Pelago, Singapore Airlines’ own Klook-style “destination discovery platform”, has been around since late 2020, offering activities, experiences and attraction tickets in Singapore and overseas destinations like Bangkok, Sydney, Phuket and London.
Activities and experiences available include include theme park admission, food and drink tours, wellness treatments and museum tickets, with over 10,000 packages currently available ranging from a few dollars to several thousand dollars, including over 500 here in Singapore itself.
The key draw is earning miles for Pelago bookings, usually at a rate of 3 mpd, but currently hiked to as much as 8 mpd when you lock in your activity or experience via the Kris+ app, between now and the end of September 2025, with no upper earning cap in play.
Nonetheless, there’s also the option to redeem your miles via the platform too.
Redeeming with Pelago is usually poor value… but
As usual with these ‘cash out’ options for your KrisFlyer miles, “earn but don’t burn” has always been our advice – since Pelago only usually offers S$1 off your experience bookings per 100 KrisFlyer miles redeemed year-round (1.00 cents per mile value).
Pelago has launched a new bonus offer, with a 20% redemption discount, meaning only 80 KrisFlyer miles will get you S$1 off an experience booking (1.25 cents per mile value), between now and 30th September 2025.
That’s the best ever redemption deal offered by the platform – aided by the fact that the base redemption value on Pelago activities improved by 50% back in July this year, as KrisFlyer standardised its group “cash out” miles redemption value, from 0.67 cents per mile to 1 cent per mile.
That means a 20% discount, though it may sound lousy, generates a far more solid value per mile than larger percentage discounts in the past have achieved.
Full terms and conditions for this offer are available here.
A good option for expiring miles?
Following several years of reprieve during the COVID-19 pandemic, KrisFlyer miles started expiring again in July 2023, with monthly batches dropping out of affected accounts then and at the end of each subsequent month after that, including of course on 30th September 2025.
That means in the worst case some members will be waving goodbye to miles, or trying to cash them out at relatively poor value, in the very near future.
Assuming the best use of miles – a flight redemption with Singapore Airlines, Scoot or a partner airline – isn’t one of your options, our full list starts to look a little sad value-wise.
Redemption value for KrisFlyer miles
| Option | Min. Transfer | Value per mile |
| Redeem an SIA, Scoot or partner award flight | 1,500 | 1.90¢+ |
| Extend your miles for a fee | 1* | 1.74¢ |
| Transfer to Kris+ (9 – 30 Sep ’25) |
10 | 1.20¢ to 1.30¢ |
| Offset a KrisShop purchase (9 – 30 Sep ’25) |
1,000 | 1.25¢ |
| Redeem a Pelago experience (9 – 30 Sep ’25) |
1,000 | 1.25¢ |
| Transfer to Velocity points (9 – 30 Sep ’25) |
5,000 | 1.24¢ |
| Offset an SIA or Scoot cash fare | 1,000 | 1.00¢ |
| Transfer to Accor Live Limitless (9 – 30 Sep ’25) |
4,500 | 1.00¢ |
| Transfer to Shangri-La points (4 Sep – 31 Oct ’25) |
20,000 | 0.89¢ |
| Transfer to yuu Points (9 – 30 Sep ’25) |
2,000 | 0.86¢ |
| Transfer to CapitaStar (9 – 30 Sep ’25) |
3,000 | 0.84¢ |
| Redeem a vRooms hotel stay | 1,200 | 0.80¢ |
| Transfer to LinkPoints (9 – 30 Sep ’25) |
3,000 | 0.72¢ |
| Transfer to Esso Smiles | 3,000 | 0.47¢ to 0.67¢ |
| Transfer to Marriott Bonvoy (9 – 30 Sep ’25) |
3,000 | 0.60¢ |
* Or the miles quantity you have expiring in a single calendar month, if greater
Where necessary in this table, a miles redemption value for a Singapore Airlines flight is assumed at 1.9 cents. You may have to adjust the value per mile for some of these options, if your own valuation is different.
