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Wyndham Rewards is offering a “mystery bonus” of between 40-60% when buying their points through November 30th, 2024. Like many Wyndham sales, you can buy up to 200,000 points if you purchase during the offer period.
You can buy Wyndham Rewards points at any time for 1.3 cents each, so this bonus brings the cost down to 0.81cpp (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 be quite useful for Vacasa Vacation Rentals, allowing you to get a 4-night stay at a 1-bedroom property for as low as ~$486 – or less if you have a Wyndham credit card that offers a 10% discount on award stays. However, remember that Wyndham recently changed their award chart and also changed redemption values for Vacasa stays from that same date.
The Deal
- Get a up to a 60% bonus on the purchase of Wyndham Rewards points when buying 3,000+ points (0.81cpp if targeted for 60%)
- Expires 11/30/24.
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 vacation rental (see Nick’s review of the cabin he rented in the Pigeon Forge, Tennessee area as an example).
If you don’t have an immediate use in mind, it may be worth waiting because Wyndham has regular sales at a similar rate. 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:
- 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.
- 40% discount (Buy points for 0.73 cents each). Expired December 31, 2021.
- 25% discount (Buy points for 0.975 cents each). Expired November 12, 2021.
- 25% discount (Buy points for 0.975 cents each). Expired August 25, 2021
- 35% bonus (Buy points for 0.96 cents each with an increased cap of 120K pre-bonus). Expired June 30, 2021.
- 25% discount (Buy points for 0.975 cents each). Expired May 7, 2021.
- 40% bonus (Buy points for 0.93 cents each). Expired April 21, 2021.
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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
This is a good buy. Before I went made the purchase it showed the mystery points offer at 60%. So no guessing what my bonus would be. I purchased 44,000 points and received 26,400 bonus at 60% at price of $572. So I got this at 81 cpp. That is $572 / (44,000 + 26,400) * 100 = 81cpp. Anyhow, I plan to redeem this for a Tier 2 property that will be priced between $250 – $500 after taxes.
At 60%, I was ready to jump, but neither P2 (40% offer, Diamond member) or I (50% offer, no status) got the good offer. I thought P2 was a shoe-in for the best offer, but sadly we’re going to have to pass and a bit odd that Wyndham apparently hates their top tier members.
I was not targeted last time, but am this time. Seems kinda random.
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does wyndham allow pooling points between spouses to book on vacasa?
No
Can you please explain the math of 15k Wyndham points for $8.88? At 0.96 cents, 15k points should be $144 which is roughly what Wyndhams site shows.
Thanks,
How many award rooms can one book at the same time with a 10% discount on points as a holder of Earner+ card?
I don’t believe there’s a limit beyond the number of points you have in your account.
You are right. BUT one twist that I just found out is that you have to have full amount of points in the account, i.e. before 10% card discount, in order to book the room(s). I bought just enough points to cover two rooms after the discount. But when I called (since you can’t
book online with a discount), I could only book one room. Interestingly, in the account activity it shows discounted (net) number of points deducted but on the Wyndham system apparently it is deducting the entire amount and returning 10% back. Bummer! Back to buying more points. Glad that I didn’t leave it to the last moment as it took full 24 hours for the purchased points to post from points.com.
Last year I was able to call in without full amount, factoring in the discount and got it booked. Wish you could do it online without full amount if you get the 10% back.
They must have changed their policy since two reps THIS year insisted on the full amount requirement. I wish for online booking as well…
I booked with 10% discount last month and had no problem not having the full amount of points (pre-discount) in my account. Rep had to put me on hold for a minute but that was it. YMMV
This math must be off…
Which math was wrong?
Well – to be clear, I suspect Wyndham’s math, not yours. Those percentages off just seem to have no relation to actual cost. The last sale was 30% off (same as now), but it cost .93 cents instead of .91. Looking at the historical chart, when it was 40% off in 4/23, it was… .93 cents per point. It’s just weird!
Though of course, typical of their shopping portal as well
Oh, I see. What happened is that the last couple of sales gave 30% bonus points, whereas this latest sale is giving a 30% discount. That difference is what’s causing this slight difference in points pricing.
I suppose if you transfer to Caesars at 1cpp you come out somewhat ahead? (and then right back behind with their pricing lately LOL)
Article states 15k points for a room valued at ~$557. Another Frequentmiler article stated that Vacasa devalued it to $350 per room. Can anyone confirm?
It’s saying that, by buying points at .93 cents each, you could get a 4-night stay at a 1-bedroom Vacasa property for around $557…because that’s how much 60K points would cost. It’s not saying anything about the max value per night, which you correctly pointed out is $350/night.
I am selling 60k Wyndham points from a voucher. Please message if interested.
It’s an easy buy for us 0.93 cpp. With the Wyndham Earners Biz Card, a Vacasa is 13.5K for $350 per BR or about 2.59 cpp.
The same discount seems to apply for “gifting points”.
Earlier this year I maxed out by purchasing 100K points.
Does anyone know if my wife could also “gift” me another 100K points?
Just a thought… it would be nice to know when each of these promotions started and how long each of these promotional periods last. Thanks for posting this info!
If I use my Wyndham Business Earner card to purchase points, will that transaction get the 8x back on Wyndham hotel spend? Assuming not but worth asking…
No. Transaction goes through some 3rd party.
I am slightly confused. At the beginning of the article it says “Get up to a 30% discount on the purchase of Wyndham Rewards points (this results in a cost of 0.91 cents per point)“. However, at the end of the article it says “40% bonus (Buy points for 0.93 cents each)“. But isn’t 0.91 cents per point a better deal than 0.93 cents per point? Seems odd since the discount is listed as less. Did Wyndham lower the price they usually charge for points or something? ♂️
That’s an excellent question. It’s “discount” vs “bonus.” A 30% discount means that you pay 30% less for each point. A 40% bonus means you get 40% more points for the same price…but it’s actually less of a discount (it ends up being about 28.6%). Several companies go back and forth with that terminology to make the actual discount seem larger.
Aha, that makes sense!
I knew it had to be something simple that I was missing