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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #100 on: April 18, 2018, 04:16:04 PM »
I thought it was confirmed that Gold does not get you platinum status?
Gold earned through SPG won't, Gold earned through Marriott will.
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #101 on: April 18, 2018, 04:16:42 PM »
If you have Marriott gold status now, when in 2019 will your plat status expire? February? Worth spending $10k on the Ritz card now to get plat status for that time frame?
I'm imagine Jan or Feb.
Who knows. Lots of things are unclear.
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #102 on: April 18, 2018, 04:19:21 PM »
Gold earned through SPG won't, Gold earned through Marriott will.
Even if you have already matched a while ago?

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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #103 on: April 18, 2018, 04:19:50 PM »
Even if you have already matched a while ago?
I would assume so but who knows really.
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #104 on: April 18, 2018, 04:21:20 PM »
I would assume so but who knows really.
Marriott has put out contradictory info on this. So the answer is nobody knows.
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #105 on: April 18, 2018, 04:22:51 PM »
Marriott has put out contradictory info on this. So the answer is nobody knows.
Yep, I guess we'll see what happens in August....
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #108 on: April 18, 2018, 07:48:13 PM »
Chirp, chirp...
Looks great. If only I had extra points laying around...

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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #110 on: April 18, 2018, 07:57:34 PM »
any reason to keep ritz card open with all this?- af due in 2 days, have marriot and spg biz

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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #111 on: April 18, 2018, 08:01:28 PM »
Chirp, chirp...
Looks pretty good, I would clarify that the Marriott card cert is a category 1-5, not just a category 5, that might not be intuitive to everyone.
The real downside to these packages is the fact that you need to use all the nights in one shot. That's what had held me back this whole time. I'm not sure if this changes anything for me personally but the resale value of the certs should go up after the changes.
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #112 on: April 18, 2018, 08:04:19 PM »
Looks pretty good, I would clarify that the Marriott card cert is a category 1-5, not just a category 5, that might not be intuitive to everyone.
In which part of the post?
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #113 on: April 18, 2018, 08:05:28 PM »
Looks pretty accurate to me.

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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #114 on: April 18, 2018, 08:05:31 PM »
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #115 on: April 18, 2018, 08:07:01 PM »
This has some amazing potential. Anyone want to check my math or critique the post?
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/marriott/guesstimating-marriott-travel-packages-will-work-august-take-advantage-marriotts-lucrative-milesnights-packages-now/
Only makes sense if you were anyway going to use Starpoints for the hotel.

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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #116 on: April 18, 2018, 08:13:10 PM »
Only makes sense if you were anyway going to use Starpoints for the hotel.
Duh?
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #117 on: April 18, 2018, 08:14:20 PM »
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #118 on: April 18, 2018, 08:15:00 PM »
Thanks, cleared that up.
that was the only thing I saw.
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Re: Master Thread of Discussion on Marriott / SPG Merger
« Reply #119 on: April 18, 2018, 08:17:42 PM »