Do you do hotel stays in the US now? If so, after you do the 3 one-night stays required for maxing out the Club Carlson promo, look into using Choice hotels for cheap one-night stays during their current promo, which gets you 8000 points total for every 2 stays (which means every 2 nights if each night you change hotels), and many if not most Choice hotels in Norway (of which there are lots, including in some smaller towns among the fjords or elsewhere in the countryside where there are no Radissons) are only 16000 points a night. Meaning 4 cheap one-night stays in a Comfort, Quality, Sleep, or Clarion here (EconoLodge, Rodeway, and couple of the others count only on two-night-or-longer stays) translate into one free night in Norway, often costing $200++ cash!

Here's the thread on that promo:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/choic...gift-card.html

FYI: Choice Scandinavia is a kinda separate chain from Choice Hotels International (which includes Choice USA). Choice USA members can redeem for Choice Scandinavia, but can't earn there.

There is a Choice credit card (see the Choice forum for more on that), but it will only earn you one, maybe two, of those 16000-point nights. If you do have chance to do Choice stays in the USA while that promo is going on, that can be a much faster way to rack up those 16000-point multiples.

I'm not clear where within Norway you're going to travel. In the biggest cities (Oslo, Bergen, etc) Radisson will do fine. But beyond that, Choice will be much more prevalent and Radisson will thin away.