What Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Amex unlocks

The fastest path here is the status the card hands over automatically: hold the US Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Amex and you're Marriott Bonvoy Platinum Elite, no stays required, plus 25 Elite Night Credits every year toward the next tier up.

That Platinum status is the real engine behind everything else here. It matches, once per lifetime, into Choice Privileges Platinum. It matches into Wyndham Rewards Diamond too, a free match that holds for 90 days unless you add 10 qualifying nights to keep it. And it opens a one-time, worldwide match into Hilton Honors Gold, which works as a launching point for two more chains. One runs to National Emerald Club Executive Elite. The other runs through MSC Voyagers Club Gold to Explora Club (Explora Journeys) Gold. The reference below maps every hop in both chains.

On the rental-car side, that same Marriott Platinum status matches into Sixt Platinum, then into Avis President's Club — a trunk that splits from there. One more match from President's Club reaches Enterprise Plus Platinum. A separate match from that same Avis status reaches Hertz President's Circle instead, and the reference below maps every hop and its renewal terms. Choice also offers a Diamond upgrade on top of the base Platinum match, but it requires a qualifying night at a Cambria hotel afterward, and the reports disagree on whether that step still works — Choice's own page and AwardWallet still listed it as of 2026, while FrequentMiler reported in February that it had been dropped.