sethb

I certainly hope that's correct; I'm currently LTS, with just under 700 MR nights, 1.3MM+ points; SPG, I have over 200 nights (so over 900 combined) and 275M current points (plus 112M points cashed in from 2015 onwards), so combining will get me well over 2MM lifetime points.

dingo

Am I reading the life time stuff correctly? I’m currently lifetime plat in both MR and SPG. W/ MR I’ve got 1,000+ rooms and 3 million+ points. So that puts me at life time plat, which is the same as platinum premier elite…as in the 50-74 night status? If so, does that include the 5 SNA’s annually even if I don’t hit that native status during the calendar year? LIFETIME PLATINUM ELITE600 Lifetime Nights + 10 Years* Platinum Elite Status

1. Points Never Expire
2. All Platinum Elite benefits

dingo

dupe post

edcho

You get Lifetime Platinum Premier which gets you a bit more points and 48 hour guarantee plus a slight preference for upgrades over a regulalr elite.

It does not include SNAs -- you still have to get 50 or 75 nights to earn those.

njcommodore

Is that written anywhere or just speculation?

dingo

hmm. The text I inserted is from the MR website and it says Lifetime Platinum Elite = "All Platinum Elite Benefits" which = the 50-74 night tier right? There is no mention of anything called "Lifetime Platinum Premier." I can't imagine any lifetime status would come w/ SNA's but the way that it is worded leaves that open to speculation.

Michilander

If you are already LTP at Marriott you will be grandfathered into LT Platinum Premier in August. See the section on LT status about halfway down the page:

https://members.marriott.com/marriottrewards/

edgill

Hi -

Confused after speaking with MR...twice !!....any guidance is greatly appreciated.
I made Platinum with Marriott on 12/19/2012 and have held it since. In addition, I had Plat status with SPG in 2011, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
So -- if I am correct -- I have 7 years of Plat with Marriott (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) and 4 years of Plat with SPG (2011, 2016, 2017, 2018) to make it 11 years of Plat with the combined program. Marriott Rewards told me that I cannot count 2012 as being Plat since I made it late in the year and also that I cannot count 2018 as a dual year of Plat since it is the year of the combination of the loyalty programs. How can this be true ? Any insight is greatly appreciated...thanks all.

hhoope01

How many different times did you "achieve" or reach the number of nights/stays required for Plat status? Count those. And as for 2018, counting "twice" or not, we may have to wait until Marriott actually combines things to know definitively whether it will count twice or only once. I'm actually surprised they will count your 2016 and 2017 elite years twice. That is very generous actually (but probably easier on their side rather than figuring out which years might be duplicated years.)

So in your situation, I'm assuming you had 75 or more nights in the following years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017? Have you already racked up 75 nights in 2018? If not then you only have 6 years Plat on the Marriott side. On the Starwood side, it looks like you had 25 stays/50 nights or more in the following years: 2011, 2016, 2017. Have you already racked up 25 stays/50 nights in Starwood hotels in 2018? If not, you can't count it yet.

Also, you might still get credit for one more Plat year once they combine your 2018 nights. So while you may not have 75 nights in Marriotts yet in 2018, you might end up with more than 75 nights when they add in your Starwood nights in August. That might add one 2018 to your total giving you 10 years. But as stated, I'm not sure that very many, if anyone even, within Marriott really knows what the final rules will be when they actually combine all the accounts. So I'd take anything a phone rep says with a grain of salt right now. (Note this is why even the Starwood Lurkers aren't really offering a whole lot of clarification around most of this as even they don't really know yet either.)

tods27

The comment on 2012 confuses me a bit. Why does it matter when you qualified during the year? They will, of course, have to make some sort of determination about the definition of what a qualifying year is, but that seems silly. I could see them saying that only the years that you qualified for count, not the year in which you qualified (e.g. qualify in 2016, but only get credit for 2017 instead of 2016 and 2017). I could see them making a cut-off date like July 1 where if you qualified before that date you get credit, but I'm not sure if they want to go to this level of detail. This is a detail we probably won't know until we get close to August 1.

crimsona

Combined lifetime platinum is based on number of years you hit 50 nights retroactively (since platinum is the legacy gold), not 75

dilbertsdaddy

I hope you are right but I am not counting on it.

This is the exact question I have been asking. But that is not the way the documentation reads.

Someone on FT said they were told that by a Marriott exec. But I have not seen anything in writing.

I need those MR Gold years since I only have 5 as SPG Plat and 1-2 as MR Plat.

The way the documentation reads is that you need SPG Plat years and MR Plat years (which are 75)

bgriff

The main Marriott-SPG combination thread over on the SPG forum is collecting questions, one of which is this one, and they are getting official answers from the SPG Flyertalk Lurkers. That question hasn't been answered yet but worth keeping an eye on it there.
Official announcement – See how our three loyalty programs will become one in August

CPRich

If you earned PLT with MR through 75 nights for 2013,14,15,16,17,18 and earned PLT at SPG for 2011,16,17,18, you would have 10 years at PLT in the combined program. (assuming you won't qualify again this year under the existing terms - you have through 12/31)

Qualifying in late 2012 for the 2013 program year does not count twice, I believe. And you have at least 10, so it's moot.

CPRich

Marriott is doing the same on MI - https://insiders.marriottrewards.com/docs/DOC-15973