Marriott Bonvoy Status Challenge: From No Status to Gold or Platinum in 8 or 16 Nights

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Marriott Bonvoy offers a status challenge. You get the Gold status after 8 nights in three months, and if you manage to stay 16 nights, you even get the Platinum status. Unlike other status match deals, you won’t get the status when you apply, but only after you completed the challenge. To do this challenge, however, you don’t need to have a status at a different hotel chain!

This is what you need to achieve:

  • 8 nights (instead of 25) = Gold Status
  • 16 nights (instead of 50) = Platinum Status

The three months start at the end of the current month, e.g. regardless if you start on January 1st or 31st, you’ll have to complete this challenge until April 30th. This means that it makes sense to apply for the challenge at the start of the month, as you’ll have more time. What matters for the challenge is the check-out-date, not the booking date.

In theory, you could directly stay 8 or 16 consecutive nights and then get the gold or platinum status within 24 hours. After 8 nights you’ll receive the benefits of the gold status, and can then still make it to the platinum status.

The status is then valid for the current calendar year + another calendar year.

How to Participate

You need to call Marriott Bonvoy and request a status challenge. Make sure to get a written confirmation and the terms & conditions (per email).

Qualifying nights are only given on stays that were fully booked and paid directly at Marriott. Award nights or nights that were paid with points & cash do not count toward the challenge!

As Marriott does not publish the information online, not all details are known. For instance, some comments have mentioned that the account apparently has to be at least 90 days old to be able to participate.

Hint

You can enter a country as destination on Marriott.com and then sort all Marriott hotels in that country by price (for the dates that you’ve chosen).

By the way, you can only participate every three years. So, only apply if you are certain that you’ll achieve the required nights in the three-month period.

Benefits

When Starwood Preferred Guest and Marriott Rewards merged, Marriott Bonvoy added a new status tier, and many of the former gold benefits were placed in the platinum tier:

Gold Status

Usually you’d need 25 nights in a calendar year to receive the gold status. This would get you the following benefits:

  • Upgrade based on availability without suites
  • 25% more points
  • Late Check-out until 14:00 based on availability

Platinum Status

With 50 nights in a year, you’ll now get the platinum status with the following benefits:

  • 500-1,000 points as welcome gift at check-in or free breakfast (depending on the hotel brand)
  • Lounge access (if available and open)
  • Upgrade based on availability incl. suites
  • 50% more points
  • Late check-out until 16:00 based on availability

The new platinum status is mostly identical to the old Marriott-Gold-Status, just that it now has a new name.

Translated by: Ditmar Lange

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Comments (8)

  1. Herboi says:

    Is this deal still valid ? On the Marriott Bonvoy website it shows that you need 50 nights to get platinum status.

    • Felix says:

      Hi Herboi! I just got off the phone with Marriott Bonvoy – the challenge is still valid. However, you have to call the hotline first to apply for it, you cannot apply for it via the website.

  2. Saif says:

    i like the pormotion, but where i can find the regestration link, cuz i have coming stay in 1 April, for 9 nights
    and in May 8 nights

    so i think i will made the challange, cuz my current status is silver with 11 night

    i want to be Platuniom for 1 year, who gonna help me 😅

  3. Peter says:

    does this still work?

  4. Sam Maes says:

    These are the terms & conditions:
    Platinum Elite Status Challenge Terms & Conditions:

    – This promotion is for existing members of the Marriott Bonvoy.
    – Registration is required to participate. – Existing Marriott Bonvoy members with base membership, Silver Elite or Gold Elite status are eligible for this promotion; members at Platinum Elite tier are ineligible for this offer.
    – Upon making 16 qualifying paid nights within 90 days of date of registration, participant will receive Marriott Bonvoy Platinum Elite status for up to one year, based on their loyalty program affiliation. After the first year, Platinum Elite status
    will be retained by staying the required number of qualifying nights under the terms of the Marriott Bonvoy program.
    – Paid nights at a qualifying rate count towards the promotion. Nights spent while redeeming an award are ineligible and do not count towards the promotion.
    – If member does not make 16 qualifying paid nights within 90 days of their date of registration, member will be changed to the membership level which corresponds to number of nights stayed: Member tier for 0-9 nights stayed, Silver Elite
    tier for 1024 nights stayed and Gold Elite tier for 25 – 49 nights stayed.
    – Nights stayed prior to enrollment are not eligible for this offer.
    – A ‘stay’ is defined as consecutive nights spent at the same hotel, regardless of check-in/check-out activity.
    – Credit toward this promotion is given for night stays with participating Marriott Bonvoy hotels which occur within the earning period.
    – For a list of current Marriott Bonvoy participating brands, visit https://www.marriott.com/loyalty/earn/hotels.mi
    – Only one room per hotel is counted toward a member’s nights.
    – Marriott Executive Apartments and ExecuStay transactions do not count toward promotion credit.
    – Homes and Villas by Marriott International transactions do not count toward promotion credit
    – Marriott Vacation Club owner-occupied weeks are not eligible for credit.
    – Elite benefits vary by brands and based on availability.
    – Offer is non-transferable. Offer is valid for one-time use. This promotion is subject to modification, cancellation, or limitation at Marriott’s discretion, with or without notice.
    – A member can only register for this promotion or Gold Elite Status Challenge once every 2 years. A member cannot register for both promotions or switch between the Platinum Elite and Gold Elite Status Challenges during the promotion
    period.

    So if you are Gold Elite but you don’t make the challenge it can be you end up in Silver.

  5. Venturelog says:

    What if I already have Gold status? Do I still need to do 16 nights and not 8 nights?

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