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How to get a hotel status match to Wyndham Rewards

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You can now get a status match to Wyndham Rewards – although it is not hugely useful to UK residents.

Wyndham – even though you may never have heard of it – is actually the largest hotel group in the world with over 8,000 properties.  The majority of these are low-cost hotels in the USA, primarily outside major cities, and you are unlikely to stay in one unless you are doing a US road trip.

In the UK, Wyndham Rewards is the loyalty scheme for hotel chains Ramada and Days Inn.  It also covers chains which you don’t find in the UK – Wyndham, Tryp, Wingate, Hawthorn, Microtel, Baymont, Super 8, Howard Johnson and the US (not UK) Travelodge.

There are around 30 Wyndham Rewards hotels in the UK.  The Days Inn hotels are generally found on motorway service stations which is why you may have missed them, although there are a couple in London.  The Ramada properties are better spread.

A number of the better hotels have been reflagged in the last couple of years.  The Ramada at Excel in London is now a DoubleTree.  The Ramada at the Mailbox in Birmingham is now under AC Hotels, a Marriott brand.  The Days Inn at Waterloo, pictured below, is about as exciting as it gets.

If your travels do take you to Wyndham properties, you can now get a 90-day status match from any existing hotel status you have.

This is a pretty decent status match as these things go:

You can match to ALL levels of the programme, including the top Diamond tier

They are being generous in what match they give

For example, in order to get top tier Diamond status, you only need:

Gold Elite in Marriott Rewards (free with Amex Platinum)

Gold in Hilton Honors (free with Amex Platinum)

Platinum Elite in IHG Rewards Club (free with IHG Rewards Club Premium Mastercard)

Gold in Radisson Rewards (free with Amex Platinum)

You see a full list by clicking the link in the terms and conditions on the status match page.  It doesn’t work if I link to the chart directly.

This means that the majority of Head for Points readers should be able to get Diamond status by one route or another.

It may even be worth getting the match purely to do another match elsewhere.  For example, you could match your Hilton Gold status to Wyndham Diamond and then match your Wyndham Diamond to Hilton Diamond via Hilton’s status match.  Hilton requires one recent stay with the competing chain so you’d need to do a quick Days Inn or Ramada night as well.

Of course, if you’re unlikely to be staying in a Wyndham Rewards property in the next 90 days then it probably isn’t worth the effort unless you have a secondary match lined up.

There is one perk though …. Platinum and Diamond members of Wyndham Rewards get an automatic status match to Caesars Entertainment Total Rewards.  If you are heading to Las Vegas soon then this is worth a look.  You can see the Total Rewards benefits here ….. they include NO RESORT FEES on your bill, use of priority check-in lines and a $100 dinner credit for Diamonds.

You can learn more about the Wyndham Rewards status match here.


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Comments (216)

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  • Rob says:

    I Assumr the Amex points offer I need to find on website rather than app? In not I’ve missed out?

    If I can find it is it cumulative across joint cards?

  • Disappointed Man says:

    Nothing for me either. Why do Amex target only certain people? Those like me who get nothing feel hard done by!

  • Opto says:

    Not sure about the offers having ‘virtually disappeared’ – my BAPP has a lot of offers listed while Platinum and Gold cards have almost none. Been that way for a while and none of the cards or wife’s cards have this offer either.

    • Spurs Debs says:

      It’s the opposite for me only had two offers on BAPP both useless to me and loads on gold charge and credit card some not so useless.

  • Max says:

    Not on my card.

    I have 40 other offers, but not this. Maybe I spend too much!

  • Bruce says:

    “Spend £9200, get 5000”
    Not so good, for me at least!

  • Tony says:

    Nothing on my Platinum offers ????

  • Paul says:

    I got “Spend £11,000, get 10,000 bonus Membership Rewards points”. Pretty unachievable spend for me.

  • SK says:

    OT: Questions about Lloyds avios credit cards. I still have these duo pack credit cards and I have not been sent a letter to say that the credit card will be closing. My avios account has closed. If I earn another voucher before the credit card closes where will the voucher be found? I am not sure if it is worth putting more spend through these cards now to earn a voucher.

    • Anna says:

      It seems to be that the voucher won’t actually show anywhere but avios.com will have a record of it and can make your booking by phone using your BA avios. I will definitely earn another one if I get the chance!

      • Rob MC says:

        I’m assuming we will still get the email to confirm we have earnt another voucher? Pretty sure mine is due imminently

    • H says:

      I phoned up Llyods and they told me voucher had been issued but said it was only valid till end of November 2018 for something issued on 29th October – which is daft. So phoned Avios who were much better and confirmed it is valid until November 2019. Doesn’t show up anywhere online but should eventually get a letter from Lloyds

      • rob says:

        Are we sure when these vouchers actually become available after you’ve hit the spend target? I noted some people said it was a month before they had Email confirmation but that the voucher was already with them when they received the Email. Is it worth phoning in to check?

        • Simon says:

          I passed the 7k and got a voucher last month. Valid till oct ’19. I haven’t received any email or post about it so can’t hurt to call. I saw the voucher in my avios account just before it closed for good. I had to redeem another voucher last week as it ran out at the end of the month, account was closed so had to call 0344 49 333 49. The chap was all over it, transferred the required number of point back to avios and got the reward flight with the upgrade – prob took best part of 30 mins tho.

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