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Avianca LifeMiles Hotels is a fickle beast — constantly coming out with new promotions, yet not making it clear until days later. The latest promotion is no exception. For a limited time, you can earn 50% bonus miles on hotel stays booked through LifeMiles Hotels, allowing members to earn up to 22,000 LifeMiles per night.
Let's dive into some examples of how you can utilize this promotion for your next hotel reservation — and whether it's worth it.
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Earn 50% Bonus LifeMiles Through LifeMiles Hotels
Through this promotion, you can earn 50% bonus LifeMiles when you book a hotel stay through LifeMiles Hotels. You can also earn up to 40% more miles when you pay using your Avianca LifeMiles credit card, if you have Avianca elite status, or if you're an LifeMiles Plus plan subscriber.
If you don't have elite status but are actively working toward it, this promotion can help you reach it. You'll earn 1 elite qualifying mile for every 2 base miles you earn through the LifeMiles hotels platform, and 1 qualifying mile for every 20 bonus miles earned during the promotion — through March 21, 2026.
Key terms
- This promotion is only valid with reservations made via the LifeMiles Hotels portal.
- Bookings must be made before March 21, 2026.
- Stays must be completed before July 30, 2026.
- The LifeMiles bonus applies per transaction.
- LifeMiles will be credited to the member's account within 2-4 weeks after the hotel stay is completed.
- This offer cannot be combined and/or applied to existing bookings or retroactively applied to bookings not made using LifeMiles Hotels.
- Promotion is invalid if the reservation is canceled, in whole or in part.
- All standard LifeMiles Hotels terms & conditions apply.
How to Book Through LifeMiles Hotels
As we lay out below, booking through the LifeMiles Hotels platform is straightforward. For this promotion, you'll need to sign into your LifeMiles account and search for a hotel using the “Pay and earn LifeMiles” option.
When you search for a hotel through this option, the bonus amount will be reflected automatically. Let's take a look at a couple of examples of how this bonus will be applied when booking through the LifeMiles Hotels portal through this promotion.
Crowne Plaza Asuncion by IHG: Earn 34 LifeMiles per $1
I'm planning a trip to Paraguay this year, so I can book the Crowne Plaza Asuncion by IHG for just $129 per night, or $425.54 for three nights, including taxes and fees. Booking under this promotion, I can earn 14,550 LifeMiles, or over 34 LifeMiles per $1 spent.
However, note that not every property will have the same earning potential. For instance, the Aloft Asuncion for the same dates would cost $338.75, and I'd only earn 2,550 LifeMiles on the booking. Although 7.5 LifeMiles per $1 spent is certainly nothing to scoff at, it's clear there are better options available.
Es Saadi Marrakech Resort – Palace: Earn 18.5 LifeMiles per $1
Although you might associate LifeMiles Hotels with Latin America, you can book properties all over the world. In addition to Paraguay, I'm also hoping to visit Morocco for the first time this year. I could book a junior suite at the Es Saadi Marrakech Resort – Palace for $636 per night, or $2,134.20 for three nights, including taxes and fees.
Thanks to the 50% bonus miles promotion, I'd earn 39,500 LifeMiles on this booking, averaging 18.5 LifeMiles per $1 spent.
And since LifeMiles regularly runs promotions on award travel, the 39,500 LifeMiles I earn on the booking could easily get me a business class ticket from the U.S. to Central or South America.
LifeMiles Hotels vs. Booking.com
Although the LifeMiles Hotels portal is powered by Rocket Travel by Agoda and associated with Booking.com, it's important to know that these are two different ways to book hotels. To take advantage of this promotion (and future LifeMiles promotions), you'll need to make your reservation through the LifeMiles Hotels portal.
The LifeMiles Hotels portal is understandably less popular than Booking.com. Unless you are a dedicated LifeMiles member, there's a chance you didn't even know it existed. But because it's in partnership with Booking.com, it still offers thousands of options, just like the standard Booking.com portal.
Other Ways to Earn More Avianca LifeMiles
This promotion is just one of many ways to earn LifeMiles. So, if you need more than what your stay will provide through this offer, you might consider topping off your LifeMiles balance by buying miles (ideally during a promotion with a bonus or discount) or leveraging one of LifeMiles’ many transfer partners.
Here are all the programs that partner with Avianca:
This means you can take your pick of transferable points currencies and unlock the ability to transfer them to Avianca LifeMiles. And with several fantastic credit card offers currently available, it’s easier than ever to build up your balance quickly.
$95
- 5X miles per dollar on purchases through Capital One Entertainment
- 5X miles per dollar on hotels, vacation rentals and rental cars booked through Capital One Travel
- 2X miles per dollar on all other purchases
$95
- 10X on Hotels, Car Rentals, and Attractions booked through CitiTravel.com
- 3X – Earn 3 Points per $1 spent on Air Travel and Other Hotel Purchases
- 3X – Earn 3 Points per $1 spent on Restaurants
- 3X – Earn 3 Points per $1 spent on Supermarkets
- 3X – Earn 3 Points per $1 spent on Gas and EV Charging Stations
- 1X – Earn 1 Point per $1 spent on All Other Purchases
$325Rates & Fees
(Terms apply)
- 4X Membership Rewards® Points at restaurants worldwide, plus takeout and delivery in the U.S. (on up to $50,000 per year in purchases, then 1X)
- 4X Membership Rewards® points at U.S. supermarkets (on up to $25,000 per year in purchases, then 1X)
- 3X Membership Rewards® points on flights booked directly with airlines or on amextravel.com
- 2X Membership Rewards® points on prepaid hotels and other eligible travel booked on amextravel.com
- 1X on other eligible purchases
Related: How to Earn Avianca LifeMiles: A Complete Guide
Our Take
For a limited time, you can earn up to 22,000 bonus LifeMiles per night for reservations made through the LifeMiles Hotel portal. While that might seem like a steal, you would likely need to book a very expensive hotel to come close to this number. As you can see from our examples above, even earning 34 LifeMiles per dollar spent yields around 5,000 miles per night.
Also, keep in mind that you likely won't earn toward hotel elite status or receive any benefits of status you currently hold if you book through the portal. Traditionally, those perks are reserved for stays booked directly with the hotel. However, for those not chasing elite status or booking an independent hotel, the extra miles you'll earn during this promotion will likely be worth it for future flight reservations.
If you still want to take advantage of this deal, you'll need to act fast, as the booking window for this promotion closes on March 21, 2026.
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