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Increased Offer For Choice Privileges Credit Card – A 50%+ Jump

Mark Ostermann
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Increased Offer For Choice Privileges Credit Card – 50,000 Points

Once or twice a year the Choice Privileges Credit Card gets an increased offer. The card normally comes with 32,000 point offer after $1,000 in spend within 3 months.  There is an offer out there for over 50% more.

Update: Offer now showing an end date of October 13, 2020.

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Details

The increased offer for the Choice Privileges credit card is as follows:
  • Earn 50,000 points after spending $1,000 within the first 90 days
  • No annual fee
  • The offer has been as high as 64,000 points in the past but it has been a while.

Card Perks

  • Earn 15X per dollar at Choice hotels
  • 5X points per $1 spent on the purchase of Choice Privileges points or Choice Hotels gift cards.
  • Earn 2X on everything else
  • Gold status for card holders

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Choice Privileges Has Some Sweet Spots

Choice, are we really talking about Choice Hotels?  You bet! With Wyndham nerfing their award chart Choice and Radisson have somewhat replaced them as the sneaky good (okay decent) random 3rd wheel option.  Choice in the United Stats is no beuno for sure, but their points come alive overseas.  You can snag hotels in Venice for 10K a night.  Skip the high prices of Atlantis, or maybe the hotel all together, but take advantage of the property and pools for 25,000 points a night.  You can check out Tokyo for only 8,000 points a night, that means you get 6 nights with this welcome offer.

The main draw back of Choice Privileges, for me at least, is that you can only book awards 100 days out.  This is an improvement of what it used to be I believe, but it is still annoying compared to other programs.  If you can get around that you can find value.

Final Thoughts

I am actually considering grabbing one for some specific trips I have in mind.  They also have a really cool hotel downtown Detroit I have been meaning to check out.  My main issue is that Barclays pretty much hates me and I haven’t been able to snag an approval from them in years.  Hopefully I sprinkled the right pixie dust this time before I hit the submit button!

Update: I was approved! Color me surprised 🙂

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Mark Ostermann
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Mark Ostermann is a father, husband and miles/points fanatic. He left the corporate world after starting a family in order to be a stay at home dad. Mark is constantly looking at ways to save money and stay within budget while also taking awesome vacations with his family. When he isn't caring for his family or taking a weekend trip, Mark is working towards his goal of visiting every Major League Baseball ballpark.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. Hmmm that looks interesting, as you rightly say, the points are worth more in Europe where I tend to travel these days.
    Only caveat for me is, I had the Barclay American Air Aviator M/Card w/60k mileage signup bonus.
    I used lightly and cancelled @ 1st anniversary 6 months ago.

  5. Congrats on approval, Choice is underrated. Could you give your /24 status? Or a range of that’s more comfortable, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20, LOL…?

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