Foxwoods Rewards Explained: Tier Credits Reset on April 1 and October 1, Diamond Is 7,000, and Points Cash Out at Two to the Dollar

Foxwoods publishes how many Tier Credits a Rewards Point comes with, and leaves out what either costs in dollars. It does publish the cash-back rate, which almost no casino does.

Published 2026-11-09.

That pattern, generous on redemption and silent on earning, runs through the whole program. It is also a program our own site had wrong: the tiers below are not the Sapphire-to-Black-Card ladder we listed for a year.

Foxwoods' rewards page gives four tiers in Tier Credits: Wonder, "0-499"; Gold, "500-2,199"; Platinum, "2,200-6,999"; Diamond, "7,000+." That is the whole published ladder. No Sapphire, no Ruby, no Emerald, and no invitation tier above Diamond appears on any Foxwoods page we read, so if you have read about a Foxwoods Black Card, treat it as history or as a host's private arrangement rather than a published tier.

Upgrades are automatic, and the FAQ says Gold, Platinum and Diamond "will be re-evaluated on a semi-annual basis," with the rule that "once a Tier level is achieved it will be in effect through the end of the qualifying time period." Two cushions soften the reset. Platinum members "automatically roll over up to 100 in additional Tier Credits" into the next period and Diamond members up to 350. And a run of Progressive Rewards pays slot play as you climb: $15 at 450 Tier Credits, $35 at 600, $50 at 1,100, $85 at 2,500, $100 at 3,500 and $200 at 8,000. A player crossing from Wonder to Diamond in a period collects $485 of bonus slot play on the way.

One more threshold sits inside Platinum. The FAQ says "Platinum members will receive Diamond garage parking benefit at 5,000 tier credits," so the reserved parking arrives 2,000 credits before the Diamond card does.

The qualifying periods are "April 1-September 30 and October 1-March 31," and "Tier Credits reset to 0 on April 1 and October 1 of each year." Those are the same two dates Mohegan's Momentum uses ten miles away, which is convenient for the many Connecticut players who hold both cards and inconvenient for anyone used to a calendar year: a big weekend in late March counts toward a period that ends days later, and a tier won in September has to be defended from October 1.

Rewards Points live longer. They "expire from an account if there is no gaming activity on the account for over 12 months," at every tier, and the trigger is gaming activity rather than any activity, so a dinner on points does not reset the clock.

The FAQ's earn table has three rows and two columns and no dollar sign.

Read it as a ratio: every Rewards Point from slots or tables comes with four Tier Credits, and a bingo point comes with one. Diamond's 7,000 Tier Credits is therefore 1,750 Rewards Points, and those points are worth $875 in cash at the published rate. What you have to wager to earn them, Foxwoods does not say, and we have not guessed. The hotel is the one place a dollar figure appears: "1 Rewards Point for each $100 (cash or credit card) spent on hotel stays," posting two to ten business days after checkout. A DraftKings Sportsbook bet of $5 or more at odds longer than -700 "earns you points and counts toward your tier status," at a rate the page leaves blank.

Redemption is where the numbers are. Bonus slot play costs 2 points per dollar Sunday through Thursday and 3 points per dollar Friday and Saturday, so a weekend conversion is a third worse. A free bet costs 1.5 points per dollar. Cash is 2 points per dollar, up to $1,000 a day. Gas at the Pequot Outpost is a point per dollar. Merchandise at the Gift & Go store has a daily cap that Foxwoods states two ways, 15,000 points on one page and 10,000 on another, and no published rate. The two best uses, then, are gas and cash, and the worst is slot play on a Saturday.

Foxwoods is specific about perks in a way it is not about earning.

Wonder gets event invitations, multiplier days, comp or discounted rooms based on play, 10% off the Pequot Museum, and the hotel and sportsbook earning above. There is no dining or shopping discount at the free tier.

Gold, from 500 Tier Credits, adds a 5% dining discount and 10% off shopping, with the Tanger outlet stores excluded from both, two complimentary rounds a month on Lake of Isles' North Course, complimentary show tickets, 15 cents a gallon off gas, 10% off Norwegian Cruise Line, and a free Mystic Aquarium entry.

Platinum, from 2,200, is where the card becomes a resort card. The Canopy Lounge opens to the member and one guest up to twice a day; dining and shopping discounts rise to 15%; room upgrades and priority early check-in and late checkout appear; cash-advance fees over $1,000 are waived; the North Course rounds go to four a month; and two outside benefits arrive: a complimentary Norwegian cruise of up to seven days with 15% off others, and three complimentary nights at Caesars Las Vegas with a $100 resort credit.

Diamond, from 7,000, adds reserved garage parking in the Grand Pequot Tower, "$50 in Rewards Points monthly," the lounge for the member and three guests three times a day, 20% dining and shopping, four free bingo games a month, upgraded drinks while gaming, all cash-advance fees waived, a free Pequot Museum membership, 20 cents off gas, eight golf rounds a month, a complimentary Norwegian balcony cruise, and the Las Vegas trip at four nights with resort fees paid, airport transport and a $250 resort credit.

The Caesars arrangement is the most interesting line in the program, because Foxwoods has no sister casino of its own; it rents one. The published partners otherwise are Norwegian, Avis and Budget, the Spa at Norwich Inn, Mystic Aquarium and Foxwoods El San Juan in Puerto Rico, whose pages do not say whether the card earns there. There is no hotel-chain partner, no airline, no Foxwoods credit card, and, as far as any page says, no status match in either direction.

Parking is free and the pages say so repeatedly: "free convenient parking in our four covered garages," "free valet services," with the FAQ narrowing valet to the Grand Pequot Tower and the Fox Tower and noting that Great Cedar valet is closed for pickup and drop-off only. There is no resort-fee figure on any hotel page we read. The hotels in 2026 are the Grand Pequot Tower, the Great Cedar Hotel with 317 rooms and "ongoing renovations," the Fox Tower, whose "multi-year renovation" began delivering refreshed rooms on February 15, 2026, and the Villas. Two Trees Inn is run separately and markets a different hotel program. The Great Wolf Lodge next door opened on May 23, 2025 and publishes no Foxwoods Rewards benefit; Foxwoods calls it a strategic partner, not a property.

The usual advice is that Foxwoods Rewards is the lesser of Connecticut's two cards because it has one casino and Mohegan has two. Our head-to-head made a version of that argument and described the tier structures as similar, which the current pages do not support. Here is the better reading. Foxwoods publishes a cash price for its points and a weekday price for free play; Mohegan publishes neither. Foxwoods gives everyone free valet and gives a 5,000-credit Platinum a reserved space; Mohegan gives reserved parking at Ignite and valet at Soar. Foxwoods sells its Las Vegas nights through Caesars; Mohegan has no Las Vegas at all anymore. For a player who sleeps at the property, the two cards are closer than the property count suggests, and for a player who wants to see a return in cash, Foxwoods is the only one of the two that will show it.

What neither card will tell you is the earn rate, so the honest comparison is made at the cage. Convert a period's points at Foxwoods, divide by what you put through, and you have a number no brochure will give you.

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