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New Lifetime Elite Qualification Requirements

scpoidog said:
I'm curious how people accumulate so many more points than me even though I have more nights.

For instance, I've have 796 nights but just under 2M points. I've noticed others who have posted here have way more points but less nights (puckmanfl for example has 1M more points than me but 200 less nights).

I use the black credit card for all hotel stays and as my primary cc so I don't think I'm missing out on points opportunities there.

Any suggestions as to what I'm not doing right? Thanks.
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I have the opposite problem. 3.2 million points and only 363 nights:(
 
good afternoon....

I forgot about the 300,000 pts. obtained... for playing "I've got a secret" with the sales rep, 20 times at sales tours. That 15K nosh sure does add up to a tasty meal!!!!
 
I just got an email reply from Marriott and I'm at 4.2 million lifetime points. I have 719 LT nights and I would have made LT Plat this year but we've had to cancel 28 days at MFC due to an injury. I'll make it in 2014 for sure. I was estimating another 3-4 years under the old rules.

Right now my MRP balance is about 100k. We sure had a good time with the other 4.1 million though. Room upgrades, 1st class airfares on points, numerous hotels, resorts and even one TS on MRP's.

I am concerned about the number of increased LT plats. I think this will increase the numbers tremendously which kind of dilutes the status a bit. The CL's will be a lot more crowded in the future and upgrades will become more scarce IMO.
 
Question:

I have been a Plat for the past 4 years. I have 500 nights and 1.6 million MR points. That puts me at a gold LT next year. Is gold LT as good as Plat? Right now Plat gets 50% bonus earnings on base points. Will gold LT get that or is this a demotion?
 
What points count towards lifetime status?

Is it any and all points deposited to your account?
 
Safti said:
Question:

I have been a Plat for the past 4 years. I have 500 nights and 1.6 million MR points. That puts me at a gold LT next year. Is gold LT as good as Plat? Right now Plat gets 50% bonus earnings on base points. Will gold LT get that or is this a demotion?
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LT gold status is just the same as gold, but you have a guarantee that you won't drop below gold. So with LT gold you'll get the 25% bonus earnings on base points.

LT status (plat, gold or silver) is going to get you the same perks you would receive with the regular status. You won't notice a difference unless you don't make the requirements in a year and you'll now have a safety net.

Once you earn LT gold you'll never have less than gold status. But that is not the same as plat.
 
Do points earned from CC spending count? And do stay credits from timeshares and CC count?

I'm just thinking that I can pretty easily shift spending to a Marriott credit card and focus on Marriott timeshares, and possibly earn LT Platinum within a few years.
 
Safti said:
Question:

I have been a Plat for the past 4 years. I have 500 nights and 1.6 million MR points. That puts me at a gold LT next year. Is gold LT as good as Plat? Right now Plat gets 50% bonus earnings on base points. Will gold LT get that or is this a demotion?
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When you get LT Gold, they don't downgrade you from a Plat status to LT Gold. If you fail to ever qualify for gold status in any given year based on nights, you will have at least LT Gold status. If you achieve Platinum status, you will be Platinum.
 
MichaelColey said:
Do points earned from CC spending count? And do stay credits from timeshares and CC count?

I'm just thinking that I can pretty easily shift spending to a Marriott credit card and focus on Marriott timeshares, and possibly earn LT Platinum within a few years.
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Yes and yes. The credit card points have been huge for me, especially the 5x points at Marriott hotels.
 
Safti said:
Question:

I have been a Plat for the past 4 years. I have 500 nights and 1.6 million MR points. That puts me at a gold LT next year. Is gold LT as good as Plat? Right now Plat gets 50% bonus earnings on base points. Will gold LT get that or is this a demotion?
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Here is link to the benefit levels. To me lifetime gold is good enough as you get free Internet and access to the concierge lounge. Plat adds the 50% bonus and the ability to jam yourself into a hotel within 24 hours.

https://www.marriott.com/rewards/member-benefits.mi
 
Gold is good enough. My stays are usually at Courtyards, Fairfields, Residence Inns and Spring Hill Suites. Many of these moderately priced Marriott brands have no real ability to upgrade anyone who is a platinum member. Most of those hotels only have similar rooms and have no conceirge floors. As a welcome gift they usually offer you a bottle of water or 500 MRPs. That's about it.

If you stay at the top of the line Marriotts like the JW, Gaylord, Ritz-Carlton, etc, platinum probably is more of an advantage. Either way it's all good.
 
scpoidog said:
How did you get so many points without hotel stays? Did you trade your weeks for MR points like puckmanfl?
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Most came from using the Credit Card, some i bought at $.01, some were trades.
 
good evening....

