Rove Miles Guide (2026): How to Earn, Redeem & Transfer

Rove Miles is one of the newest transferable points programs. For most programs that earn transferable points (points that can be transferred to hotel and airline partners), you need to sign up for a credit card in order to earn the points. But Rove is different! You don’t need a new card to start using the program.  

Using Rove can offer an opportunity to earn extra points on purchases you’re already planning to make. Then you can use those points to book travel directly with Rove, or transfer the points to partners and book travel there.

What is Rove Miles?

 

Rove is like a shopping portal combined with a travel agency that lets you earn transferable points when you use the program.

Rove has some features that can be particularly useful for earning extra points on things like hotel bookings and flights. But you don’t need to book travel with Rove to earn points; you can earn points by using their shopping portal as well.

No Credit Card Required

Unlike a lot of other points programs, Rove isn’t associated with any particular bank or credit card. That means you don’t need to sign up for a new card or open a bank account to start earning Rove Miles. Just sign up, and you’re ready to start earning.

Earn and Redeem Points

You earn Rove Miles by using the program. Then you can redeem those miles to book flights and hotels directly in the Rove portal, OR transfer them to travel partners including Air Canada, Japan Airlines, Flying Blue, and others.

Like other shopping portals, you can earn miles on everyday purchases when you click through a Rove shopping link before going to the retailer to shop. You also earn points by booking hotels and flights through Rove.

More detailed information on how to earn and redeem Rove miles is below.

Earn on top of your Credit Card Points

Whenever you make a purchase on a credit card, you earn points (or cash back) for using that card.

With Rove, you earn miles in addition to those credit card points. It is a way to earn some extra miles on purchases you’re already planning to make.

Miles Don’t Expire

As long as your account remains open, your points won’t expire.

Quick Overview: Rove Miles Vs. Bank Points

Is Rove Miles Legit and Safe?

Yes, Rove is a real company. It was founded in 2023 and is backed by a startup accelerator called Y Combinator. That said, it’s still a young company, so it’sreasonable to treat it the way you would any new program: earn and use miles as you go rather than stockpiling a huge balance. As I mention below, points can
also take a while to post, so keep your receipts and confirmation emails.

How to Earn Miles With Rove

There are a few ways to earn points with Rove Miles: book flights and hotels using the Rove website, use Rove shopping, and refer new people to the program. 

Shopping Portal

Shopping portals like Rove are a good way to earn extra points for purchases you’re already planning to make.

Rove shopping works like any other shopping portal. Before you go to make a purchase, visit Rove shopping first and click through their link for the store you want to shop at. Rates tend to be competitive compared to other shopping portals like Rakuten and AAdvantage shopping.

Rove offers a downloadable shopping extension to make it easy to activate offers when you’re shopping online.  You don’t need the extension, but it can make it easier to earn points.

Offers (and even which retailers are available) can vary between the website and extension, so it can be worth having both if you really want to maximize the points that you’re earning.

But if you don’t want to go to the trouble of checking both the website and extension each time, you can still earn plenty of points just using one or the other.

Rove offers over 13,000 stores where you can shop and earn points.

Beware that points typically take a long time to post with Rove. Your points should show up as pending within 10 days of purchase, but that doesn’t always happen. Pending points should post to your account within 60-100 days, but again, that doesn’t always happen.

If you don’t see your purchase pending after 10 days, or your miles stay pending and never actually post, you can contact support for help.

It’s a good practice to take screenshots of the earning rate when you make a purchase and save your confirmation emails after placing your order. That way if you have trouble getting your miles, you’ll have documentation of what you spent and what you should earn.

Rove Vs. Rakuten

Earn Rove Miles When You Book a Flight

To book flights through Rove, go to Rove.com and visit the flights page. Rove functions like any other online travel agency (like Expedia) You book the flight with Rove, and they make the booking with the airline on your behalf.

This means our standard cautions to booking via a third party apply. 

You’ll generally still earn regular airline miles and get whatever benefits you normally would with that airline based on status, airline credit cards you might hold, etc. 

