Okay....that might be the official rules...but it is not my experience. I stayed at a marriott out east and I received both from a priceline reservation. I have never been able to figure out how I was made 'silver' because all my stays in the past have been priceline. So I think that that rule must be selectively enforced.

I emphatically disagree with your take on that occurrence. Rather than viewing the rules as being selectively enforced, why don't you see it for what it most assuredly probably was -- a screwup by a clerk or clerks at properties that did not know how to code your reservation!!!!

PLN states that you will not get any points from them, and so does Marriott, but you persist in thinking that the rule is selectively enforced? Did you know that the hotels have to pay for those points that you got? Now, what conceivable reason do you think that a person in MR would credit you for a stay that was a PLN stay -- NONE!

The hotel made the mistake or if they were really desperate for your buisness, unlikely though it is, they added the points for your stay to your folio.

I say doubtful, because rather than paying a 3rd party wholesaler, or being paid by that wholesaler rock bottom rates for a block of rooms, they could have just cut their prices more. It make no sense to think of the earlier situations that you had as a conscious decision.

In any event, it was a conscious decision by the Wailea Marriott NOT to award you points or stay credit that you did not deserve, and therefore, even if you believed that in the past this restriction was being selectively enforced, then why in the world, did you initiate this thread about not receiving stay and point credit on a PLN stay when you KNEW that the rules barred you from receiving these items???

I am truly puzzled by your apparent sense of entitlement!!!!!!!!

In any event, it was a conscious decision by the Wailea Marriott NOT to award you points or stay credit that you did not deserve, and therefore, even if you believed that in the past this restriction was being selectively enforced, then why in the world, did you initiate this thread about not receiving stay and point credit on a PLN stay when you KNEW that the rules barred you from receiving these items???

I am truly puzzled by your apparent sense of entitlement!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]

I DID NOT KNOW. I always had in the past and this is the FIRST time that I have not received stay credit. I simply used inductive reasoning....which is not always a good indicator of the truth. I don't read every rule that goes along with every program to which I belong.

I'll think twice next time before I ask a question on the Marriott forum as I would rather not get flamed for asking it. I have just re-read my posts here in this thread and fail to see where any of my statements implies 'sense of entitlement'.