OK not sure how this makes any sense (or maybe I'm just not understanding how rollover nights work). I legitimately made "gold" by staying 53 nights in 2017. So I hit the gold milestone of 50 nights, giving me a whopping 3 rollover nights to count towards 2018 status. A buddy of mine missed gold by 2 nights (he was at 48). He obviously hit Silver, and then had 38 rollover nights. Because he was so close to Gold, they went ahead and gifted it to him. So now...we're both sitting on Gold status for 2018. However he now has 38 rollover nights to count towards 2018, whereas I have 3.

How the heck does this make any sense Marriott? It's almost like I want to stop at 48 or 49 nights next year (it's very likely Marriott would 'gift' me Gold) so that the following year I'll have WAY more rollover nights (making it MUCH easier to reach status the next year).

Marriott has removed rollover nights so this was the last year to take advantage. What you are saying makes sense though.

ah ok didn't know rollover nights were discontinued. moot point then. but STILL!!!!

But marriott gave it as a courtesy - you can never be sure that they would do that for everyone and every year.

So true. You can't plan around the random generosity of any person, let alone a large corporation. Good for your friend but with no rollovers moving forward...might be time to host some meetings or get the chase card to close to push over that threshold (or into Platinum)

Yes, rollover nights are done... However, your friend would not have had 38 rollover nights as they would have considered him to be Gold and would need more than 50 earned nights before any rollover. I've been "gifted" status a few times.