Best Wyndham Rewards Redemptions in 2026: The 15,000-Point Sweet Spot, the New 45,000 Tier, and What Points Are Worth

Disclaimer: Wyndham Rewards uses a fixed award chart. The current four-tier chart took effect September 15, 2026, and Wyndham has not published a list of which hotels moved, so each hotel’s tier below is given as last reported, with the source and date. Cash rates are figures reported by points publications in 2026 and move with demand. Point valuations are estimates from 2026 data available at the time of writing. Verify current pricing on WyndhamHotels.com before transferring points or booking. This article contains affiliate links; we may earn a commission if you apply through them, at no cost to you.

Updated October 12, 2026: Refreshed for the four-tier chart (5,000 / 15,000 / 30,000 / 45,000 points per bedroom) in effect since September 15, 2026, with post-change prices, valuations, and card discounts from Wyndham’s current pages and dated reporting.

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Wyndham Rewards points are worth about 0.55 to 0.7 cents each in October 2026: The Points Guy cut Wyndham from 0.7 to 0.55 cents in its October 2026 valuations, Frequent Miler cut its Reasonable Redemption Value from 0.67 to 0.57 cents on October 5, 2026, One Mile at a Time cut its figure from 0.7 to 0.6 cents on September 2, 2026, citing the devaluation at the top of the chart, and NerdWallet says 0.7 (May 26, 2026 analysis, before the change). On The Points Guy’s October list that puts Wyndham just under IHG (0.6 cents), above Hilton (0.4), and far behind Hyatt (1.65). What the per-point number misses is that Wyndham still runs a fixed, published award chart, so a $600 beach resort and a $90 roadside motel can sit in the same tier, and you choose which one you book.

This guide covers the four-tier chart in effect since September 15, 2026 (5,000, 15,000, 30,000, and 45,000 points per bedroom per night), which hotels are reported to have moved, where the 15,000- and 30,000-point tiers still beat their average, what the 45,000-point tier does to the old favorites, the refreshed Barclays Earner cards, and when moving Chase, Capital One, or Citi points into Wyndham makes sense. For a cross-program comparison, start with our Best Hotel Points Redemptions in the US guide.

Key Facts: Wyndham Rewards redemptions in 2026

• Wyndham points are worth about 0.55 to 0.7 cents each (TPG 0.55, Frequent Miler 0.57, One Mile at a Time 0.6, NerdWallet 0.7)
• The chart is fixed at four tiers since September 15, 2026: 5,000 / 15,000 / 30,000 / 45,000 points per bedroom per night (it was 7,500 / 15,000 / 30,000 before)
• Hotels were reshuffled too: of 8,404 hotels, about 34 percent got more expensive, 22 percent got cheaper, and 68 landed at 45,000 points (Upgraded Points count, September 15, 2026)
• Bookings made before September 15 kept the price at which they were booked; if a booked hotel got cheaper, Wyndham returns the difference in points automatically
• The Barclays Earner Premier ($395, launched June 17, 2026) takes 25 percent off award nights, so a 45,000-point night costs 33,750 and a 5,000-point night costs 3,750; the Earner Business takes 20 percent, the Earner Plus and no-fee Earner take 10 percent
• Chase Ultimate Rewards (since February 25, 2026), Capital One miles, and Citi ThankYou points all transfer to Wyndham at 1:1
• Vacasa vacation rentals are gone: new bookings ended November 30, 2025, final checkouts January 31, 2026

How Wyndham Award Pricing Works in 2026 (and What Changed on September 15)

Wyndham calls its award nights “go free,” and every participating hotel sits at one of four prices: 5,000, 15,000, 30,000, or 45,000 points per bedroom per night. That chart took effect on September 15, 2026; from 2019 until then it had three tiers at 7,500, 15,000, and 30,000 points. Wyndham’s tier-update page confirms both ends: free nights now start at 5,000 points instead of 7,500, and what it calls its most elevated hotels sit in the new 45,000-point tier.

