70K Choice Privileges points with new timeshare offer

Choice Privileges has a new Bluegreen Vacations timeshare offer to get a 3-night hotel stay and 70,000 Choice Privileges points for $279. While not the best offer we’ve seen from Choice & Bluegreen, this is nonetheless a deal that can be worth it for the points alone — if you also value the three-night stay, all the better.

The Deal

• Choice Privileges is offering a 3-night hotel stay at a Bluegreen Vacations destination and 70,000 Choice Privileges points for $279 (plus tax)
• Direct link to this deal

Key Terms

• By participating in this offer, you agree as follows: If you are married or participating in this offer with a cohabitating significant other, you and your spouse or significant other (as applicable) are hereinafter collectively referred to herein as “We” or “Us:”
  • I am, or at least one of Us is, 25 years of age or older. I or We each (if married or cohabitating with a significant other who is participating in this offer with me) have a valid driver’s license or government-issued identification.
  • I have, or at least one of Us has, a valid personal credit card bearing a MasterCard®, Visa®, American Express®, or Discover® logo.
  • I or We (if married or cohabitating with a significant other who is participating in this offer with me) have a gross annual household income of at least $50,000 (this income requirement may be waived if I, my spouse, or my cohabitating significant other who is participating in this offer with me is 62 years of age or older) and
  • I understand that I, or at least one of Us (if married or cohabitating with a significant other who is participating in this offer with me), must: (i) have a minimum credit score as established by this offer’s sponsor (currently a FICO® score of 600); or (ii) if FICO® information is not readily available, meet Bluegreen’s internal financial risk underwriting requirements.
  • I or both of Us (if married or cohabitating with a significant other who is participating in this offer with me) may not have filed for bankruptcy or been adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent within the past 7 years.
  • If cohabiting with a significant other who is participating in this offer with me and combining income, I understand that proof of cohabitation through government-issued identifications showing identical home addresses is required.
  • I agree that I (or We if married or cohabitating with a significant other who is participating in this offer with me) must attend and complete an approximately two-hour Bluegreen Vacation Club® sales presentation and tour on the benefits of timeshare ownership at the Bluegreen Vacations preview center in my selected destination area.
• If married, or cohabiting with a significant other who is participating in this offer with me, both individuals must attend and complete the timeshare sales presentation and tour together.
• I or We each (if married or cohabitating with a significant other who is participating in this offer with me) understand that neither of Us may participate in any promotional or other offer made by another vacation ownership company or travel club while traveling on this Package.
• You agree that you and all the members of your traveling party will meet Bluegreen’s health screening requirements which may include, among other things, answering a brief series of health-status questions and a non-invasive temperature check.
• Residents of North Dakota and South Dakota and any states where registration or licensing requirements have not been met are not eligible for this promotion.
• Offer may be withdrawn at any time without notice.
• Any promotional gift(s) and/or a reservation incentive(s) that are offered with this promotion will be provided upon completion of the approximately two-hour timeshare sales presentation and tour (or earlier if required by law), unless specified otherwise.
• Travel must be completed within 12 months of vacation package purchase date.
• Attendance at an approximately two-hour Bluegreen Vacations timeshare sales presentation and tour is required to be eligible for this promotion.
• Current employees (as of the date(s) of purchase, or participation in, this promotional offer) of Bluegreen Vacations, Bluegreen Vacations Corporation, or their affiliated companies, and their immediate family members, and persons under the age of 25 who do not have a spouse or cohabitating significant other who is participating in this offer with them who is over the age of 25 are ineligible for this offer.
• If you are a resident of a country other than the U.S., Canada or the U.K., you may be ineligible for this promotion and it may be withheld in the sponsor’s sole discretion.
• The following are also ineligible for this offer: Bluegreen Vacation Club and Bluegreen Vacation fixed-week owners; Bluegreen Vacation UDI and Campground owners; holders of Bluegreen Vacation promotional offers; and those who have attended a Bluegreen/Bluegreen Vacations timeshare sales presentation without purchase within the past 15 months.
• This offer is not valid in conjunction with any other offer.
• This promotion is offered throughout the U.S.; however, it is void where prohibited by law and where state registration and/or licensing requirements have not been met.
• More terms here

Quick Thoughts

I attended a timeshare vacation ownership presentation from Bluegreen last year. It ran over time a bit, but in the end I got all of the incentives promised immediately (even before the presentation began). You’ll pay $279 up front plus taxes at the hotel where you stay and you have 12 months to book (though you may get an additional incentive for booking it within 30 days).

This is a deal that could easily be worth it for the points alone. While Choice Privileges is far from being my primary or secondary program, I still see plenty of opportunities to get 1c per point or better out of Choice points (a couple of great uses can be for stays in Scandinavia and for stays with Preferred Hotels). Getting 70,000 points for $279 comes out to just under 0.4c per point, which is a great price for Choice Privileges points.

This could also be a solid deal at $279 for 3 nights in some of the included locations. The measure of that deal obviously depends significantly on where and when you’ll travel, but you could nonetheless get a good deal even before considering the points.

If you mentally account for the three night stay and the points as each costing you half the total amount of dollars and cents, this could look like a no-brainer.

However, the unsaid part so far is that you’ll need to give 2 hours of your life to Bluegreen Vacations to try to convince you to buy into their Vacation Ownership program (in my case, the presentation ran for 3 hours before I got firm about ending it then and there). I’m sure that the timeshare / vacation ownership model works for some people, but I imagine that most readers won’t be very interested in locking themselves into an annual maintenance / subscription type fee in perpetuity rather than collecting miles and points for your vacations. Still, keep in mind that some of the salespeople can be convincing and the deals they offer sound better and better as you say no. If you are the type who can be easily convinced, you might want to pass rather than chance that you get talked into something that you shouldn’t. There was a lot of questionable math thrown around during my presentation like comparing future inflation-adjusted guesses at what vacations will cost and saying that you can lock all that in for today’s dollars (ignoring the fact that you’re giving up today’s dollars, which would be worth more in the future if invested, and if you’re paying them interest by financing through them, the numbers start to climb closer together while limiting your choice).

If you do consider this deal, I highly recommend reading the post I wrote about my experience to give you some idea as to what to expect: My experience with a Bluegreen Vacations timeshare presentation.

Also keep in mind that the cancellation policy isn’t particularly customer-friendly, so you’ll want to be firm on your plans.

While I may sound somewhat negative, I’ll say that I would consider taking advantage of this deal if I were eligible (you are not eligible if you have attended a presentation with them in the past 15 months). If you are able to limit the presentation to exactly two hours, I think that it could be pretty easy to come out nicely ahead between the stay and the points. I don’t love their sales tactics because I think the numbers they use can be misleading, but sales pressure was not high at all.

If you have a favorite from the eligible areas, let us know in the comments where people should consider going for this deal.

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