I've written about the best hotel credit cards offering free nights, either as an annual benefit, or as a reward for reaching certain spending thresholds. In many cases these anniversary free night certificates can more than justify the annual fees on…
Wyndham
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 now launched…
Wyndham Rewards has just introduced its latest promotion on purchased points. The program doesn't sell points with a bonus often, so promotions like this are quite rare. Through Monday, April 5, 2021, Wyndham Rewards is offering a 40% bonus on purchased…
Travel + Leisure will be acquired by a timeshare company for $100 million. What exactly will this look like? Wyndham Destinations has just acquired popular travel publication Travel + Leisure from Meredith Corporation. Wyndham Destinations is a timeshare…
Recently Barclays launched new co-branded Emirates credit cards, which offer elite status. Well, now Barclays has refreshed one of its other card portfolios, and I'm quite impressed. Barclays has relaunched its Wyndham credit card portfolio, with two…
Different hotel loyalty programs have different policies regarding how many points, elite qualifying stays, and elite qualifying nights you can earn if booking multiple rooms. In other words, if you often travel with family and book two rooms, can you…
Wyndham Rewards is now joining the likes of Hilton Honors, World of Hyatt, and Marriott Bonvoy, in extending elite status. They're also announcing another cool initiative. Wyndham Rewards is extending all elite status -- including Gold, Platinum, and…
Wyndham Rewards has just given notice of some award pricing changes for their hotels, which kick in for bookings as of February 11, 2020. From 2015 until 2019, Wyndham took an innovative approach to award pricing. During this time, all hotels cost 15,000…
This week marks the return of the Daily Getaways promotion for 2019, and today there's an opportunity to buy Wyndham Rewards points at a discount. Daily Getaways is a five week promotion that offers discounts and deals on car rentals, hotel stays, loyalty…
In February I wrote about significant changes coming to the Wyndham Rewards program, and those changes are live as of today. The most significant change that Wyndham made is that they've fundamentally changed how their award pricing works. Since 2015,…
Wyndham Rewards, which has over 60 million members, has just announced some major changes. For context, I think it's important to briefly talk about the changes that Wyndham Rewards made in 2015. At that point they overhauled their loyalty program in…
In many ways Wyndham Rewards has impressed me since they overhauled their loyalty program in 2015. Since then they charge a flat 15,000 points per night for an award stay, regardless of what hotel you’re redeeming for. So whether you’re looking at their…
We've seen quite a bit of consolidation in the hotel industry the past few years. Marriott has taken over Starwood, IHG has taken over Kimpton, and Accor has taken over Fairmont, Raffles, And Swissôtel. The consolidation continues, as it has been announced…
Earlier this week I posted about the most INSANE Wyndham Rewards redemption opportunity I had ever seen. There was a Baymont Inn and Suites in Casper Wyoming that was charging $1,500 for August 20th, which of course is the night before the Great American…
I'm pretty excited about the upcoming solar eclipse. As a tech geek, I'm naturally interested in the astronomical significance of this. But I'm really fascinated by the travel aspects. It's incredibly rare for hundreds of thousands, if not millions,…
As much as I'm not personally loyal to Wyndham Rewards, I have a lot of respect for what they're trying to do with their program. In 2015 they made major changes to their program, which should make anyone who likes aspirational redemptions happy. They…
Last year Wyndham Rewards made some revolutionary program changes. A lot of us in the miles & points hobby are all about aspirational redemptions, and Wyndham embraced that more than any other hotel brand I've seen (forgetting the fact that "Wyndham…
About a year ago Wyndham Rewards made a revolutionary change to their loyalty program. Under their old program, there were tiers of hotels, where a free night ranged in cost from 5,500 points to 50,000 points. The new program is an aspirational redeemer's…
Wyndham Rewards is a program that I don't cover very much, largely because I don't consider it to be an especially "aspirational" program. When I earn Hyatt Gold Passport points I can redeem them at the Park Hyatt Sydney. When I earn Starwood Preferred…
