Club Wyndham

A Wyndham timeshare is a vacation-ownership product run under the Club Wyndham and WorldMark by Wyndham brands. Instead of a fixed week, you buy an annual allotment of points or credits and spend them on resort stays each year. You also pay yearly fees for as long as you own it.

How does a Club Wyndham timeshare work?

Club Wyndham is the points-based timeshare program operated by Travel + Leisure Co., the company that was named Wyndham Destinations, Inc. until it was renamed Travel + Leisure Co. on February 17, 2021, and now trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TNL. Rather than owning one fixed week at one resort, you buy a yearly allotment of Club Wyndham points and use them as vacation currency. The program reports access to more than 240 vacation-club resorts; the exact count shifts as resorts are added or retired, so confirm the current figure on the official Club Wyndham site. Because it is a timeshare, the same questions apply to it as to any other program: what you actually own, what it costs every year, and what it is worth if you decide to leave. Our neutral comparison of timeshare brands sets Wyndham alongside the other major programs.

What are Wyndham points and how do you use them?

Each Club Wyndham ownership comes with an annual allotment of points, set by how much you bought. You spend points to book stays, and the number a night costs varies by resort, suite size, day of the week, length of stay, and season, all published in Wyndham's point charts. If you do not use a year's points, the program lets you carry them forward or borrow against the next year within Wyndham's current rules. The mechanics are the same idea behind every points-based timeshare. Our guide to how timeshare points work covers the general system in depth, and Wyndham follows that model with its own charts and rules, which it updates from time to time.

WorldMark by Wyndham credits: how do they differ?

WorldMark by Wyndham is a separate Wyndham program run by the same parent company, and it uses credits rather than points. The two work on the same general idea, an annual allotment you spend on stays, but the labels and rules differ. WorldMark reports access to more than 90 properties, concentrated in the western United States with additional resorts in Canada, Mexico, and the South Pacific. The most important practical difference is expiry: WorldMark states that credits are issued at the start of your anniversary month and expire after two years if they are not used or banked, where Club Wyndham points run on their own annual cycle with separate carry-forward rules. If you are weighing the two, confirm the current credit and point rules on each program's official site, because Wyndham revises them periodically.

What does a Wyndham timeshare cost?

There are two costs, and both matter for either program. The first is the up-front price to buy in, paid once. The timeshare industry overall reports a $23,160 average timeshare purchase price in 2024, and developer pricing for Wyndham varies widely by how many points or credits you buy and where. The second cost recurs every year for as long as you own: maintenance fees plus, for Club Wyndham, a separate annual program fee.

• Maintenance fees. Billed yearly whether or not you travel, and tied to your home resort, so the per-point amount differs from one resort to another and tends to rise over time. Industry-wide, the latest data reports a $1,480 average annual maintenance fee in 2024, up 17.5% in one year.
• Club Wyndham program fee. A separate annual charge based on your point total. Wyndham lists it at $0.66 per 1,000 points with a $185 minimum for ownership bought directly, and $0.64 per 1,000 points with a $165 minimum for resale ownership, figures to confirm on the official site as they can change.
• Up-front price. Paid once at purchase and often financed at a high interest rate, with the developer price typically far above the resale price for the same product.

Our guide to timeshare maintenance fees explains why these yearly fees keep rising and what happens if you stop paying.

Should you buy Wyndham direct or resale?

This is the decision that trips up most buyers. The same points or credits usually cost far less on the resale market than direct from Wyndham, because the developer price covers a large share of sales and marketing rather than the property itself. The trade-off is that resale ownership can come with fewer privileges and slightly different fees: Wyndham, for example, lists a lower program-fee rate but also a different fee structure for resale points, and certain owner benefits and loyalty tiers may be limited to ownership bought directly. None of that makes resale a poor choice; it means a resale contract can be a narrower product at a lower price. Confirm the current direct-versus-resale rules on Wyndham's official site, and read our neutral guides to buying a timeshare and timeshare resale value before you commit. Whether a program like Wyndham is a good deal at all depends on how much you will genuinely use it, which our look at whether timeshares are worth it works through.

How do you get out of a Wyndham timeshare?

Wyndham operates its own give-back program, called Certified Exit, which it announced in 2021 and runs through its Wyndham Cares team. According to Wyndham, working with a Certified Exit specialist carries no charge, the program covers Club Wyndham and WorldMark ownership, and it can return a qualifying ownership in as few as 90 days. Our full guide to how to get out of a Wyndham timeshare covers who qualifies, what happens if you still owe a loan, and how to avoid the upfront-fee exit scams that target Wyndham owners.

Sources

Club Wyndham, official program information on points, resorts, maintenance fees, and the annual program fee (clubwyndham.wyndhamdestinations.com), retrieved June 2026, including the program fee of $0.66 per 1,000 points ($185 minimum) for direct ownership and $0.64 per 1,000 points ($165 minimum) for resale ownership, and the reported figure of more than 240 vacation-club resorts. WorldMark by Wyndham, official program information on credits, resorts, and the Certified Exit program (worldmark.wyndhamdestinations.com), retrieved June 2026, including credits issued at the start of the anniversary month that expire after two years, access to more than 90 properties, and Certified Exit returning a qualifying ownership in as few as 90 days at no charge. Travel + Leisure Co. corporate record (travelandleisureco.com) and the company's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings (sec.gov), retrieved June 2026, confirming that Wyndham Destinations, Inc. was renamed Travel + Leisure Co. on February 17, 2021, trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TNL, with the Certified Exit program announced in 2021. ARDA, State of the Vacation Timeshare Industry (2025 edition, 2024 data), for industry-wide average purchase price and maintenance fee. Resort counts and current fees are developer-reported and change over time, so confirm them on the official Club Wyndham and WorldMark sites before relying on them. Last reviewed June 2026.