I am pretty stale on Choice because I spent $190 on a room in Australia and I got zero points. Sorry, no points for rooms outside the US and a couple of other countries. What???? Why even bother having a program if you're going to exclude hundreds of properties?

The other reason I hate choice is the whole December 2007 Amtrak/Choice/Southwest fiasco. There has already been enough written on that topic. Suffice it to say that choice does not respect its customer enough to provide advance notice of program changes, and also will freeze accounts even when there is no reason to do so.

So Choice is perhaps a cut above Motel 6, but not much.