Wyndham Rewards promo · terms checked 29 September 2026
PointsMaxxing the Wyndham 4X Points Promo
Short answer: only paid stays booked direct earn the 4X bonus. Free Nights on points and Points + Cash nights are excluded by name in the terms. So the promo is a reason to pay cash for a stay, and the smart place to do that is a hotel where your points would be poor value anyway. Register first, book direct by 15 January 2027, and finish the stay by 19 January 2027.
Which stays count
| Stay or booking | 4X bonus? | What the terms say |
|---|---|---|
| Paid rate booked direct (wyndhamhotels.com, app, phone, at the hotel) | ✅ Yes | "Direct Booking Channel", after registering |
| Free Night on points | ❌ No | "Free Nights … are not eligible" |
| Points + Cash (Discounted Night) | ❌ No | "Discounted Nights with Points + Cash … are not eligible" |
| Expedia, Booking.com and other third parties | ❌ No | "do not include third party online bookings" |
| Caesars hotels, vacation clubs, vacation rentals | ❌ No | Excluded by name |
| Super 8 in mainland China | ❌ No | "Offer not valid at Super 8 by Wyndham hotels in Mainland China" |
| Booked before you registered, or outside 24 Sept – 19 Jan | ❌ No | "booked or consumed … prior to registration" doesn't count |
| Wyndham Rewards Business account | ❌ No | "not eligible for this Offer" |
| Crew, wholesale or contract rates | ❌ No | Not a Qualified Stay under the program terms |
| Members earning airline miles | ⚠️ Partly | Base in miles, the bonus in Wyndham points (3× base miles) |
How to max it
The bonus is 3× your base points on top of the base, capped at 15,000 bonus points. Wyndham's own example: a stay worth 2,000 base points earns 8,000 in total. At 10 points per dollar the cap lands at $500 of paid spend; anything past that earns only normal points.
| You are | Do this | Base | 4X bonus | Extra | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | $500 paid, any number of nights | 5,000 | 15,000 | — | 20,000 |
| Wyndham Rewards Insider | $500 over 2+ nights, or two 1-night stays | 5,000 | 15,000 | 5,000 | 25,000 |
| Wyndham Rewards Visa or Debit cardholder | Same, paid with that card | 5,000 | 15,000 | 5,000 | 25,000 |
| Earner Premier cardholder | Same, paid with the Premier card | 5,000 | 15,000 | 10,000 | 30,000 |
Before elite-status bonus points and the points the card itself earns. You get one extra bonus, not two: a cardholder who is also an Insider gets the card bonus only.
Gotchas
- Register before you book. A stay booked before registering never counts, even if it's after 24 September.
- Cheap stays won't max it. Wyndham's 1,000-point minimum per stay is paid as "Additional Points", and the multiplier applies to base points only. A $40 stay posts the 1,000-point minimum, but its bonus is 3× its 400 base points (1,200), not 3× 1,000.
- Some brands count taxes. Dolce, Wyndham, Wyndham Garden and Wyndham Grand earn on the whole bill. Most others earn on the room rate before tax. Those marked taxes count below get to $500 faster.
- WaterWalk earns half (5 points per $1), so it takes $1,000 to max. We left it out of the lists.
Where to pay cash: 10 hotels per region
These are hotels where an award night costs 30,000 or 45,000 points but saves you less than 0.8¢ a point. The median 5,000-point hotel returns 1.44¢. So pay cash here, collect the 4X bonus, and spend the points at a 5,000 or 15,000-point hotel instead. Ranked by the fewest nights it takes to reach $500, then by how poor the points value is.
