Rove Miles now lets you book hotels and earn their points and still earn points, elite night credits and status benefits with your preferred hotel loyalty program.
You can redeem Rove points towards paid travel of your choice, or transfer them to:
- Star Alliance: Air India Maharaja Club, Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus, Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles
- oneworld: Cathay Pacific Asia Miles, Finnair Plus, Qatar Airways Privilege Club
- SkyTeam: Air France-KLM Flying Blue, Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles, Aeromexico Rewards
- Non-alliance: Etihad Guest, Hainan Airlines Fortune Wings Club
- Hotel: Accor Live Limitless
Chase’s The Edit and American Express Fine Hotels and Resorts let you earn loyalty program credit on their bookings, but those are genreally limited to premium and luxury properties and this is far broader.
Their base earning rate for this feature is 5 points per dollar on eligible bookings, but through October 31 they’re awarding 10x for these bookings on top of what you’ll earn through your hotel program and for your credit card spend on the stay.
Choose Between Maximizing Rove Miles And Double Dipping
Rove has ‘loyalty eligible’ rates with Marriott, hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Choice and Best Western. When it’s available, these rates will appear flagged as loyalty-eligible in search results and you’ll be able to service them directly with the hotel chain.
Here you can earn over 20 points per dollar and pay a slightly lower room rate, eschewing Marriott points, status credits and benefits (some hotels earn up to 25x):
Or here pay a standard rate, earn 10 points per dollar from Rove and also earn Marriott points, status benefits and status credits.
Incidentally, Rove now also lets you turn any hotel rate into a non-refundable rate where you earn points for the booking instantly (this wouldn’t earn also with the loyalty program). That way your hotel stay can immediately fund other travel redemptions, even if you aren’t staying until far out in the future.
This Makes Booking Through Rove Worthwhile For Hotel Loyalists
Gondola.ai already does this, of course. But I prefer Rove’s transferable points over credit towards future hotel bookings that Gondola offers. I spoke with another startup a few months back working on the same thing.
At 10 Rove points per dollar at launch, this is absolutely huge. I’ll still prefer 5 points per dollar over 3% back towards future bookings. (I value a Rove point at more than a penny apiece for the transfers, and they generally let you redeem for paid travel at around 1.5 cents apiece and sometimes higher.)
What I like about Rove’s plan here, though, is that they tell me they will ultimately launch rewards on Member Rates and also AAA rates since those can be commissionable. That’ll make me far more likely to use this since I won’t be paying more to earn the points, even though that’s often worth it in its own right. The program is clearly worth joining in any case.
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