The “per bedroom” part matters. Club Wyndham, WorldMark by Wyndham, Margaritaville Vacation Club, and Shell Vacation Club resorts book on the same four tiers, priced per bedroom. Wyndham’s redemption terms give the example: a 2-bedroom unit at a resort with a 15,000-point standard price costs 30,000 points a night, and a 3-bedroom unit there costs 45,000. Three rules from those terms apply at vacation club resorts: a minimum stay of two consecutive nights, enough points for every bedroom in the unit (you cannot pay points for one bedroom and cash for the rest), and blackout dates that vary by resort. The free night covers the room rate, local taxes, and resort or facility fees. Wyndham’s redeem page also advertises select vacation club resorts at 5,000 points per bedroom per night on stays of two or more nights, which prices a 2-bedroom condo at 10,000 points a night. Caesars Rewards hotels booked through Wyndham sit at 15,000, 30,000, or 45,000 points, and resort fees there are charged separately.

The prices are only half of what changed. Wyndham also redistributed hotels across the tiers: “While many stayed at their prior tier, thousands moved,” its page says, “with the vast majority spanning the 5,000-, 15,000-, and 30,000-point levels.” Wyndham has not published a list of which hotels moved, and it declined to give Frequent Miler a count. Upgraded Points compared Wyndham’s full hotel list the day before and the day of the change (September 15, 2026) and reported:

Reported names at 45,000 points include the Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek, Wyndham Boston Beacon Hill, Caesars Palace Las Vegas, Semiahmoo Resort in Washington, Wyndham Alltra Punta Cana, and the Grand Palladium and TRS all-inclusive resorts in Punta Cana, Riviera Maya, and Costa Mujeres (Upgraded Points, September 15, 2026), plus the Wyndham Grand Clearwater Beach (One Mile at a Time’s screenshot from the same day). Florida has 13 of the 68 and New York 6. Going the other way, eight hotels fell from 30,000 points to 5,000, including Wyndham Corfu Acharavi in Greece and the Ramada by Wyndham Istanbul Airport Arnavutkoy.

Two protections softened the change. Wyndham’s tier-update page says bookings made with points before September 15 are honored at the rate at which they were booked, and that if a booked hotel dropped in rate, the difference in points is returned automatically. Anything booked since then prices at the hotel’s new tier, with no grace period for new bookings (Upgraded Points, September 15, 2026).

The points-and-cash option, “go fast” (Wyndham now labels it Discounted Nights with Points + Cash), moved with the chart. Wyndham’s tier-update page lists the starting points by tier:

The cash portion floats with the room rate: One Mile at a Time’s September 15, 2026 screenshots showed 1,000 points plus $47.60 at a 5,000-point Days Inn and 9,000 points plus $279.30 at the 45,000-point Wyndham Grand Clearwater Beach. Go fast covers the room rate only, not taxes, and you earn points on the cash portion.

And no, Wyndham has not gone dynamic. Its tier-update page lists under “What Hasn’t Changed” a “simple, fixed redemption structure with no dynamic pricing or increases based on seasonality.” Among the large US programs only Wyndham and Hyatt still publish an award chart, and One Mile at a Time (September 15, 2026) calls Wyndham the only major program with no dynamic award pricing of any kind.

What Are Wyndham Points Worth in 2026?

The current valuations cluster between 0.55 and 0.7 cents per point, and the two that were re-measured after the chart change sit at the bottom of that range:

Upgraded Points is the outlier at 0.9 cents on its valuations page (updated October 3, 2026). The trend is negative because of the 45,000-point tier and the hotels that moved up into 30,000; One Mile at a Time trimmed its number because “the cost of top redemptions is increasing,” and wrote on September 15 that 0.6 might still be a bit too high unless you mostly redeem at 5,000-point hotels.

