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Wyndham Rewards is offering a 90% bonus when buying their points through October 21, 2025. Like many recent sales on Wyndham points, the annual 100,000-point purchase limit applies, but that is before the bonus — so if you have not yet purchased points yet this year, you could buy as many as 190,000 total points (100K + 90K bonus) for $1,300.
You can buy Wyndham Rewards points at any time for 1.3 cents each, so this bonus brings the cost down to as low as 0.68cpp (cents per point). That’s a very good deal, provided you have a use for the points.
While we never recommend buying points speculatively, these points could potentially be useful for Vacasa Vacation Rentals, allowing you to get a 4-night stay at a 1-bedroom property for as low as ~$416, or less if you have a Wyndham credit card that offers a 10% discount on award stays. However, we’ve seen increasing reports of difficulty in redeeming for Vacasa rentals and Wyndham recently added a restriction making Vacasa rentals bookable just 6 months in advance at maximum. It is also worth a mention that Wyndham has an “experiences” marketplace to bid on or buy experience packages. Some of those might be good deals in conjunction with this sale.
The Deal
- Get up to a 90% bonus on the purchase of Wyndham Rewards points when buying 3,000+ points (0.68cpp). If not targeted for the 90% bonus, you should get an 80% bonus (0.72cpp).
- Expires October 21, 2025
Direct Link to Offer (scroll down to the ‘Purchase Points’ section and click ‘Buy Now’).
Best Uses of Wyndham Points
- Book Vacasa properties for only 15,000 points per bedroom (see this post for more details)
- Wyndham Rewards has three redemption tiers – 7,500, 15,000 and 30,000. Since these are fixed, they can be great value when room prices are extremely high (e.g. during special events or holidays). These tiers also apply to Wyndham Vacation Club time share properties, so one-bedroom condos can be had for as low as 7,500 points per night.
- Wyndham has a partnership with DeCameron All-Inclusive Hotels & Resorts, with properties costing 15,000 or 30,000 points per night for two adults.
- Book Go Fast rewards – this is Wyndham’s Cash + Points option. With this option, it is sometimes possible to get outsized value for a small number of points.
Things to know
- When you book nights with points, you will not earn points for the stay.
- Most hotel taxes are not charged on award stays, so this can make the value of buying points even better. Arguably, this factor and the one above roughly cancel each other out.
- Resort fees are waived on award stays. This alone can make it worthwhile to use points instead of cash for your bookings.
- Wyndham points expire after 18 months of inactivity, and 4 years after acquisition. The former is easy to avoid since any account activity will reset the clock, but the four year timer is more problematic. Luckily, there is a workaround. See "How to prevent Wyndham points from expiring" for details.
Quick Thoughts
This could definitely be worth it if you’re booking a Vacasa or Cottages.com vacation rental (see Nick’s review of the cabin he rented in the Pigeon Forge, Tennessee area as an example). It’s also worth clicking through to Points.com from a shopping portal to earn a little cashback – here are the current rates.
Previous Wyndham points promotions:
- Up to 60% bonus (Buy points for as low as .81 cents each). Expired August 6, 2025
- Up to 60% bonus (Buy points for as low as .81 cents each). Expired June 5, 2025
- Up to 80% bonus (Buy points for as low as .72 cents each). Expired April 20, 2025
- Up to 60% bonus (Buy points for as low as 0.81 cents each). Expired February 16, 2025
- Up to 45% discount (Buy points for as low as 0.71 cents each). Expired December 31st, 2024
- Up to 60% bonus (Buy points for as low as 0.81 cents each). Expired November 20th, 2024
- 25% discount (Buy points for 0.975 cents each). Expired October 21st, 2024
- 35% discount (Buy points for 0.96 cents each). Expired August 9th, 2024
- 25% discount (Buy points for 0.975 cents each). Expired May 28th, 2024
- 40% bonus (Buy points for 0.93 cents each). Expired April 21, 2024
- 20-30% discount (Buy points for 0.91 cents each). Expired February 14, 2024
- 30-40% bonus (Buy points for 0.93 cents each). Expired December 30, 2023
- 30-40% bonus (Buy points for 0.93 cents each). Expired November 27, 2023
- 30% discount (Buy points for 0.91 cents each). Expired October 20, 2023
- 35% bonus (Buy points for 0.96 cents each). Expired August 8, 2023
- 25% discount (Buy points for 0.975 cents each). Expired May 23rd, 2023
- 40% bonus (Buy points for 0.93 cents each). Expired April 21, 2023.
