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The Complete Guide To Starwood Preferred Guest Elite Status
The Complete Guide To Starwood Preferred Guest Elite Status
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The Marriott acquisition of Starwood is now a done deal, and that has a significant impact on attaining elite status for both programs. If you currently hold elite status with Marriott, now is the time to link your accounts and receive an automatic status match to an equivalent status in SPG. There are now multiple paths to earning elite status via credit cards, which we'll detail below, and the merger has opened up some fantastic new avenues to get elite status across SPG, Marriott, and Ritz-Carlton Rewards.

Jess Farley
Jess Farley
Marriott Bonvoy Hotel + Air Travel Packages No Longer Offering Top Value
Marriott Bonvoy Hotel + Air Travel Packages No Longer Offering Top Value
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Marriott has released details of its new Travel Packages and, unfortunately, the news isn’t good. Where Marriott has been relatively generous in its approach to the merger of SPG and Marriott Rewards, taking onboard and acting on the concerns of elite members from both programs. When it comes to the popular Travel Packages they have quite literally taken a hatchet to the value in this program.

Jess Farley
Jess Farley