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Rove Miles hasn't been around that long, but I'm already finding more value in this program than in others I've participated in for years. In short, it's consistently given me the opportunity to earn more miles on paid travel that I can use to fund even more free travel.
But let's distill that a bit. Here are five reasons why Rove Miles is quickly becoming my go-to for booking travel.
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Earn Bonus Rove Miles Just for Signing Up
First and foremost, I’m a big fan of loyalty programs that offer sign-up bonuses for new members. Earning one of these bonuses, even if it’s small, is the easiest way to jumpstart a new account. Every little bit helps, as the saying goes.
When I signed up a couple of months ago, the new member bonus was only 500 Rove Miles. But now through October 16, 2025, Rove Miles has increased the bonus to 1,500 miles exclusively for AwardWallet readers. Since Rove is free to join, these will be among the easiest miles you'll ever earn.
And as you’ll quickly see, that bonus can go a surprisingly long way toward your first mileage redemption.
Huge Mileage Multipliers on Flights and Hotels
Rove makes it incredibly easy to earn redeemable miles. While you can rack up plenty of Rove Miles by shopping online through its browser extension (similar to Rakuten or AAdvantage eShopping), the bulk of the miles I’ve earned have come from paid travel.
And I’ve earned a lot thanks to the huge multipliers available on both flights and hotels. The process works a little differently depending on what you’re booking, so let’s start with flights.
Take this $168 one-way flight from Raleigh-Durham (RDU) to Punta Cana (PUJ) as an example. If I book it through Rove, I still earn AAdvantage miles on the reservation (along with Loyalty Points toward elite status), credit card rewards based on my payment method, and I also earn Rove Miles.
At the bare minimum, I’ll earn 168 Rove Miles, which amounts to 1X Rove Mile per dollar spent.
Now, 168 miles isn’t all that exciting, but I can multiply that by 10X and earn 1,168 Rove Miles by paying an extra $24.19 for a boost. And in many cases, it’s easy to get more value out of those miles than what you pay to acquire them.
Hotels can be a lot more lucrative. You earn more Rove Miles per dollar spent right from the get-go. For example, if I booked a two-night stay at The Edgewater in Seattle, I’d earn 33.2X Rove Miles per dollar spent. And it’s not unusual to see multipliers even higher than that.
Another neat feature is that, on this particular booking, I could flip a switch to make it nonrefundable, and Rove would deposit the mileage earnings immediately. That means I could then use those miles right away to book my flight to Seattle. How convenient is that?!
Now about using those Rove Miles…
Solid Redemption Rates for Paid Flights and Hotels
Rove Miles are transferable to a growing list of partner airline and hotel loyalty programs, but one of my favorite ways to redeem them isn’t through partners at all. While I’ve certainly transferred miles, most of my Rove redemptions have been for paid travel.
I like using Rove Miles this way for two main reasons. First, when I redeem Rove Miles for flight bookings, they count as revenue tickets, so I earn airline miles and elite status credits. Second, it’s possible to get well above one cent per mile in value on both flights and hotels.
For flights, I’ve consistently redeemed Rove Miles for about 1.4 cents each. A good example is my upcoming trip to Chicago Seminars in early November (if you haven’t made plans to join us yet, you should!). There weren’t any worthwhile award tickets, and I didn’t want to pay $500 for round-trip flights. Instead, I booked the ticket with 35,500 Rove Miles, which works out to just under 1.4 cents per mile.
Hotels work similarly. Like with flights, redemption rates are dynamic, and while I’ve more consistently gotten around 1.5 cents per mile on hotels I wanted to stay at anyway, I’ve also come across plenty of opportunities where the value is closer to double that.
For example, a three-night stay in late November at the Hôtel Saint-Pétersbourg Opéra & Spa will give you 2.90 cents per mile. That’s incredible.
But it’s possible to unlock even greater value through transfer partners.
A Useful Roster of Transfer Partners
Part of what first encouraged me to sign up for Rove Miles was the chance to earn transferable points on flights, hotels, and online shopping without needing to open another credit card. And Rove has a very practical list of transfer partners, which you can view below.
From here, there are several great ways to redeem Rove Miles and unlock excellent value. For example, you could transfer Rove Miles to:
- Air India Maharaja Club to book domestic United flights from 3,500 miles in economy or 7,000 miles in domestic first class.
- Air France–KLM Flying Blue to book domestic Delta flights starting at just 5,000 miles each way, or one-way Air France or KLM business class to Europe starting at 60,000 miles.
- Finnair Plus to book long-haul business class flights on Finnair (U.S. to Helsinki or Helsinki to Asia) for 62,500 Avios each way.
- Qatar Airways Privilege Club to book Qsuites business class from the U.S. to the Middle East starting at 70,000 Avios.
Even better, Rove has also started offering transfer bonuses. Here’s what’s available right now:
Related: All Current Points and Miles Transfer Bonuses
Live Award Availability in Flight Search Results
The fifth reason I’m high on Rove Miles is that it takes the legwork out of checking transfer partner award availability. That’s because live award space is reflected right in the flight search results.
To show how this works, let’s look at an example between New York LaGuardia (LGA) and Wilmington (ILM). If I enter those parameters when booking a flight through Rove and choose to pay with miles, the results include both direct bookings and transfer bookings.
A direct booking is simply a revenue ticket booked with the airline through Rove. A transfer booking, on the other hand, is a ticket you can book after transferring Rove Miles to a partner program.
In this example, I could pay 14,500 Rove Miles for a revenue ticket, or I could transfer 6,000 miles to Etihad Guest and pay minimal taxes and fees out of pocket. That makes it incredibly easy to compare options without needing to open a separate award availability tool.
You can also double-check that award space is available before transferring your Rove Miles by clicking “Check.” In this case, one click take you directly to the Etihad website, where you’d see the same LGA–ILM flight available for 6,000 miles.
It's really that easy.
Bottom Line
For a long time, I’ve avoided booking through third-party travel portals unless the value was simply too good to pass up. And with most portals you might be familiar with, that’s rarely the case. But Rove Miles has proven to be an exception.
Rove makes it incredibly easy to earn copious rewards on your travel spend and then redeem those miles for excellent value. If you haven’t tried Rove yet, now’s a great time to sign up for free and see what kind of value you can unlock for yourself.
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