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Shopping portal Retailmenot is currently offering 20% back on Hotels.com. That matches a previous deal from Retailmenot for the best site-wide deal on Hotels.com that I can recall in years. The catch is that’s it is only up to a maximum of $50 back.
The Deal
- Shopping portal Retailmenot is offering 20% back on Hotels.com purchases up to $50 back in rewards
- Direct link to this deal
Key Terms
- Deal is scheduled to end 3/10/24 (keep in mind that this might end early)
- “Combine with other offers for an even better deal” according to the terms
- Purchases of gift cards are excluded
- Rewards earnings up to $50 cash back
- Cash back is based on the room rate and does not apply to taxes, fees, or other hotel-related costs
Quick Thoughts
This can be a great deal if you have a booking to make via Hotels.com. I personally made a booking just a few days ago because I was booking an independent hotel and I was using Hotels.com gift card money earned through the Capital One Shopping portal. I actually went through Retailmenot for 10% back, but wish I had waited a few days to double my return!
Keep in mind that you don’t necessarily need to make a nonrefundable booking to take advantage of this deal, but you won’t see rewards until after you’ve completed your stay.
While 20% back is a terrific rate for site-wide bookings, keep in mind the $50 cap — that will limit the use for longer or more expensive stays. Still, I could see this tipping the balance toward booking through Hotels.com in some circumstances.
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Depending on hotel’s willingness to be helpful (lol) you can do multiple bookings then call and link them together so you don’t incur any issues during your stay (hopefully)
I just noticed Retailmenot is not showing up on the Cashback Monitor… for Hotels.com at least – odd?
You’re right, it’s not. That sorta thing happens from time to time because of the fact that it’s all an automated feed, so I think that if a portal changes the way it labels something, perhaps it fails to show up. I’m basing that hunch on past conversations with the founder of Cashbackmonitor about some of the challenges in listing portals that weren’t listed at the time and that sort of thing. Anyway, I imagine the absence of Retailmenot there is a glitch rather than intentional.
When clicking on “full details” from the promo pop-up window, the last bullet point under “To Qualify for Online Cash Back” says “Not available outside the US. A U.S. phone number is required to redeem wallet rewards.” This just mean that RetailMeNot is only available in the U.S.,” not that the hotels booked from Hotels.com need to be in the US, right?
I think so.
RetailMeNot is working for me, I’m in Texas but my bookings are in Florence Italy
Im getting this message when I try to book 2 night -You’ll earn $8.55 in OneKeyCash on this stay. You’re on your way!– We will be in Florence 4 nights, so if $50 is Max then we will do my account and P2 account 2 night each – How is the $50 credited?
You’re confusing two different things — OneKeyCash is Hotels.com’s rewards program. That’s not what you’re earning through Retailmenot (you’ll earn that Hotels.com monopoly money from Hotels.com and earn the 20% cash back from Retailmenot).
Retailmenot is a shopping portal, so you can cash that out from Retailmenot via PayPal or Venmo (I wouldn’t expect rewards to be available to be cashed out until at least a month after your completed stay).
So if you made a $250 booking through your account, you’d earn $50 from Retailmenot that you’ll be able to cash out through your Retailmenot account around a month or maybe more after your stay. You’ll also earn Hotels.com OneKeyCash that isn’t really cash but rather like “store credit” that you can use toward a future booking.
You could have your P2 also open a Retailmenot account (free shopping portal account) and each of you book your 2 nights and you should each get your 20% back. The only hassle there is that the OneKeyCash is going to be split with some in your account and some in P2’s account, but the value of the OneKeyCash is likely not going to make or break the deal here. Either you’ll in the future make separate bookings again to use the $8.55 each that you have or you won’t and you’ll sacrifice $8.55 to earn an additional ~$41.45 back.