On the search page, you can input a specific destination, or put “anywhere” to see what deals are available.

You can book either one way or roundtrip.

 

When you book a flight through Rove, you earn between 1x and 10x Rove Miles per dollar spent. To see how many miles you’ll earn for a flight,  select the flight, then go to the checkout page. Most flights earn 1x miles per dollar.

 

In this example, if you pay cash ($384), you would earn 384 Rove Miles, which is 1 mile per dollar spent. You also earn whatever loyalty miles that you normally would with the airline when you take the flight. 

When you search for a flight on Rove, you see both the cash cost and the mileage cost. This is a convenient way to compare cash prices and mile prices and see which one makes more sense for your trip. For this flight, it would cost $384 OR 30,000 miles to book.

Note that the point cost you see is the cost for redeeming Rove Miles to book the flight directly through Rove. If you transfer miles to an airline partner to book, they might charge a different number of points for the same flight. 

Earn Rove Miles When You Book Hotels

To earn Rove Miles on a hotel booking, you’ll visit Rove.com and go to the hotels page. Booking a hotel through Rove is a lot like booking through any other online travel agency (like Capital One Travel or Hotels.com).

You can typically earn between 10x and 25x Rove miles per dollar spent when you book a hotel through Rove.

Rove advertises up to 25x, but sometimes rates can be even higher (Personally, I’ve seen as high as 44x). Rates can also be lower than 10x, but most hotels fall within the 10-25 point range per dollar spent.

 You can see how many Rove miles you can earn for a hotel booking right on the search page.

What makes Rove different from most online travel agencies is that they offer loyalty eligible bookings, which most other platforms don’t.

If you book a hotel through an online travel agency like Expedia, you typically won’t get any loyalty benefits at that hotel (like free breakfast). You also won’t be able to earn hotel loyalty points or elite night credits for the stay. Some bank portals do offer loyalty eligible bookings on select hotels. 

Rove offers both loyalty eligible and non-loyalty eligible rates on select hotels. 

Loyalty Eligible 

Loyalty eligible rates booked through Rove are charged directly by the hotel. Instead of being filtered through the travel portal, the hotel sees it like any other cash booking by a loyalty member.

With this type of booking, you can attach your hotel loyalty number to the reservation, which means you earn hotel loyalty points on top of the Rove miles you earn for going through Rove.

With your loyalty number attached, your stay will count for elite night credit, plus if you hold status with the hotel, you’ll have access to all of your normal status benefits like late checkout and free breakfast.

Because the charge is made by the hotel directly, you can use a hotel co-branded card and earn any extra miles you get for spending with that hotel on the card.

For instance, if you book a loyalty eligible Hyatt hotel through Rove Miles, you can use the World of Hyatt credit card to pay and earn 9x points on your Hyatt card for that purchase.

Non-Loyalty Eligible

Non-loyalty eligible rates often have higher earning rates (like 25x instead of 10x), but you won’t be able to attach your hotel loyalty number to the booking. That means you won’t earn loyalty points with the hotel brand, and you won’t be eligible to receive any status benefits.

The booking will be with Rove and not directly with the hotel, so if you pay with a hotel co-branded card, you’ll only earn the normal amount of points for booking travel. 

All of this may not matter to you if you’re booking a hotel brand that you don’t normally stay at, but it can make a big difference if you hold high status with the hotel program, or if you’re working towards status and want those nights to qualify.

Is it Better to Book Loyalty Eligible or Non-Loyalty Eligible?

A lof of times a loyalty-eligible rate won’t be available for a hotel you’re looking at. But sometimes you’ll have the option to choose booking a loyalty-eligible rate or regular rate. This all depends on your goals and what the variables are for each particular booking. For instance, the difference in a loyalty eligible vs. non-loyalty eligible booking might be 12x points per dollar vs 10x points per dollar. In this case, giving up 2x points per dollar to book the loyalty eligible rate is probably a better deal, because you’ll earn hotel points for the stay, plus get any status benefits and elite night credits.

