Platinum LIFETIME Challenge ?
May 13, 2015 | 10:12 am
#16
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Alternatively, if someone stays for a while in a RI or similar as part of a move, the rollover nights could help a lot.
May 13, 2015 | 3:04 pm
#18
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750 lifetime nights is only for Lifetime Platinum. There's not a lot of difference between Platinum and Gold, and Lifetime Gold is only 500 lifetime nights (though also 1.6 million lifetime points).
May 14, 2015 | 6:20 am
#19
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I think for lifetime status you also have to have hit the corresponding status at least one time... so you can't stay 25nts/yr for 30yrs and get lifetime plat since you would've never had plat status (or even gold).
May 14, 2015 | 6:59 am
#20
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So it would indeed be possible (though I suspect unlikely in most cases) to get Marriott LT status without previously hitting that elite level.
May 15, 2015 | 6:19 am
#21
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I think (wait to be proved wrong!) that I am in a small minority. I am Lifetime Platinum and have NEVER stayed on business. I joined Marriott Rewards in 2003.I was Gold for 2006 and 2007 and I have made Platinum in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 without the rollover nights to assist (I did get some, but got 75 actual nights anyway). I made Lifetime by the beginning of 2014 and in 2014 still had 70 nights. Although I would only be Lifetime Gold under the old qualification, I still have the pre-requisites of the old system: over 2m points, 12 years membership and at least one year at Platinum. Will probably make 1000 nights by 2017.
I do like to emphasise that I have made this not on business, I think it does deliver me a few extras, though some hotels (Maidstone, are you listening) couldn't give two hoots!
I do like to emphasise that I have made this not on business, I think it does deliver me a few extras, though some hotels (Maidstone, are you listening) couldn't give two hoots!
May 15, 2015 | 9:08 am
#22
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Maybe that's why after 7-yrs as a P and making LTG under the new rules I just stay at the property that's most convenient regardless of its brand.