Book Hotels, Get Biz Class: One Traveler Nabbed 3 Europe Trips—Here’s How [Roundup]

News and notes from around the interweb:

  • The CEO of Rove offers this update and context of the value they offer when you book hotels with them. And there’s a promo code for 10,000 bonus miles on your first booking.

    You can get up to 25x miles at a bunch of hotels without needing a card, while the next best giving a flexible currency is 10x requiring a high [annual fee].

    That, combined with the fact that you get the miles instantly when the stay is nonrefundable, means you can often cover your flight for free with your hotel stay. Attaching an email from a customer who did this and got 3 free biz class tickets on [Turkish] for 255k miles within 2 weeks of our launch (for about $10k hotel spend). The flights he received were likely worth more than he spent on the hotel. The amount you’d have to spend with any other program to get that is much much higher.

    Also attaching an example where we were cheaper than the hotel and offered a great rate for earn and redeem. Price matching the hotel hasn’t been implemented yet, meaning there’s some sweet spots like this (and other cases where we end up more expensive, which will also disappear soon, but the miles you get are worth multiples more). TLDR is hotels have a certain number of rooms we get a crazy low rate on, just like award seats on a plane, and we provide the best possible value until these sell out, after which we are still very competitive.

  • Singapore Airlines planning new product launch event next year following on details shared in the fall.

  • Kosher meals.

  • Register to earn 500 bonus Japan Airlines miles (in addition to Hyatt points) on your first qualifying Hyatt stays in July and August at participating properties in Asia Pacific.

  • Who wants to tell her?

  • Peleton offering 5x the usual Hyatt points through July 15 (HT: Doctor of Credit)

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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