On the other hand, if you can earn 30x points per dollar for a non-loyalty eligible stay and only 8x points per dollar for loyalty eligible, those extra 22x points per dollar might be worth giving up your status benefits for, especially if you don’t hold any status with that particular hotel chain.

Another thing to be aware of is that the price is typically cheaper for non-loyalty eligible stays. You may pay a little bit more in order to get a loyalty eligible booking.

If you want to maximize the value of your booking, you can do the math to see which type of booking will earn you the most points for the lowest price. Don’t forget to factor in any loyalty benefits you get (like free breakfast) when deciding which type of booking is more valuable.

If you’d rather keep it simple, just choose the booking based on whatever your personal priorities are. Points and miles are supposed to help make travel easier, not make it more stressful. If you want to pay the lowest price, book that way! If you want to earn the most points possible, book a hotel with a high multiplier. Either way, you’ll be taking the trip and earning some points while you do it.

Miles Boost

Miles boost gives you the option to pay more for a hotel booking to earn more miles. This is essentially buying points with your hotel reservation. It’s generally not a good value, but if you are trying to earn a specific number of points, this can help you get there faster.

To see Miles Boost, first select a room and start to check out. The Miles Boost option appears at the bottom of the second page in the checkout process.

Refer Friends

The final way to earn points with Rove is to refer friends and family to the program. You and your friend can both earn bonus points when your friend signs up using your referral link.

If you don’t already have a Rove account, we’d love it if you used our referral link to sign up!

Redeeming Rove Miles

Rove has two options for redeeming miles. Book travel directly through Rove, or transfer your miles to partners and use them in that program.

You can also share miles with a friend or partner; more on that is below.

Book Directly with Your Miles

You can use your Rove miles directly on the Rove website to book flights and hotels.

Points are typically worth around 1.2-1.6 cents each when used this way. This means that 10,000 points will cover  $120-$160 worth of travel. The exact rate you get depends on the hotel or flight that you’re booking.

Sometimes you can get even more value, especially on hotel bookings. I’ve seen as high as 3.3 cents per point for a hotel booking, though that’s far less common.

When you go to book a flight or hotel, you can see exactly how many miles it would take to book through Rove.

Transfer to Partners

Rove is a transferable point currency, so you can transfer any miles you’ve earned to their list of transfer partners. This can be a good way to get even more value out of your miles, especially if you’re able to utilize a sweet spot. 

Transfers to partners must be a minimum of 2,000 miles.

Rove Transfer Partners

Airlines:

• Aeromexico
• Air Canada Aeroplan
• Air France-KLM
• Air India
• Cathay Pacific
• Etihad Airways
• Finnair
• Hainan Airlines
• Japan Airlines
• Lufthansa
• Qatar Airways
• SAS Airlines
• Thai Airways
• Turkish Airlines
• Vietnam Airlines
• Virgin Red & Virgin Atlantic

Hotels:

• Accor Live Limitless

Transfer Ratios

All miles transfer 1:1, except for ALL Accor, which transfers at a 1.5:1 rate.

At first glance, the lower transfer rate to ALL Accor doesn’t look that good, but it can actually offer decent value. Capital One and Citi both transfer to ALL Accor at a 2:1 ratio, so Rove Miles go farther.

What’s more, Accor has a fixed rate for redeeming points: 1,000 points is worth €20 off your hotel booking. You don’t have to cover the entire hotel stay, but you can use points in increments of 1,000 to get a discount off your bill. The rest can be covered with cash. 

Here’s a practical example of a stay you could book with All Accor. The family-friendly Mantra hotel in Honolulu has rooms for around $200-$250 per night. This ocean view room that sleeps four is $237 for a night in November. €20 is worth about $23 US dollars, so you could use 10,000 points to take $230 off your bill. You could transfer 15,000 Rove miles to get 10,000 ALL Accor miles. 15,000 miles is a pretty good deal for an ocean view room in Hawaii!

