We’ve seen devaluations left and right from various loyalty programs, but the divorce of Wyndham Rewards & Vacasa stings.

Wyndham Rewards & Vacasa was a great match

Let’s be honest: there aren’t too many great, aspirational properties under the Wyndham Rewards portfolio. Wyndham tends to have hotels at the more affordable end of the hotel spectrum. When you collect a points currency and save up for a fun stay somewhere, it’d be nice to go somewhere other than a Super 8.

That’s why it was nice that Wyndham Rewards partnered with Vacasa. Not every property under the Vacasa portfolio of vacation homes was a winner, but it opened up the potential for unique destinations. We’d argue it elevated the average by a fair amount.

As a reminder of how Wyndham Rewards points could be used towards Vacasa:

• A total room cost between $0.00 and $250.00 = 15,000 Wyndham Rewards points per night
• A total room cost between $250.01 and $500 = 30,000 Wyndham Rewards points per night
• Wyndham Rewards points cannot be used on room rates higher than $500

Here, the total room cost includes taxes and fees. If you optimized this to the extreme, this means a value of 1.67 cents/point, which is excellent.

Vacasa has new ownership

In May 2025, Vacasa and Casago merged (well, technically the smaller Casago absorbed Vacasa). It was a mystery in the points world whether Casago would continue the Wyndham Rewards partnership. Usually when these mergers happen, there is some retooling involved. Managers coming in fresh to the partnership look at the deals with a bit more scrutiny.

For half a year, nothing was announced regarding the Wyndham Rewards & Vacasa partnership. But now that we’re in November 2025, an announcement of the end of the partnership goes public:

• November 30, 2025 is the last day to make new reservations
• New reservations cannot have a checkout date later than January 31, 2026
• Existing reservations with a checkout date beyond January 31, 2026 cannot be modified but will be honored

As an aside, can I just say that it made almost too much sense for Vacasa and Casago to merge? Casa means “house” in Spanish while Va means “go”. So you have two companies that are basically the same name, just varying amounts of Spanish usage.

This divorce between Wyndham Rewards & Vacasa hurts Wyndham the most

This is without a doubt a devaluation of Wyndham Rewards points. While optimizing Wyndham Rewards points used towards Vacasa could give you 1.67 cents/point (CPP), it was more reasonable to assume 1.5 CPP. That potential was materially higher than what you could normally rely upon for Wyndham’s own properties.

When we last looked at Wyndham Rewards points used towards Wyndham hotels, we came up with the following statistics:

A 1.5 CPP ranks higher than over 85% of hotels I reviewed for that study. Perhaps it’s not fair to say it’s better than 85% of all Wyndham hotels, but the study suggests at least that Vacasa was one of the best options.

Once this becomes official, we will revise our valuation of Wyndham Rewards points downward. In the meantime, if you have some Wyndham Rewards points you’ve been meaning to use, you might want to consider using them for Vacasa through end of January 2026.

Suggested reading:

• Review: Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown
• How to Get Started with Points
• Stop Thinking of Points as Free