There is no limit to the amount of times you can earn the bonus miles. For instance, if you are planning a trip across country and stay at a Days Inn, Knights Inn, and Baymont, then stay at those exact same locations coming back, then you'd qualify for the bonus miles twice.
The miles are posted within 6-8 weeks AFTER the promotion ends, where WR will go back and view all your stays to see how many sets of bonus points you are to receive. Because of this, you cannot get 10,000 miles to American Airlines, and another 10,000 miles to Delta Skymiles. You can only select one airline...even if you call to change your earning preference, it will go to the airline that you are currently earning thru.
Only the member can earn credit for hotel stays. The member must be the one staying in the room and the reservation must match the name on the membership.
There is no limit to the amount of times you can earn the bonus miles. For instance, if you are planning a trip across country and stay at a Days Inn, Knights Inn, and Baymont, then stay at those exact same locations coming back, then you'd qualify for the bonus miles twice.
The miles are posted within 6-8 weeks AFTER the promotion ends, where WR will go back and view all your stays to see how many sets of bonus points you are to receive. Because of this, you cannot get 10,000 miles to American Airlines, and another 10,000 miles to Delta Skymiles. You can only select one airline...even if you call to change your earning preference, it will go to the airline that you are currently earning thru.
Only the member can earn credit for hotel stays. The member must be the one staying in the room and the reservation must match the name on the membership. Hope this information helps.
Exactly how do u know this as the cr's I called and others who have also called on this thread feel that you can switch airline earning preference per 3 stays if we want to as the rep told me that. I can't believe that Wynham doesn't keep track of when I switch earning preference- they send me emails noting whne I change and if i didn't, go in and change it or contact them.
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With this promo can I reserve and pay for a hotel but have a relative stay there OR must I be present at the hotel?
Have a brother traveling soon up my way and thought maybe he could stay in the hotels while I pay for them and earn the miles.
Thanks.
All correspondence I have received says a completed stay,i.e. actually staying there. And that means id even w/pre-paid c-card pyments. Some properties will want to swipe your card anyway in case for log-distance phone charges, room service charges, etc. in which case I don't see you being able to do this.
OK - I'm new to Wyndham Rewards, but I spotted this thread last Friday and immediately joined. I have three stays booked already this coming week. (KI,S8, and Baymont). Some newby questions:
1. I got the rates from their website - it seems AARP, AAA, etc. give the best deals and they all say "qualified". I'm assuming this means they will count for the promo. Correct?
2. Any 'gotchas' I should be aware of? For instance, for most of the Choice Privileges promos, you have to book on the website or via their phone number. Any similar restrictions here?
3. This is really a juicy promo - wish I'd seen it earlier. I figure I can get 40-50K miles by sloughing off the remainder of the CP promo, but if I decide to also bypass Marriott's promo, I can probably pick up 100K AA miles. Not too shabby, especially since the rates I'm getting will wind up saving me 40-50 bucks a week. Sweet. But ...
Has Wyndham ever run any promo like this before? Are they likely to run one again? If this is unique, I'll be more likely to pound it for all it's worth, rather than exercise moderation (ed note: is this a Flyertalker talking?) and fill in the other promos.
Anyhow, thinks to all who spotted this and did the legwork. I'm looking forward already to my next European trip on AA.
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OK - I'm new to Wyndham Rewards, but I spotted this thread last Friday and immediately joined. I have three stays booked already this coming week. (KI,S8, and Baymont). Some newby questions:
1. I got the rates from their website - it seems AARP, AAA, etc. give the best deals and they all say "qualified". I'm assuming this means they will count for the promo. Correct?
2. Any 'gotchas' I should be aware of? For instance, for most of the Choice Privileges promos, you have to book on the website or via their phone number. Any similar restrictions here?
3. This is really a juicy promo - wish I'd seen it earlier. I figure I can get 40-50K miles by sloughing off the remainder of the CP promo, but if I decide to also bypass Marriott's promo, I can probably pick up 100K AA miles. Not too shabby, especially since the rates I'm getting will wind up saving me 40-50 bucks a week. Sweet. But ...
Has Wyndham ever run any promo like this before? Are they likely to run one again? If this is unique, I'll be more likely to pound it for all it's worth, rather than exercise moderation (ed note: is this a Flyertalker talking?) and fill in the other promos.
Anyhow, thinks to all who spotted this and did the legwork. I'm looking forward already to my next European trip on AA.
If u have signed up, make sure you change your earning preference to airline miles and choose AA for the partner adding in the # on their website. I still don't
feel 100% confident that u will get the miles repeatedly if u read through the posts on this post. The offer's wording is too vague- I wish it would say "There is no limit to the amount of times you can earn this bonus" or something like that. As far as AAA/AARP rates, yes they qualify. I would stay away from Orbitz/Travelocity on booking these. Other gotcha is you have to actually check in in person. I think they have run double points promos b from time to time. Also the Super 8 brand offers a discount if you do a pre-paid minimum 8 day advance rez- I think it's 15%.
Last edited by rustyr; Jun 21, 09 at 10:57 am.
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2. Any 'gotchas' I should be aware of? For instance, for most of the Choice Privileges promos, you have to book on the website or via their phone number. Any similar restrictions here?
3. This is really a juicy promo - wish I'd seen it earlier. I figure I can get 40-50K miles by sloughing off the remainder of the CP promo, but if I decide to also bypass Marriott's promo, I can probably pick up 100K AA miles. Not too shabby, especially since the rates I'm getting will wind up saving me 40-50 bucks a week. Sweet. But ...
