Red Room Chronicles

Last year I fell short of the 75 stay nights required to regain my platinum status, but since I was over 50 nights I was degraded to the shadow world of gold elite status. I didn’t even know such a level existed, but it does. Heck, there’s even a silver elite status. The discernable differences are small. Platinum guest have the 48-hour reservation guarantee and also the platinum arrival gift. The gift was usually water and cookies at everywhere but full service Marriott locations. You still get concierge level access with gold status and that is far more valuable than the other two perks as far as I’m concerned. I guess I’ve found that it’s not so bad living in the shadow of platinum status after all.