Nordic Choice Hotels not currently redeemable using Choice Privileges points
May 15, 2019, 11:46 am
#16
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The manager at Porto (Portugal) last summer was not happy that I booked with points, which were a good value even at the peak season points price. That hotel dropped out of Choice recently. I wonder if that will be a trend.
May 15, 2019, 12:53 pm
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On the other hand I assume Choice would put a notice of some kind about ending of participation of hundreds of hotels if it's not a glitch (or again at least notify agents with a memo). The absence of that notification and a sudden nature of what's happened makes me think it's a glitch.
In any case while I googled and called I missed almost everything, was able to snag just 2x28 packages, all 42 and 50 were gone.
May 15, 2019, 1:04 pm
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May 16, 2019, 7:13 am
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Yeah, it took them around a month to recognize there is a problem, and around a month to fix it. So, don't hold your breath.
May 16, 2019, 8:21 am
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Seems it took a while for their rep to acknowledge the problem, but then fixed in a week or so. I know we are all waiting to book award nights over summer, so hopefully this gets fixed quickly this year. I took August off instead of July this year so I'm feeling a bit less pressure. But I also backed up the truck yesterday so I really hope this is another temporary problem and not an unannounced devaluation of CP
May 16, 2019, 9:06 am
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May 16, 2019, 3:04 pm
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May 17, 2019, 9:38 am
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excellent! Any timeline given? Perhaps they couldn't inform their call centers in the Philippines and El Salvador. Every rep I get there acts as if you've never been able to redeem points in Scandinavia... one person even said "it's because they use a different currency so you can't use points." I wonder if their script doesn't allow them to acknowledge mistakes or errors - because never once have I heard them even hesitate and go, "huh, that's odd". Keeping the entire company in the loop, even those that are outsourced, is important.