FromDC

Upcoming is availability to purchase 50,000 WR points and the promotion states that they can be used for 2 night stays. But the hotel I want to use is 16,000 points per night. Can I use the points for 3 nights if I purchase the promotion. Is there a 2 night maximum or was that just an illustration?

jpdx

You will be buying 50k points and can use them any way you want -- hotel stays (any category), airline transfers, gift cards. There will be a lot of competition for these points; last year, the deal sold out immediately. Good luck!

FromDC

Thanks!

sdsearch

Actually, the upcoming is several different deals (most but not all at the same point/dollar ratios whcih I don't find to be that great in this case) ranging from 16000 for $55 to 50000 for $143. (There's a goofy one for only 48000 for $165 which you should avoid, as you can see it's a way worse deal than the others.)

https://dailygetaways.ustravel.org/

Right at the moment they're all here, and you see them by hovering over the pictures on the right (and scroll down to see the compartively-worse $165 deal).

I don't know how they make up these prices, but I stay at several Days Inns regularly for $55 (AAA or AARP) anyway, yet those Days Inn need more than 8000 points per night! That's why I'm saying this may not be a good deal unless you have a much better-valued redemption in mind.

strappy

Some of the hotels have lower redemption rates than they mention so a check online might show a good deal depending on what city you would be staying in.

lettezilla

Just noticed on the T&Cs "Max. Quantity per Purchase: 1. No more than 1 set of points purchased through this offer are allowed per Wyndham Rewards® number."

Does this mean that, unlike last year, you can only purchase one lot of points? Or that, since they artificially break it up among different kinds of Wyndham properties, each "offer" is one set of points?

Not sure how to read it!

(and also not sure about how the Facebook side of things will work, wondering if they'll be posting details on their page at some point soon?)

TheBOSman

"(1) set of points may be purchased for this offer per Wyndham Rewards® account number. Up to 6 sets of points may be purchased in total for any Wyndham Rewards offer in this promotion per customer/account number."

I read it as each offer may only be purchased once. On the $55 Super 8 offer, it says this:

"Up to 2 sets of points may be purchased for this offer. Up to 6 sets of points may be purchased in total for any Wyndham Rewards offer in this promotion per customer/account number."

So, you are limited to 1 per individual offer, and 2 for the Super 8 offer. Buying one of each and 2 Super 8s will get you to the max of 6 per customer/account #.

That said, good luck. The Wyndham page currently has 44,000 Likes, I'd bet many happened within the last month for the presale code. I'm personally predicting a site crash.

mrredskin

is it only the wyndham page that will post the presale or the individual hotel fb pages?

nmind... wyndham rewards fb page

eponymous_coward

UA/AA/US miles at less than 1 CPM.

Considering that MRs of less than 3 CPM are pretty decent these days, I'm in. All three airlines have decent awards at reasonably low levels, and I don't have ways to consistently accumulate in AA and UA the same way I can buy US miles, so... yeah.

TheBOSman

Indeed. I can do 2 cpm on AA with my eyes closed. I usually aim higher but 2 cpm is my minimum.

eponymous_coward

That being said, Wyndham has properties overseas where you can also get good value out of the points. I noted their resorts on Bali were 10K-15K a night, for instance. ^

mrredskin

snagged one of the "Days Inn" redemptions. completed purchase in 2.5 minutes. all others were sold out immediately after submitting that purchase

TheBOSman

Naturally I copied and pasted the code from the Facebook page. And forgot to remove the extra space at the end that my copying picked up. Resulted in an invalid code. Figured it out 30 seconds later, all gone.

lkar

I went for Wingate, since it's a worse deal than the rest. Piece of cake. This one is pretty cutthroat. For those of us who aren't using any kind of special computer tricks or whatever those who can snap these up use, 100k points looks like it will be a pretty good haul.

mrredskin

at work and fb is blocked. one time that having it blocked and having to manually enter the code after refreshing constantly on phone and internet worked out! here;s hoping for grand slam 2012!