Originally Posted by
charlesonmission
Sounds like I remembered it wrong, but I thought I booked a suite at a different property for the normal point amount. I know that I've done it with Choice, so I may be mixing up the past.
We ended booking the Hyatt Place which has a couch with a pullout as well for 12K points a night.
You can certainly book a suite with points for the normal points amount.
Just book at an all-suite property, such as a Marriott Suites, SpringHill Suites, etc.
Seriously, that illustrates that it depends on how the particular (not-all-suites) hotel looks at suites at its property. If they're much higher valued than other rooms, they're not likely to be available on points at the same rate, unless maybe it's forecast to be a super-dead night. If they're only slightly higher valued than other rooms, they may be more likely to offer suites at the same rate, at least on lower-occupancy dates.
Ie, nothing that you can count on, but something you might occasionally run into.
And thus it's irrelevant whether or not you did it before, because it's so situation dependent and you're obviously not in the exact same situation now (since you're booking at different property).