Frequent Miler’s October 5, 2026 analysis, built from about 2.1 million award searches across just over 6,000 properties, adds the detail that matters for planning. The median award returns 0.57 cents, the 75th percentile 0.8, and the 90th percentile 1.35. Compared with its April 15, 2026 run (0.67, 0.88, and 1.14), the middle fell by about 15 percent while the best tenth of awards got better, which Frequent Miler attributes to the 5,000-point tier: the same hotels for a third fewer points. By brand, Hawthorn Suites awards came in at 0.80 cents, Registry Collection and Wyndham Alltra at 0.75, Ramada at 0.46, Wyndham-branded hotels at 0.45, and Microtel at 0.33. By city, Washington (1.25), New York (1.13), and Rome (1.05) ran far above the program median, and Bangkok (0.34) far below. For Wyndham’s number next to all eight major hotel programs on one scale, see our hotel points value guide.

Here is how Wyndham compares to the other big programs using The Points Guy’s October 2026 figures:

Use 0.7 cents as your bar. It is the top of the 0.55 to 0.7 cluster and about what Wyndham charges when it sells points on promotion (0.68 cents), so a redemption below it is one you could have bought more cheaply. Multiply the tier by 0.7 cents to get the cash rate a hotel has to beat:

The first three thresholds are low for well-chosen hotels in those tiers, which is the whole case for Wyndham points: the chart caps what you pay while cash rates run free. The 45,000-point threshold is the hard one. A hotel has to sell for more than $315 a night before the top tier clears the bar.

What a Wyndham point returns, by redemption type

Cents per point, October 2026

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Why 15,000 Points Is the Sweet Spot

The 15,000-point price did not change on September 15, and it is still where the fixed chart does its best work at hotels you would choose on their own merits. What changed is the membership. Upgraded Points counted 2,040 hotels moving from 15,000 points up to 30,000 and 440 dropping from 15,000 to 5,000, and One Mile at a Time observed on September 15 that a lot of former 7,500-point hotels appear to have gone to 15,000. So a hotel you remember at 15,000 may not be there now, and a hotel that is there now may not deserve it: Frequent Miler’s October 5 figures for Ramada (0.46 cents) and Wyndham-branded hotels (0.45 cents) are below the program-wide 0.57.

The sweet spot is the subset with real cash rates. Wyndham’s portfolio includes Ramada, Wyndham Garden, Dolce, and Wyndham-branded full-service hotels in Europe and Asia that were reported at 15,000 points while charging $150 to $500 in cash, depending on season. A 15,000-point night that would cost $200 returns 1.33 cents per point ($200 / 15,000), about double the published values. With the Earner Plus card’s 10 percent discount you pay 13,500 points, 1.48 cents. With the Earner Premier’s 25 percent discount it is 11,250 points, 1.78 cents. That is Hyatt-adjacent value from a currency that Chase, Capital One, and Citi will all hand you at 1:1.

Two cautions come with the new chart. First, the step from 5,000 to 15,000 points is now the steepest on the chart, three times the price. One Mile at a Time’s September 15 example was two hotels in the same Kentucky town: one at 5,000 points selling for $58 (1.16 cents per point) and one at 15,000 points selling for $74 (0.49 cents). Second, the 5,000-point tier is where the best per-point numbers now live, because it needs only a $35 cash rate to clear the bar and costs 3,750 points with the Earner Premier. Frequent Miler credits that tier for the jump in its 90th-percentile value to 1.35 cents. If the hotel is one you would book anyway, 5,000 beats 15,000; the 15,000-point tier is the sweet spot for the full-service hotels the 5,000-point tier mostly does not contain.

Best-Value Wyndham Sweet Spots in 2026

The cash rates in this table come from Upgraded Points’ redemption guide updated August 11, 2026, which listed each hotel at its price under the old chart. Wyndham has not published which hotels moved on September 15, so each row gives the tier as last reported and, where that is unconfirmed, the value at the next tier up too. Check the live price before you count on any row.

The two confirmed moves show what the 45,000-point tier does. Clearwater Beach still clears the 0.7-cent bar comfortably at a reported $600, but it went from 2.0 cents per point to 1.33, and the Earner Premier’s 25 percent discount (33,750 points, 1.78 cents) now only gets you most of the way back to the old number. Boston Beacon Hill at a reported $400 drops to 0.89 cents, a redemption to make only on dates when the cash rate is well above $315.

