Choice Privileges has just launched its fall 2024 promotion, which members can start taking advantage of. It’s a pretty typical offer from the program — while probably not a reason to switch any stays to Choice, it’s worth registering if you were planning such a stay anyway.
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Choice promo: earn up to 24,000 bonus points
Choice Privileges is offering up to 8,000 points after every stay of two or more nights between October 2, 2024, and January 5, 2025.
Here are the basic terms to be aware of:
- Registration is required prior to the check-out of your first stay
- Members will be awarded a minimum of 5,000 bonus points and a maximum of 8,000 bonus points, depending on the number of base points earned from each stay
- You can take advantage of this offer a maximum of three times (so you can qualify for this offer for up to three stays, each a minimum of two nights)
- Only bookings made directly with Choice (through the app, website, or by phone) qualify
- A qualifying stay is one that is eligible to earn Choice Privileges points, except stays booked at rates below 40USD per night, reward night stays, etc.
- You must set your earnings preference to Choice Privileges points in order to qualify
- Points should post within 72 hours of an eligible check-out
- WoodSpring Suites, Mainstay Suites, Everhome Suites, Suburban Studios, and Ascend Hotel Collection all-inclusive resorts, are not participating brands
What makes Choice promotions unique
One thing that makes Choice Privileges promotions different than others is that the number of bonus points you earn varies based on how many base points you earn for a stay.
Choice Privileges isn’t offering 8,000 bonus points after every stay of two or more nights, but rather the program will adjust the points you earn after your stay so that you have 8,000 points, including the base points you earn.
Choice ordinarily offers 10 points per dollar spent, so if you made a stay of two nights at the cost of $100 per night, you’d earn 6,000 bonus points, for example. If you spend over $300 on an eligible stay, then you’d earn a minimum of 5,000 bonus points for that stay.
How much are Choice points worth?
Everyone will value points differently, though personally I conservatively value Choice Privileges points at ~0.6 cents each. Choice Privileges ordinarily awards 10x points per dollar spent, and that doesn’t include elite bonuses or credit card rewards for hotel spending.
Choice Privileges doesn’t have a formal award chart, but in general award pricing ranges from 6,000 to 45,000 points per night. In Asia-Pacific, some properties cost up to 75,000 points per night. On top of that, Choice Privileges has a partnership with Preferred Hotels & Resorts, which is a group of over 500 luxury independent properties around the globe.
You can redeem Choice Privileges points for stays here, and the hotels cost anywhere from 25,000 to 87,000 points per night. There are some participating hotels where you can get significant value redeeming this way.
Unfortunately we have seen quite some devaluations from Choice Privileges in recent times, both for Choice properties, and for Preferred properties.
Bottom line
Choice Privileges is offering a fall 2024 promotion, valid for stays over the coming months. Between October 2, 2024, and January 5, 2025, you can earn a total of up to 8,000 points after a stay of at least two nights. You can take advantage of this up to three times, for a total of up to 24,000 bonus points. This could be a great deal, especially given how reasonably priced many Choice properties are.
Do you plan on taking advantage of Choice’s fall 2024 promotion?
Choice points have gotten so badly devalued within the last 12 months that these “8k” bonus point promos are way too poor to move me.
10-15 years ago when 8k Choice points meant a free hotel night — or nearly a free hotel night — at properties where I would otherwise be staying anyway on award nights, I considered the promo relevant enough that I would use it. Even two years ago, I would...
Choice points have gotten so badly devalued within the last 12 months that these “8k” bonus point promos are way too poor to move me.
10-15 years ago when 8k Choice points meant a free hotel night — or nearly a free hotel night — at properties where I would otherwise be staying anyway on award nights, I considered the promo relevant enough that I would use it. Even two years ago, I would have probably still considered the promo in how I book things. Nowadays? 8k points for even 2 one-night stays on the cheap is not enough to get me to put up with going out of my way to stay at a Choice property that I would have otherwise avoided.
Not so surprisingly, this is the first year in a long while where I’ve ended up being just a Choice Gold with this program even as I have a substantial, very high balance of Choice points being locked in as award nights and cylcedto try to minimize my getting hit from the next devaluations.