My experience of doing this— to get what I thought I had booked — with US Choice points was very positive at the beginning but went sort of downhill over the years. It’s not bad, it’s just less positive than it used to be. I have years of Platinum status with Nordic Choice/Strawberry and have had some great rooms and upgrades with US Choice point bookings for Scandinavian properties, but it’s slipped over the years and varies a lot.

About booking suites using US Choice points, landed my most recent ones in the first half of the year at two properties around Stockholm, one of which is a Clarion during what was a very high demand period. I have a working theory on when and why these pop up for me at times, but I long ago learned with and from the Choice ones in Bergen — but thereafter in various Swedish properties — that what I book using US Choice points is not necessarily what they will assign at a minimum or use as a baseline for upgrading me. Part of it could be that I tend to make most of these hotel bookings for myself within the day of check-in.