Just beginning to get on the road, with the merger coming up in August, who should I max out points with? SPG or Marriott?

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Marriott - you'll receive a free status bump if you make it to any level by August

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Last year I was on a long term engagement and I spent a couple weeks exploring diff Starwood and Marriott hotels to compare properties and also kept track of points received. Turned out I received around the same amount of points (3 Marriott = 1 SPG) for most similar tier hotels with SPG often yielding a couple thousand more due to their higher green choice and welcome bonus points. Would recommend sticking with SPG if it’s available.

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I’m all for spg, sign up for a status challenge.

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But won't the points from SPG be more valuable?

No, you earn fewer SPG points so the one time conversation won't really come out ahead. SPG is the program being aquired so I would just go with Marriott.

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@ACN1, what is status challenge?

Just finished my challenge. 20 nights in ~5 week got me from zero to hero (platinum)

Y'all are the best 😍

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