Mine still says PP, but I got the LTP card, so it's obviously going to P tonight.

Correction: It said PP earlier today, but I just checked and it now shows P. And the world has not ended.

Yeah, mine went to P today, too.

For shame, you are supposed to cover yourself in sackcloth and ashes.

+1. I am back to Lifetime Platinum as of this evening. Ironically I got greeted as platinum premiere tonight when I checked in at a CY. Guess the hotel PMS hadn't been updated yet.

--Jon

P.S. We will see if it makes any difference LTP vs. PP. I suspect it won't.

So its 9;44 PM EDT on 2/29. Just looked and I still say Platinum Premier. Does that mean i made the cut for another year? I havent received squat in the mail yet.

Just wondering.

You can call the PP line and ask whether you have requalified. Maybe it's not nice to be told no on the phone, but IMO Marriott should send out email or letters saying whether PPs have requalified or not. It's silly to expect the top 3% of Plats, presumably Marriott's top HVCs to hold their breath and wait until some indeterminate time to find whether or not they have requalified for PP status. Tacky!

I don't think they've HAD platinum premier for 10 years, have they? My first card is from 2009, and I thought that was the second year of the program...

Anyway, your lifetime totals are seriously impressive. I agree that Marriott should come up with some way of rewarding that kind of long-term loyalty above and beyond lifetime platinum (which has now become so easy to get that it's almost laughable).

It's been 12 years and 3 months. First mention on this board was December, 2003 and I'm assuming we were on it nearly instantly.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marri...re-2016-a.html

Coincidentally, I've taken the "Death Kugel" out of the freezer to warm up for dinner tonight, so maybe I'm taking this harder than I thought? (The Death Kugel is what is kept in the freezer in case someone's relative dies. It can be quickly defrosted and delivered to the Shiva house. After nine months, it has to be eaten and replaced, but it's a good thing, as nobody close has had a death in the family.)

I was at PP for 3 of the last 6 years but as LTP since 2014 I did not see much difference at high level properties like some in London. For upgrades anyway. I always wondered if the front desk folks can see your history or just your current status. I think they can see your available MR points. Maybe someone can chip in. I don’t think other than current status counts for very much, so living 4+ years of my adult life in Marriotts is nice for my profile ‘cred' here so to speak, but not a factor anywhere else lol.

I find this very interesting on a personal basis. We've been married for 39 years and everything is combined financially except for various credit cards and loyalty programs. We have separate Marriott cards and accounts. We had the same for Hilton until we bought into the New York Hilton. They made us, and I mean there was no alternative, combine our existing accounts into one. That was been the biggest PITA ever since. Both names are on the account, but unless they have changed in recent years, online reservations could only be made in my name. When they were building a lot of new Hamptons my wife did some stays on her own. I would have to make the reservaton, then call and change to her name. After she stayed, I would have to call to get credit.

She found that she got treated much better at Marriott and her reservations could be in her name. Since she pays through her business for a lot of our stays, we book in her name. She has been Platinum for a number of years and in 2 years should be lifetime Platinum so we rarely stay at Hilton anymore. Actually at a Doubletree right now for a basketball tournament and will be at the Hilton Ft. Worth next month for a NCAA tournament. Those might be our only Hilton stays for the year.

I still have my January '04 letter from Bill Marriott, advising me that I had attained LT status.

My experience has been roughly the same, at least in the start of the process. Every online reservation is indeed in my name. But we also get two HHonors cards every year, with the same account number but in each of our names. She checks in, and only rarely do they point out that the reservation is in my name and not hers. On those rare occasions she shows the HHonors card with the same account number but her name, and they go on checking her in. We've never had an issue with stays or points crediting.

It appears I didn't mention that we have different last names. She does not want to check in under my name if they let her and have the desk call her by my name. Forget about if they gave her a problem checking in period.

This would be interesting to know.

At Hilton they can see some of this. I have had front desk people marvel at my 7-figure HH balance. Sadly, that is not as impressive as they think.