Wyndham Award Chart Changes

Wyndham Rewards moves to a new 4-tier award chart today, September 15.

​Hotels will now have pricing options of:​

• 5,000 points

• 15,000 points

• 30,000 points

• 45,000 points

​That’s a 2,500 point decrease on the bottom end (previous low was 7,500 points) and a 15,000 point increase on the high end (previous high was 30,000 points).

​Thankfully, the program sticks with a fixed award chart which keeps pricing predictable (since most hotel programs work on a dynamic award chart).

​Hyatt is the other major program with a fixed award chart and they also went through significant changes earlier this year.

​Those changes were fairly mild though after we ran some numbers.

​Wyndham has 6X more hotels than Hyatt, over 9,000 properties, and does not publish which exact hotels will be affected during the award chart changes.

​You can transfer many flexible points currencies to Wyndham Rewards, but often the better deal is buying points for 80% - 100% off and then booking the same hotel to save money.

​We’ll have to monitor this strategy with the updated award chart and provide more examples in the future!