Update: This has now been confirmed.
Currently Wyndham charges a flat 15,000 points per night for any standard room, this means it’s easy to get some outsized value at the higher end properties they offer. According to imnion Wyndham is planning on moving to a tiered rewards system, they shared with me how they know this information and I’d consider it reliable. There is always a chance somebody is just making up the information/information is incorrect but in my opinion this seems legit (I know some readers like a percentages of a rumor being true, I’d give this 70%).
We don’t know when this new tiered system would be introduced or if there will be a period after it’s announced allowing members to redeem points at the current flat 15,000 points per night price. If I had to guess I’d suspect there would be a grace period to book at this 15,000 price, but who knows. Personally I think this would likely kill the Wyndham program for my purposes unless a lot of properties were added to the 7,500 point price point, I don’t personally see that happening but who knows.
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Doubt it will change anything, but I suggest sending Wyndham a message online or call and talk to the manager. And just express extreme disappointment and inform them that you will move all your business or leisure stays to another brand. I will definetely do that, as I was staying at Wyndham properries for work specifically only becase of their rewards program flat pricing.
I am sure they know what are they doing, but a negative feedback did some wonders in the past. As a very least it may buy us extra time.
Nooo got the email this morning, this was confirmed.
Confirmed. https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/en-us/wyndham-rewards/comingsoon?CID=EM:WR:20190219:OLSON:WRCOMINGSOON:WR:JID1712392-WR20FEBANNOUNCEMENT:NA:EN-US
Time to burn all our Wyndham points.
This could make it worthwhile for me. I couldn't care less about resorts or upscale hotels, I just need the cheapest place to sleep wherever I happen to be, and getting 2x the nights out of my points in some expensive city or remote national park is a huge upside.
Bummer. They are by far my favorite program right now. Sometimes I'm getting PAID to stay in their cheap hotels because of their various promotions and how much those points are worth to me. And anything under $100/night I'm basically always getting the best deal through them.
I happen to love a couple of their top tier hotels and stay in them often. If you don't then it's probably not as great for you.
I am getting married at a Wyndham in 3 weeks. Earned almost 200,000 points on this wedding .
Really hope this isn't true...
Stockton Seaview by any chance? I was running the numbers on doing that, and putting the wedding on a Wyndham Rewards card. The points would’ve been ridiculous. And I was doing the math in my head how many free honeymoon nights we’d earn. Hopefully if the rumor is true - there will be a grace period and you can redeem them first. Congrats!
FYI: Speaking to Wyndham rewards regarding a technical concern, during the authentication there was a new very odd question.
"Sir, I see here that you have over 50 thousand points. In this case, sir, I am required to ask you one more additional security question. How were your points earned, sir?"
This obviously was not a security question, and Wyndham is looking deeper at their reward program. So new and a revamp so soon?
I always figured it was a great sell to their potential lower end franchisees that so few of their rooms would come from non-revenue bookings.
Wow, two hotel programs with bad news. Hyatt and Wyndham. Bummer. Hoping for good 7,500 ones but I doubt it too.
Stayed at Williamsburg, Virginia: Governors Green resort, before the severe hurricanes and storms. Very relaxing place, beautiful trees. Was on Time Share tour, NOT points.