{"id":22191,"date":"2025-01-11T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=22191"},"modified":"2025-01-11T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T10:21:18","slug":"choice-hotels-extended-booking-window-cheaper-award-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/01\/11\/choice-hotels-extended-booking-window-cheaper-award-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice hotels: extended booking window, cheaper award nights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I like Choice Hotels&#8217; loyal program. Although far less popular than the other hotel chains, they have so many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/12\/09\/guide-on-redeeming-choice-privilege-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">sweet spots in their system<\/a>, and it got even better with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/04\/08\/choice-welcome-preferred-hotels-and-250-free-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the Preferred Hotels partnership<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/choice-2025-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">they announced<\/a> three changes in 2025:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Booking window to increase from 100 days to 50 weeks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Premium room awards available at a higher price<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Re-introduction of RewardSavers, a redemption discount program <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The new system was launched a few days ago and quite buggy at the beginning, making many people think a major devaluation had arrived. It&#8217;s now stablised and from what we can see, the pricing for most hotels remains unchanged (for now).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many top-end hotels in Scandinavia, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/the-thief-oslo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">the Thief Oslo<\/a>, can still be booked for 20,000 points or less, and you can indeed book far out towards the end of 2025.<\/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\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-oslo.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-oslo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-oslo.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-oslo-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-oslo-768x336.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The two Ascend hotels at Copenhagen &#8211; Hotel Admiral and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/10\/24\/my-review-of-villa-copenhagen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Villa Copenhagen<\/a> &#8211; are now available at 20,000 points. I spent 45,000 points via the Preferred Hotels channel, oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/hotel-aquarius-venice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Hotel Aquarius Venice<\/a> is still 20,000 points per night and you can pay 4,000 points more for a junior suite.<\/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\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-venice-premium.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-venice-premium.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-venice-premium.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-venice-premium-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-venice-premium-768x319.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Great news is, most Japanese hotels are now priced at 8,000 points only, many reduced from 12,000, 16,000 or even 20,000 points.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-japan-8000.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-japan-8000.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-japan-8000.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-japan-8000-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-japan-8000-768x685.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Our reader @Luca, a savvy traveller to Japan, has recommended the following hotels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/comfort-inn-tokyo-roppongi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Comfort Inn Tokyo Roppongi<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/comfort-inn-kyoto-shijokarasuma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Comfort Inn Kyoto Shijokarasuma<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/omfort-hotel-osaka-shinsaibashi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Comfort Hotel Osaka Shinsaibashi<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/hotel-around-takayama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">hotel around TAKAYAMA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>hotel around TAKAYAMA is especially worth a mention. For 8,000 points you can book a 3-bed room with a kitchen, or a 4-bed room with a sofa bed that accommodates 6. They also offer free bike rental to Choice members.<\/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\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-hotel-around-takayama.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-hotel-around-takayama.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-hotel-around-takayama.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-hotel-around-takayama-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/choice-redemption-hotel-around-takayama-768x551.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As the Choice program is subject to no-notice devaluation, if you have potential travel plans in 2025 that align I suggest to book them just in case. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/01\/07\/sad-daily-getaways-and-trip-flight-discount-discontinued\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Daily Getaways discontinued<\/a>, the only practical way to earn Choice points is to buy them &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/points-choice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">there&#8217;s currently a 40% bonus offer<\/a> and you can buy at 0.74c per point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Choice Hotels&#8217; loyal program. Although far less popular than the other hotel chains, they have so many sweet spots in their system, and 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":[],"class_list":["post-22191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191","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=22191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22196,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191\/revisions\/22196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}