Originally Posted by
codesinvan
My only concern is where will I use the points I earn from BW stays - was looking at the properties and did not find anything that immediately made me say - I would like to go there.
That's not what BW is for, IMHO. They often have hotels in locations (including right outside some National Parks in the USA, not sure about Canada) where no other chain hotels exist. Same with some nice vacation locations in Alaska (they are the only chain hotel in Seward now that the Holiday Inn Express was de-branded) and in many smaller towns in Europe. (For example, they are one of the only 3 hotel chains you'd know from North America that can be found in Norway beyond Oslo, the other two being Club Carlson and Choice, in the latter case redemption only because it's a different Choice program in the Nordic countries than in North America and the rest of Europe.)