United States
| # | Hotel | Location | Award night | Cash rate | Value | ≈ Nights to max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek taxes count | Orlando, Florida | 45,000 | $259 | 0.57¢ | 2 |
| 2 | Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort taxes count | Deerfield Beach, Florida | 45,000 | $334 | 0.74¢ | 2 |
| 3 | Grandover Resort & Spa, a Wyndham Grand Hotel taxes count | Greensboro, North Carolina | 45,000 | $347 | 0.77¢ | 2 |
| 4 | V Capri Palm Springs, a Dolce by Wyndham taxes count | Palm Springs, California | 45,000 | $195 | 0.43¢ | 3 |
| 5 | Hotel at the Lafayette, Trademark Collection by Wyndham | Buffalo, New York | 45,000 | $193 | 0.43¢ | 3 |
| 6 | Hilo Hawaiian Hotel, Trademark Collection by Wyndham | Hilo, Hawaii | 45,000 | $212 | 0.47¢ | 3 |
| 7 | Sea Glass Beach Place, Trademark Collection by Wyndham | Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, Florida | 45,000 | $221 | 0.49¢ | 3 |
| 8 | Barley House Hotel, Trademark Collection by Wyndham | Fort Lauderdale, Florida | 45,000 | $231 | 0.51¢ | 3 |
| 9 | THE ISO HOTEL, Trademark Collection by Wyndham | Kapa'a, Hawaii | 45,000 | $231 | 0.51¢ | 3 |
| 10 | Wyndham Boston Beacon Hill taxes count | Boston, Massachusetts | 45,000 | $237 | 0.53¢ | 3 |
Asia (outside China and Southeast Asia)
India 4 · Pakistan 2 · Korea-Republic Of 2 · Kazakhstan 1 · Uzbekistan 1
| # | Hotel | Location | Award night | Cash rate | Value | ≈ Nights to max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wyndham Garden Burabay taxes count | Burabay, Kazakhstan | 30,000 | $172 | 0.57¢ | 3 |
| 2 | Ramada by Wyndham Chennai Egmore | Chennai, India | 30,000 | $211 | 0.70¢ | 3 |
| 3 | Ramada by Wyndham Gurgaon Central | Gurgaon, India | 30,000 | $209 | 0.70¢ | 3 |
| 4 | Ramada by Wyndham Karachi Creek | Karachi, Pakistan | 30,000 | $224 | 0.75¢ | 3 |
| 5 | Wyndham Tashkent taxes count | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 30,000 | $125 | 0.42¢ | 4 |
| 6 | Wyndham Grand Busan Ijin taxes count | Busan, Korea-Republic Of | 30,000 | $145 | 0.48¢ | 4 |
| 7 | Ramada by Wyndham Darjeeling Gandhi Road | Darjeeling, India | 30,000 | $149 | 0.50¢ | 4 |
| 8 | Ramada by Wyndham Dongtan | Hwaseong, Korea-Republic Of | 30,000 | $149 | 0.50¢ | 4 |
| 9 | Ramada by Wyndham Lahore Gulberg II | Lahore, Pakistan | 30,000 | $151 | 0.50¢ | 4 |
| 10 | Ramada by Wyndham Alleppey | Alappuzha, India | 30,000 | $161 | 0.54¢ | 4 |
Southeast Asia
Thailand 6 · Malaysia 2 · Vietnam 1 · Singapore 1
| # | Hotel | Location | Award night | Cash rate | Value | ≈ Nights to max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wyndham Hoi An Royal Beachfront Resort & Villas taxes count | Hoi An, Vietnam | 30,000 | $181 | 0.60¢ | 3 |
| 2 | Wyndham Suites KLCC taxes count | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 30,000 | $196 | 0.65¢ | 3 |
| 3 | Wyndham Garden Naithon Phuket taxes count | Phuket, Thailand | 30,000 | $194 | 0.65¢ | 3 |
| 4 | Wyndham Bangkok Queen Convention Centre taxes count | Bangkok, Thailand | 30,000 | $126 | 0.42¢ | 4 |
| 5 | Wyndham Grand I-City taxes count | Shah Alam, Malaysia | 30,000 | $143 | 0.48¢ | 4 |
| 6 | The Proud Karon Beach Phuket Trademark Collection By Wyndham | Phuket, Thailand | 30,000 | $149 | 0.50¢ | 4 |
| 7 | Wyndham Garden Phuket Kamala taxes count | Phuket, Thailand | 30,000 | $153 | 0.51¢ | 4 |
| 8 | Wyndham Grand Nai Harn Beach Phuket taxes count | Phuket, Thailand | 30,000 | $153 | 0.51¢ | 4 |
