Wyndham and Barclays have GOING a new premium hotel credit card, the Wyndham Rewards Earner Premier. This is a premium card with a $395 annual fee, on top of the existing Wyndham Earner ($0 fee) and Earner Plus ($95 fee) cards. They’ve also refreshed their two personal cards and their business card, which we’ll discuss in a separate post.
Signup bonus
The Wyndham Rewards Earner Premier card offers a sign-up bonus of 120,000 Wyndham Rewards points:
- 90,000 bonus points after spending $6,000 on purchases and paying the annual fee within the first 120 days.
- 30,000 additional bonus points after spending $750 at Hotels by Wyndham within the first 180 days.
Card details
- $395 annual fee (first year not waived)
- There are no foreign transaction fees
- 30,000 annual bonus points every year after paying the annual fee
Statement credits:
- $100 annual Wyndham hotel credit after spending $100+ at eligible Wyndham hotel brands
- $65 annual wholesale club membership credit
- $10 monthly credit for meal delivery – this seems to be a broad credit for any regular meal delivery service like DoorDash, UberEATS (and maybe Instacart)
- $100 annual credit for streaming services per calendar year – this appears to be a broad credit for each regular streaming service (not broken out monthly, rather as a year-long credit of up to $100)
- Global Entry Credit or TSA PreCheck every four years
Additional benefits:
- Wyndham Rewards Diamond Status
- Wyndham Rewards Insider Membership
- 25% off Wyndham award redemptions
- Emerald National Club Executive Status
- Discounts for booking hotels at Wyndham properties
- 15% off when you buy Wyndham Rewards points.
- Complete five qualifying nights during a calendar year paid with the card and receive 30,000 bonus points. (Limit one bonus per year.
- Redemption of points – redeem points for statement credits
Earning points
The card wins:
- 8x points on Hotels by Wyndham and Wyndham Travel Bundles
- 4x points on dining
- 4x points at grocery stores (except Walmart and Target)
- 4x points on travel purchases (VFTW endnoteS this includes gas/EV)
- 1x points on all other purchases
Our verdict
Lots to digest here. The annual credits on this card are actually pretty good and help offset the $395 annual fee. For many people, the $100 streaming credit and $65 wholesale club credit will be almost like cash. Monthly meal delivery credit and $100 Wyndham hotel credit are also easy to use. Combined with the 30,000 anniversary points and other hotel benefits, a case can be made for this card.
The bigger question is whether these benefits justify paying an additional $246 annual fee more than the Wyndham Earner Business card, which also offers Diamond status and strong ongoing benefits.
We will have a post about the other cards soon.
