Barclays Wyndham Earner Premier Credit Card: 120,000-Point Welcome Bonus, Various Statement Credits, $395 Annual Fee

This is a newly launched card. Although it has a $395 annual fee, it comes with a variety of perks and statement credits, plus an annual free night certificate and bonus points, which can more or less offset the annual fee. Overall, if you stay at Wyndham hotels often, it’s a solid card to keep.

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About the Barclays Wyndham Earner Premier

Benefits

• Wyndham elite status benefit: Cardholders receive Wyndham Diamond status automatically
• go free^® Faster: Get a 25% discount when redeeming points for Wyndham hotel stays
• Annual benefit: Starting in the second year, after paying the annual fee each year, you receive 30,000 Wyndham points.
• Free night award: If you complete more than 5 stays each year, you receive one 30,000-point Wyndham free night certificate.
• No Foreign Transaction Fee (FTF): See also: FTF Guide

Statement Credits

• $100 Wyndham hotel credit: Each calendar year, spend $100 on eligible Wyndham purchases to receive a $100 statement credit
• $120 food delivery credit: $10 per month, automatically applied when ordering through eligible food delivery apps
• $100 streaming credit: Up to $100 per year in eligible streaming statement credits
• $65 Wholesale Clubs membership fee credit
• $120 TSA PreCheck or Global Entry application fee credit

Introduction to the Wyndham Hotel Program

• Wyndham uses a tiered award chart with three pricing levels: 7,500 / 15,000 / 30,000 points. The approximate redemption value is around 0.9 cents per point, meaning 10,000 points can redeem for about $90 in hotel value on average.
• In addition to standard points redemptions, Wyndham also offers a points + cash option, priced at 3,000 points plus some cash.
• Wyndham has some solid hotel options in places like Hawaii, the Caribbean, and the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Super 8 and Days Inn. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Caesars Entertainment formed a partnership in June 2017, so redeeming for Caesars hotels can also be a worthwhile choice.
• Wyndham Hotel Program Overview

I spent a day searching, and looking at hotels in Las Vegas shows that the 15,000-point tier still has quite a few high-value properties available. Finding one that gives you more than 1 cent per point is not a problem.

You can see that the 15,000-point tier still has quite a few high-value hotels you can redeem for. Picking one with a value above 1 cent per point is not an issue.

Our Take

This is a newly launched card. Although it has a $395 annual fee, it comes with a variety of perks and statement credits, plus an annual free night certificate and bonus points, which can more or less offset the annual fee. Overall, if you stay at Wyndham hotels often, it’s a solid card to keep. That said, this premium card does not offer common high-value features such as airport lounge access or point transfers to airline miles. If you do not stay with Wyndham, there is little reason to go out of your way to hold this card.

That said, Wyndham has a huge footprint of roadside properties across North America, but the quality of many of them is fairly average. If you usually prefer mid-scale to upscale hotels, it may be harder to get strong value from Wyndham points.

Barclays Application Guide

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