The Wyndham Grand Rio Mar was the best number in this table before the change, and Wyndham still showcases it on its tier-update page alongside the Wyndham Grand Orlando Resort Bonnet Creek, which Upgraded Points lists at 45,000 points. No dated report we could find confirms Rio Mar’s new tier; Upgraded Points named it on September 10, 2026 among the hotels it expected to move to 45,000. Plan on 45,000 until the booking page says otherwise. Even then, a $1,200 night for 45,000 points is 2.7 cents per point, which would still be the best figure among the table’s single-rate hotels (only the top of the Akti Imperial and Bangkok ranges runs higher).

The Wyndham Alltra Playa del Carmen is the all-inclusive play. Award nights ran 30,000 points per bedroom before September 15, and the property page states that “award nights include meals, beverages, and other resort services for up to two guests only.” Its tier under the new chart is not confirmed in any dated report; the sister Wyndham Alltra Punta Cana is one of the resorts Upgraded Points lists at 45,000, so budget 30,000 to 45,000 points a night (22,500 to 33,750 with the Earner Premier). All-inclusive cash rates are quoted per person, so the cents-per-point figure depends on your dates; the point is that one award night covers the room, all meals, and all drinks for two. Frequent Miler’s October 5 analysis put Wyndham Alltra awards at 0.75 cents per point, about 30 percent above its program-wide 0.57. The former Wyndham Alltra Cancun left the brand in 2025; Playa del Carmen, Punta Cana, and Samaná remain.

The Barclays Wyndham Earner Cards After the June 2026 Refresh

Wyndham and Barclays relaunched the lineup on June 17, 2026, adding a premium card and rewriting the award discounts, which had been a flat 10 percent. Every figure below is from the Barclays product pages as checked on October 12, 2026; welcome offers change, so confirm before applying.

The award discount is the benefit to price, and it applies at all four tiers. Wyndham’s redemption terms publish the cardholder price of every tier:

Three details from the same terms: Earner Business accounts opened before June 17, 2026 stay at 10 percent, only the primary cardmember can redeem at the discounted price (individual bookings only), and when you book online your account has to hold the full standard price even though only the discounted amount is deducted. The Premier’s discount on a 45,000-point resort saves 11,250 points a night, about $79 at 0.7 cents and about $150 of hotel at Clearwater Beach’s reported $600 rate (11,250 / 45,000 of $600). On a 30,000-point hotel it saves 7,500 points, $52.50 at 0.7 cents. The Premier brings the new top tier to 33,750 points, within 3,750 of the old 30,000-point ceiling.

The Earner Plus at $95 is the sensible default. Fifteen thousand anniversary points is one 15,000-point night every year (13,500 points at the cardholder price), worth $105 at 0.7 cents, $82.50 at The Points Guy’s 0.55, and $200 or more at the right hotel. At the cardholder price of 4,500 points, the same 15,000 points also cover three nights at a 5,000-point hotel. The card adds 15,000 bonus points, enough for a free night at a 15,000-point hotel, after five or more nights in a calendar year, Diamond status in year one and Platinum after, and 10 percent off every award. Barclays lists a welcome offer of up to 100,000 points: 45,000 after $1,000 in spend in 90 days plus 55,000 after $500 at Wyndham hotels in 180 days.

The Earner Premier at $395 pays only if you would spend the credits anyway. Barclays lists a $100 Wyndham hotel credit, up to $120 in meal delivery credits, up to $100 in streaming credits, a $65 wholesale club credit, a TSA PreCheck or Global Entry credit (up to $120 every four years), and Wyndham Rewards Insider membership (a paid program that discounts cash stays, valued at $95). Use the hotel, wholesale, and streaming credits and the net fee is about $130 ($395 minus $100, $65, and $100) for 30,000 anniversary points, 30,000 bonus points after five nights in a calendar year, Diamond status, the 25 percent discount, and points that never expire. The new chart made this card easier to justify: two 45,000-point nights a year save 22,500 points, worth $157.50 at 0.7 cents, which covers that net fee on the discount alone; at 30,000-point hotels it takes three nights to save the same 22,500. Anyone redeeming less than that is holding a $395 card for a currency valued at 0.55 to 0.7 cents. The listed welcome offer is up to 120,000 points: 90,000 after $6,000 in spend and payment of the annual fee within 120 days, plus 30,000 after $750 at Wyndham hotels in 180 days.

