Your Guide to Choice Privileges Hotels Brands - NerdWallet (2024)

Choice Privileges is the loyalty program for Choice Hotels & Resorts, which has a dozen distinctive brands and about 7,000 participating hotels and resorts, with something for every budget. Most Choice hotel types offer economy and midpriced stays, although Choice is focusing on newer upscale brands, like Cambria and the Ascend Hotel Collection.

While Comfort Inn, Econo Lodge and other budget-friendly brands may be most familiar, the Choice Privileges program has a growing number of stylish brands where business and leisure travelers can earn and redeem points.

To redeem your Choice Privileges points for hotel stays, rates vary by property and date, with one night at the lowest-cost hotels starting at 8,000 points. The Choice Privileges program partners with Preferred Hotels & Resorts to let you use your points for stays at high-end hotels around the world for between 25,000 and 55,000 points per night. Choice Privileges members can also earn or redeem points at participating AMResorts, a collection of all-inclusive resorts in tropical destinations offering stays starting at 25,000 Choice Privileges points per night.

To know which amenities and benefits to expect when staying at Choice Hotels & Resorts, it helps to be familiar with the many Choice hotel types. Here’s a full rundown of every brand in the portfolio so you can redeem those hard-earned Choice Privileges points wisely.

Ascend Hotel Collection

Ascend hotels are independent properties that maintain their individual design and operations while participating in the Choice Privileges program. About 370 Ascend properties are open or under development around the world, each drawing on its location to create a unique and immersive experience for travelers. Some are in historic buildings in the city center, while others are beachfront or mountain resorts. All offer upscale accommodations and amenities that can vary by property.

Cambria Hotels

Cambria Hotels use stylish yet approachable design to create a sense of place and tell a local story. No two are the same, and their thoughtful interior decor makes you feel like you’ve really visited the destination (even if you’re there for work and barely set foot outside the hotel).

Around 50 Cambria Hotels are open, with almost 100 more in the development pipeline. Most have lobbies with ample seating and workspace, plus a restaurant and bar serving craft beer and co*cktails. Among the in-room amenities at many hotels are Bluetooth-compatible bathroom mirrors to help travelers have a more personalized morning routine. The hotels also have a fitness center, grab-and-go marketplace and flexible conference space.

Comfort

With almost 2,400 properties around the world, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites and Comfort Inn and Suites offer complimentary hot breakfast, rooms featuring local artwork, and convenient work desks and lobbies with living-room-style seating. In a Suites property, there's also a living area and pantry nook with a refrigerator. Many Comfort properties have business centers and a meeting room. While Comfort hotels have either a fitness center or pool (sometimes both), Comfort Suites properties have a gym, pool, business center, meeting room and grab-and-go marketplace.

Sleep Inn

Designed for extended stays, Sleep Inn's rooms offer amenities like a refrigerator, microwave, work desk and media panel to sync personal devices with the TV.

They follow a “less is more” approach in design, delivering simplicity at a value-focused price. The brand has nearly 600 hotels open or under development around the world. Popular business traveler amenities include all-day coffee and tea (plus a signature perfect sleep tea), complimentary breakfast, bathrooms with essential oil toiletries, a business center and ample power outlets in the guest room and public areas.

Quality Inn

Quality Inn hotels are a favorite of Choice Privileges members, who come for affordability and simple amenities like free hot breakfast. Comfortable beds, large showers with multi-setting showerheads and in-room refrigerators help make Quality Inn one of the fastest-growing midrange hotel brands anywhere, with over 2,000 hotels open or under development around the world.

Clarion

Clarion hotels offer a full-service stay, meaning you’ll find a restaurant and bar, plus meeting facilities, a business center and pool or fitness center (often both). This midscale brand has more than 300 hotels open or under development around the world.

Clarion Pointe

Clarion Pointe properties have grab-and-go marketplaces instead of a restaurant and offer complimentary breakfast and all-day coffee from the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Guest rooms have locally inspired decor and flat-screen TVs with casting capabilities, while the workout space features modern cardio and strength-training equipment. Right now, there are about two dozen Clarion Pointe hotels in the U.S., with another three dozen in the works.

MainStay Suites

With more than 225 hotels open or under development around the world, this extended stay brand features residential-style accommodations and amenities that make a long stay away from home easier. The suites have fully equipped kitchens, separate living areas and space to work, as well as room to unpack for a long stay.

Housekeeping provides weekly service. Guests can also take advantage of communal spaces for dining or outdoor relaxation. Complimentary breakfast is part of the offering here.

Everhome Suites

Travelers who work away from home for longer stretches of time need the benefits of apartment living without the commitment of signing a lease. Everhome Suites aims to be your home away from home — and your office away from the office. These properties feature inviting public areas where guests can gather when they want to get out of their own suites. There’s also a meeting room, fitness center and swimming pool. In addition to weekly housekeeping services and public laundry facilities, some of the one-bedroom suites have their own laundry machines.

Guests will find defined spaces within the suite for sleeping, relaxing and working. Variable height workstations can be adjusted to serve as a desk or dining table. Each has a fully equipped kitchen with refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave and cooking and dining utensils.

WoodSpring Suites

With more than 400 properties open or under development, the fast-growing WoodSpring Suites brand serves guests like business travelers, medical professionals and homeowners who need a place to stay while work is being done on their homes. Guests will find shared amenities like laundry facilities and fitness centers. Housekeeping services are available once every two weeks, although guests can pay for more frequent visits. Accommodations have living and sleeping areas plus kitchenettes, along with simple, clean and efficient design.

WoodSpring is the only Choice brand that doesn't participate in the Choice Privileges loyalty program.

Suburban Extended Stay

This extended stay brand offers studio suites at more than 75 open or under-development hotels. Each studio has a kitchen, living area, laundry facilities and dining room, in addition to the sleeping space. Weekly housekeeping service and on-site washers and dryers round out the conveniences.

Econo Lodge

Another of Choice’s well-known brands, Econo Lodge hotels serve the budget traveler. Simple in design, Econo Lodge offers basics like a comfortable bed, bedside power outlets and a refrigerator. Complimentary continental breakfast is included in the rate. There are nearly 900 hotels open or under development around the world.

Rodeway Inn

A budget brand with more than 600 hotels open or under development around the world, Rodeway Inn offers the benefit of earning loyalty program rewards at a lower price point. Rooms are simple but clean, and the hotel’s amenities are limited, although some may have pools. Complimentary continental breakfast is included in the rate.