The Offer
- You can currently get $40 back when you spend $80 or more on Booking.com. This works for existing users as well.
The Fine Print
- Limit of three money back offers per year
- Credit is good for one year
- One time use only
- New Mexico and Hawaii are excluded
Our Verdict
Earlier this year American Airlines offered this same $40 back offer for booking.com. There was also a €75 Off €225+ deal. This offer is new, so should work if you’ve done the other two people just note you’re limited to a total of three money back offers per year. When I did previously deals it worked even if I paid at the property, I just received an automatic refund on my credit card. If you’ve never made a booking.com booking, you might want to use a referral link first.
Hat tip to The Gate
Are you able to get the 40 dollars from past visit if you never got it
Looks like this deal might be dead. Is anyone seeing it when they click the link?
I don’t see it either, updating post.
Does this have to be a prepaid booking? Everything I am looking at is pay at property so I’m not sure how it would track. Tho I guess it must be possible bc I remember a few yrs ago getting PAID $5-10 per night on ultra cheap hostel bookings in Asia.
Prepayment is not required, but having a credit card on file may be. I reserved a room with no prepayment and my reservation summary stated that a $40 credit would be applied to my credit card after the stay. I have done these offers before and the credit usually shows up within a couple of days.
For certain Booking.com hotels in foreign countries, they don’t charge you online before your trip, but instead simply reserve the room through Booking.com and have you pay when you arrive at the location. Would those charges that are processed on-site at the hotel count as paying through Booking.com, and be eligible for this $40 off promo??
I’m about to use my Arrival+ to book several nights in Thailand for next year, and I’m also concerned that the hotel charge may not register as “travel-related” for the reimbursement
I believe so, at least it has worked for me before. Not 100% sure how they do it though.
Just a follow-up on this: the hotel (hostel) in Thailand made me swipe the card at their square reader terminal upon check-in. The charge was NOT processed through booking.com and instead was categorized as “Real Estate” due to the hostel’s Visa/MC coding.
It took 25+ days and multiple calls to Barclay to get the charge manually credited using Arrival+ points; huge hassle. Booking.com is simply a reservation system for lots of these small, foreign hotels, and was not an easy way to redeem Arrival+ points.
Yeah it will depend if it costs as hotel, weird that it coded as real estate but will vary from hotel to hotel I guess
Already booked my trip to Mexico in may thru the Expedia deal a few weeks back. Just for giggles I fake booked the EXACT same trip thru booking.com with the 40$ Back offer and guess what the price difference was? Exactly 40$ more ! Hard lolz at that booking.com
If the $40 is refund back your card, then why is the “credit only good for a year?”
please explain, thank you
Not sure sorry
Anyone know how to get the $20 off banner to appear after going through a portal?
Meant $40 off.
For people who have gotten on booking.com money back offer in the past, how soon does the refund come? right after stay is completed?
my stay is going to be prepaid so wondering when I will see credit…. thanks all
You get the credit within days of the trip completing.
Thanks. Is it $40 credit back your CC or $40 credit for future Booking.com credit??
Credit to the CC you designate, actually.
Thanks, it says credit good for a year under “fine print” on this page so that threw me off…
Is it only for hotel stay? Looks like flights don’t count.
Yes hotel
My page says $40 off $80 even after logging in.
I took advantage of the offer last time, but they apparently can’t credit the $40 to an Amex card, so it took a couple of email exchanges between me and customer service to eventually get that $40 credited to another Visa card. Even though it was a bit of a hassle, I still think it was worth it, and I plan on taking advantage of the offer this time too.
Thanks Doc for posting this!