Get 5,000 Emirates miles with one hotel booking

Emirates Skywards has a hotel booking portal powered by Rocketmiles, which lets you earn Skywards miles on every booking. You can also spend miles on hotel rooms.

Until Monday, you will get 5,000 bonus Skywards miles on selected hotel bookings. This is on top of your usual base miles.

Click here for full details.

The offer is limited to one booking per person.

Your stay must be completed by 31st October.

Whilst not all hotels on the site offer the 5,000 bonus miles, most do. There is no minimum length of stay and I saw plenty of one night stays for as low as £78 which had the offer.

The downside of using this deal is:

• your booking is treated as third party, so you won’t earn any hotel points and you won’t receive any elite status benefits you may be due

• you won’t get a VAT receipt because of the way Rocketmiles pays the hotel for your room, which may be an issue for business travellers in the UK

5,000 Emirates Skywards miles are useful even if you don’t already have any. For example:

• you can redeem for UK High Street gift cards – roughly £20-worth for 5,000 miles
• you can redeem for easyJet travel credit
• you can convert 4,000 miles into 1,000 Accor Live Limitless hotel points, worth €20 off a future stay
• you can convert Emirates Skywards miles into Marriott Bonvoy hotel points at a ratio of 3:2 with a minimum transfer of 3,000 miles
• you can use them via the same hotel booking site for a £20-£25 discount on your next hotel room

The Marriott Bonvoy option is amusing. If you had 6,000 Skywards miles after your stay – including the 5,000 bonus miles – this would convert into 4,000 Marriott Bonvoy points. You could also convert into Accor points.

This means that you could earn a chunk of Marriott or Accor points by booking virtually any hotel, even those belonging to other chains!

You can book via the Emirates hotel platform here. The offer ends on Monday although your stay can be until 31st October.

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How to earn Emirates Skywards miles from UK credit cards (September 2025)

Emirates Skywards does not have a UK credit card.  However, you can earn Emirates Skywards miles by converting Membership Rewards points earned from selected UK American Express cards.

Credit cards earning Membership Rewards points include:

• American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Credit Card (review here, apply here) – sign-up bonus of 20,000 Membership Rewards points converts into 15,000 Emirates Skywards miles. This card is FREE for your first year and also comes with four free airport lounge passes.

• The Platinum Card from American Express (review here, apply here) – sign-up bonus of 50,000 Membership Rewards points converts into 37,500 Emirates Skywards miles

• The American Express Rewards Credit Card (review here, apply here) – sign-up bonus of 10,000 Membership Rewards points converts into 7,500 Emirates Skywards miles. This card is FREE for life.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 14th October 2025, the sign-up bonus on the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Credit Card is doubled to 40,000 Membership Rewards points. This would convert to 30,000 Emirates Skywards miles! The spend target is changed to £5,000 within SIX months of approval. T&C apply. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 14th October 2025, the sign-up bonus on The Platinum Card from American Express is increased to 80,000 Membership Rewards points. This would convert to 60,000 Emirates Skywards miles! The spend target is changed to £10,000 within SIX months of approval. T&C apply. Click here to apply.

Membership Rewards points convert at 4:3 into Emirates Skywards miles which is an attractive rate.  The cards above all earn 1 Membership Rewards point per £1 spent on your card, which converts to 0.75 Emirates Skywards miles

The American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Credit Card earns double points (2 per £1) on all flights you charge to it, not just with Emirates but with any airline.