dhammer53

Last week, I stayed at the Econo Lodge in Farmington NY. This is southeast of Rochester.

Booking a room with points is 6000 points. When you go down the list of room types, you see:

Double no-smoking
Double smoking
Queen etc etc

Then, all the way on the bottom, I see Suite - 6000 points. So I do what anyone I know would do and book a suite.

Now we're only talking Econo Lodge here, so this isn't a Hilton type of a suite.
The suite was 600 sq ft. Half was a livingroom, a quarter was the bedroom, and the other quarter looked like a room with a hugh round table (diningroom). What a shame the room was early 1990 Econo Lodge.

But the point of this thread is that a suite may be available to you when you book a room with points.
FYI, I have no status with Choice.

dh

BamaVol

You wouldn't brag about it even if you did.

Thanks for the good info. It will take a while before I accumulate even 6,000 points with Choice, but I'll get there eventually.

BigLar

That's not a glitch in the system, Dan. That's how it works.

Now, I'm not sure how long they will allow, say, a 3-bedroom suite in Lisbon for 6000 points/night, but while it's there, I say take advantage of it!

soitgoes

Yes and no. Hotels get to decide which types of rooms to load for award purposes. Some properties unintentionally include room types that they don't want to (as was in this case--based on an earlier post the OP noted that the property later pulled the suites from the redemption pool).

dhammer53

In Glens Falls NY (Lake George area), the owner and I were chatting, and he told me that because of my booking a suite on points, he was removing it from the inventory. That suite was big, but horrible.

His regular rooms are nice thought.

soitgoes

He's just trying to do you a favor, then.