Template: Reduced Status Marriott
From Travel Strategies
Reduced Status Requirements
Marriott is giving everyone a head start on earning status in 2021 by giving them half the number of elite nights that were required for their current status. For example, if you had 56 elite night credits in 2020, you received Platinum status for 2020 (which requires 50 nights). As a result, you should have received 25 "free" elite nights (half of the Platinum status requirement) for 2021. Because they rolled over status from 2020 to 2021, your initial block of nights to qualify for 2022 is likely based on your activity during 2019.
Coupled with the free nights from Marriott's credit cards, it is easy for many people to requalify for status or achieve the next higher level.
- If you came into 2021 with Platinum status, you'll only need 25 nights to requalify. If you have both a personal AND a business card, you will get another 30 elite nights and will have more than enough to qualify (if you stay an additional 20 nights you can move up to the slightly better Titanium status). If you only have a personal OR a business card, you'll only get 15 extra elite nights and need 10 additional nights to qualify.
- If you came into 2021 with Gold status (such as from having one of the credit cards), you should have received 13 free elite night credits. If you have both a personal AND a business credit card, you'll receive another 30 elite nights and will only need 7 nights to move up to Platinum status for the rest of 2021, all of 2022, and the beginning of 2023. For many people, it would be worthwhile to get another credit card (if needed) and focus some stays on Marriott family hotels to take advantage of this unique opportunity to get Platinum status.