Award redemption stays and nights can also count towards elite status. Gold Preferred benefits include 4 p. Qualifications: Members can reach the highest tier by completing 25 eligible stays or 50 eligible nights in a calendar year.
Benefits: As a Platinum Guest, members have all the benefits of a Gold Preferred Guest, along with complimentary health-club access, guaranteed room availability for bookings 72 hours prior to arrival, and upgrade to best available room at check-in.
If an SPG Member checks out of a guest room and then checks back in to a guest room at the same SPG Participating Hotel on the same day, it will count as a single stay for purposes of calculating Stays.
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For an explanation of our Advertising Policy, visit this page. Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here. When Marriott initially announced plans to acquire Starwood almost three years ago, the collective, worried gasps from SPG members were almost audible. The small yet mighty program was revered by travelers all over the world thanks to its fantastic hotel redemptions and lucrative airline transfers.
The key question was simple: Would a combined Marriott and Starwood program provide the same value to which we had become accustomed? In announcing details of the newly combined program in April and officially launching the integration just four months later, many of these fears were put to rest.
Airline transfers with the beloved 5,mile bonus? Sticking around and expanding to additional partners. Fifth night free? Differentiation for top-tier elites? Overall, many of the best things about Starwood Preferred Guest were carried over into the new program, and with roughly four times as many properties as before, the new program seemed to be welcome news.
Feel free to comment below with others that may affect you. Neither of these can completely make up for this loss of flexibility in qualifying for elite status, but hopefully they lessen the blow a bit. This benefit is guaranteed at all hotels, except at resort, conference center, and convention hotels, where it is based upon availability. The combined program slashes this in two ways. Shifting that up two hours could be a recipe for disaster.
Not anymore! Instead of redeeming the full amount of points for a property in a given category, you redeemed half that number of points plus a cash copay. The cash amount was fixed, so if room rates were astronomically high, you could save a ton of money and keep a bunch of points in your account. Here were the pre-integration rates for this redemption, alongside standard award rates for each legacy SPG category:.
You can hopefully see where the value would be in these redemptions. You could look at this in two different ways:. Some of these represent a solid loss of value. Take a hotel like the W New York — Times Square, a property that has not changed the number of points needed for a free night was 20, Starpoints, now 60, Marriott points.
This gets even worse when you start factoring in peak, off-peak and Category 8 pricing in A top-tier property like the St. Peter Rothbart dissected this back in , and little had changed since then.
Instead of using your Starpoints for hotels or transferring them to an airline partner, you could instead use them to book paid flights. The exact number of points required would vary based on the price of the ticket, but here were some examples:. Marriott Rewards is free to join and has no blackout dates. To enroll and for more information about the program, guests may visit.
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