So I'm reading about the new Marriott Premier Plus card and it says there:
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Automatic Silver Elite Status: You will automatically receive Silver Elite Status each account anniversary year as a cardmember (“Account anniversary year” means the year beginning with account open date through the anniversary of your account open date, and each 12 months after that).
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But doesn't say how that will happen, currently they credit you with nights to achieve that. Since they don't mention nights I'm wondering if it changes to a simple status check box (do you have the CC? check. account is silver) But if they give you 10 nights on your anniversary year to make that happen, then it could stack with the 15 you get as the next perk that starts 2019:
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15 Elite Night Credits: Each calendar year a maximum of 15 Elite Night credits will be credited to one of your Marriott Loyalty Program accounts operated by Marriott International (i.e., Marriott Rewards®, Starwood Preferred Guest® or The Ritz-Carlton Rewards®) (the “Marriott Loyalty Program”) on or before March 1 in accordance with the Marriott Loyalty Program terms and conditions.
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However, if that were to happen everyone with a CC would be gold at some point. (i.e. I get my 15 nights on or before March 1. My anniversary year is March, I get another 10 nights, I'm now at 25 in the same calendar year). So that's just confusing, if each calendar year you'll get the 15 nights that pretty much gives you the Automatic Silver Elite just as it does now.
Possibly the automatic status is just for 2018 since the elite nights aren't starting until 2019. (So you get 10 nights when you open the card which are good through Dec 31. Then Jan 1 you get the 15 nights which keeps you at Silver Elite. If they're slow crediting those nights and it takes until March 1, you're still silver Elite because of the automatic status thingie) But since the SPG cards have the same automatic language, I'm leaning towards the check box concept rather than being given actual nights. So you might get the perks of Silver Elite but you have to earn the full 25 nights to get to Gold Elite (likewise, perks of Gold Elite but need 50 nights or spend to make the Platinum). The 15 nights are then technically counting towards the next level, just maybe not as quickly as one would like