How To Save Your Wyndham Points From Expiring

 

If you are seeing this on your Wyndham account, listen up! At the end of the year, it's a good time to check expiration dates for your various loyalty reward programs. The worst is when an expiration slips by you and those treasured points and miles disappear. 

Most programs state that miles/points will expire due to inactivity usually for a period of 18-24 months. 

However, Wyndham has a two-tier rule. Reward points expire after 18 months of inactivity AND four years after they are earned. 

Ouch! So even our tricks of making a purchase through the online shopping portal to show activity won't work to save points coming up on the four-year mark. 

So what's the go around? 

Wyndham Rewards has several partner transfer programs including United Airlines, American Airlines, and Frontier Airlines. However, the points are not worth much. For example, 6,000 Wyndham points equal 1,200 Frontier miles. 

But check out Caesars Rewards. Now personally, I didn't even know Caesars had a rewards program. But it does and points transfer from Wyndham to Caesars 1:1 and more importantly back again. So theoretically, you can transfer your points to Caesars, reset the expiration date and then transfer them back to Wyndham. 

Caesars includes brands like Ballys, Harrah's, Tropicana, and more. I'm not a Las Vegas fan so this chain does not interest me at all. But if I can save my Wyndham points, then sign me up. 

So here's the process: 

• Open a Caesars Rewards account (you must use the exact same name as your Wyndham account)
• Go back to your Wyndham account, click on explore the program, use Wyndham points, more ways to redeem

• Scroll down the page to Points Transfer Partners and click  
• Click on Caesars Rewards 

• Enter your name exactly as it appears in your Caesars account
• Enter your new Caesars account number 
• There is a minimum transfer amount of 10,000 points, but don't worry, you will transfer them and then transfer them back to Wyndham. 

You will see your points leave your Wyndham account immediately. It says it takes 7-10 days for the points to transfer to Caesars Rewards so I'll let you know what happens. Now take a look at the expiration date back on your Wyndham account. It's located in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. 

Once the points show up in your new Caesars account and the expiration date passes, you can just transfer them right back to Wyndham. If you have more points that will expire, just do the process again. You can use the same points to reach the 10,000 minimum. If you don't have 10,000 points, use the shopping portal or buy some points to reach 10,000 so you can transfer. May be worth it.