Choice has opened registration for its summer promotion and it’s (seemingly mostly) the same promotion it’s run for many summers in a row.
You’ll earn 8,000 bonus points for every two stays, with the ability to redeem 8,000 points for a $50 gift card for select brands. You can earn up to 32,000 points through this promotion, but there might be a key difference with past offers that won’t be as welcome if you’ll be booking more expensive stays.
The Deal
- Earn 8,000 bonus Choice Privileges points every time you stay twice at Choice properties.
- Direct link to registration.
Key Terms
- This Offer is for an award of 8,000 bonus points after you make two qualifying stays at participating Choice hotels. Registration required at https://www.choicehotels.com/choice-privileges/stay-2-get-50-gift-card before checking into your first qualifying stay.
- Registration and booking will be open from May 11 through July 6, 2026.
- The Offer is only available to members of the Choice Privileges Rewards Program who register for it, book at a participating hotel on a qualifying channel between May 11, 2026 and July 6, 2026, and then complete your stay between May 13, 2026, and July 7, 2026.
- For Choice Privileges members from Australia and New Zealand, this offer is valid at participating hotels on a qualifying channel between May 12, 2026 and July 6, 2026 and your stay must be completed between May 14, 2026 and July 7, 2026.
- The Offer is only available to members of the Choice Privileges Rewards Program who register for it, book on a qualifying channel, and then make two qualifying stays at a participating hotel between May 11, 2025, and July 7, 2026.
- The Choice Privileges member number must be on the reservation.
- WoodSpring Suites hotels are not participating in this Offer.
- Registered members will be awarded 8,000 bonus points after the second qualifying stay which is the number of points required to redeem for a $50 gift card from participating retailers (see list below; list subject to change).
- The Choice Privileges member number must be on the reservations. The number of bonus points awarded depends on the number of base points earned from the two separate qualifying stays, with points varying by hotel.
- Members may take advantage of this offer a maximum of four times during the Offer period, although the member may continue to earn base points (and any Elite bonuses) on subsequent qualifying stays.
- A selection of gift cards is available at the discounted redemption rate of 8,000 points from 5/11/2026 through 8/6/2026.
- Members will have 30 days after the promotion ends to redeem their points for a $50 gift card at the reduced point level. Beginning 8/7/2026, the $50 gift cards will return to their standard redemption.
- In the United States, the eligible gift cards are BP, Chevron and Texaco, Sheetz, and Shell. In Canada, the eligible gift cards are Petro Canada and Esso. In APAC, the eligible gift cards are Coles and Uber/Uber Eats.
- The Offer is only valid for qualifying stays, which exclude rooms booked below certain rates, reward night stays, complimentary rooms, rooms paid for as part of a convention or meeting, wholesale packages, group tours, and stays booked using the employee discount or the friends, family and associate discount.
Quick Thoughts
Choice is marketing this as you earning a $50 gas gift card after two stays, but the gas gift card redemption is optional. Instead, you’ll earn 8,000 points after the two stays, with the choice as to whether or not you want to redeem for a $50 gift card which is a reduced redemption rate compared to normal.
The terms of the offer state that you’ll earn 8,000 bonus points, but that’s untrue. Instead, Choice will top up your points earnings to ensure you end up with 8,000 points at the end of your two stays.
For example, let’s say you book two separate stays of one night each, both of which cost $100 per night. You earn 10 base points per dollar, so you’d earn 1,000 points per stay for a total of 2,000 points. Choice would then top up those earnings with an additional 6,000 bonus points.
There does appear to be a notable change with regards how this promotion will run this year based on an omission in the terms. In previous years, Choice guaranteed that you’d earn at least 5,000 bonus points for every two stays, regardless of how many base points you earn. That was helpful on more expensive stays as it ensured you received a good chunk of points regardless. For example, let’s say you booked two stays, each of which cost $400. You’d earn 4,000 base points on the first stay and 4,000 on the second stay for a total of 8,000 points. With past similar promotions, you’d then earn 5,000 bonus points to make that a total of 13,000 points.
However, that minimum 5,000 bonus points wording is absent from the terms of this latest promotion. That might just be an inadvertent omission, but I suspect it’s deliberate. If so, that means that in the above scenario where you earn 8,000 base points or more across your two stays, you’ll earn a grand total of zero bonus points. This promotion therefore gives a weird incentive to spend less with Choice in order to earn more.
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