KrisFlyer ending vRooms miles redemptions for hotel stays, car rentals

Singapore Airlines has posted a notice on its website confirming that KrisFlyer members will no longer be able to redeem miles for new hotel and car rental bookings on KrisFlyer vRooms from 11th December 2026.

That leaves members with one month to make any final redemption bookings, with 10th December 2026 the last day to do so.

Existing redemption bookings will be honoured, and both customer service and the Manage My Booking page will remain available for those reservations.

SIA hasn’t said whether the website will carry on as a cash-only booking portal after the cut-off, though it’s hard to see the point. Unlike some FFP-branded hotel booking sites, such as Avios Hotels, vRooms has never let you earn KrisFlyer miles on your booking, so a cash-only vRooms would simply be Agoda’s own rates with SIA branding on top.

What was vRooms?

KrisFlyer vRooms launched in May 2018 as a hotel and car rental booking portal where you could pay for all or part of a reservation using KrisFlyer miles.

Originally run by Points.com, vRooms went offline for several months in 2024, before relaunching on Agoda’s platform. It covers over 350,000 hotels and 29,000 car rental locations worldwide.

The main rules were:

• A minimum of 1,500 KrisFlyer miles per booking, to offset some or all of the cost.
• No fixed miles-to-cash conversion rate – it varied by hotel or car rental.
• No KrisFlyer miles earned on vRooms bookings, even those paid fully in cash.

Honestly, it never really caught on.

Every so often we would actually check that it still existed! We’ve never used it ourselves, and we can’t recall hearing from a single reader who did, though we’re sure some must have.

Was it ever good value?

Mostly, no. When we first looked at vRooms in 2018, paying for a hotel stay entirely with miles worked out at around 0.8 cents per mile in almost every example we checked. Car rentals were worse still, at 0.7 to 0.8 cents.

There was one exception, though. vRooms offered a sliding scale of miles and cash payment options, and picking the minimum miles, maximum cash option could unlock outsized value at some properties.

We found 2 cents per mile at the Andaz Singapore in 2018, and 1.95 cents per mile at the Hyatt Regency Bangkok in early 2024.

Move up the scale, however, and each extra block of miles was valued at roughly 0.8 cents, which quickly dragged the overall value back down.

Since the switch to Agoda, the fixed scale gave way to a free choice – you can enter any number of miles from 1,500 upwards and pay the balance in cash. Again, the higher discount per mile is at the lowest redemption level (usually 1,500 miles itself).

Other than that, our only vRooms coverage in the last six years has been two 25% redemption discount promotions, in August 2022 and February 2024. These briefly lifted the typical value to around 1.1 cents per mile.

There was always a loyalty drawback too – because vRooms bookings went through a third-party portal, you wouldn’t earn hotel points or elite credits at chain properties, and your status benefits weren’t guaranteed to be honoured.

That always made vRooms best suited to independent hotels, or to chains you don’t bother collecting points or status with.

Now beaten by other cash-out options

vRooms looked even worse from 1st July 2025, when KrisFlyer harmonised its other ‘cash-out’ options at 100 miles per S$1, or 1 cent per mile:

• Offsetting an SIA or Scoot cash fare (minimum 1,000 miles)
• Transferring to KrisPay miles for Kris+ spend (minimum 10 miles)
• Paying for KrisShop purchases (minimum 1,000 miles)
• Redeeming Pelago experiences (minimum 1,000 miles)

vRooms was left out of that change and kept its own variable rate. At a typical 0.8 cents per mile, every one of those alternatives is 25% better value. They also have lower minimums and more flexibility, which helps if you’re only trying to use up a small batch of expiring miles.

Only the minimum-miles redemption tactic, at the right property, could still beat 1 cent per mile. Even then, Kris+ transfer promotions periodically push cash-out value to 1.2 cents or more, so it was rarely worth the effort.

In our guide to expiring KrisFlyer miles, vRooms ranked eighth of 18 options, behind all of the 1 cent alternatives.

Best ways to cash out your KrisFlyer miles

Here’s how the options for your KrisFlyer miles now stack up, with vRooms on its way out.

Redemption value for KrisFlyer miles

Option	Min. Miles	Value per mile
Redeem an SIA, Scoot or partner award flight	1,500	1.90¢+
Extend your miles for a fee	1*	1.74¢
Offset a KrisShop purchase	1,000	1.00¢
Redeem a Pelago experience	1,000	1.00¢
Transfer to Kris+	10	1.00¢
Transfer to Velocity points	5,000	1.00¢
Offset an SIA or Scoot cash fare	1,000	1.00¢
Transfer to yuu Points	1,600	0.75¢
Transfer to Marriott Bonvoy	3,000	0.75¢
Transfer to CapitaStar	3,000	0.71¢
Transfer to Shangri-La points	20,000	0.70¢
Transfer to Accor Live Limitless	4,500	0.66¢
Transfer to LinkPoints	3,000	0.60¢
Transfer to Esso Smiles	3,000	0.47¢ to 0.67¢

* 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.

Bear in mind that the 1 cent and lower options all fall well short of the value you’ll typically get from a Saver award flight, so they’re best kept for miles that would otherwise expire.

KrisFlyer vRooms will stop taking redemption bookings from 11th December 2026, ending a run of more than eight years as one of the programme’s more obscure (and honestly forgettable) ways to spend miles.

If you already have a vRooms booking, nothing changes. If you’ve been eyeing a minimum-miles redemption at a property where the maths works, you have until 10th December to book it.

For everyone else, this won’t be missed. SIA and Scoot fare offsets, Kris+, KrisShop and Pelago all now give you a flat 1 cent per mile with lower minimums, though as always holding your miles for award flights remains by far the better option, and you can book up to a year in advance even with an imminently expiring balance.