Hotels.com Gift Card Sale: Get a Bonus Card Worth up to $40 [Ends January 1]

If you purchase a Hotels.com gift card by January 1, 2026, you can get a $25 or $40 bonus card, depending on the value of the gift card you purchase.

This can represent a 16% return on your spending, which is great for a website that offers a massive inventory of hotels around the world.

Here are the details of this new offer so you know how to maximize it.

Hotels.com Gift Card Sale: Details

Hotels.com has an incredibly diverse portfolio, offering hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, hotels, and more around the world. Through January 1, 2026, at 3 a.m. Eastern time, the site’s also having a nice sale on gift cards.

Purchases are available here, and you can send a gift card to someone else or get one for yourself.

If you purchase a $150 gift card, you get a $25 bonus card. With the purchase of a $250 gift card, you get a bonus card worth $40.

You also can send a physical or a digital gift card, and you can add value in U.S. or Canadian dollars.

There’s a limit of 1 bonus gift card per person during this sale, no matter how many gift cards you purchase. The bonus card will be sent to the email associated with the purchase within 48 hours.

Is It Worth It?

Getting $25 back on $150 of spending is a 16.7% return; $40 back on $250 is a 16% return. That’s pretty solid.

For anyone who uses Hotels.com regularly to book lodging, jumping on this sale definitely makes sense.

For other people, it’s worth knowing about some confusing elements of this sale.

The promotion’s terms don’t mention any expiration date for the promotional gift card (the $25 or $40 bonus card). That said, Frequent Miler shows that these promotional cards arriving with an expiration date of January 2, 2026, for some users.

However, it seems like you can combine these promotional cards with your standard gift card, and that may get around the concern of a possible expiration.

Just in case, it makes sense to know about this issue and have a backup plan for using the promotional gift card before January 2, 2026. And that limitation definitely reduces the overall value of this sale for many people.

Final Thoughts

Hotels.com is running a gift card sale through January 1, offering a 16% return on spending by giving you a promotional card after a qualifying purchase. There are confusing elements in this sale that aren’t made clear until after you’re done with your purchase, and you should have a clear plan for using your gift card — just in case.

For regular Hotels.com users, though, that shouldn’t be an issue, and this is a valuable sale for anyone who falls into that category.