The Earner Business at $149 is the quiet pick for anyone with a business: 20 percent off awards for accounts opened since June 17, 2026 (a 45,000-point night for 36,000), Diamond status, and a $65 wholesale club credit that takes the effective fee to $84.

For where a Wyndham card fits alongside a general travel card, see our credit card strategy guide.

Wyndham Elite Status and the Caesars Match

Wyndham Rewards has four earned tiers: Blue at enrollment, Gold after 5 nights, Platinum after 15, and Diamond after 40, with point bonuses of 10, 15, and 20 percent. Diamond adds suite upgrades when available and a welcome amenity. Since the paid Earner cards hand out Platinum or Diamond automatically, few people should chase these tiers with stays.

The feature that makes Wyndham status interesting to non-hotel people is the Caesars Rewards match. Wyndham Platinum matches to Caesars Platinum and Wyndham Diamond to Caesars Diamond, and the reverse works too: Caesars Platinum to Wyndham Platinum, Caesars Diamond or Seven Stars to Wyndham Diamond. Caesars Diamond brings waived resort fees at Caesars properties, a $100 Celebration Dinner credit (or a $50 Uber Eats credit), a complimentary Atlantis Bahamas stay, and a 72-hour room guarantee in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, per AwardWallet’s February 2026 guide.

The 2025 rule change closed the shortcut. Since February 1, 2025, Wyndham’s terms say members who obtained Platinum or Diamond “solely from being a Wyndham Rewards credit cardholder” are no longer eligible to match to Caesars; you need the 15 or 40 nights in Wyndham beds. If you already hold Caesars Diamond, the reverse match into Wyndham Diamond still works and takes five to seven days to verify, per NerdWallet’s August 2026 guide. Our hotel elite status guide covers how Wyndham’s tiers compare to Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt.

Getting Points In: Chase, Capital One, and Citi at 1:1, Plus Buying Points

Wyndham’s partner-transfer page lists eight inbound partners, including Bilt and Wells Fargo. The three that matter:

Chase Ultimate Rewards transfer to Wyndham at 1:1, in 1,000-point increments, from the Sapphire and Ink cards that support partner transfers. Chase added Wyndham on February 25, 2026, as its fourth hotel partner, and ran a 30 percent transfer bonus through March 31, 2026. Frequent Miler’s verdict at launch was blunt: a poor use of Chase points at 1:1, since Wyndham sells its own points for about 0.7 cents. The new chart makes that worse at the top: with Clearwater Beach at 45,000 points, a 1:1 transfer returns $600 / 45,000 = 1.33 cents per Chase point, well under The Points Guy’s 2.05-cent valuation of Ultimate Rewards (October 2026). It still works one tier down. A 15,000-point hotel with a $300 cash rate returns 2.0 cents per Chase point, and if a 30 percent bonus like the March 2026 one returns, 12,000 Chase points become 15,600 Wyndham points and the same night returns $300 / 12,000 = 2.5 cents. Our Best Chase Ultimate Rewards Redemptions guide covers the rest of the partner list.

Capital One miles transfer to Wyndham at 1:1, per Capital One’s January 2026 partner guide. Capital One has no Hyatt partner, so Wyndham and Choice are its only hotel options at par. With The Points Guy valuing Capital One miles at 1.85 cents (October 2026), a 1:1 transfer is a bad trade at face value and a fine one against a specific 15,000-point hotel priced at $300, which returns 2.0 cents per mile.

Citi ThankYou points transfer to Wyndham at 1:1 from premium cards like the Strata Premier and at 1:0.7 from no-fee cards like the Double Cash; Citi ran a 25 percent bonus through June 13, 2026. The Points Guy values ThankYou points at 1.9 cents (October 2026), so the same test applies. Wyndham is one of the few hotel programs all three big banks feed, which makes it a natural top-off for one booking.

