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Wyndham Rewards has announced a status match challenge. With this promotion, you can receive Wyndham Gold automatically, and you will also receive Platinum or Diamond status for 90 days, in which you have to complete 7 or 14 nights respectively to keep your status for another year.
Key Terms
- Sign in or join Wyndham Rewards
- Go to the Wyndham Rewards status match page
- Submit your current Elite credentials
- If successful you should receive Wyndham status within 5-7 days
Which status you receive will depend on the current status you hold with another hotel loyalty program. With the promotion you can match your status from the following programs:
- Hilton
- SPG
- Marriott
- IHG
- Choice Privileges
- World of Hyatt
- Best Western
- Radisson Rewards
- Omni Select Guest
Challenge For Platinum & Diamond
- With the promotion, you will receive a minimum of Wyndham Gold with no requirement to complete any stays
- If your status matches to Platinum or Diamond, you will receive status for 90 days and need to complete 7 nights (Platinum) or 14 nights (Diamond) within that period to retain your status through the end of the following calendar year
Remember the date that counts is the date of the last night you complete the challenge of either Platinum or Diamond. If you complete the last of the 7 or 14 nights in 2018, you will receive status with Wyndham through December 31, 2019. Holding fire and completing your last night in January 2019, you would end up with status through December 31, 2020.
Our Take
If you hold Elite status with another hotel family, then this promotion could yield some value. Switching your entire loyalty and stay pattern in the long term just because of a status match does not make much sense. However, if you have an upcoming stay or two at a Wyndham property, then matching your status to enjoy the perks and benefits makes lots of sense. If you manage to complete the challenge in the time frame you can enjoy the perks and benefits of status for a year or two, otherwise just enjoy it for a few stays.
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Are the perks with this status match immediate or is it kind of like a provisional status with only limited benefits until you make the necessary stays?
You receive status and full benefits for the provisional period, regardless of if you complete any requirements.
I made this error with Delta with the status match and lost out on a full year.
If you can, hold your fire and try to get it thru 2020
Wyndham has nearly 8000 hotels worldwide. This could be really useful. Thanks for posting
Unfortunately the ones in our area are not that outstanding.
Are the Wyndham premium membership levels really worth it?
I’ve used Wyndham quite a few times and find them perfectly fine. This status match might be worth going for.
Status matches are usually only offered once, so I will resist the temptation to sign up now while I have no plans to stay at Wyndham anytime soon
That’s a good point, although often it is possible to attempt/receive a status match more than once, particularly the ones with require stays to retain status. Any reason to think Windham is limiting this to once-in-a-lifetime?
Yea makes sense. Only do this when you actually have stays lined up.
Can anyone confirm if status match with Wýndham is only once per lifetime.
Exactly. Neither do I want to waste my probably one-off Wyndham status match opportunity when I have no future stays lined up.
If I ask the match for Platinum and I don’t reach the 9 minimum nights I’ll lose the status.
Will I be downgraded to Gold?
Otherwise I’ll ask for Gold directly.
Please find out and let us know.
From what I understand, if you take Gold it is valid for the next year without extra requirements. If you take platinum and don’t make the 7 nights, the situation is unclear.
As I am not going to be doing the 7 nights, I’ll just take the Gold (matched from my Hilton Gold instead of my IHG Plat).
I wonder if it matters how you got the status with the other hotel chain? If you’ve gotten through a credit card, do you think it counts?
Since status matches are usually just once I’d have to really think about it if I would get several stays there.
the new status showed up the same day
This sounds like great match!!!
The automatic match sounds like a no-brainer. Would it be for a year or until say my Marriott status lasts?
Although I’ve chosen Choice as my new home from July 2019, I think I’m going to go for this.
I only have a 3-night stay coming up, but it costs nothing.
Hi applied for the status match from my Hilton Honors Gold Status.
Everything was ok and very rapid.
Match from my IHG received through my credit cards. Nice!