Originally Posted by
mster
Choice hotels has made a significant number of their more desirable overseas properties entirely unavailable for award bookings... right before today's big annual Daily Getaways sale (where they flood the market with cheap Choice points).
Anyone else nervous about a Choice devaluation immediately after the Choice point sale today?
Actually, I think if there's a deliberate blocking of Choice overseas properties, that would probably argue against a devaluation. Choice figured out a better way to devalue several years ago with the institution of 30,000 point redemptions, initially available at only a few properties and now at many more, and variable points pricing per day combined with their already existing policy of quarterly changes in the range of points required for a redemption at each property. While still technically correct that the current (and similar stay 2/get 8K points throughout the year) promo can get you a night at some Choice properties, those numbers have been drastically reduced over the past 5-10 years.