I’m most entertained by all those complaining about the program name and a few new status names. They’re just labels. Perhaps more people should read Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet:

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

One wonders if those complaining about Bonvoy are those who also complain that the Marriott terms and conditions don’t literally and explicitly spell out every possibility for every possible scenario they can imagine. Obsessive compulsive, perhaps?

It’s Bonvoy. Deal with it. And pick your battles and complaints more carefully in the future, perhaps?

Peope also are wasting time and energy fearing that hotel staff somehow will confuse Titanium as being inferior to Platinum. Most people don’t even know what either Titanium or Platinum really are, so those fears are misplaced. First, people complained that Platinum Premier wasn’t enough to distinguish from Platinum and make Plat Premiers feel more special. Now, people are complaining that Titanium might not be perceived as superior to Platinum. Talk about moving the goal posts and some people never being satisfied...

I don’t care what they call it as long as they deliver

(And I LOVE the fact that they are distinguishing Plat75 and Plat100 as separate levels. It recognizes and rewards the extra effort (and money) required to reach those levels. Excited to see how they execute going forward)

Great point!

Your list can go on and on- Google, Uber, Amazon, Taser, Xerox, Frisbee, Velcro etc. Made up or borrowed words that became meaningful through usage.

No kidding

One of the silliest fears I’ve ever seen expressed here.

And can you imagine the angst had they dubbed us Rhodium?

I am not yet LTPP or Lifetime Titanium as it will be called as of Feb 13. I had only 9 years of Platinum status as of Aug 18. I attained the 10th year in 2018 and do expect to reach LTPP/LTT after the January sweep.

Marriott is simply rewarding its best and most loyal long-term elite customers who already had LTP status in either legacy program or were about to reach it by end of 2018. I actually think it would have been smarter for Marriott to only grant LTP status as its highest Lifetime tier under the new loyalty program. But Marriott thought otherwise. I’m happy that I can qualify.

If it worries you so much that others may be Titanium/Lifetime Titanium and therefore higher in status than your own presumed Platinum/Lifetime Platinum status, you still can achieve Titanium status by achieving 75 nights at Marriott properties. What with 10 nights from your first meeting and with 15 nights from holding a Marriott credit card, you only need to actually stay 50 nights to achieve Titanium. If you can’t stay 50 nights in a year to achieve the Titanium status you crave, I doubt it’s worth Marriott’s time or energy to worry much about you.

As someone who stays well beyond 100 nights, and has done so for the past 6 years with SPG alone, I can’t really empathize with you.

Yeah

Here I will differ from bhrubin —. It was Very important to me to reach LTPPE/T because I suspected when it was first announced that there might be meaningful differences going forward. I understand the frustration of younger members (on the SPG side) who joined in the last 8 years who could not have achieved LTPPE even if they had 75-100 nights each year since they joined the program. (My understanding is that Marriott members could have qualified in that time period). But less so for members with 10+ years. They had the same opportunity those of us earning LTPPE had to achieve that level.

Who knows though? In the future Marriott may relent and grant LTT to members with some combo of LT nights, status, spend.

I’d like to see the standard room loophole increasingly being used to black out award redemptions closed before they commence leaving the program alone (and let’s see how this whole peak thing shakes out this year). But otherwise I certainly agree that paring down to a single status tier with the word “Platinum” in it rectifies one of the most egregious blunders from early days.

And I’m already completely at ease with the new program name, moving from ambivalence towards full embrace (not that it much matters one way or the other). As I’ve said previously, it sure beats something unimaginative such as “Loyalty Plus” or some such drivel.

I’ll surely be back to ranting and raving tomorrow morning, but today I’d like to acknowledge a job well done by Marriott from my perspective (and please know that this is NOT meant to troll anyone who feels strongly against the name(s) - it’s just my view, and I believe if you complain often such as I have lately then you should also acknowlege whatever positive you can find).