Did anyone find loopholes with SPG-Marriott merger? More Points? Status? Other travel perks?

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Well that 1 guy thought you could "transfer" points and have them just generate on the other program for free, but sadly this loophole doesn't exist so we're back to square 1

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SPG Plat -> Marriott Plat -> UA Silver. Not amazing, but if you don't fly UA much, better than nothing.

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I don't usually fly United and hadn't hit Marriott platinum so I got Marriott platinum and united silver out of the deal since you get silver with Marriott plat.

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Jinx 🙂

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In all seriousness, the biggest "loophole" is that top tier Marriott properties cost a very favorable amount of SPG points. Category 9 on Marriott is 15k/nt starpoints now while the equivalent category on SPG is upwards of 30k/nt

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But otherwise haven't found anything of note

You could score score amazing flight + hotel rewards if you transfer from SPG to Marriott. Read up travel blogs

They wouldn't let me link my Marriot-Starwood and Emirates accounts even though Starwoods and Emirates have their own deal. They told me that I could only like my Spg account with one or the other, which doesn't make sense since they are by no means equivalent

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