All my husband wants is to keep his ambassador elite status @ marriott for another year. In terms of nights, he’s pretty far behind. Our 1st marriage anniversary is coming up, Is there anything I can do to secretly get him his status? Pay a little something or whatever? Please help!

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I’ve had the status for 8 years… I echo a lot of people in saying it’s not worth it to go out of your way. If it happens organically, fine, but please don’t pay extra for it. Life is so much bigger than a crappy suite at a Marriott.

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Depending on the number of nights - get a Marriott credit card for him and/or book a nice surprise holiday where y’all are staying at Marriotts.

No other way to do it, and also he’ll need to have met the spend requirement.

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Worthless status, had it since 2018. I am stretching for titanium this year as that is plenty.

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I will lose mine in February :(

Mattress run!

It’s not worthless… but the informal benefits are the major ones. I’ve gotten some pretty amazing suite upgrades from it (again, informally, hotel was being nice due to my status) and also appreciate that Marriott gives an any-time cancellation policy to Ambassador members.

I’m losing it in 2023, too. Haven’t traveled for work since Feb 2019, sadly. Still got Plat from personal travel (which I do a lot) + credit card bonuses and that’s the critical tier. I’m aiming for LT Plat.

But suite upgrades are not “informal”, it’s a defined benefit. And “any-time” cancellation is definitely not an Ambassador benefit - read many cases to the contrary.

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