Based out of Singapore, Kaligo.com is a new competitor to likes of PointsHound.com and Rocketmiles.com.
This start up looks and feel likes it competitors and seems to work on
the exact same premise. They are a third party hotel booking site that
awards miles from various loyalty programs for those bookings once the
stay is completed. You can tell they are quite new as Kaligo’s roster of
loyalty partners is small compared to the other two established sites.
Right now Kaligo only offers miles with American AAdvantage, Cathay
Pacific Asia Miles and US Airways Dividend Miles.
We became aware of Kaligo via Cathay Pacific as they are running a bonus for Kaligo bookings (as taken from our Asia Miles bonus miles page):
Earn up to 10,000 Bonus Asia Miles when you
book hotels via Kaligo. Earn 2,000 Bonus Asia Miles when you register
and book for the first time at any of their 300,000 hotels. Plus, earn
an additional 8,000 Bonus Asia Miles if you book eight or more room
nights. Full details Until Jan 31, 15
Now
that there are three companies vying for your bookings in this space we
thought we would do some comparisons between them all. Since American
AAdvantage and US Airways are the only program that all three services
partner with choose to compare AAdvantage earning across all three in
our home city of Calgary for stays at the Hotel Germain, a boutique
hotel that does not participate in any loyalty programs:
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| Kaligo.com |
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| PointsHound.com |
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| Rocketmiles.com |
Looking at this quick comparison you can see that Rocketmiles is.
the clear winner with the best price and the most miles awarded for
this stay but this is not always the case
Update: Thanks to DoctorOfCredit
for pointing out that Kaligo prices include taxes! So in fact all three
sites in our comparison would be comparable on price so the deciding
factor would be the number of miles awarded.
We would
recommend checking all three sites to see which can provide the best
bonus for the best price and for hotels that may not be featured on one
of them. We checked a few other cities (Los Angeles, Singapore). You also need to take
and the trend was for Kaligo to be more expensive but they also tended
to award the most miles out of the three
into account any bonus offers such as Kaligo’s bonus Asia Miles as
outlined above or anyone of the numerous Rocketmiles first booking
bonuses (find those here).
Finally, you’ll also need to take into account the program you want to
earn miles in, for example Asia Miles are only available with
PointsHound.com or Kaligo.com.
Unlike Pointshound and
Rocketmiles, Kaligo does not have a referral program to get new members
but we wouldn’t be surprised if that is something they bring along soon
to attract more awareness to their site.
I recall
talking with Pointshound when they launched and were soon followed by
Rocketmiles. They were in fact happy there was competition as it
validated their concept. Obviously it seems to be a good concept since
there is now a third player in the space!
We wish the
best to Kaligo and hope they succeed as well as there can’t be enough
places to earn more Miles, more Points and more Rewards!