Westgate Resorts can now be booked through Choice Privileges

Choice Privileges has added 21 Westgate Resorts properties to Choice’s Ascend Collection and they can now be booked using Choice points. The resorts are primarily in the Eastern US, with nine located in Florida. While the properties don’t have the same upscale appeal as what can be found through Choice’s partnership with Preferred Hotels, in […] The post Westgate Resorts can now be booked through Choice Privileges appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHASE. American Express, Capital One, or other partners.

Jan 24, 2025 - 08:06

Westgate Resorts can now be booked through Choice Privileges

Choice Privileges has added 21 Westgate Resorts properties to Choice’s Ascend Collection and they can now be booked using Choice points. The resorts are primarily in the Eastern US, with nine located in Florida.

While the properties don’t have the same upscale appeal as what can be found through Choice’s partnership with Preferred Hotels, in the right context they could represent value for some folks (especially families).

List of Westgate Resorts bookable through Choice

Quick Thoughts

I’d never heard of Westgate Resorts before this announcement. It’s a timeshare company that was founded in 1982, and it bills itself as the “largest, privately held timeshare company in the world.”

Browsing through some of the locations, it doesn’t look particularly high end, maybe something along the lines of what you’d expect if Comfort Suites had timeshares. The locations that I looked at varied in nightly cash cost from ~$75-$500/night, while points prices ranged from 15,000 – 45,000/night. Many of the properties that I looked at required a 2 or 3-night minimum to be available for points bookings.

The value isn’t necessarily astounding at those rates, but given that both Wells Fargo and Citi ThankYou points transfer 1:2 to Choice Privileges, there could be some appeal, especially for those properties that have are condo-style with multiple bedrooms and a full kitchen.

As an example, I looked at a few random dates from the Westgate Cocoa Beach in January and February. Prices were fairly similar, with most dates with cash rates at ~$450/night once taxes and fees were taken into account:

Looking at award bookings for the same dates, that “luxury” two-bedroom suite is available for 45K Choice points per night:

Booking that with Choice points offers better than 1 cent per point value, well over our Reasonable Redemption Value for Choice points of .67 cents each. If you were transferring from Citi or Wells Fargo, you could book the same room for 22,500 points per night and get better than 2 cents per point value for your points.

We’d love to hear some feedback from anyone who’s either a Westgate owner or who has experience staying in Westgate properties. If that’s you, leave you impressions of both the property quality and value in the comments below.

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