{"id":24752,"date":"2025-08-21T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=24752"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:22:08","slug":"choice-hotels-devaluation-in-northern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/08\/21\/choice-hotels-devaluation-in-northern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice Hotels devaluation in Northern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was poking around the other day and just discovered that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/01\/11\/choice-hotels-extended-booking-window-cheaper-award-nights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Choice Hotels<\/a>, a bit of a hidden gem among hotel groups, has quietly devalued again. Here are a few properties I\u2019ve been keeping an eye on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Oslo <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/the-thief-oslo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">The Thief<\/a><\/strong>: 20,000 \u2192 30,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oslo <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/amerikalinjen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Amerikalinjen<\/a><\/strong>: 20,000 \u2192 30,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stockholm <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/at-six\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">At Six<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/01\/05\/my-review-of-at-six-stockholm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">review here<\/a>): 20,000 \u2192 25,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stockholm <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/clarion-hotel-sign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Clarion Hotel Sign<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/12\/31\/my-review-of-clarion-hotel-sign-stockholm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">review here<\/a>): 16,000 \u2192 20,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/choice-points-sommerro-the-thief.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/choice-points-sommerro-the-thief.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24751\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/choice-points-sommerro-the-thief.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/choice-points-sommerro-the-thief-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/choice-points-sommerro-the-thief-768x471.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The hardest hit is clearly the Nordic Strawberry brand. Hotels elsewhere seem untouched for now; for example, properties in Japan and much of Europe remain the same (Hotel Aquarius Venice is still 20,000 points).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s sad to see some hotels finally break the 30,000-point barrier, though honestly, given their cash rates, even 30k can still be decent value. Plus, there are still plenty of four- and five-star hotels in the Ascend Collection priced between 12,000 and 20,000 points, which are excellent redemptions in my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the new rules were rolled out earlier this year, I actually locked in a booking at The Thief, but later cancelled since I wasn\u2019t in the mood to travel. I still have a good stash of points left, and I\u2019m considering picking up their US co-branded credit card. Hopefully I\u2019ll get another chance to head to Scandinavia before long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was poking around the other day and just discovered that Choice Hotels, a bit of a hidden gem among hotel groups, has quietly devalued again.&#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":[155,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choice","category-europe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24752","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=24752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24753,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24752\/revisions\/24753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}