Come on, now. You’ve known since fall 2016 that Marriott was going to shake things up when it merged finally into a new loyalty program with SPG. You’ve had almost 2 full years to book your fantasy getaway. Everyone expected that the merged programs would start in 2018, so you’ve actually had a year extra to book. You didn’t book. That’s not Marriott’s fault.

Instead of being screwed now, perhaps consider that you now have available even more luxurious options with the new SPG portfolio. Take her to the Hotel Imperial Vienna and be amazed that it’s not a Cat 8 hotel. Your Marriott LTP status now will make you LTPP—even higher status than you had. And that status comes with automatic suite upgrade benefits that never existed for you previously. So you may end up all the better than you might have guessed.