New Lifetime Elite Qualification Requirements

[BocaBoy]

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.)

The rules say you only get the higher bonus, but I suppose it is possible that you could mistakenly get both bonuses.

 

[MichaelColey]

Searching some of the threads that ask the same question on FlyerTalk seem to indicate that you'll only get one credit. (In the rules AND in reality, unfortunately.)

FWIW, the Starwood AmEx works differently than that. I have a personal and business one, and I get the night/stay credit for both.

 

[kds4]

More than enough points for platinum elite, 2.75 million, but only silver in terms of nights, 438. I might make it to gold over the next two years. Do they count bonus nights like for spending over x amount on your Marriott credit card?

Yes. Those nights factor into your total nights accumulated which appears on your Marriott Rewards home page when you log in to your MR account.

 

[kds4]

Just checked mine with Marriott. Have 1.6 million lifetime points due to pre-construction purchases many years ago. Qualifies for Gold. However, I only have 361 nights stays. Need to get to 500 for lifetime Gold.

As you know you may accumulate nights from the use of the credit card.
My question is:

Do the extra nights accumulated from use of the Marriott Premier credit card count toward the 500 stays or is it only the actual nights at a Marriott hotel or a timeshare that count?

Thanks for any help.

The 15 nights elite credit each year for holding the Black MR credit card count, as well as the bonus elite night credit you receive for every $3k of spend you put on the card. The 10 night bonus for each meeting you hold counts too.

 

[kds4]

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.

I exchange one of my MVCI units for 125,000 MRPs every other year and always use my Black Marriott CC to pay maintenance fees.

 

[kds4]

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.

Yes. All points and all nights credited to your account count regardless of source.

 

[hcarman]

This question may have been already answered, but didn't see it on a quick review of the posts. Once you achieve lifetime status - say Platinum status for this discussion - will you always be Platinum? Will you be grandfathered in if the qualification requirements should go up again in the future? Or, if qualifications change and you have not met those thresholds, will the status be removed and you once again have to achieve what it is you are missing? I would think once they issue you lifetime status you would be grandfathered in, but my hunch is they probably don't address this?

I too am glad to see the thresholds lowered - as I have been Platinum for quite a few years now between business travel, my timeshares, and my credit card. However, I am guessing those room upgrades may become harder to get.

 

[LAX Mom]

This question may have been already answered, but didn't see it on a quick review of the posts. Once you achieve lifetime status - say Platinum status for this discussion - will you always be Platinum? Will you be grandfathered in if the qualification requirements should go up again in the future? Or, if qualifications change and you have not met those thresholds, will the status be removed and you once again have to achieve what it is you are missing? I would think once they issue you lifetime status you would be grandfathered in, but my hunch is they probably don't address this?

I too am glad to see the thresholds lowered - as I have been Platinum for quite a few years now between business travel, my timeshares, and my credit card. However, I am guessing those room upgrades may become harder to get.

Once you achieve Lifetime Platinum status you'll always stay at platinum, even if your stays fall below 75 in a given year.

 

[hcarman]

Once you achieve Lifetime Platinum status you'll always stay at platinum, even if your stays fall below 75 in a given year.

I understand the part about if your stay falls below 75 you would still have Platinum. What I wonder is if you qualify for Platinum for Life based on today's thresholds - and they decide to raise the thresholds in the future - would you still be grandfathered in to the old thresholds? In other words, I seem to remember the new threshold for Platinum was 750 nights, 2 million points. If I qualify based on this, but then a few years down the line they decide you need 1200 nights and 4 million points - which I likely would not have - would I lose my Platinum for Life or be grandfathered in?

 

[dioxide45]

I understand the part about if your stay falls below 75 you would still have Platinum. What I wonder is if you qualify for Platinum for Life based on today's thresholds - and they decide to raise the thresholds in the future - would you still be grandfathered in to the old thresholds? In other words, I seem to remember the new threshold for Platinum was 750 nights, 2 million points. If I qualify based on this, but then a few years down the line they decide you need 1200 nights and 4 million points - which I likely would not have - would I lose my Platinum for Life or be grandfathered in?

IMO, lifetime Platinum, means lifetime. Once you got it, you have it. If they change the threshold, I would expect to be grandfathered in under the old standards.

 

[LAX Mom]

IMO, lifetime Platinum, means lifetime. Once you got it, you have it. If they change the threshold, I would expect to be grandfathered in under the old standards.

Agree. This is how I understand the Lifetime status.

 

[mightywyrm]

IMO, lifetime Platinum, means lifetime. Once you got it, you have it. If they change the threshold, I would expect to be grandfathered in under the old standards.

I tend to agree, but must also note that there's no reason to believe that a new "Lifetime Diamond" and/or "Lifetime Sapphire" tier cannot be added above platinum.

It's entirely up to Marriott what they provide to those designated "platinum", even if it does last a lifetime.