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Gold/Plat MR Upgrade with DC Purchase?

dioxide45

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This was an interesting tidbit that I gleaned from our presentation today in Aruba. I had to pull to get this information and the sales rep really didn't even know about it. They had a matrix/grid showing benefits of the different levels of ownership (Owner, Premier, Premier Plus). In the Marriott Collection section it mentioned the following:

Owner - Stay 50 nights upgrade to Gold Elite, 75 nights upgrade to Platinum Elite. This is the standard MR stuff.
Premier - 3 year upgrade to Gold Elite with new DC points purchase.
Premier Plus - 3 year upgrade to Platinum Elite with new DC point purchase.

So if you are a Premier or Premier Plus owner and purchase DC points, you get an elite status upgrade. This verbiage isn't verbatim since I don't have the paper and it indicated on it that it was for internal distribution only. The reason I say the rep didn't know much about it is because he had to read it to understand it also.
 
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dioxide45 said:
This was an interesting tidbit that I gleaned from our presentation today in Aruba. I had to pull to get this information and the sales rep really didn't even know about it. They had a matrix/grid showing benefits of the different levels of ownership (Owner, Premier, Premier Plus). In the Marriott Collection section it mentioned the following:

Owner - Stay 50 nights upgrade to Gold Elite, 75 nights upgrade to Platinum Elite. This is the standard MR stuff.
Premier - 3 year upgrade to Gold Elite with new DC points purchase.
Premier Plus - 3 year upgrade to Platinum Elite with new DC point purchase.

So if you are a Premier or Premier Plus owner and purchase DC points, you get an elite status upgrade. This verbiage isn't verbatim since I don't have the paper and it indicated on it that it was for internal distribution only. The reason I say the rep didn't know much about it is because he had to read it to understand it also.
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I have met weeks owners in Europe who secured a life time plat status just for buying a couple of weeks. Never got better than a one year upgrade to plat status myself. Not that it seemed to be worth that much - got me a soft landing to Gold the next year which I've managed to maintain ever since and now I just made plat this year thanks to the rollover.
 
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