The Offer
- Wells Fargo is offering 60,000 points after $1,000 in spend within the first 3 months
Card Details
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 5X points on stays at participating Choice® hotels
- 3X points on qualifying purchases at gas stations, grocery stores, home improvement stores, and phone plans
- 1x points on all other purchases
- Automatic Gold Elite Status: 10 Elite night credits
Our Verdict
Previous high on this card has been 70,000 points, standard offer is 40,000 points. Free nights start at 6,000 points per night and go up to 35,000 points per night (properties in Australasia go up to 75,000 points. Now cost more than 35,000 in USA as well). With Choice it’s always a good idea to have a redemption in mind before applying. Still worth it for some people as some good value can be had, will add this to our list of the best credit card bonuses.
You failed to mentioned above, as far as I can see, that Wells Fargo has two different Choice Privileges cards.
There’s this card, for no annual fee, and there’s the Choice Privileges Select card, for $95 annual fee.
The strange thing here is that while this no-AF card has a special on the signup bonus, the Select card currently doesn’t, and has the exact same 60k signup bonus currently but requiring $3000 in spend while the no-AF card only requires $1000 in spend.
But once you have it, the Select earns at higher rates, and earns a 30000 point bonus each anniversary, which the no-AF card doesn’t. The Select card also may reimburse you for TSA Precheck or Global Entry once every four years, while the no-AF card doesn’t.
i would not add this to best credit card bonuses… choice points are junk
60k points in Choice is like $300 in cash value. Using the Chase 5/24 slot on this is not ideal.
Not everyone is limited by 5 personal cards in 24 months. Way bigger fish to fry.
I thought 60,000 would be .01 so $600. How do you get $300
You can get Choice point if you transfer from Citi. The exchange ratio is 1:2 so only 0.5 cent per 100 point
Not necessarily $300 in cash value, for two reasons:
As just one example, tonight the Quality Inn JFK airport is over $150 plus tax (about $180 total) for the lowest cost room, yet only 20000 points. So for that hotel at tonight’s price, you’d get $540 in cash value, not $300, with 60k points.
But they have two rooms available, and the second room, 1 King Bed Suite with In-Room Whirlpool, costs $187 before taxes as $212 with taxes, so with taxes that’s over $600 in cash value for 20k points.
And I bet that’s still not the best value for 20k points possible, it’s just the best I was able to find with a very quick search.
Choice’s insane redemption is Norway, specially Oslo during peak seasons. $300-500 a night hotels for 15-20k. With breakfast buffet worth easily $30-40 a head in value easily rivaling Vegas.
I want the privileges select, hope they’ll boost that one again sometime…
ditto. if it goes to 90 or 100 i’m going to try.
Same here. I’ll probably burn a 5/24 on the Select if the bonus is high enough. Seems easy enough to get 1 cpp out of these points a few times per year. Just booked a basic central london hotel at 12k pts/nt for 2 nights that would be at least $120 cash per night (and probably more than that). Getting 30k pts/yr for $100 annual fee is a nice way to prepay for ~2-2.5 hotel nights for super cheap.