Unpack Your Bonus, except YMMV and mine stinks
Jul 2, 2014, 7:36 pm
#1
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
Unpack Your Bonus, except YMMV and mine stinks
http://www.frequentflier.com/blog/wy...eage-may-vary/
If you go to the WyndhamRewards website, you'll see it come up on the main page under the rotating banner.
Like the blogger above, I only got the 2x version, so I'm ignoring WyndhamRewards through mid-September.
Had they offered my one of the better options, I would have booked some stays in August and early Septmber. @:-) But at 2x, I'll stick with Choice (after I'm done maxing out Marriott's Getaway Bonus).
If you go to the WyndhamRewards website, you'll see it come up on the main page under the rotating banner.
Like the blogger above, I only got the 2x version, so I'm ignoring WyndhamRewards through mid-September.
Had they offered my one of the better options, I would have booked some stays in August and early Septmber. @:-) But at 2x, I'll stick with Choice (after I'm done maxing out Marriott's Getaway Bonus).
Jul 7, 2014, 8:15 am
#6
Company Representative - Wyndham Rewards
Join Date: Aug 2010
Programs: Wyndham Rewards
Posts: 395
Jul 7, 2014, 8:34 pm
#7
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
Also, confusingly, the T&Cs for this promo online say:
"Void outside the United States and Canada and where prohibited by law."
What's "void outside the United States and Canada" about this promo? 
Per what you wrote, not the hotels themselves. Is it that only people in US/Canada can register?
Jul 8, 2014, 9:44 am
#8
Company Representative - Wyndham Rewards
Join Date: Aug 2010
Programs: Wyndham Rewards
Posts: 395
Sorry for the confusion, that term means that this promotion is only valid for residents of the United States and Canada.
Stays outside of the US and Canada do qualify with the exception of Super 8 in China and Howard Johnson in Argentina.
Stays outside of the US and Canada do qualify with the exception of Super 8 in China and Howard Johnson in Argentina.
Thanks. I don't see anywhere on the WR website where that's explained.
Also, confusingly, the T&Cs for this promo online say:
Per what you wrote, not the hotels themselves. Is it that only people in US/Canada can register?
Also, confusingly, the T&Cs for this promo online say:
"Void outside the United States and Canada and where prohibited by law."
What's "void outside the United States and Canada" about this promo? Per what you wrote, not the hotels themselves. Is it that only people in US/Canada can register?
Jul 10, 2014, 6:33 am
#9
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Somewhere in Europe
Posts: 3,362
So what is the promo for Europe and the rest of the world?
Jul 18, 2014, 8:21 pm
#12
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
As you can see in my OP, I registered for this promo and got 2x on July 2.
So, to add insult to injury, yesterday (July 17), 15 days later, WyndhamRewards sent me an email entitled "Will you find the 10x bonus multiplier?" They should have known that I already didn't, what sort of moronic IT system do they have that they wait two weeks after I register to invite me to register, touting (taunting me with) the 10x that I didn't get and that I can no longer get?
Of course, when I clicked the link in the email, it instantly told me I was already registered and that I'd gotten 2x. So why couldn't the system that sent this moronic and insulting email have figured it out too???
So, to add insult to injury, yesterday (July 17), 15 days later, WyndhamRewards sent me an email entitled "Will you find the 10x bonus multiplier?" They should have known that I already didn't, what sort of moronic IT system do they have that they wait two weeks after I register to invite me to register, touting (taunting me with) the 10x that I didn't get and that I can no longer get?
Of course, when I clicked the link in the email, it instantly told me I was already registered and that I'd gotten 2x. So why couldn't the system that sent this moronic and insulting email have figured it out too???
Jul 24, 2014, 11:49 am
#13
Join Date: Feb 2010
Programs: SPG, Wyndham, AA
Posts: 120
I had a stay that I received my X2 bonus, but I had to make a consecutive res. just for a day because work got extended. I received my base and 2k stay bonus, but no X2 on my base points. Does anyone know if this would be a "qualified" stay?
Jul 24, 2014, 2:47 pm
#14
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
One Qualified Stay includes all consecutive nights at the same Participating Hotel regardless of check-ins or check-outs, at a Qualifying Rate.
it should have been counted as an extra day in the same "qualified" stay as your original reservation.But presumably the computers may not have sorted it out yet or may not sort it out automatically.
Remember, also in the T&Cs:
Members can earn their Bonus Amount when they complete their 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Qualified Stays
Ie, you can only earn 2x four times.Will you have other stays coming up in the promo period? If you have three other multi-night stays coming up, you probably don't want this one-night stay to count by itself as your 2nd stay (because you earn the most in this promo if your first 4 qualified stays are your longest and/or most expensive stays).
In other words, if someone has 4 4-night stays scheduled, and then they need a 1-night stay in the middle of that, they'd earn more WyndhamRewards poitns if that 1-night stay was not at a WyndhamRewards property! (At least that's the way it works if each of the nights have smiliar rates.)