Choice Privileges Pros and Cons | Coffee Break Ep95 | 3-3-26
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
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Summary
Choice Privileges is a hotel chain with brands like Clarion, Comfort Inn, Quality Inn, Radisson Americas etc. In today's podcast, we'll talk about the pros and cons of this program.
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Choice Privileges Pros and Cons
Pros / items of interest...
(01:37) - Earn elite status through credit card spend thanks to an update in early 2026.
(05:59) - (Somewhat) fixed award chart
(07:16) - Ability to book premium rooms with points sometimes
(09:53) - Preferred Hotels partnership
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(11:53) - Transfer 1:2 from Citi or Wells Fargo
(12:31) - Buy points for around .7cpp during sales
(13:14) - Titanium Travel Award: 50% off award stay up to 7 nights
Cons...
(16:23) - Not much elite benefit. Breakfast at Diamond, Titanium Travel Award at Titanium.
(17:10) - Points expire after 18 months of inactivity
(17:37) - Fewer aspirational properties (apart from Preferred Hotels, and even that experience is complicated)
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at |
| 0:07.1 | voyescape.com. Welcome to Freakimilers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to |
| 0:15.6 | miles and points. And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less, pour your money back. |
| 0:23.0 | Today's coffee break, choice privileges, pros and cons. |
| 0:27.1 | Nick has been diving into the choice privileges program quite a bit lately. |
| 0:31.2 | So we figured it would be a good time to take a look at the program, |
| 0:35.2 | the biggest program we probably talk about the least. That's true. |
| 0:38.7 | When you say the biggest, I think they have something like 7,500 properties around the world |
| 0:43.5 | now in choice privileges. Plus, you can use choice privileges points to book preferred hotels |
| 0:48.0 | and other separate entity entirely. So they really are one of the bigger chains. But like you said, we don't talk about them as much. |
| 0:56.2 | So today we'll talk about some pros and some cons. |
| 0:58.3 | We'll start out with the pros, the reasons why you maybe should be paying attention to this program, |
| 1:03.1 | even though perhaps you haven't. |
| 1:04.4 | Now, I guess we should really start at a base level and say choice privileges is a chain like |
| 1:09.1 | Marriott or Hilton with a whole bunch of brands. |
| 1:11.2 | Some of the brands you're probably familiar with are things like Clarion, Comfortin, Quality |
| 1:17.1 | In, Sleep In, Those are a few examples of- There's a lot of Inns. Can you come up with? |
| 1:23.2 | A bunch of Inns. Yes. And sometimes they're ins and sweets, in fact. But, but those are some of the |
| 1:30.1 | brands you may know a little bit better. They also have, though, Ascend collection and some other |
| 1:35.1 | unique sort of Radisson individuals. Radisson Americas is part of choice. So you'll see Radisson |
| 1:40.9 | Blue and Radisson and Parkin as they exist in the Americas. So let's talk about |
| 1:46.3 | some of the pros with this program. First of all, you can earn elite status through credit card |
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