Buying points competes directly with transfers. Wyndham is selling points with up to a 90 percent bonus from September 9 through October 21, 2026, which works out to 0.68 cents per point for members targeted for the full bonus (0.72 cents at 80 percent), per One Mile at a Time and Frequent Miler. Wyndham ordinarily caps purchases at 100,000 points per account per calendar year before bonuses; Frequent Miler reported on September 11, 2026 that the cap does not appear to be enforced for this sale. At 0.68 cents, here is what a night costs in purchased points:

So a Clearwater Beach night reported at $600 costs $306 in purchased points, and a 15,000-point hotel selling for $200 or more costs $102. Buying speculatively is the mistake; buying against a priced Clearwater or 15,000-point date can still be the best deal in the program.

Common Mistakes That Waste Wyndham Points

1. Assuming a hotel still costs what it did before September 15. About 34 percent of hotels got more expensive, including 2,040 that doubled from 15,000 to 30,000 points (Upgraded Points, September 15, 2026). Re-price every hotel on your list, and do not cancel a booking made before September 15 at a hotel that moved up: Wyndham honors the old price on that reservation, and a new booking prices at the new tier.
2. Redeeming by brand instead of by cash rate. Frequent Miler’s October 5, 2026 figures run from 0.33 cents at Microtel and 0.42 at La Quinta to 0.80 at Hawthorn Suites, and its April figure for Super 8 was 0.59. A 15,000-point night at a $200 hotel returns 1.33 cents, more than twice the program-wide 0.57, whatever the sign on the building says.
3. Transferring flexible points at 1:1 with no booking in mind. The Points Guy values Chase, Capital One, and Citi points at 1.85 to 2.05 cents (October 2026). Move them only for a priced hotel, preferably during a bonus.
4. Letting the four-year clock run out. Wyndham points expire four years after posting no matter how active you are (Earner Premier cardmembers excepted, while the card is open), and after 18 months of inactivity regardless of age.
5. Expecting card-earned Diamond to unlock Caesars Diamond. Since February 1, 2025, only night-earned Wyndham status matches to Caesars.

What to Do This Week

1. Re-price your list under the four-tier chart. Search every hotel you might stay at through 2027 with the Wyndham Rewards points option selected and note its tier: 5,000, 15,000, 30,000, or 45,000. Clearwater Beach, Bonnet Creek, and Boston Beacon Hill are reported at 45,000; check Rio Mar yourself. If you hold a reservation booked before September 15 at a hotel that dropped a tier, confirm the automatic points refund has posted.
2. Run the card math. If you redeem two or more 45,000-point nights a year, or three or more at 30,000, price the Premier; otherwise the Earner Plus is the right card.
3. Audit your balance by posting date. Anything approaching four years old needs a booking, not a plan.
4. If you have 15 or 40 Wyndham nights on the books, request the Caesars match before a Las Vegas trip; the waived resort fees alone are worth more than most award nights.

Related Guides

• Hotel Loyalty Program Statistics 2026: Member counts, points liabilities, and member share of room nights for all six programs, from SEC filings

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Sources:

