rylan

No there is no status match from Marriott to MGM, especially for Marriott Plat to MGM status.
Check the table in the wiki at the top for the selected subset of benefits that you may receive from your Marriott Plat status.

Whatever happened, MGM decided to upgrade you to their Plat status... maybe from recent visit and spend or credit card etc... but that is far superior than any benefits you'd get from Marriott status at an MGM property. Even MGM Gold is better than the benefit subset you get from Titanium.

Surge2009

At the lower end properties, like Luxor, they're great about upgrading MGM Gold/Plats. You can book the cheapest room at Luxor (Basic Pyramid room) and they'll automatically upgrade you to a Tower Room, or in some cases upgraded to a Pyramid Corner Suite. But as an Marriott Titanium, when I asked for the same thing (which only costs about $7 difference per night), you would've thought I was asking for a $1000/night penthouse upgrade based on their response...which was again, due to poor training. They brought out their cheat sheet to see what Marriott Titanium translates to MGM Rewards status (to see if they had to upgrade) , which is an incorrect way to do it since we know the benefits aren't aligned that way. That was kind of the last point for me to realize this Marriott-MGM thing isn't going to work for me and have since focused all my stays at Caesars.

rylan

If you mike a poor decision and book Excalibur, does MGM upgrade their own elites to another property that isn't gross while Marriott elites are stuck there?

DallasEsq

You could probably count on one hand the number of MGM elites staying at Excalibur at any given time, especially now that you can't get Hyatt elite nights there. They'd probably comp the enitre property for a Noir if they asked nicely, title and all.

bcelos

Any idea about when Bonvoy will allow point transfer to MGM? Wonder if this will even happen?

rylan

The initial PR mentioned exchange between marriott points and mqm rewards points, but no further information has come out that I'm aware of.

If this happens, I would not expect the exchange rate to be beneficial at all. Remember, 1 MGM rewards point is worth 1c for comp so it translates directly to cash value.

egurbi

If I book at an MGM property with Marriott points, can I present my MGM Platinum card at front desk o waive the resort fees, or do they not honor the MGM tier status for stays booked with Marriott points?

DallasEsq

Probably not. When MGM was tied up with Hyatt, you still had to book through MGM channels to get the status benefits (though Hyatt status was matched to an MGM status, and you still could get Hyatt elite night credits). Marriott is much less integrated with MGM than Hyatt was, so I would expect it would be even harder to get recognition without booking through MGM.

egurbi

Thanks for the reply. Seems like a bad policy. Wonder if jawboning them at the front desk might help.

billdokes

Good luck with that...it's Vegas, they deal with jawboning DYKWIA types all day long and they have figured out long before you arrive if you are worth knowing or not, but please report back.

DallasEsq

What I would do is book the first night or two through MGM, and the rest through Marriott. Maybe they will give you an upgrade initially and then just let you keep the room so they don't have to clean two to make you switch. I don't know if that would work but that's what I would try to do.

InFlightJay

I've done this before although under Hyatt/MGM. Booked a night award through Hyatt and then had MGM booked stays immediately after. The front desk will let you stay in the same room without any problems.

Even for longer stays (2 wks+), the front desk will sometimes ask if you'd like to change rooms to have a different view and not get bored of being in the same place. So it really depends on who you get and in my experience, if you're nice about it.

cdancer20

I stayed at the Cosmo at the beginning of this year prior to the full MGM switch. It qualified for 2 different Amex offer deals. Not sure if it's due to being part of Marriott prior to joining MGM but just a data point.

cdancer20

Does anyone have recent datapoints on if hotels paid for via Amex Marriott card get points? I stayed at the Cosmo earlier this year prior to the MGM merge and got 6x points on my stay. Also, I had a booking from earlier this year that I recently cancelled and it shows 6x points reversed. However, I don't know if that's because I cancelled a previous reservation or if it's just Cosmo being already coded in the system. I'm staying at the Aria soon and want to see if I should use a different CC.

AAORD82

I just finished a Cosmo stay and had to email my ambassador to help get points/nights to hit my account. I think the hotel is still working out some kinks. Would reach out to Amex or Marriott as you should get 6x points on the stay.