Buy Choice points with a 60% bonus (0.64cpp)

Choice Privileges is once again offering a “mystery bonus” deal when buying their points. This time they’re giving up to a 60% bonus when buying 8,000+ points. That drops the price to as low as 0.64cpp (cents per point).

The Deal

• Choice Privileges is offering bonuses when buying points:
  • Buy 10,000 points or more & get a 60% bonus (0.64 cents per point)
• Direct link to offer (our affiliate link).

Key Terms

• Transactions must be completed between 12 AM EST November 18, 2024 and 11:59 PM EST December 13, 2024 to be eligible for this Bonus offer.
• There is a 10,000 point purchase minimum that applies.
• Must be a Choice Privileges® Rewards Program member.
• Points will be posted to your Choice Privileges account within 24 hours after your transaction is complete.
• Members may normally buy or receive up to a total of 180,000 points in a calendar year; during the term of this promotion, that limit is raised to 250,000 points.
• Purchased points do not count toward Elite Status or Lifetime Elite Gold Status.
• Price includes all applicable fees. A GST/HST charge applies to purchases by Canadian residents.
• An additional QST charge applies to purchases by Quebec residents.
• Purchased points are not refundable and are applicable towards all Choice Privileges rewards.

Quick Thoughts

Buying Choice points for 0.64 cpp could make sense in some circumstances. While our Reasonable Redemption Value for Choice points is 0.67 cpp, when doing research to calculate those values, Tim found that at the 70th percentile you could expect to get 0.84 cpp of value when redeeming your points on award stays. As a result, someone with some flexibility to their travel dates and/or destinations could certainly get more value by buying points and redeeming them for an award stay rather than booking paid stays.

There are a few caveats to that though. One is that if you booked a paid stay, you’d earn points on the stay. You could also click through from a shopping portal on a paid stay to earn cashback/rewards, you might be able to earn bonus points from whichever promotion Choice is running at the time, plus you could earn bonus points by paying for the stay with a card that earns more at Choice or on hotel stays.

Also bear in mind that you can only book award stays with Choice up to 100 days ahead of time. That can be frustrating if you like booking in advance, so if you’re considering buying these points for a stay 4+ months in the future, there’s additional risk there that there’ll be no award availability when you’re within 100 days and/or that award pricing has increased.

If it does seem like buying points would make financial sense, click through from a shopping portal – here are the current rates.

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