12 months out for a 60% discount. Make no mistake this was alot of BS to sell more developer points to a VIP that could not use or need. Another fine example of how Wyndham uses a marketing strategy to sell more developer points.
I think there's a lot of rumors being bandied about for upleveled VIP benefits. One of the items I've repeatedly suggested to several higher ups within Wyndham is a program to grant limited advanced booking benefits at a discount, based upon VIP tier. This is actually under consideration from what I've been told, which is probably filtering down to the masses via the rumor mill on some level. One of the many suggestions we've submitted is an VIP advanced booking program such as:
Advantage: none outside of the standard 15% 60 day discount window benefit
Ambassador: 25% for up to one standard (10 month) booking per use year
Champion: 35% for up to one standard (10 month) booking per use year, 35% for up to one advance (ARP) booking per use year
Legends: 50% for up to two standard (10 month) bookings per use year, 50% for up to two advance (ARP) bookings per use year
Founders: 60% for up to four standard (10 month) bookings per use year, 60% for up to four advance (ARP) bookings per use year
None of the above would replace the standard 60 day discount window booking benefits. We've also suggested similar upgraded benefits for free room upgrades.