While, I have an account with Choice for years, I have only stayed at Choice hotels a few times. Because of the merger of Choice and Radisson, I have a lot of points to burn. I have diligently reading the posts to understand the Choice Hotels. However, I still have a lot of questions.

1. Get a cobrand credit card. What are the benefit of gold vs plt statuses I that are gained through different version of the credit card?
2. Should I wait for a week or so to apply for the credit card? WF seems to have a difficult time handling the conversion of the current credit card holders.
3. How do I book a room with Preferred Hotels with Choice points? Am I correct that I have to call the Choice customer service to book the rooms? I tried a dummy check for availability for an Oslo hotel, the rooms are available for the days I looked but only for 1 adult in the room. When occupancy changed to 2, the system message said that the rooms are restricted to 1 person and asked me to book multiple rooms. Is this normal?
4. Should I transfer my Radisson points now or just wait for the auto merge?

Thanks. Look forward to learning more from you.

Nancy