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After a long absence, Wyndham Rewards has brought back its Wyndham status match promotion. The last time we saw a status match was way back in 2018, although the offer was discontinued early in the pandemic. However, the offer is even more generous this time than the last one, with lower requirements to retain your status.
Wyndham Status Match Overview
- Register or sign in to your Wyndham Rewards account.
- Head to the Wyndham status match page here.
- Submit your current elite status credentials.
- You will receive your status within 5–7 days.
Related: Introduction to Wyndham Rewards Loyalty Program
Status retention criteria
Once you have received your Wyndham status match, you must complete the following number of stays within 90 days to retain your status:
- Gold: 1 stay.
- Platinum: 4 stays.
- Diamond: 10 stays.
Once you have completed the criteria, you receive status through the end of the year after the match. For example, if you complete the challenge in July 2023, you receive status through December 31, 2024. However, if you wait to register and complete your challenge in January 2024, you will receive status through December 31, 2025. That's assuming the offer is still available in January, however; the promotion could end between now and then, so waiting presents both opportunity and risk.
Participating Programs
You can take part in the Wyndham status match promotion if you hold elite status in any of the following hotel loyalty programs:
- Best Western Rewards
- Choice Privileges
- Hilton Honors
- IHG One Rewards
- Marriott Bonvoy
- Radisson Rewards
- World of Hyatt
Status match levels
Your current hotel loyalty program level will match to Wyndham Rewards as follows:
| Program | Elite Status level | Corresponding Wyndham Level |
|---|---|---|
| Best Western Rewards | Blue | Gold |
| Best Western Rewards | Gold, Platinum, Diamond | Platinum |
| Best Western Rewards | Diamond Select | Diamond |
| Choice Privileges | Member | Gold |
| Choice Privileges | Gold, Platinum | Platinum |
| Choice Privileges | Diamond | Diamond |
| Hilton Honors | Member | Gold |
| Hilton Honors | Silver | Platinum |
| Hilton Honors | Gold, Diamond | Diamond |
| IHG One Rewards | Member | Gold |
| IHG One Rewards | Silver Elite, Gold Elite | Platinum |
| IHG One Rewards | Platinum Elite, Diamond Elite | Diamond |
| Marriott Bonvoy | Member | Gold |
| Marriott Bonvoy | Silver Elite | Platinum |
| Marriott Bonvoy | Gold Elite, Platinum Elite, Titanium Elite, Ambassador Elite | Diamond |
| Omni Select Guest | Silver Elite, Gold Elite | Platinum |
| Omni Select Guest | Gold | Gold |
| Omni Select Guest | Platinum Elite, Diamond Elite | Diamond |
| Radisson Rewards | Club | Gold |
| Radisson Rewards | Silver, Gold | Platinum |
| Radisson Rewards | Platinum | Diamond |
| World of Hyatt | Member | Gold |
| World of Hyatt | Discoverist, Explorist | Platinum |
| World of Hyatt | Globalist | Diamond |
Wyndham Status via Credit Cards
This very generous promotion gives you an excellent opportunity to leverage your status from other programs. Even if your elite status is through credit card membership instead of nights in beds.
For instance, holders of the Marriott Bonvoy Bevy™ American Express® Card and the Marriott Bonvoy Bountiful™ Card both receive Marriot Bonvoy Gold status, which matches to Wyndham Diamond. In the same way, holders of the IHG One Rewards Premier Credit Card receive IHG One Rewards Platinum status, which also matches to Wyndham Diamond.
Remember, if you hold the The Platinum Card® from American Express or The Business Platinum Card® from American Express, you can enroll for Hilton Honors Gold and Marriott Bonvoy Gold. Both match to Wyndham Diamond. Enrollment is required for select Amex benefits.
If you're looking for a shortcut to Wyndham Rewards Diamond status, remember that's a built-in perk for those with the Wyndham Rewards® Earner℠ Business Card. It comes with a $95 annual fee and is issued by Barclays in the U.S.
Our Take
Wyndham bringing back its status match promotion is excellent news. It is made even sweeter because it is more generous than the previous offer. Any time you can leverage status with one program for status and benefits with another, the points and miles gods are smiling upon you.
Remember to plan your stays beforehand if you take advantage of the status match offer. You can only use it once, and your 90-day countdown is live once you have matched. Therefore, it is essential that you know you will complete the needed stays to retain your status through the end of the following year. If interested, you can register for this offer here.
Are you planning to use this Wyndham status match offer? Let us know in the comments below.
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Do the stays to maintain status need to be paid stays? Or can they be award stays?
Mark – You can read how Wyndham defines “qualifying nights” in the terms below, but basically it’s a paid stay without a group discount/a publicly available rate.
https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/wyndham-rewards/terms#member-levels#member-levels-2
Match from my IHG received through my credit cards. Nice!
Hi applied for the status match from my Hilton Honors Gold Status.
Everything was ok and very rapid.
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.
The automatic match sounds like a no-brainer. Would it be for a year or until say my Marriott status lasts?
This sounds like great match!!!
the new status showed up the same day
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.
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).
Exactly. Neither do I want to waste my probably one-off Wyndham status match opportunity when I have no future stays lined up.
Can anyone confirm if status match with Wýndham is only once per lifetime.
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.
I’ve used Wyndham quite a few times and find them perfectly fine. This status match might be worth going for.
Are the Wyndham premium membership levels really worth it?
Wyndham has nearly 8000 hotels worldwide. This could be really useful. Thanks for posting
Unfortunately the ones in our area are not that outstanding.
Yes, I feel like, from my experience at least, no other hotel chain has such an uneven mixture of properties. Some areas have outstanding Wyndham hotels and other locations only have seemingly neglected, forgotten properties.
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
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.