Wyndham Rewards Earner® Plus Card Review

Adding a co-branded hotel credit card to your wallet is a great way to increase your hotel points earnings while also gaining access to premium perks when staying at your favorite hotel chains. And the specific hotel credit card that you get should depend on which hotel chain you stay at most often.

Considering that Wyndham is the largest hotel chain in the world by number of properties, there’s a pretty good chance that you stay with Wyndham more than other hotel chains.

The Complete Guide to Booking Vacasa Rental Properties With Wyndham Rewards Points

Vacasa's partnership with the Wyndham hotel chain allows Wyndham Rewards members to redeem their loyalty points at more than 15,000 vacation rental properties in North and Central America. This strategic move has added value to the Wyndham Rewards program and gives members who’d prefer not to stay in a hotel room an attractive option for redeeming their points. 

Vacasa was founded back in 2009 when its founder set out to provide professional care as well as strong financial returns for vacation rental properties.

Let’s Chat About Wyndham Rewards Points

Many people overlook Wyndham Rewards in favor of more well-known hotel loyalty programs like Marriott Bonvoy or World of Hyatt. However, considering Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has nearly 9,000 properties under management, the Wyndham Rewards program still has some great deals that you can take advantage of. 

Capital One also added Wyndham as a transfer partner in 2020, giving Capital One card holders the option to use their miles for any of Wyndham’s amazing redemption options.

Buy Two Wyndham Nights, Get One Free

Wyndham is running a promotion with Masterpass that awards those that pay for a Wyndham reservation through MasterPass 7,500 points per paid stay. One night at any Wyndham costs 15,000 points, so paying for two nights will earn you enough Wyndham points for one free award night anywhere.

The promotion claims that...

...so we're not sure how long it will last.

Important Conditions

You must complete your paid stays by October 31 to earn the bonus points.
Stays are defined by consecutive nights, not the number of nights. A stay can be one night or more.

Today Only: All Wyndhams, Including All Inclusive Resorts, for $175

 Today is the fifth day of the first week of five weeks of discounted travel packages from the US Travel Association called Daily Getaways. Every weekday at 1 PM ET, a discounted travel package or packages will go on sale and will often sell out in a few minutes. The morning of interesting deals, I’ll have a full write up.

Today only, you can buy 15,000 Wyndham points for $175.

All Wyndham Hotels Now Cost 15,000 Points Per Night

Starting today, all Wyndham free award nights cost 15,000 Wyndham points. Wyndham operates over 7,400 hotels under the following brands:

Free award nights previously cost 5,500 to 50,000 points per night. Now the cheaper properties are terrible candidates for free award nights, while the most expensive properties are steals!

Here's the FAQ on Wyndham free night awards, which are called "go free" awards.

As with many programs, Wyndham offers all standard rooms as free award nights with no blackouts.
Where are Wyndhams?
Here is a list of Wyndhams worldwide.

Buy Wyndham Points for 0.54 Cents Each, Hotel Rooms for $29

Today is the very first day of five weeks of discounted travel packages sponsored by the US Travel Association and American Express called Daily Getaways.

Every weekday at 1 PM ET, a discounted travel package or packages will go on sale and will usually sell out in a few minutes. Some of the offers will be awesome; some will be duds.

Today Daily Getaways deal is to buy Wyndham Rewards points in quantities of 14k, 32k, 40k, 60k, and 75k points for 0.54 cents each.

Wyndham Points for 0.54 Cents Each Means Airline Miles for 1.35 Cents Each

Update at 2:27 PM ET: I had two computers ready and bought a 60k and 75k package right at 1 PM ET. Right now all the packages except the 32k package are sold out, and that one is already in someone's cart.

Today is the second day of the fourth week of five weeks of discounted travel packages sponsored by the US Travel Association and American Express called Daily Getaways.

Every weekday at 1 PM ET, a discounted travel package or packages will go on sale and will usually sell out in a few minutes.

One Million United Mile Sweepstakes, Virgin Atlantic Miles for Referrals, Membership Rewards to Hawaiian Miles Transfer Bonus, and 100k Hawaiian Miles Sweepstakes from Points Hound

Wyndham is giving away one million United miles as four 250k mile prizes. Sign up is easy.

You can earn 1k to 10k Virgin Atlantic miles for referring people to the program. This is especially valuable since 13k Virgin Atlantic miles is enough for a one way flight from New York to London.

Membership Rewards is offering a 20% bonus on transfers to Hawaiian miles through June 27.

Points Hound has a 100k Hawaiian Miles giveaway running through June 21.

Million United Mile Giveaway from Wyndham

Sign up for the million United miles sweepstakes here.

Wyndham: Another Hotel Program Devaluation?

According to this thread on FlyerTalk, the Wyndham hotel group has devalued their loyalty program in a big way.

This is terrible news, especially coming on the heels of Priority Club adjusting their award chart for the worse by introducing a whopping nine redemptive tiers. For a complete breakdown of that change, check out my post, Priority Club's Big Award Chart Devaluation.

What does the new chart look like?

I have attached a screen shot of the new award chart below:

That looks fairly innocuous.