laxmillenial

So, I know in the app/website I can see how many Lifetime nights and Lifetime Points I've accrued? However, as "status" will soon be a factor with the recent merge, how do I determine how many "years of status" i have held and at what respective level? If there is a specific email sent out, I can search my inbox as well, but was curious if others have any advice on how to figure this number out. SPG displays it quite easily, but that's probably because it's a criteria.

Also, does getting it from United via RewardsPlus count? Does earning it via a status match count?

JBord

You can't get it on Marriott's site. You can try calling Marriott to get the years, although there's no guarantee of reliability at this point.

For most people questioning a new LT status lower than the LT Plat level, knowing the number of years won't even matter until they clarify the conversion process...meaning are they counting past years based on status level or based on number of nights stayed. Marriott and SPG had different requirements to attain the status levels. So 10 years of Marriott Gold may get you LT Gold or it may get you LT Plat.

laxmillenial

Awesome. Thank you for the response. I thought maybe they had clarified the conversion process (and I just hadn't read it / missed it ) when reading all the blogs / posts about the new merged program.

Seattlenerd

Over on the Starwood forum, the SPG rep (Starwood Lurker) posted in the Wiki at the top of the merger thread that a tool will be available August 1st on both Marriott Rewards and SPG websites for members to check their lifetime elite nights and years, in order to do the calculation (or verify it) themselves.

I'm in the same boat. I'm earned SPG LT Gold (510 nights) and earned MR LT Silver (611 nights), but didn't keep a record of how many years I've been Platinum in each program myself to see if I would be LT Platinum in the combined program (I do make it on combined nights, but don't know if I also have the required combined number of years Platinum). And right now, there's no way to check both for that kind of information.

RogerD408

Yes, maybe not both. But you can check SPG and if that puts you over the line then there's nothing to worry about. Check out https://www.spgpromos.com/dashboard/site/index and click the Lifetime button, then scroll down to see where you stand for LTP status, both nights and years.

MSPeconomist

Seattlenerd

Unfortunately, not always (at least in my case). It shows I have 0 years and 0 points to reach SPG LT Gold on the SPG site. But no indication how close I am to SPT LT Plat. And yes, that makes no sense.

RogerD408

??? If you are now SPG LTG (like I am) it should show what you need to make LTP (as does mine).

Seattlenerd

It does not. I am LT Gold (confirmed with Starwood based on earned number of years Elite and number of nights, as well as LT Gold a second time due to timeshare ownership; I've been LT Gold for quite a few years). But the confused dashboard shows this: No more nights or years to go to SPG LT Gold, but no indication of what it would take to reach LT Platinum.

I'll wait until the August tool is released to straighten this out. Obviously, the SPG LT tracking system has some glitches now.

jeanie

For the first time that I can remember, I got an email from Marriott a few weeks ago wishing me a happy anniversary for joining MR. Apparently, I joined 21 years ago. They also gave me bonus points for the anniversary. It's the bonus points that makes me think this is a new thing for me. I remember the night credit on my birthday every year, and I think I would remember free points if they had given them to me in the past.

So Marriott definitely has the data somewhere in the archives. I've been traveling for work for about 21 years, so that sounds about right to me.

RogerD408

It does for me:


Now it may be because you are Platinum, where LTG will not kick in until you are below Gold. So checking with SPG would be the only way.

Seattlenerd

I was not disputing that it shows for you, or others. Just that it does not always show correctly for everyone and my situation is an example of that.

I'll wait until August when I can also get the correct tallies for my Marriott Rewards account. Any calculation without both SPG & MR to come up with a combined LT total wouldn't be useful. At least not for me, and perhaps others.

MSPeconomist

Seattlenerd

While I appreciate the suggestion, that doesn't work for me unless I can get equivalent information from Marriott Rewards. It's the combined total of years Platinum and nights I'm interested in, and MR does not have its own lifetime history information available beyond nights (nor did I obsessively track my years Platinum in each program). I'm not anxious about this, just curious, and there's little I can do with the information today, anyway. But I may call. Thanks.

MSPeconomist

Yes, I understand that you're intimately interested in the total years of Plat, but (1) you need to document how many Plat years you have on the SPG side BEFORE AUGUST IMO and (2) I suggested that if you have information from one side, so that you know how many additional Plat years you need from the other side to get to ten when the combination occurs, you might be able to figure out whether you'll definitely have ten or whether you definitely won't have ten (or inconclusive).