Best Wyndham Offer Returns: 3 Free Nights (45,000 Point Offer)

The Wyndham hotel card does not get a lot of play for different reasons, mostly, I would guess, because there is not a lot of strategy with it. The Wyndham hotel group has over 8,000 properties in it worldwide and all of them – from the lowly Howard Johnson to the most expensive Wyndham – are available for a flat 15,000 points per night.

The Wyndham credit card from Barclaycard is normally at the 30,000 point offer with the occasional bumps to the 45,000 point level – good for 3 free nights. That is what it is back up to now.

Best Wyndham Offer Returns: 3 Free Nights (from 45,000 points)

Link: Wyndham Card Offer

There are two different Wyndham cards, one with an annual fee and one without it. The best card to apply for is the one with the annual fee and then if you wanted to continue earning points, you could downgrade to the one without the annual fee (and also no anniversary bonus).

Annual Fee Wyndham Card

• Earn 30,000 bonus points after your first purchase.
• Plus, earn an additional 15,000 bonus points after you spend $2,000 on purchases within the first 90 days of account opening
• Earn 5 points per $1 spent on every participating hotel stay
• Earn 2 points per $1 spent on purchases everywhere else
• Earn 6,000 Bonus Points after your account anniversary every year
• $69 annual fee (not waived)
• Automatic Platinum status
  • Earn 10 points per $1 or 1,000 points, whichever is more
  • go free^SM Award Nights with No Blackout Dates
  • go free^SM home and go free^SM condo Award Nights
  • Rollover nights never expire
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • go free^SM PLUS
  • go fast^SM PLUS
  • Dedicated member services
  • Preferred room
  • Late check-out
  • Early check-in
  • 3,000 point bonus
  • Avis^® and Budget^® Car Rental Upgrade (U.S. and Canada Only)
• Good until 8/9/2017

No Annual Fee Wyndham Card

• Earn 15,000 bonus points after your first purchase.
• Plus, earn an additional 3,000 bonus points after you spend $1,000 on purchases within the first 90 days of account opening.
• Earn 3 points per $1 spent on every participating hotel stay
• Earn 2 points per $1 spent on purchases everywhere else
• Automatic Gold status
• No annual fee

Analysis

The Wyndham Rewards program has some nice value tied to it, depending on how you use the points. It is great to know you can redeem your points at Wyndhams around the world at the same level. It is also nice to take advantage of their Go Fast awards where you only pay 3,000 points + cash to redeem for rooms. You can save hundreds of dollars per night with these awards (see this post for more on that).

HT: Doctor of Credit for the link