Transfer Bonuses

Rove has occasionally offered transfer bonuses to different partners, which can help you get even more out of your Rove miles. Here are some examples of past transfer bonuses:

• 50% bonus to Turkish Airlines
• 50% bonus to Japan Airlines
• 25% bonus to Air Canada
• 20% bonus to SAS Airlines

For transfer partners that normally transfer at a 1:1 ratio, with a 50% transfer bonus, you would get 1,500 miles for every 1,000 you transfer.

Sharing Miles

Rove allows you to share miles with friends and family for free. This is a nice feature that can make it easier to book travel, especially if you don’t have enough miles on your own.

To share miles, you can contact Rove support, and they will take care of the miles transfer for you. You can transfer miles to anyone, at any time, but Rove does have some limits in place:

• You can send miles up to 3 times per year.
• You can receive miles up to 3 times per year.
• The minimum amount of miles you can transfer is 2,000, and the maximum is 200,000 per transaction.

Redeeming Points and Earning Points at the Same Time

You can redeem Rove miles to make a loyalty eligible hotel booking in the portal, then earn points with the hotel for the same booking. This is a unique way to double dip on points.

From your perspective, you’re using points to pay for the room, but when Rove makes the booking on your behalf, the hotel sees the booking as any other paid booking. And if the booking is loyalty eligible, you’ll earn points with the hotel for that stay.

Here’s an example of how it works:

This Courtyard Marriott in San Diego can be booked for 18,000 Rove Miles for one night. When you use points to book, Rove will make the booking directly with Marriott and attach your loyalty number.

Now, you paid in points for the booking, but the hotel doesn’t know that. Rove will make the booking like any other loyalty eligible cash booking. So according to the hotel, you booked a room for $233. As a Marriott Bonvoy member, when you stay at a Courtyard property, you earn 10 base points per dollar spent for the stay. If you’re an elite member, you earn even more. At 10 points per dollar, you would earn 2330 Marriott points for this booking.

Is Rove Miles worth it? (Our review)

Rove has some interesting transfer partners (like Japan Airlines Mileage Bank and Lufthansa Miles & More). And some strong earning rates on many hotel bookings. The option to earn both Rove miles and hotel and airline points for the same reservation makes this program worth a look for sure.

But on the other hand, they are a newer company, and new companies don’t always make it. There’s no guarantee that Rove will stick around for the long term. They have a lot of capital to work with right now, but time will tell if their business model remains sustainable.

There have been a lot of reports that points take longer to post than other shopping portals, and I (Sadie) have experienced this myself. I had miles pending for a purchase for nearly 7 months. Customer service was friendly enough, but it took several attempts to get the miles credited.

If your miles don’t post for some reason, it can be a big hassle and take a lot of back and forth to get those miles. You can submit a claim for missing miles, but the Rove website says it can take 4-8 weeks to resolve those requests, even after you’ve submitted proof of purchase and any other necessary documentation. 

I still think it’s worth checking out, and it is probably worth using the Rove Miles program to earn some extra points here and there. Personally, I’m hesitant to go all in with Rove at this point, but I’ll still be using them on occasion! 

Rove Miles: Frequently Asked Questions

Do Rove Miles expire?

No. As long as your account stays open, your Rove Miles don’t expire.

Does Rove have a credit card?

No. Rove isn’t tied to any bank or credit card, so you don’t need to open
a new card or bank account to earn Rove Miles.

How much are Rove Miles worth?

Booked directly through Rove, miles are typically worth about 1.2–1.6 cents
each, and occasionally more on hotel bookings.

How long do Rove Miles take to post?

Shopping-portal miles usually show as pending within 10 days and post within
60–100 days, though it can take longer. Keep your receipts in case you need
to file for missing miles.

What’s the minimum to transfer Rove Miles to a partner?

2,000 miles per transfer.

Is there a Rove Miles app?

Not yet—Rove runs through its website and a Chrome shopping extension, with
no dedicated iPhone or Android app at this time.