How to get a hotel status match to Wyndham Rewards

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• Jonathan C says:

  9 Nov9 November 07:37

  Nothing on my gold card either. I wonder if the offer is only there if you have more than one card type i.e BAPP and gold?

  • Andy S says:

    9 Nov9 November 07:40

    No, I have BA and platinum, and it’s on neither. Hardly any offers on BA and nothing useful on plat.

    • Carl says:

      9 Nov9 November 08:35

      I have Platinum, Gold Credit Card, BAPP, SPG and Nectar and didn’t get anything on my Gold or Platinum. I need to churn them soon anyway. I’ll give this as the excuse on the phone.

• Mike says:

  9 Nov9 November 07:38

  “You currently have no available Offers. Please try again later.”

  No change there then.

  • Lumma says:

    9 Nov9 November 09:25

    It’s possibly worth raising a complaint with AMEX for this. A couple of years back I had no offers for months across 3 cards and complained by email when it was still possible. The final answer was they couldn’t do anything but the offers returned shortly afterwards.

• Roger says:

  9 Nov9 November 07:39

  OT_ Any HFP fellow reader in CUN in February half term next year?
  Looking to see if interested to pair up (we are family of four) for a very long trip to Rio Lagatros.

• Den says:

  9 Nov9 November 07:42

  No bonus MR offers on my Platinum 🙁

• CV3V says:

  9 Nov9 November 07:54

  I’ve done the Total Rewards status match for upcoming trip to Vegas, its a great benefit.

  $100 voucher for ‘celebration dinner’, collect voucher from Total Rewards desk
  2 free show tickets per month, not listed on TR website, but confirmed as a benefit, the showlist is available from the TR desk in hotel. Most of the shows hosted by Caesars hotels seems to be on list.
  No resort fees – my booking clearly states that resort fees wont be charged.
  Dedicated check in/out lanes.
  Separate dedicated queue for the buffet (!)

  I’d suggest if doing this match, both yourself and travel companion should status match so you can double up on the perks.

  With no resort fees payable it means that the complimentary rooms that hotels offer are completely free. On my travel dates a few of the nights were ‘comp’ (shows best on the app), whilst some weren’t free. It mean that i could stay at hotels such as Rio (not on the strip), Harrahs, The Linq for an average of about $6-$9 per night. In the end i booked Planet Hollywood for $60 per night (average).

  If anyone does book with Total Rewards, the bookings are refundable and i have noticed that the room rates go up and down during the day. So make booking if happy with rate, but check back a few times to see if it has dropped.

  In addition to the above, get the app and it will contain some discounts for local attractions.

  • Mart says:

    9 Nov9 November 08:12

    Any more info,I’m interested

  • Jon says:

    9 Nov9 November 13:28

    With Caesar’s resort fees running around $45/day, the absence of resort fees alone is a cracking benefit for a stay of any length.

    • CV3V says:

      9 Nov9 November 16:24

      Agreed. Caesars and Vegas is obviously very niche, but if you do go then the benefits are excellent. They are aimed at looking after the high roller gamblers, so i think it odd they are willing to match so easily to Wyndham.

      Also the vegas buffets are (these days) expensive, so the $100 credit helps meet the cost of splurging out.

• Susan says:

  9 Nov9 November 07:55

  Bl*8de heck, Heathrow . Do you have any idea how long it’s taken me to engineer a parent-free Christmas?!?

• Steve says:

  9 Nov9 November 07:58

  Nothing on my Gold card.

• Mikeact says:

  9 Nov9 November 08:03

  What category does the retailer fee for the Lloyds Amex fall into….regular Amex or co branded ?
  And the fees are, typically ?

  • Rob says:

    9 Nov9 November 08:07

    It is now 0.3%, the same as MC/Visa, which is why all the double packs got culled.

    • Mikeact says:

      9 Nov9 November 08:44

      Thanks. I doubt that many retailer etc., are aware of the differences….it seems to be all or nothing. My local hotel brasserie stopped accepting Amex a couple of months back. When I tried to explain that my BA Amex incurs the same fee as my Barclaycard Visa, it fell on deaf ears….I think they felt that I didn’t know what I was talking about.

      • Nick says:

        9 Nov9 November 09:06

        My info may be well out of date, but initially anyway the lower rate applies only to merchants on interchange-plus agreements, where they got a breakdown of the issuer fee (the 0.3% bit); the scheme fee paid to visa or MasterCard; and the fee payable to the bank that processes the transaction for the merchant. These were typically larger organisations- many smaller merchants had a simple flat fee for payment processing and did not benefit from the changes. Your local hotel may well fall into that camp. Also – I think it is still the rule that if you accept Amex, you must accept all Amex cards. So even if the above is out of date now and your hotel would only pay 0.3% on your BA Amex, they would still have to accept my gold Amex at much higher interchange rates.

      • Lumma says:

        9 Nov9 November 09:21

        Isn’t another issue with accepting AMEX that they take far longer to pay retailers for the transactions than other cards?

      • Andrew says:

        9 Nov9 November 10:53

        @Lumma

        From memory it was usually 24 hours longer, which wasn’t worth worrying about really. I worked for a Builder’s Merchants at the time. We didn’t promote Amex use, but didn’t protest about it either. All of our trade sales were on account which could be settled by Debit Card or BACS.

        Overall, we had considerably less issues with Amex than any other payment method. Once we offset losses on some quite bizarre chargebacks or rejected transactions by jakey customers using Visa or Mastercard, there was nothing in it.

      • RussellH says:

        9 Nov9 November 12:13

        When the World MasterCard branding was first introduced, WorldPay charged an additional 0.4% on any transaction. Not all merchant aquirers did this, so it was one of the reasons for my switching away from WorldPay.

      • RussellH says:

        9 Nov9 November 12:28

        Lumma, Andrew
        Re Amex transaction times.

        > From memory it was usually 24 hours longer,

        That is what I remember too.
        But there is also the fact that while Visa and M/Card transactions are paid in full, with the charges being billed in arrears on a monthly basis, Amex levy their charges (which they call their discount rate) before paying you.
        So, if I took a payment of £120 on Amex, what I actually received was £118.20.
        This seriously upset some people. A firm I used to deal with in the southern Lakes devoted a couple of paragraphs on their Home Page to this, explaining in great detail why they did not accept Amex.

      • Lumma says:

        9 Nov9 November 16:53

        Interesting regard the payment by AMEX. The owner of a restaurant I worked in a few years back told us to stop taking AMEX even though the machines would work over payment times and fees. But he was an absolute cowboy. We officially never took any cash payments in 18 months as he used to pocket it all

    • RussellH says:

      9 Nov9 November 12:06

      0.3% is the interchange fee. It has little or no bearing on what a retailer will actually pay. The fee paid by a small retailer (using a merchant aquirer, such as WorldPay) will be much more – from what I hear over 2%. The likes of Tesco or Shell will negotiate directly with Visa / M/Card / Amex and pay very much less.

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