I have never traded my weeks for MR points....!!!!!

My 2.9 million came from the following sources

#1 sales incentives for retail TS purchases
#2 referrals
#3 Paid for all of my TS purcahses with MR card 5 pts per $$$
#4 all MF's on MR card.
#5 over 20 sales tours at 15-20k per..
#6 10 pts/dollar spent at Marriotts during my vacations...
#7 generalized use of the MR card...

I believe trading weeks for MR points is a poor use of my week... just my opinion...
 
puckmanfl said:
good evening....

I have never traded my weeks for MR points....!!!!!

My 2.9 million came from the following sources

#1 sales incentives for retail TS purchases
#2 referrals
#3 Paid for all of my TS purcahses with MR card 5 pts per $$$
#4 all MF's on MR card.
#5 over 20 sales tours at 15-20k per..
#6 10 pts/dollar spent at Marriotts during my vacations...
#7 generalized use of the MR card...

I believe trading weeks for MR points is a poor use of my week... just my opinion...
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I agree with the trading for points. I did it back in the late 90's when i was young and nieve. (and internet was young). Now if i can't use them, i rent them out for at least double my MF's.:D
 
puckmanfl said:
good evening....

I have never traded my weeks for MR points....!!!!!

My 2.9 million came from the following sources

#1 sales incentives for retail TS purchases
#2 referrals
#3 Paid for all of my TS purcahses with MR card 5 pts per $$$
#4 all MF's on MR card.
#5 over 20 sales tours at 15-20k per..
#6 10 pts/dollar spent at Marriotts during my vacations...
#7 generalized use of the MR card...

I believe trading weeks for MR points is a poor use of my week... just my opinion...
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Sorry puckman, I misread your first post about how you got your points.
 
puckmanfl said:
good evening....

I have never traded my weeks for MR points....!!!!!

My 2.9 million came from the following sources

#1 sales incentives for retail TS purchases
#2 referrals
#3 Paid for all of my TS purcahses with MR card 5 pts per $$$
#4 all MF's on MR card.
#5 over 20 sales tours at 15-20k per..
#6 10 pts/dollar spent at Marriotts during my vacations...
#7 generalized use of the MR card...

I believe trading weeks for MR points is a poor use of my week... just my opinion...
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I just checked our lifetime total and it is 3.725 million points and 425 nights. We accumulate through the same as above but not in the same order. We get 85k points a year from MFs so that is number 1 for us.

We've been platinum for a few years and tonight I'm checking into a cheap Fairfield Inn to make 75 nights and retain plat for 2013 so hopefully we can work our way to lifetime plat in a few years or so.
 
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I noticed that you get 15 nights credit with a personal card and 10 nights credit with a business card. I'm assuming that with both, you get 25 nights towards status? (From there... a few timeshare stays, a few hotel stays, and some credit card spending, and it looks easy to hit Gold or Platinum.)
 
puckmanfl said:
good evening....

I have never traded my weeks for MR points....!!!!!

My 2.9 million came from the following sources

#1 sales incentives for retail TS purchases
#2 referrals
#3 Paid for all of my TS purcahses with MR card 5 pts per $$$
#4 all MF's on MR card.
#5 over 20 sales tours at 15-20k per..
#6 10 pts/dollar spent at Marriotts during my vacations...
#7 generalized use of the MR card...

I believe trading weeks for MR points is a poor use of my week... just my opinion...
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I was pointing out that trading for points was a way for one to quickly amass a lot of points with not very many nights to show for it. Though the said is true for purchase incentives which I didn't think of.

While trading a high value week bought developer for points may not be a good value, with DC now I can see some situations where it may make sense. We considered doing it with one of our 2013 weeks but were able to get enough points for our recent travel package without it. We might consider it again in the future. Earning through hotel stays and the CC is a slow go, converting two weeks to points is a way to get almost 200,000 points in a hurry for about the same MF cost as buying them from Marriott.
 
MichaelColey said:
I noticed that you get 15 nights credit with a personal card and 10 nights credit with a business card. I'm assuming that with both, you get 25 nights towards status? (From there... a few timeshare stays, a few hotel stays, and some credit card spending, and it looks easy to hit Gold or Platinum.)
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I can't speak for the business card but I have both versions of the regular cards and you only get the nights bonus for one.
 
Nice change, I am now LT Plat! :whoopie:

I am at 2.5 million points and 950 nights, I was only 50 short for the previous LT levels so I obtained LT plat a little early.
 
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