- 25% discount (Buy points for 0.975 cents each). Expired February 10, 2023
- 25% discount (Buy points for 0.975 cents each). Expired July 10, 2022
- 40% bonus (Buy points for 0.93 cents each). Expired April 3, 2022
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Thanks Stephen. Have a Hawaii trip booked from the UK next year and this bonus hit absolutely perfect for their Vacasa/15k redemptions. I’m already dreading the jetlag though, if I’m not wrong I will feel it much more on return,?11hrs is no joke.
That’s a long journey in economy! I always have jetlag much worse when flying west to east, so I imagine I’d have the same problem. I guess if you get back to the UK in the evening though (not sure of what time flights from Hawaii land), it might be OK getting back on a reasonable sleeping schedule.
No luckily I am doing LHR-LAX rtn in BA J. Struggling to find decent rates on J from LA to Hawaii though so that’ll probably be in Y. Yes, the same as you West to East. Thanks!
You write 4N as low as $486, but isn’t the math – 4 * $104 = $416?
Showing $104 for every 15,200 points?
Or 10% less for Wyndham Bus holders.
Yep, you’re correct – that part didn’t get updated when this post got republished. I’ve just fixed that – thank you!
Make head spin:
So at this 90% bonus buy valuation, my 8x Barclay Wyndham earner business c/c on each $1 of gas purchases = 5.44%? (8 x .0068 x 100%)
But if I then use 13,500 points for a $240 property = ~1.78 cpp.
So is the actual “value” / return on spending for each $1 of gas – 5.44% or 14.24%?
The value you’re getting is still, in effect, 14.24% on those calculations based on the redemption value.
What you’ve got to decide now though is what you want to do about the acquisition cost. Earning 8x on gas is still a decent deal, but if you can frequently buy Wyndham points for ~0.7 cents per point, would it be better paying with a different card for gas and just buying Wyndham points as needed?
A few things come into play there though. One is that you’re capped on how many points you can buy each year. If you’ll bump up against that limit, it could be worth still earning 8x.
Another factor is if you have a card that earns as well as – or close to – the value of 8x on the Wyndham business card. For example, during rotating quarters where a Chase Freedom Flex or Discover It card is 5x/5% on gas, that might be a better option, then using your Wyndham business card when you don’t have such attractive options.
Yes, Chase Freedom has 5x gas now for 3Q bonus. And Hawaiian 4x gas (w/ promo) I guess my question was a standard Redemption value vs Acquisition cost. But since I don’t buy points very often (almost never in history) – I’ve not had the need to think of it this way. Thanks for the analysis.
A 90% bonus has never come along – per your list. So I guess the 5.44% is only relevant until the expiration date of this offer. Then during NON-bonus times (Doesn’t look that common per your list) – the acquisition value is the same as the redemption value. Or just lower in the future when the buy points offer is different then 90%.
So the strict present-time 8x credit card acquisition value (Return on gas spending) keeps changing.
Yeah, never bumped into any limits on buying. But I could foresee an extra long vacasa stay in future (3-4 weeks) – so in theory I could use more points than the 100k (+ 90k bonus) buy limit would allow in a year and my current point stash. So ONLY if that were true – I guess it would make sense to keep using the Wyndham for gas over a Hawaiian / Chase Freedom – as you note. But since that’s next year in theory, and Casago/Vacasa potential changes, I’ll wait to see next year’s offer. [Don’t buy if have no (near) certain usage ethos]
So better to take equivalent of 4x Alaska miles or 5x Hyatt (Chase) points for now. Of course, you can buy those points too – but I have no idea about those cpp. And that would make my head explode.
Am i still sane? Or have i just self-lobotomized?
Unless you have ridiculously high gas spend, I wouldn’t spend too much overthinking this. Having the ability to earn 5x Ultimate Rewards vs 4x Atmos points vs 8x Wyndham is a nice problem to have and you could make an argument that each option is as valuable as the other. Given the ever-increasing / consistently high discounts on Wyndham points, I’d probably lean towards earning Ultimate Rewards or Atmos points, but you still wouldn’t be making a bad choice if going for Wyndham points.
