Some have made such outlandish claims in other related threads. But when a presumably full-grown adult throws a tantrum over a loyalty program name, a certain visual is painted (at least for me). Likely those refusing to stay with Marriott over Bonvoy are the type to melt down over the alarm clock in their room running a minute slow, etc - so good riddance is likely the attitude internal to Marriott.

Yes, I specifically posed a question regarding this earlier today. Thus far no response, which may or may not be telling - it’s too early to tell! ;-)

I honestly have no idea what the true count for me should be (I suppose none of us does given the proprietary nature of the equation). I can afford to not be incremented for 2018; I also can afford to lose a couple of years and still qualify LTTE. But somehow that doesn’t placate me completely (call it a lack of confidence in Marriott IT), and hence the question. Hopefully at some point soon Marriott will be willing to come out and say that no more scripts/sweeps will be ran that will impact LT years one way or the other - they seem to be OK saying this about nights (although there’ve been recent reports of LT nights credit moving erratically, e.g. nights going down following a stay).

https://youtu.be/rT1uvvNRqYI

How about spell it out for the common scenarios. Like what time do I have to cancel my room by in order to not be charged?

That isn’t so common. Placing such an operational distinction in the program terms and conditions makes no sense to me...especially because there are different rates, different hotels, and sometimes different elite status that sometimes gave have cancel windows.

A business doesn’t want to pin itself down needlessly. Especially since every single rate on Marriott.com and every hotel confirmation spells out that information, anyway.

William,

I’ve always appreciated your refreshing testiness - until just now! ;-)

Let’s break this down:

1. Your above quoted dialog was between one FT member and another:

2. My question earlier posed (and in a reasonably respecful fashion, I believe) to the other Lurker - the actual question you or someone from your team would ideally have been responding to in my view - was direcly in response to something a Lurker had posted earlier today; I did not bring this topic into the thread to begin with - one of your colleagues did, kind sir. Namely, a claim was made (or perhaps repeated - I’m not sure which) regarding Marriott’s level of confidence in LT nights - notably absent was any reference to Marriotts’s confidence in LT year count. That seems a legitimate and reasonable follow-up question since nights only addresses half of the non-legacy LTTE equation, no?

Respectfully - and thank you all, Lurkers. And congratulations on what I regard to be a significant positive accomplishment here today on the part of Marriott.