A Pelago booking is currently one of the better “cash out” options between now and 30th September 2025, and with a wide range of experiences on offer both in Singapore and around the world there might just be a good activity to use any expiring miles on by booking before they expire, even for a future-dated event.
However, as you can see from the table, KrisFlyer is also offering several other bonus miles promotions this month as part of its “Paradise of Rewards” promotion.
These include potentially better or more flexible ways to use up your expiring miles than a Pelago redemption, including a transfer to Kris+ at 1.2 to 1.3 cents per mile, or offsetting a KrisShop purchase at 1.25 cents per mile.
How it works
Unfortunately Pelago only allows full redemption for an activity or experience using KrisFlyer miles, unlike options such as KrisShop and vRooms which allow you to mix-and-match miles and cash, better optimising a redemption that uses up only your expiring miles.
With Pelago, you’ll therefore ideally want to be redeeming for an experience priced such that it uses up only expiring miles, or at least doesn’t stretch too far into your non-expiring balance.
For example, if you have 7,400 expiring KrisFlyer miles you could redeem this indoor skydiving experience in Singapore at iFly Sentosa.
As you can see the usual cost of S$89 is waived if you use 7,120 KrisFlyer miles instead (1.25 cents per mile). Only 280 of your non-expiring miles will be “wasted” with this redemption, which probably isn’t a dealbreaker.
Even if you’re logged on to your Pelago account, you’ll still be asked for your KrisFlyer account login details to complete the redemption.
You can redeem miles for a future-dated activity, provided you actually book before the miles expire. As always, KrisFlyer miles expiring first will automatically be redeemed first.
Things to note
Other points to note when redeeming miles with Pelago:
- KrisFlyer redemption on Pelago is subject to a minimum spend of 1,000 miles, which would normally offset a S$10 transaction year-round under this deal, but during this promotion will offset a S$12.50 transaction. Activities cheaper than this don’t offer the KrisFlyer miles redemption option.
- Pelago bookings must be made under your name, or the name of one of your redemption nominees, to redeem miles.
- If you cancel your unused Pelago experience booking made by redeeming from KrisFlyer, your miles will be refunded back into your account within two weeks, but there is no cash refund alternative.
Do note that even though can cancel your Pelago experience booking and have the KrisFlyer miles redeemed refunded to your account within two weeks of cancellation, this does not circumvent the expiry issue.
In this case, the miles will be returned to your account with the same expiry date they had when redeemed. If any of them would have expired already when the refund is processed, those miles will not be refunded.
Don’t forget – use Kris+ to book when earning miles
As we mentioned earlier, it’s actually earning miles from your Pelago bookings that makes the most sense, and currently that means netting up to 8 mpd plus potentially another 4 mpd from your credit card when you do so through the Kris+ app.
These are credited instantly upon payment, then immediately transferable into your KrisFlyer account at a 1:1 ratio.
For full details of this deal, which also runs for bookings made until 30th September 2025, see our dedicated article, which also lists the credit cards you can use to pay with and earn up to 4 mpd on top of the KrisPay miles.
Summary
Pelago has launched a 20% discount for redeeming KrisFlyer miles on thousands of activities from now until 30th September 2025, so provided you book before then you’ll be able to cash out KrisFlyer miles at 1.25 cents each – the best rate the site has offered in recent years.
Nonetheless, other “cash out” alternatives like Kris+ and KrisShop are offering similar bonus promotions this month, and they tend to be more flexible ways to get rid of your expiring miles, at similar or even better rates.
It’s also not a great rate compared to most flight redemptions, which usually offer 2+ cents per mile when you redeem sensibly, so overall this one is probably a miss for most of our readers.
As always, do try to lock in a flight redemption with your expiring miles if you can – it’s almost always the best value you’ll get.
(Cover Photo: Pelago)