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Old Sep 3, 2018, 6:05 am
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China BMW owner can match Gold status with lounge access
Have heard that all China BMW owners can match with Gold status included lounge access in China. Is there anyone here can confirmed?



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Old Sep 3, 2018, 12:12 pm
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Post 8/18/18 Gold status does not get executive lounge access or free breakfast. Only Plats, Plat Premier & Plat Ambassador.

Cheers.
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Old Sep 3, 2018, 1:00 pm
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Originally Posted by SkiAdcock
Post 8/18/18 Gold status does not get executive lounge access or free breakfast. Only Plats, Plat Premier & Plat Ambassador.

Cheers.
In China, some hotels offer free breakfast to gold members. I'm not sure if the print-out (offer) was from pre or post-merger. It is just confusing.

At most of the hotels, the executive lounges are still not crowded.
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Old Sep 3, 2018, 1:06 pm
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Yes it's official and hot topic on flyertea.com Marriott forum.
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Old Sep 3, 2018, 1:58 pm
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Originally Posted by ronaldko
Have heard that all China BMW owners can match with Gold status included lounge access in China. Is there anyone here can confirmed?



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spg gold never gave lounge access so not sure why you are extremely unhappy
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Old Sep 3, 2018, 3:15 pm
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Originally Posted by myperks
spg gold never gave lounge access so not sure why you are extremely unhappy
Unless it is the old SPG Gold. Now Gold is not worth a whole lot. Better state the age/era of the gold...
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Old Sep 3, 2018, 9:29 pm
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Gold with lounge access. This time Marriot really pissed us SPG Lifetime Gold off !
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Old Sep 3, 2018, 9:30 pm
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This promotion gives new Gold status *plus* lounge access within mainland CN. And yes, it's been confirmed.
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Old Sep 3, 2018, 10:16 pm
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Originally Posted by tomwhom
Yes it's official and hot topic on flyertea.com Marriott forum.
Is that like the Chinese Flyetalk where all those pre-merger leaks were coming from?
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Old Sep 3, 2018, 10:35 pm
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Originally Posted by Garroakul
This promotion gives new Gold status *plus* lounge access within mainland CN. And yes, it's been confirmed.

Seems like this is an another classic example of hidden program in program from Marriot. Now i would like to urge all SPG Lifetime Gold start to boycott the new Marriot Rewards !!!
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Old Sep 3, 2018, 11:54 pm
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Originally Posted by msp3
Is that like the Chinese Flyetalk where all those pre-merger leaks were coming from?
Yes it’s mainstream frequent flyer forum site in China
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Old Sep 4, 2018, 12:33 am
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I think it is limited to Chinese hotel lounges.
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Old Sep 4, 2018, 12:52 am
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Originally Posted by RedSun
Unless it is the old SPG Gold. Now Gold is not worth a whole lot. Better state the age/era of the gold...
even old SPG did not get lounge access (unless you are talking about the stub period where SPG golds were "temporarily" given Marriott Gold)
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Old Sep 4, 2018, 10:14 am
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Originally Posted by ronaldko
Seems like this is an another classic example of hidden program in program from Marriot. Now i would like to urge all SPG Lifetime Gold start to boycott the new Marriot Rewards !!!
Not sure why you would care as it doesn't hurt you. You wouldn't have had lounge access anyway and didn't have it as gold before. If someone has a complaint, it should be plats who have slightly more crowded lounges in China.

BMW and Marriott reach some sort of promotional agreement ... so what? Who knows how long it will last?
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Old Sep 4, 2018, 1:16 pm
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Originally Posted by ronaldko
Seems like this is an another classic example of hidden program in program from Marriot. Now i would like to urge all SPG Lifetime Gold start to boycott the new Marriot Rewards !!!
In China, people pay double or so high price for the high priced foreign vehicles. If someone can afford $100,000 BMW, what the free breakfast will do for him/her? People there do not even know what Cointreau is.

If foreign travelers want to travel to China and enjoy the lounge etc, then enjoy it. Maybe the same in Vietnam...
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