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Hi TFers,
This is going to be a bit detailed post.
Agenda:
I recently stumbled upon this thing called STATUS MATCHING available in airlines and hotels. This post is majorly depended on hotel status matching with/without credit cards.
All this while I never delved into this world of status matching and had zero idea but since last week, I spent sufficient time in this whole ecosystem.
Pre-Requisite Knowldge:
Usually Hotels and maybe airlines have 2 types of status matches available.
1. Match (M)
If a hotel (Hotel A) follows/allows/accepts Match(M) then that means you can use your existing credit card/existing membership of another hotel (Hotel B) loyalty program to match status. This is an UNCONDITIONAL match which doesnt expect you to spend any money on either Hotel A or Hotel B. The only ask is that you need to hold a good tier of the loyalty program in the hotel whose membership you are leveraging to match with loyalty program of another hotel loyalty program.
Example 1 (Credit Card - Hotel): You hold Mastercard World Elite credit card which gives complimentary Diamond Tier status match to Wyndham Rewards hotel loyalty program.
Example 2(Hotel - Hotel): You hold Wyndham Rewards Diamond Tier membership and now you are using it to match with Marriott Bonvoy Gold tier. This is just a hypothetical example as even I know Wyndham to Marriott Bonvoy isnt accepted.
2. Challenge (C)
If a hotel follows/accepts/allows status match but only via a challenge(C) then that means it is CONDITIONAL tier match and has some conditions to be followed like:
More details can be found on this amazing website StatusMatcher:
Hotels:
statusmatcher.com
Airlines:
statusmatcher.com
Benefits:
Hotel Loyalty memberships can come handy as compared to getting the default 10-20% discount that you would have received if you had booked via some 3rd party OTA like MMT/EMT/Yatra etc in the following ways:
For lazy people like me:
WyndhamRewardsUpgrade@wyndham.com
WyndhamRewards@wyndham.com
Hi Team,
As per the offer mentioned below, I want to register my mastercard to get complimentary DIAMOND Status of WyndhamRewards Loyalty program.
I have already tried to reach out to your team for the upgrade multiple times but no response.
Name: Johnny Sins
Mastercard BIN: 54453501
Contact:
Wyndham Member Number:
Thank you
Note:
This is going to be a bit detailed post.
Agenda:
I recently stumbled upon this thing called STATUS MATCHING available in airlines and hotels. This post is majorly depended on hotel status matching with/without credit cards.
All this while I never delved into this world of status matching and had zero idea but since last week, I spent sufficient time in this whole ecosystem.
Pre-Requisite Knowldge:
Usually Hotels and maybe airlines have 2 types of status matches available.
1. Match (M)
If a hotel (Hotel A) follows/allows/accepts Match(M) then that means you can use your existing credit card/existing membership of another hotel (Hotel B) loyalty program to match status. This is an UNCONDITIONAL match which doesnt expect you to spend any money on either Hotel A or Hotel B. The only ask is that you need to hold a good tier of the loyalty program in the hotel whose membership you are leveraging to match with loyalty program of another hotel loyalty program.
Example 1 (Credit Card - Hotel): You hold Mastercard World Elite credit card which gives complimentary Diamond Tier status match to Wyndham Rewards hotel loyalty program.
Example 2(Hotel - Hotel): You hold Wyndham Rewards Diamond Tier membership and now you are using it to match with Marriott Bonvoy Gold tier. This is just a hypothetical example as even I know Wyndham to Marriott Bonvoy isnt accepted.
2. Challenge (C)
If a hotel follows/accepts/allows status match but only via a challenge(C) then that means it is CONDITIONAL tier match and has some conditions to be followed like:
- You may be required to have a night already spent at Hotel A/spent some money at Hotel A before using it to match status with Hotel B's loyalty program.
- You maybe be required to have earned the status in hotel A and not acquired it on a complimentary basis like getting Diamond tier of Wyndham Rewards for free using Mastercard status match and not actually earning that tier by fulfilling the criteria of staying say for example 40 nights in a year.
- You will be status matched for maybe 3-6 months provided you can show Hotel B that you have an upcoming stay in the next 90 days or so.
More details can be found on this amazing website StatusMatcher:
Hotels:
StatusMatcher
StatusMatcher
Benefits:
Hotel Loyalty memberships can come handy as compared to getting the default 10-20% discount that you would have received if you had booked via some 3rd party OTA like MMT/EMT/Yatra etc in the following ways:
- Often you get good reward points in the hotel if you book it via their website plus member rates which can often be the same as other OTAs or maybe even lesser. So you often get more value back when you opt to book via your elite membership tiers as they give accelerated rewards.
- Since you are already an elite or highest tier member of a hotel's loyalty program, you get a plethora of benefits such as free meals/free room upgrade/ early check in late checkout/welcome drink/free night stays/etc etc etc.
- List is endless and can vary from hotel to hotel.
- Obviously it gives yiu a premium feeling! Even if you dont ever utilize the memberships
- Its FREEEE!!! (mostly)
- Use a 54453501 Mastercard BIN to get Wyndham Diaomond Tier membership. They wont ask you to verify the card or anything. You dont even need to even hold that card. Just need the BIN!!!
- Use Wyndham Diamond to get iPrefer Titanium
Link to join iPrefer: Click Here - Use Wyndham Diamond to get Choice Privilege Titanium
- Use Wyndham Diamond to get Sonesta Travel Pass
- Use Mastercard World Elite to match with other loyalty progams which you can check from the URL below:
loyalty status match with mastercard | Priceless Specials
specials.priceless.com
- Before matching to any hotel's loyalty program, you need to first register a free account with that hotel and then only request for a status match.
- There are many combinations of hotel loyalty programs and if you hold memberships of Programs like IHG/Marriott Bonvoy/Hyatt?MGM/Caesars, then you can definitely status match with other premium hotel chains from the list above. Totally Depends on which level of membership of which hotel program you currently hold.
For lazy people like me:
WyndhamRewardsUpgrade@wyndham.com
WyndhamRewards@wyndham.com
Hi Team,
As per the offer mentioned below, I want to register my mastercard to get complimentary DIAMOND Status of WyndhamRewards Loyalty program.
I have already tried to reach out to your team for the upgrade multiple times but no response.
Name: Johnny Sins
Mastercard BIN: 54453501
Contact:
Wyndham Member Number:
Thank you
Note:
- This is not some copy pasted blog/chatGPT generated post. A lot of RnD and procrastination underwent to write this! I hope you enjoy!
- Got upgraded to TF Ace yesterday so thought why not give back to this community. Hope you find this post useful.
- If you find any issue with the content of this post/some wrong info then please let me know. I will update the post.
- Obviously there is more info to be shared here and I am tired of writing this post, so I will keep updating this with more info regularly!
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