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Rove Miles: How to Earn, Use, and Maximize Miles

What is Rove.Miles?

This is a brand new platform and I’m honestly not sure how to classify it, but it can be a points-earning gold mine. This is great for points & miles lovers at all levels (including those who haven’t even started because they won’t let go of their debit card)!

Because this isn’t tied to any credit card, no matter how you pay, or what credit cards you have (or don’t have), you can still earn a ton of miles. I spoke directly with Arhan, one of the co-founders of Rove. He (shockingly) got into points and miles at the ripe old age of 13. Being so young, he, himself, realized there was a need for a platform for people who couldn’t get (or didn’t want to get) credit cards, but who still want to earn points and miles like people do with their travel credit cards.

The platform is free to use, and only until August 31, you are able to get 500 Miles just for signing up with this link. On top of that, anyone you refer will also get 500 points, you will get 10% bonus miles of the points they earn in the next 6 months (up to 50,000 miles), plus, you’ll get an additional 500 miles once they earn at least 250 miles.

How You Earn Miles & What You Can do with Them

When you shop, book hotels, or flights through Rovemiles.com, you can earn Rove Miles. The points-earning rates can be absolutely insane. I’m talking 70x Miles for on a hotel booking insane. The higher mile earn is seen with the hotels due to the higher commission paid on these. As of right now, because it is a start-up, Rove is passing on 100% of the commission onto you as the consumer. This won’t last forever, this is just the benefit of using a brand-new platform, so you should definitely take advantage of it while you can.

Rove Miles can then be used in their portal to book flights or hotels, OR be transferred out to one of their 12 transfer partners:

• Air France-KLM Flying Blue (SkyTeam)
• Air India Maharaja Club (Star Alliance)
• Accor Live Limitless (ALL) (hotels)
• Aeromexico Rewards (SkyTeam)
• Cathay Pacific Asia Miles (Oneworld)
• Etihad Guest
• Finnair Plus (Oneworld)
• Hainan Airlines Fortune Wings Club
• Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles (SkyTeam)
• Qatar Airways Privilege Club (Oneworld)
• Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus (Star Alliance)
• Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles (Star Alliance)

Hotel Bookings

Booking hotels through Rove is the easiest way to earn a large amount of Rove Miles, due to the higher commission paid. There is not a standard earn, so you will get a different earn rate depending on the location, property, and time you are going. Below is an sample search I ran for one week in Amsterdam. I’ve sorted the results by most points earned. 

As you can see, the top-miles-earning hotel available in Amsterdam will earn me 31.2x Rove Miles/ $1. It also shows me what my total earn would be (48,262 miles for the 1 week stay). For a lack of a better phrase: that’s insane. Booking this hotel could easily get enough points to book the economy flights for the same trip. Oh, and did I mention, you can immediately earn your points?

If you make a non-refundable booking, you do actually immediately earn your Rove Miles and can start using them, so you can actually book and hotel on Rove, then use the Miles to cover flights for the same trip.

When searching, you can sort by Featured, Price, Top Rated, Most Miles earned, or cents per mile (you’ll only want to use cents per mile if you are using your Rove Miles. This sorts by greatest value of your points).

Some locations have some higher earn than others. Check out this search in Bali. The top-earning hotel is a whopping 70x points earn! Paying for one week gets you 115,031 Rove Miles!

Once you earn Rove Miles, you can then use them on hotels, flights, or transfer out to partners. Personally, I would not use my Rove Miles for hotels since they’re a lot more valuable transferring out or using them in the portal for flights. But, they’re your points, so use as you wish.

Flights

You won’t earn as many Rove Miles with flights. So, if you have a credit card that earns more points by booking directly with the airline, I would do that instead. This is a good option for those people who would otherwise be using a card that doesn’t earn any extra points. Earning 1x points/ $1 spend is still better than 0x points/ $1 spent.

Shopping Portal

The shopping portal is very easy to use. You simply click on the store you want to shop at, you’ll be redirected, then once you pay, it will register with Rove that you used their link and you will earn your Rove Miles. Because these types of portals often use cookies to track, you’ll want to make sure you are allowing cookies. 

For example, as you can see below, NordVPN is 26.1x miles per $1 spent. So, spending $100 after clicking on the link would earn you 2,610 Rove Miles.

Additionally, because it is taking you to the actual website to buy directly through the retailer, you will be earning any additional points you’re eligible for through your card. For example, if you have a Chase Ink Cash credit card, you earn 5x on business supply stores (this includes Office Depot and Staples). 

As you can see below, Office Depot earns 3.2x points/ $1 spent. So, if I clicked through Rove and used my Chase Ink Cash credit card to pay and spend $100 on my Staples purchase, I would then earn 320 Rove Miles (3.2x earn) + 500 Chase Ultimate Rewards points (5x earn).

Using this shopping portal for normal, everyday spend, could net you a decent amount of Rove miles. You may, however, want to make sure you are earning the most points you are able to by checking other shopping portals in case they have a higher earn. I go into further detail on shopping portals in this post HERE. 

Chrome Extension

You can also install the chrome extension via the home page

What this will do is give you an alert you can activate when you go to a website where you can earn Rove Miles. This will ensure you don’t forget and makes it much easier to ensure you’re earning where you can.

Isn’t this a 3rd Party Booking?

Short answer- yes. However, flight bookings through Rove are direct with the airline, so if any issues arise while flying, you will be able to deal with the airline directly. However, hotel bookings through Rove are different. If you have any issues with the hotel, you will have to go through Rove. Arhan, one of the co-owners, has assured me that they deal with all issues expeditiously and take great pride in ensuring their customers have a good experience using Rove Miles.

Transferring your Miles

As stated above, Rove Miles currently transfer to 12 different partners. You won’t be able to transfer until you have at least 1,000 Rove Miles (so, you won’t be able to transfer your 500 points you get for setting up the account). But, getting 500 Rove Miles + 1 referral means you then have 1,000 Miles that you can transfer.

Except for All Accor (that transfer at a ratio of 1,500 : 1,000), all other partners transfer at a ratio of 1,000 Miles : 1,000 Miles (meaning 1,000 Rove Miles will transfer to 1,000 Miles with the loyalty programs). So, you can only transfer all other points in 1,000 point increments.

One of my favorite things about the transfer portal is the information listed below each partner. It gives you ideas about the best way you can use points. In the example below, it informs me that Maharaja Club has united deals (something I did not know). Once I click on “United Deals,” it gives me more information. As you can see, it tells me that I can book United flights starting at 3,500 points!

Summary

In summary, I’m really excited about Rove Miles. They’re so new that this is an opportunity to earn while they’re giving these crazy earn rates. Because the team at Rove has done so much already, I’m going to cross my fingers that they’ll be adding additional transfer partners down the line as well (not to say this isn’t a pretty impressive list of transfer partners).

Whenever I have to pay for a hotel, I will definitely be looking at this portal. Despite their limited transfer partners, I’d have no problem with transferring my points to FlyingBlue, Qatar, Finnair, Cathay, Etihad, and Turkish (just to name a few). 

Remember, this is completely free, so I recommend you sign up immediately because my link will get you 500 points just for setting up an account before 8/31. 

On top of that, Until 8/31: 

• Anyone you refer will also get 500 points 
• You will get 10% bonus miles of the points the person you refer earns in the next 6 months (up to 50,000 miles), and 
• You will earn an additional 500 miles once they earn at least 250 miles

So, sign up and start referring ASAP!

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