Agreed. Last note – I find it interesting how Wyndham this year is offering “never before seen” 80% earlier and now 90% bonus offers. That tells us something about the economy? The Wyndham buy points bonus economic barometer. Hahahahah.
Amazing deal.
Too bad that while TCB credits IHG and Choice points, they still won’t pay out on Wyndham points.
There are a few all inclusive properties at 7500 points.
Which properties are 7,500 points for all inclusives? I’ve only seen 15k points as the lowest.
There are some in Mexico as well as Jamaica and Turkey last I looked. You can filter for them.
Thank you. I’ll look for them.
Checked P2 and she has the 80% through 4/20. I pulled the trigger for the max for her too. I was tempted to wait, but based on previous data points it could also be years before we see this deal again.
Assuming we transfer to Caesars….this is a good way to get a discounted meal at Caesar’s, yes??
Yes, assuming full bonus.
Transfer is limited to 30k points per year.
If I use my Wyndham business card to purchase points do I get 8x credit on the purchase of points too otherwise I would buy the points with a different card to help hit a sign up bonus
Points purchases are processed by Points.com rather than Wyndham, so it won’t code as 8x unfortunately.
DP: P2 (Diamond status) targeted for 60% and me (no status) 60%. Bummer Wyndham has to play these games. But zero chance we’re ever buying a Wyndham point at more than 0.71 cents! That’s the price. Period.
I got the 80% boost. If I leave and come back, will it still be the same offer?
I’m not certain, but I’m fairly confident that you’ll see the same offer on your account each time during the promo period. I don’t think this’ll be like those rare Amex transfer bonuses where you see it one time and never again after that.
Thanks Stephen. I was too worried about losing it that I just purchased the maximum, lol. I’m waiting to check P2. I don’t know if I’m prepared to drop another $2600 if she gets the 80%.
Gregg, your instincts were dead on.
I had 70% + 10% = 80% for the first week of the promotion. Then today, I got notification of this week’s special…and it was 60% + 10%. So 80% cut to 70%.
Very irritating. No notice that it wouldn’t be degraded. ON THE CONTRARY, it said good until April 15. So this was a bait and switch.
We’ll see if they backtrack, ala IHG at the end of last year.
For me, they did backtrack. Now back to an 80% bonus, with an extension until 4/20, they say.
“Almost the lowest…” When we’re Wyndham points cheaper? This might be a double speculative by for P2 and I…
Thanks for reporting on this, Stephen.
They offered a 45% discount at the end of last year which took the price as low as 0.71cpp.
Ah, interesting. So it seems like they are offering better deals recently. Maybe I’ll just stick with maxing out my purchase and wait until another similar promo comes along before making any decisions about P2.
All these sales on Wyndham points makes me think twice about using my Wyndham Earner card. I only have the no fee version, so I get 5x on gas. But if I can buy the points at 0.72 cents/points, I am “only” getting 3.6 percent back on gas, which is not that exciting. Even if you had the Earner Business card, paying utilities may not be worth it. Instead of getting 5x Wyndham points, you could use the US Bank Cash+ and get 5% back, and use that to buy about 7 points per dollar spent.
Of course, that depends upon how often you use Wyndham points, given that there are limits on how many you can purchase per year. Personally, I only end up using them every 2-3 years.
I came to the same realization a while back. Instead of using my earner+ card for dining and grocery, I use my altitude reserve with Apple Pay (effective 4.5%) and just buy the points when they are on sale.
All the bonus percentages are “up to”. I am Diamond and only getting 60% bonus.
Same here. Diamond and only getting 60% as well.
i got 70% offer as a diamond, wyndham business credit card holder
DeCameron has 5 all inclusive properties for only 7,500 points per night. 3 in Mexico and 2 in Jamaica. Your post only mentions 15K and 30K properties. I posted about these bargains on FMI a while back.
What’s the best card to use for this purchase? When I clicked on the direct link to offer I was taken to the wyndham ios App, so I was wondering if buying points there via either a CSP, CFF would classify as “travel” to get 3x Chase UR points?
Alternatively I cud use my apple card and pay using apple pay to get 2% cash back
It’s a general category, not travel. Use your best everywhere else card.
Altitude reserve with Apple Pay