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Choice Privileges global promotion for double points (20 points per USD) runs December 4-February 15, 2019. There is a maximum of 30,000 bonus points a member may earn during promotion equating to $3,000 in room rate spend. Room rates under $40 per night do not qualify for double points. Registration required at www.choicehotels.com/deals/double-points prior to check-out…
Last month I had a 16,000 Choice Privileges reward night booked at Quality Inn Hampstead in north London in a Double Bed standard room. The week before my trip I changed my reservation to Clarion Collection Harte & Garter Hotel, Windsor for a King Bed castle view room at 16,000 Choice Privileges points. Hampstead Heath…
Airfare from USA to Australia this week offered the lowest ticket prices in years at $580-$640 for round trip travel from major California airports to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Melbourne and Sydney are expensive hotel cities. Average room rate in Sydney is about $250 AUD or over $175 USD. With hotel occupancy in Sydney around…
This article is an introduction to some of the basics in using Choice Privileges points for reward nights. Choice Privileges represents over 6,000 hotels worldwide. I will follow up this article focused on good value hotels using Choice Privileges points for deals in the USA, Australia and Europe. Choice Privileges is my most used hotel…
London is expensive, but not nearly as expensive as you might expect based on the price of major hotels near city center tourist attractions around Westminster. While hotels and restaurants can bust your budget, other expenses for visiting London, like dozens of free museums, offer cheap entertainment to stretch your travel budget. London transportation is…
IHG Rewards Club and Choice Privileges both have buy discount points promotions this month. IHG Rewards Club 100% bonus points through November 30 is a great price. Choice Privileges 25% off points purchase through November 26 is primarily useful if you don’t have any points and need to kickstart your account balance or you have…
My stay at Clarion Collection Harte & Garter Windsor, England was one of those experiences where the room view made all the difference. There are 98 rooms in the four floor Victorian era hotel. Guest reviews are highly mixed, primarily between those who stayed in castle view rooms and those who stayed in the back…
Choice Privileges has a buy points with a bonus points offer when you purchase by November 2, 2018. You need to log in to find out whether your specific targeted bonus is 20%, 30% or 40% bonus points. I received an email about the offer on Oct 16 with a direct link and I received…
ChoiceVacationRentals.com, the vacation rental arm of Choice Hotels, has a promotion for 10,000 bonus points when you make a booking by December 31, 2018 for 3 nights or more and stay by February 28, 2019. Choice Privileges members normally earn 5 points per $1 for the vacation rental daily rate + cleaning fee. Use promotion code…
Downtown Atlanta at only 6,000 Choice Privileges points for Inn at the Peachtrees, an Ascend Collection hotel. I counted this as a $30 hotel night since I bought over 200,000 Choice Privileges points in April 2018 through U.S. Travel Association’s Daily Getaways for $5.00 per 1,000 points.
