Marriott Rewards and SPG Program Changes Announced 4/16/18 [Threads merged.]

[bazzap]

I see different results on the website, iPad app and iPhone app.
After checking for updates though, then signing out and back in to all of these now, the Iphone app shows me as Lifetime Platinum Premier Elite - yeah!
It is what I was expecting, but you never really know for sure until you actually see it displayed (and the screen captured!)

 

[GetawaysRus]

OK, figured out a little more.

On my desktop PC, the Microsoft Edge browser is working much better than Chrome.

If you have lifetime status, you will see a little infinity symbol next to the image of the little man when you click the dropdown with your name at the upper right of the screen. Then click Activity, then Details. This is where I think you would normally see your lifetime status, but it's not written there. To go further, click Learn More. You come to a page that shows you what the infinity symbol means. The only issue is that the color for Lifetime Silver looks very much like the color for Lifetime Plat.

I was able to make a reservation at the new points rate. We have a stay later this year at a hotel that used to be 25,000 points. Under the new program, that same hotel is 17,500 points. So I made a new reservation, canceled the old one, and got 7,500 points back.

 

[blondietink]

Well, we have a mixed bag on my husband's account. He is now Premium Elite, which I thought he was supposed to be Gold Elite. It also doesn't look like the SPG points have been converted over at this point according to the activity on the account. There were over 80,000 SPG points in that account, and now they are nowhere to be found? Hopefully they are just catching up. Maybe things will be different on the APP.

 

[blondietink]

OK, just got our new SPG number and checked that account which lists over 545,00 points and Gold Elite, but the Marriott account still lists only over 189,000 points, but Platinum Elite. Guess they are still working on it, lol.

 

[SueDonJ]

Thread locked, see this: Official changes to Marriott Rewards program effective 8/18/18