While Wyndham is the largest hotel franchising company in the world in terms of number of properties (the company has 9,300 hotels in 90 countries), I don’t talk all that much about its loyalty program, Wyndham Rewards.
Wyndham Rewards has just launched its newest global promotion, valid for stays this spring. This has the potential to be pretty lucrative.
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Wyndham promo: up to 15K bonus points per stay
With Wyndham Rewards’ new promotion, members can earn 15,000 bonus points on stays of three or more nights, or 7,500 bonus points on stays of two nights. The offer is valid for stays between March 1 and May 19, 2023.
Here are the basic terms to be aware of for Wyndham’s promotion:
- You must register prior to booking your stay, so previously booked stays don’t qualify
- You must complete your qualifying stays by May 19, 2023
- Registration is required by May 14, 2023
- Stays must be booked directly through Wyndham, either through the website or mobile app
- Bonus points will post within two to four weeks of a qualifying stay
- You can earn up to 30,000 bonus points with this promotion, and those with a co-branded Wyndham credit card can earn up to 35,000 bonus points
For context, these bonus points are in addition to the ones you usually earn. Typically you earn 10x Wyndham Rewards points per dollar spent, and that doesn’t factor in any elite bonuses or credit card bonuses.
Redeeming Wyndham Rewards points
When it comes time to redeem Wyndham Rewards points, there are three tiers of hotels:
- About a third of properties cost 7,500 points per night
- A majority of properties cost 15,000 points per night
- A few hundred properties cost 30,000 points per night
As you can see, with this offer you can earn 7,500 bonus points for each stay of two nights, and 15,000 bonus points for each stay of three or more nights. Personally I value Wyndham Rewards points at 0.7 cents each, so to me this promotion offers an incremental return of $52.50 on stays of two nights, and an incremental return of $105 on stays of three or more nights. That’s an exceptional return.
If you’re looking to earn more Wyndham points:
- Barclays recently refreshed its portfolio of Wyndham cards, which offer improved points earning opportunities and status
- Wyndham Rewards often sells points with a bonus, which could be an opportunity to acquire them at a cost that makes sense
Bottom line
Wyndham Rewards has just launched its spring 2023 promotion. With this offer, you can earn 7,500 bonus points on stays of two nights, and 15,000 bonus points on stays of three or more nights. The major catch is that you can only earn up to 30,000 bonus points, and only stays booked after registering qualify. Within those limitations, this is a really solid offer.
Do you plan on taking advantage of this Wyndham promotion?
You get 7500 points with a two night stay, zero if just one night.
When do you stay with Wyndham
Ben is right that this is lucrative (in line with similar promotions they've done over the years), but I am curious about whether anyone really has a strategy for high-value/aspirational Wyndham redemptions.
It feels to me that they just have too few aspirational properties (Silverado in Napa, they lost the Mills House in Charleston, some random historical hotels scattered around the U.S. come to mind) to make it worth trying to accumulate points. When...
Ben is right that this is lucrative (in line with similar promotions they've done over the years), but I am curious about whether anyone really has a strategy for high-value/aspirational Wyndham redemptions.
It feels to me that they just have too few aspirational properties (Silverado in Napa, they lost the Mills House in Charleston, some random historical hotels scattered around the U.S. come to mind) to make it worth trying to accumulate points. When they had the 15k a night pricing at *all properties*, I did get a couple decent redemptions just with promotions like this and having their card. But when any nice hotel they have is 30k points a night, it takes meaningfully more effort to get those free nights.
With the fixed pricing, I can see a redemption being useful when you need a hotel in a market/timing where the cash prices are sky high for whatever reason, but again you really need 30k points to stay somewhere decent.
You can transfer Capital One points to Wyndham, plus they run promos when you can buy points for under a cent each and over the usual 60k per year maximum. Coupled with the 10% discount you get on redemptions for having one of their credit cards (even the free one), it works out ok. I would not aim to accumulate their points, but just transfer or buy as needed when it’s worthwhile.