{"id":18751,"date":"2024-04-08T20:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T19:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=18751"},"modified":"2024-04-14T09:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:24:53","slug":"choice-welcome-preferred-hotels-and-250-free-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/04\/08\/choice-welcome-preferred-hotels-and-250-free-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice welcomes Preferred Hotels, and 250 free points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are a regular reader you should know that I really like Choice Privileges as a non-mainstream loyalty program, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/12\/09\/guide-on-redeeming-choice-privilege-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">wrote a guide on it<\/a>. What I forgot to mention was their partnership with Preferred Hotels and Resorts, which allows you to spend points on properties beyond the Choice group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even better, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/choice-preferred\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">you can now redeem Preferred hotel stays online<\/a>. It is so much easier than having to call Choice&#8217;s customer service in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/choice-preferred-hotel-redemption-london.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/choice-preferred-hotel-redemption-london.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/choice-preferred-hotel-redemption-london-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/choice-preferred-hotel-redemption-london-768x311.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For reference, here is how much one night costs at some Preferred hotels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shanghai &#8211; The Longemont Hotel 25,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Taipei &#8211; Palais de Chine 35,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tokyo &#8211; The Prince Park Tower 35,000<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Singapore &#8211; Royal Plaza on Scotts 35,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Singapore &#8211; The Fullerton Bay Hotel 55,000<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kuala Lumpur &#8211; EQ 25,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>London &#8211; Royal Lancaster London 25,000<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Belfast &#8211; The Fitzwilliam Hotel 25,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barcelona &#8211; Hotel Espana 25,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Naples &#8211; Grand Hotel Santa Lucia 35,000<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>St Moritz &#8211; art boutique Hotel Monopol 55,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I highlighted the properties which represent the highest value. With the addition of Preferred hotels, there are more places to spend Choice points besides Japan and Northern Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/choice-email-250-points.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/choice-email-250-points.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/choice-email-250-points.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/choice-email-250-points-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you have a Choice account, you should also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/choice-email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">subscribe to their newsletter here<\/a> for 250 bonus points, which for me arrived instantly. Although 250 points won&#8217;t go far, it resets the 18-month clock for expiry which is helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a regular reader you should know that I really like Choice Privileges as a non-mainstream loyalty program, and wrote a guide on it.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-18751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choice","tag-hotel-promotion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18751"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18840,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18751\/revisions\/18840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}