Has Wyndham ever run any promo like this before? Are they likely to run one again? If this is unique, I'll be more likely to pound it for all it's worth, rather than exercise moderation (ed note: is this a Flyertalker talking?) and fill in the other promos.
First of all, no, they have not run anything like this before. (Keep in mind that the program is even way newer than Choice Priviliges, it has been running under this name for less than a year, but before that as TripRewards it was slow to pick up partners and so only has had most of those airlines as partners a couple years at best.)
So, next point is, we don't have much to go on regarding what qualifies. (Most of the previous attention was on Best Rate Guarantees, because most previous non-targeted earning promos were pretty meager, like capped-at-4-stays double miles/points.)
Next point is, we still don't have anything in writing from anyone at WynhamRewards that this promo is repeatable. In this thread, we have no nay-sayers, but there's a parlallel thread in MilesBuzz, and in there someone says a CSR told them they cannot repeat for more 10K bonus miles! (If you call back and get different answers, is the one you like necessarily the correct one? Is the one you get more often necessarily the correct one?)
Next point is, at all hotel families I've stayed at, posting time occasionally varies (and maybe at this one it could vary more?). Thus with back-to-back stays, posting order can vary. In a Choice promo, unless you were alternating 5 point/$ and 10 point/$ properties in the spring bonus, it didn't matter if your stays got out of order. But since you need 3 different properites in each group of 3 stays, unless you're going to be alternating between way more than 3 properties, then out-of-order stay posting could possibly wreck this promo if stays made like this:
brand A
brand B
brand C
brand A
brand B
brand C
post in this order:
brand B
brand A
brand A
brand C
brand B
branc C
and if Wynham counts the "three different brands" in posting order (rather than stay order).
Finally, keep in mind that the only way they could count them in stay order is by waiting a long time before posting the bonus. And the claim is that they won't post any bonus until the bonus period is over. Meaning (given they've never run anything close to this before), we have no way of telling much of anything about how this promo will end up working from past experience, until after it's too late...
Oh, one more thing. Few people have much experience with earning miles directly before this, because outside this promo, you earn more miles by earning points and then converting (because of their unusual 8000 points to 3200 miles conversion rate). It certinaly has worked (I earned for NWA Pile on the Miles a couple months ago), but there've been no other miles promos within this program other than double miles/points before.
I still don't feel 100% confident that u will get the miles repeatedly if u read through the posts on this post. The offer's wording is too vague- I wish it would say "There is no limit to the amount of times you can earn this bonus" or something like that. As far as AAA/AARP rates, yes they qualify. I would stay away from Orbitz/Travelocity on booking these. Other gotcha is you have to actually check in in person. I think they have run double points promos b from time to time. Also the Super 8 brand offers a discount if you do a pre-paid minimum 8 day advance rez- I think it's 15%.
See post #14. miles_kay got email confirmation that one can repeat the rewards.
I just quoted AA since thats what BigLar mentioned for his/her miles credit.
See post #14. miles_kay got email confirmation that one can repeat the rewards.
And I have received email reponese also that have NOT specifically said that- the response was too vague. I WISH ALL the phone reps/email reponders were on the same page for this promo-and blame the original wording offer for that/ people in orginization for not making it clear down to the rsvrtn agents.
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Talked with a nice csr today. She immediately confirmed that you could earn the bonus multiple times.
Fine - any limits?
Had to wait until she spoke with a supervisor.
Nope! Earn as many as you can.
Ka-ching!
Darn darn darn. I wish you had asked the third question: can you earn the bonuses on different airlines by changing your earnings preferences mid-way through the promotion? Personally, I think that this will not work. I think at the end of the promo period whatever airline you have selected at that time will be on whom you earn your bonuses. But I could very well be wrong. WR has not yet replied to my email asking this.
Darn darn darn. I wish you had asked the third question: can you earn the bonuses on different airlines by changing your earnings preferences mid-way through the promotion? Personally, I think that this will not work. I think at the end of the promo period whatever airline you have selected at that time will be on whom you earn your bonuses. But I could very well be wrong. WR has not yet replied to my email asking this.
It seems to me that that's the way it would work, too.
I once tried to split miles on a Marriott Travel Package, but they wouldn't let me.
Other than that, conventional wisdom around here is to concentrate miles in one program (or at least one alliance). I'm more than happy to pile all the miles I can get on a promo like this in one place and do no more than sigh wistfully about 'shoulda, woulda, coulda'.
As of last Friday morning, I was looking at my AA account as something I would either have to let go or maybe figure out some way to get enough miles to get any ticket anywhere.
And then the world changed ...
Assuming, of course, that we can get Wyndham to actually follow through on the whole thing. Frankly, this could turn out to be the most generous promotion I've ever seen. I wonder if Wyndham knows about people like us?
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As of last Friday morning, I was looking at my AA account as something I would either have to let go or maybe figure out some way to get enough miles to get any ticket anywhere.
...
Assuming, of course, that we can get Wyndham to actually follow through on the whole thing. Frankly, this could turn out to be the most generous promotion I've ever seen. I wonder if Wyndham knows about people like us?
I did the same with US. I saw my 74K and said "either bring this up to 100K or start cashing in 25K awards. This promo is going to give me a fairly easy way to get 30K Div Miles.
There were some equally generous promos last year through Budget. 9,999 OnePass miles for a 5-day rental... then later in 2008 one could get 9,999 SkyMiles for a 1-day rental!! If you were a biz traveler these were quite lucrative promos... and one did not have to forego one's favorite hotel points. That's the only downside to this promo: I must forego HHonors or Marriott points to get the miles. No big deal.
) and fill in the other promos.