• Wyndham Rewards: Award night tier changes (checked October 12, 2026: four tiers of 5,000 / 15,000 / 30,000 / 45,000 points per bedroom per night as of September 15, 2026; hotels redistributed across tiers; go fast starting points by tier; pre-September 15 bookings honored and price drops refunded; no dynamic pricing; showcased hotels)
• Wyndham Rewards: Redeem points (checked October 12, 2026: the four free night tiers; go fast from 500 points plus cash; select vacation club resorts at 5,000 points per bedroom per night on stays of two or more nights)
• Wyndham Rewards: Redemption terms (checked October 12, 2026: standard redemption amounts of 5,000 / 15,000 / 30,000 / 45,000 points; Earner card redemption discounts of 10, 20, and 25 percent and the cardholder price of each tier; per-bedroom pricing and the two-consecutive-night minimum at vacation club Participating Destinations; Caesars properties at 15,000 / 30,000 / 45,000; go fast point levels from 500 to 9,000; Vacasa redemptions ended November 30, 2025)
• Wyndham Rewards: Member levels (5 / 15 / 40 night thresholds, elite bonuses, Diamond benefits)
• Wyndham Rewards: Terms, general information (18-month inactivity and 4-year expiration, Earner Premier exception)
• Wyndham Rewards: Caesars Rewards status match and Caesars Rewards partnership (tier mapping, February 1, 2025 cardholder exclusion)
• Wyndham Rewards: Partner point transfers (inbound partner list)
• Wyndham Alltra: Playa del Carmen property page (award nights cover two guests)
• Wyndham Hotels & Resorts: Wyndham and Barclays launch updated credit card suite (June 17, 2026 relaunch)
• Barclays: Earner, Earner Plus, Earner Business, and Earner Premier product pages (checked October 12, 2026: fees, earn rates, anniversary points, status, award discounts of 10, 20, and 25 percent, welcome offers, free nights from 5,000 to 45,000 points per bedroom; the no-fee Earner’s 3x on gas and EV charging is from the offer terms linked on its page, since the page headline lists only Vacation Club, dining, and grocery)
• Upgraded Points: Wyndham’s 4-tier award chart is live: 34% of hotels got more expensive overnight (September 15, 2026: before-and-after count of 8,404 hotels, 68 hotels at 45,000 points, named hotels that moved to 45,000 and down to 5,000) and Last chance: lock in Wyndham award rates before the new tier changes on September 15 (September 10, 2026: hotels it expected to move to 45,000, including Rio Mar)
• One Mile at a Time: Wyndham Rewards’ new four-tier award chart is live (September 15, 2026: Wyndham Grand Clearwater Beach shown at 45,000 points; go fast examples; $58 hotel at 5,000 points against $74 hotel at 15,000)
• The Points Guy: October 2026 points and miles valuations (October 1, 2026: Wyndham at 0.55 cents, down from 0.7; Chase 2.05, Citi 1.9, Capital One 1.85 cents) and Wyndham Rewards will move to 4 award tiers (June 25, 2026 announcement coverage; three-tier chart dated from 2019)
• The Points Guy: Vacasa is ending its partnership with Wyndham Rewards (November 30, 2025 booking deadline, January 31, 2026 final checkout)
• Frequent Miler: What effect has the new award chart had on the value of Wyndham points? (October 5, 2026: 0.57 cents, down from 0.67 on April 15, 2026; percentile, brand, and city data)
• Frequent Miler: Wyndham award nights range from 5K to 45K points from 9/15/26 (Wyndham declined to give counts), Wyndham Rewards complete guide (updated September 20, 2026: go fast levels by tier), Buy Wyndham points for as low as 0.68 cents each (September 11, 2026: sale through October 21, 2026), and Wyndham Rewards added as new Chase Ultimate Rewards transfer partner (February 25, 2026, 1:1)
• NerdWallet: How much are my Wyndham points worth? (0.7 cents, analysis dated May 26, 2026) and Wyndham Hotels changes its award chart (June 25, 2026)
• One Mile at a Time: How much are airline, hotel, and credit card points worth? (Wyndham cut to 0.6 cents, September 2, 2026) and Buy Wyndham Rewards points with up to 90% bonus (0.68 cents; sale dates September 9 to October 21, 2026; 100,000-point ordinary annual cap)
• Upgraded Points: 15 best ways to redeem Wyndham Rewards points (August 11, 2026 property and cash-rate data, compiled under the old chart), Points and miles valuations (Wyndham at 0.9 cents, updated October 3, 2026), and Wyndham Rewards transfer partners (Citi 1:1 premium, 1:0.7 non-premium)
• Capital One: Miles transfer partners guide (Wyndham 1:1, January 2026)
• AwardWallet: Match your casino status to Caesars for Diamond benefits (February 2026; Diamond benefits, card-status exclusion)

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• Best IHG One Rewards Redemptions in 2026
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