| 9 | Hotel Traveltine Downtown Singapore, Trademark Collection | Singapore, Singapore | 30,000 | $159 | 0.53¢ | 4 |
| 10 | Ramada by Wyndham Phuket Deevana | Phuket, Thailand | 30,000 | $165 | 0.55¢ | 4 |
Europe
Portugal 2 · Denmark 2 · Germany 2 · Poland 1 · France 1 · Spain 1 · Slovenia 1
| # | Hotel | Location | Award night | Cash rate | Value | ≈ Nights to max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wyndham Grand Krakow Old Town taxes count | Cracow, Poland | 45,000 | $286 | 0.64¢ | 2 |
| 2 | Wyndham Grand Algarve Quinta do Lago taxes count | Algarve, Portugal | 45,000 | $211 | 0.47¢ | 3 |
| 3 | Dolce by Wyndham Versailles - Domaine du Montcel taxes count | Jouy-En-Josas, France | 45,000 | $230 | 0.51¢ | 3 |
| 4 | Dolce by Wyndham Barcelona Resort taxes count | Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Spain | 30,000 | $169 | 0.56¢ | 3 |
| 5 | Dolce by Wyndham CampoReal Lisboa taxes count | Turcifal, Portugal | 30,000 | $176 | 0.59¢ | 3 |
| 6 | Comwell Hvide Hus Aalborg, Dolce by Wyndham taxes count | Aalborg, Denmark | 30,000 | $182 | 0.61¢ | 3 |
| 7 | Comwell Copenhagen Portside Dolce by Wyndham taxes count | Copenhagen, Denmark | 30,000 | $192 | 0.64¢ | 3 |
| 8 | Vienna House by Wyndham Sonne Rostock | Rostock, Germany | 30,000 | $197 | 0.66¢ | 3 |
| 9 | Ramada Resort by Wyndham Kranjska Gora | Kranjska Gora, Slovenia | 30,000 | $201 | 0.67¢ | 3 |
| 10 | H4 Hotel Hannover Messe | Laatzen, Germany | 30,000 | $203 | 0.68¢ | 3 |
South America
Peru 3 · Brazil 2 · Argentina 1 · Chile 1 · Ecuador 1 · Guyana 1 · Colombia 1
| # | Hotel | Location | Award night | Cash rate | Value | ≈ Nights to max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esplendor by Wyndham El Calafate | El Calafate, Argentina | 45,000 | $243 | 0.54¢ | 3 |
| 2 | Wyndham Garden Santiago Kennedy taxes count | Santiago, Chile | 30,000 | $177 | 0.59¢ | 3 |
| 3 | Wyndham Costa del Sol Cusco taxes count | Cusco, Peru | 30,000 | $177 | 0.59¢ | 3 |
| 4 | Wyndham Gramado Termas Resort & Spa taxes count | Gramado, Brazil | 30,000 | $192 | 0.64¢ | 3 |
| 5 | TRYP by Wyndham Sao Paulo Guarulhos Airport | Guarulhos, Brazil | 30,000 | $196 | 0.65¢ | 3 |
| 6 | Wyndham Costa del Sol Arequipa taxes count | Arequipa, Peru | 30,000 | $197 | 0.66¢ | 3 |
| 7 | Wyndham Quito Airport taxes count | Quito, Ecuador | 30,000 | $207 | 0.69¢ | 3 |
| 8 | Ramada by Wyndham Princess Georgetown | Georgetown, Guyana | 30,000 | $213 | 0.71¢ | 3 |
| 9 | Wyndham Bogota taxes count | Bogota, Colombia | 30,000 | $130 | 0.43¢ | 4 |
| 10 | Wyndham Costa del Sol Lima Airport taxes count | Lima, Peru | 30,000 | $135 | 0.45¢ | 4 |
How we picked
From our capture of all 8,336 Wyndham hotels, we kept hotels at 30,000 points or more, worth under 0.8¢ a point, with a bookable cash rate of at least $125 a night. Hotels that never return a bookable rate, rates too high to be believable, WaterWalk and Caesars are left out. Cash rates are the total after tax for one night on 3 December 2026, which falls inside the promo window; one night can be distorted by a local event, so check your own dates.
≈ Nights to max is an estimate: $500 divided by the nightly rate, after taking about 15% off for tax at brands that earn on room rate only. You need 2+ nights (or two stays) for the Insider or card bonus regardless.
Sources: Wyndham's offer terms and program terms, checked 29 September 2026.
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