Caesars Re-Matches are All Over the Place

February is the time on the Status Match Merry Go Round™ where you take your Wyndham Diamond status and match it back to Caesars Diamond. 

You used to be able to match back and forth easily each year (hence the Merry Go Round), but last year Caesars added new terms (several days after February 1st) to disallow “matching back and forth. In fact they went so far as to take Diamond members that had matched and downgraded them to Gold. Then they took so much heat for changing the rules mid-stream (I actually wondered if the Nevada Gaming Commission got involved) that they relented, moved those Golds back to Diamond, and basically postponed it all until this year. 

Officially, now you can only match back if you a) earn Wyndham Diamond organically, b) have the Wyndham Business Earner credit card ($95 annual fee and 15,000 bonus points each anniversary year to offset that) or c) Founders Card (I’m not a fan). These are all considered :”earned statuses” and qualify.

However, things are not going as expected. 

• Many people that fit the above criteria, myself included, matched on Feb 1st and still haven’t gotten upgraded to Diamond despite a stated timeframe of 7-10 days. This obviously isn’t great if you have a Caesars reservation in February and don’t know if they will properly adjust your status in time to get your resort fees waived.
• There are many reports of people that are only Wyndham Diamond via matching back from Caesars last year (the practice that Caesars officially stopped) getting upgraded to Diamond. 
• There are also several people that reported to me that they simply never got downgraded and their status reflects a February 2024 expiration. 

So, nobody really seems to understand what is happening – if they are changing anything again or if this is just sloppy work at Caesars. 

Please let me know in the comments what your current experience is….

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