A Belated Gift from Marriott
Jun. 15th, 2023 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerSeveral months ago I got a gift in the mail from Marriott. Or maybe it was a year or two ago; I don't remember. It was a gift of some kind. It came in a mysterious black-on-black box.
I figured it was some fluff from Marriott's Bonvoy elite status program and put it aside unopened.
At some point I read online that Marriott was sending a small gift to its high end elite members. I don't think I connected the dots that this would be a gift to me. I'd already put the box aside and forgotten about it.
This week I saw I noticed it again when I was sifting through a pile of stuff that's been sitting on the corner of my desk.
Indeed it is a gift from Marriott for my Lifetime Titanium status in their too-preciously renamed Bonvoy program. That a gift would've arrived sometime several months ago surprised me because I earned Lifetime Titanium back at the start of 2018.
Thus it's apropos that I slept on this gift for several months, considering Marriott slept on sending it to me for 5 years. 😂
But what kind of gift would it be? Would it be a commemorative plaque like United Airlines gave me when I reached Million Miler status? Actually it turns out Marriott's gift is... useful? Maybe? 😆
It's a pair of luggage tags. They're heavy leather sheaths with leather straps and embossed metal plaques proclaiming "LIFETIME TITANIUM".
I might actually use these. Well, I might actually use the one that's tasteful black instead of the one adorned with polka dot pattern that looks like a party dress my grandma wore in the 1970s.
I figured it was some fluff from Marriott's Bonvoy elite status program and put it aside unopened.
At some point I read online that Marriott was sending a small gift to its high end elite members. I don't think I connected the dots that this would be a gift to me. I'd already put the box aside and forgotten about it.
This week I saw I noticed it again when I was sifting through a pile of stuff that's been sitting on the corner of my desk.
Indeed it is a gift from Marriott for my Lifetime Titanium status in their too-preciously renamed Bonvoy program. That a gift would've arrived sometime several months ago surprised me because I earned Lifetime Titanium back at the start of 2018.
Thus it's apropos that I slept on this gift for several months, considering Marriott slept on sending it to me for 5 years. 😂
But what kind of gift would it be? Would it be a commemorative plaque like United Airlines gave me when I reached Million Miler status? Actually it turns out Marriott's gift is... useful? Maybe? 😆
It's a pair of luggage tags. They're heavy leather sheaths with leather straps and embossed metal plaques proclaiming "LIFETIME TITANIUM".
I might actually use these. Well, I might actually use the one that's tasteful black instead of the one adorned with polka dot pattern that looks like a party dress my grandma wore in the 1970s.
