choose when there's a bonus there even if there's a bonus somewhere else too, but you might as well go somewhere else (where you can earn the bonus) during "dead periods" (whether those dead periods are between the end of one bonus period and the start of a second bonus period, or whether they're simply after you've "maxed out" the number of stays that earn a bonus in the current bonus period).

IHG

Big Win fall ended 12/31
Big Win Winter started 1/1

gap days = 0

nothing yet, keep looking

Yes, but that's the exception. That's the first time in many years that IHG Club / Priority Club has not had a gap between promos, maybe even the first time ever. (Non-coindentally, perhaps, it's also definitely the first time ever in their history that they had two invidually-targted-but-available-to-all promos back to back. Previous to this, it was several years between the one-time-only Crack the Case and the fall 2013 Big Win.)

Similarly, Choice has had rare exceptions here and there where they had no gap, but by far the most common case with Choice is a gap.

No offer for me either. Disappointing since I will be staying at a Marriott for the next several weeks. I put an email into Marriott CS. Hopefully they can allow me to sign up for it.

There's no hopefully about it. As has been repeatedly MULTIPLE times int his thread:

Everyone gets a MegaBonus.

Sometimes there's an IT glitch and it doesn't show up automatically

If you contact Marriott by phone, email, or carrier pigeon, they will kick IT and it will show up

Done and done. Thanks

Contacted them and she registered me, but it still hasn't shown up in my profile.

I was told in the email it takes 24/48hrs to appear. And Geaux Tigers!

stay 1/31 check out 2/1 count for Megabonus?
 

I can't remember the rules for this.... If I stay the night of Jan 31 and check out
Feb 1 will it count for the 2014 Megabonus.... (I think Yes)

Thanks!

I am also Platinum and made the same request as WFP, above, today, via the email web form on the website, and got a very different answer. Is the right answer to answer shop and try again? Call Platinum dedicated line?

Try again
 

I received the exact same response from Brian H. I was not happy as I had included that I had read that numerous people on FlyerTalk had been able to make the change.
Instead of writing again, I called Platinum customer service and was told they would make the change to the Cat 1-5 certs.
My account online still shows the original promotion but hopefully the change is there somewhere and will be updated manually after the promotion ends.