Booking Choice Hotels with CLC Lodging

Choice hotels and CLC Lodging have a partnership spanning over 25 years

Choice Hotels and CLC have been in partnership for more than 25 years to offer solutions for easy corporate travel management. With many essential amenities and reduced hotel rates for corporate travelers, Choice Hotels’ broad portfolio of high-quality lodging options have everything business travelers need for a successful trip. Plus, guests can earn Choice Privileges points that make traveling for work more rewarding.*

Bob Chafey, Director of Transportation - Global for Choice Hotels, tells us how Choice brands were the first in the industry to offer 24-hour front desk service, guarantee reservations, and so much more! We invite you to dive into this fascinating Q&A.

Tell us about your different Choice Hotel brands.

Our portfolio offers a diverse selection of brands that we’ve divided into four categories: Economy (Travel Simply), Extended Stay (Travel Longer), Midscale-Upper MIdscale (Travel and Relax), and Upscale & Boutique (Travel with More). Each category has multiple Choice Hotel properties, providing the options travelers need for effective travel planning.

How many hotels do you have in the U.S. and worldwide?

Choice Hotels has 22 brands with more than 6,200 hotels in the United States. We have a total of more than 7,500 hotels in 46 countries worldwide.

Tell us what’s new at Choice Hotels?

Choice Hotels is proud to introduce Everhome Suites. It is an all-new-construction, midscale extended-stay brand. Each Everhome Suites delivers comfort, convenience, and stability for guests to live life on their own terms during longer stays.

Additionally, Choice Hotels has completed the integration of all Radisson Hotels Americas brands including Radisson, Country Inn & Suites, Park Inn and Park Plaza hotels, giving CLC customers nearly 600 additional hotels in the upper-midscale and upscale segments to choose from.

What can a guest expect when they book a reservation at a Choice Hotel?

Guests at Choice Hotels can expect a consistent, welcoming experience. Some other things to expect include:

• Free Wi-Fi at every location and free parking at many locations

• Complimentary breakfast: Most hotels offer a complimentary hearty and healthy breakfast and most midscale and upper-midscale brand hotels, like Quality Inn, Sleep Inn, Comfort Inn and Country Inn & Suites, offer a free hot breakfast.

• Choice Privileges: This free loyalty program rewards members with benefits like exclusive rates, late checkout where available and points that can be used toward rewards like free nights and gift cards. Members earn more points and perks the more they stay. With CLC, members can easily add their Choice loyalty number in their CLC account to earn points when booking Choice Hotels.*

• Amenities You Can Use: Amenities can vary by property, but most midscale, upper-midscale, and upscale locations like Radisson, Cambria, Comfort, Country Inn & Suites, Sleep Inn, and Quality Inn include a refrigerator, microwave, and work desk.

Tell us about any special initiatives Choice Hotels is involved with.

At Choice brand hotels across the globe, we work hard to make every guest feel welcome, wanted and respected, but we also believe that this spirit should be alive in the communities and environment where we work and live. It’s not just a way of doing business: our associates and the employees of our more than 7,500 franchised hotels around the world embody a commitment to connect and support people, build resilient communities, ensure accountability and continuous improvement, and contribute to a more sustainable future. These are the many initiatives Choice Responsibility participates in.

What changes have you made in order to keep up with technology and other amenities in the industry?

Choice Hotels has always been at the forefront of technology innovation. Choice was the first in the industry to guarantee reservations, offer 24-hour front desk service, provide in-room telephones, 24/7 toll-free reservations, segmented brands, develop a global marketing and reservations system, offer non-smoking rooms in every hotel, offer a reservations mobile app for iPhone, and develop the first massively distributed, internet cloud-based property management system. Choice is a technology company that also happens to be good at hotel franchising.

How is Choice Hotels implementing sustainable practices to help the environment and fight climate change?

We recognize that the changing climate creates a wide array of risks and opportunities across industries, and our business is no exception. View our Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report to explore our approach to climate-associated risks and opportunities.

For a complete look at our environmental, social, and governance strategy and initiatives, view our latest Environmental Social Governance Report.

Will your hotels provide loyalty points based on their nightly stays?

Most Choice Hotels award Choice Privileges points to guests for CLC Lodging stays.*

What do you like most about our CLC guests?

The steady business CLC guests bring us and the diverse mix of people we get to welcome each day.

What do you like most about working with CLC?

I’ve worked with CLC for more than 25 years and enjoy the innovative work we do to constantly try to improve the CLC guest experience at Choice Hotels. Mostly, I value the friendships I have with the CLC team, many of them spanning decades.

Interested in booking a Choice Hotel property with CLC?

We’ve got thousands of options all across the United States! Join now and book your next Choice Hotel with us via online portal, mobile app, or by phone.

*At participating locations. WoodSpring Suites locations, among others, do not participate.