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Rove Miles will be running several overlapping holiday promotions over the next few days. They include the opportunity to earn a 40% bonus on loyalty-eligible hotel stays, up to 5,000 bonus miles on first-time hotel bookings, and boosted earning rates at several retailers.
The Deal
- Rove Miles is running the following deals through December 19th:
- Earn 40% bonus Rove miles on loyalty-eligible hotel bookings
- First-time hotel bookings can earn the following bonuses:
- Spend $500 & earn 2,500 bonus miles when using promo code HOLIDAY500
- Spend $1,000+ & earn 5,000 bonus miles when using promo code HOLIDAY1000
- Get increased earnings when buying gift cards from Giftcards.com after clicking through from the Rove shopping portal and buying gift cards for the following brands
- 8x miles:
- Nike
- StubHub (stack with Chase Sapphire Reserve® credits)
- Viator
- Walgreens
- 5x miles:
- Airbnb
- Disney
- Instacart
- Southwest Airlines
- Target
- 3x miles:
- World of Hyatt
- 8x miles:
- Our Rove referral link
Key Terms
- Offers valid through December 19, 2025.
- 2,500/5,000 bonus mile promotion valid for first-time bookings only and limited to one code per eligible customer.
Quick Thoughts
40% on loyalty-eligible hotel bookings
The most notable deal is the opportunity to earn 40% bonus Rove miles on loyalty-eligible hotel bookings. As a reminder, hotels listed as being ‘loyalty-eligible’ on Rove’s travel booking portal will earn you points in your hotel’s loyalty program in addition to the Rove miles you earn. You’ll also be eligible to receive elite status benefits, earn elite night credits, etc. Rove typically awards 5x miles on loyalty-eligible bookings, so this promo increases the earn rate to 7x.
Rove recently made a change so that loyalty-eligible stays are billed by the hotel directly as well. That means you can pay with that hotel chain’s credit card to earn bonus points on the paid stay while triggering Amex Offers, Chase Offers, etc.
Rove miles are a transferable currency with more than a dozen travel partners, so earning a 7x rate is for many people more valuable than earning 7% cashback. When booking through Rove, you earn miles on taxes and fees as well as the base room rate, though mandatory hotel fees charged at check-in won’t qualify.
2,500/5,000 bonus miles
In addition to the loyalty-eligible booking promotion, people booking a hotel through Rove for the first time can earn up to 5,000 bonus Rove miles: 2,500 for spending $500, or 5,000 for spending $1,000. The hotel you book for this specific promotion doesn’t have to be loyalty eligible, but if it is, then you’ll earn both the 40% bonus from the other promotion and the bonus miles from this promotion. That means that if you spend at least $1,000 on a loyalty-eligible booking, you’ll earn at least 12,000 bonus Rove miles.
Note that you can use only one code, so if you have several upcoming paid hotel stays, it may be worth booking the one with the highest eligible promo code. As with the 10x promo, taxes and fees do count towards the spending thresholds.
Boosted earning rates
Earning 5x miles on Airbnb, hotel, and airline gift cards is a decent return. However, keep an eye out for other deals as Amazon, grocery stores, and other retailers are also offering good discounts on these types of gift cards during the same time period.
World of Hyatt was on several shopping portals over Black Friday, but fell off soon after. As far as I know, it’s not appearing on any other portals right now, making Rove the only platform offering boosted earnings on Hyatt stays.
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Was this ended early? It is not working today.
smelling a bit Mesa-ish
I would like to share my recent experience with Rove. I made a prepaid booking on their website using Loyalty Eligible booking option and they charged me for the reservation amount. However when I stayed at the Marriott, they said booking is not prepaid and charged me again for the room. I ended up paying twice for my stay. I reached out to the hotel font desk manager and controller from Marriott but they said reservation is not prepaid and denied my refund request. They I opened two tickets with Rove and no response since December 3rd. I made a post about this on their Reddit site and the next day they took it down. However another individual from Reddit reached out and mentioned that same thing happened to him on his booking with Hyatt. He is also waiting for response from Rove Support for his issue. Now both of us trying to dispute the charge with our CC companies (Amex and Citi) and I have one more prepaid stay coming up that I booked with Rove. Ighhh 🙁
We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience. Could you email contact@rovemiles.com (rather than the regular support email) with more information about your case? We’ll check on it and ensure it gets handled for you. In any case when this the hotel does not honor a prepayment or charges more than you were originally quoted, we will ensure you get a refund and often have to deal with the hotel directly first. For loyalty eligible stays, Rove no longer acts as the merchant of record and the payment is solely made to the hotel, so this should not occur again.
Email sent. The fact that we dont hear from support for 2 weeks and you remove post about the issues are concerning.
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If you book a $1,000 eligible hotel stay, you would get 7,000+5,000 miles, or 12,000 miles, not 15,000 as you say or am I missing something? Or if the 40% bonus also applies to bonus 5,000 it would be 14,000 total?
Nope, that’s just a typo. It’s fixed.
I used Rove for a non-network hotel booking. Piece of cake. Transferred points to an airline. Piece of cake.
I booked through Rove on the Black Friday promo and my room showed on Hyatt.com as “Government Extended” rate. I emailed Rove – they acknowledged my email but never responded with a clarification. I ended up canceling the reservation. It appears that Rove sources rooms from an unmanaged inventory pool. YMMV
We reached out to them about this and they assured us it was a one-off glitch and that they’ve taken steps to ensure that doesn’t happen again. If you end up noticing the same thing happen again though, please do let us know.