Uber adding hotel bookings

Uber is expanding into the hotel booking industry, it announced on Wednesday.

At its annual new product event, the rideshare company unveiled a partnership with Expedia that allows Uber customers to book hotels directly in its app. Uber users in the U.S. will ultimately have access to more than 700,000 properties offered on Expedia through the partnership.

“Uber is becoming an app for everything—helping people go, get, and now travel all in one place,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a release. “We’re all living through a moment of real cognitive overload: too many apps, too many decisions, too much noise. At the end of the day, our job is to help people reclaim their time, spending less of it managing the logistics of life and more of it actually living.”

Uber One members, who pay $9.99 per month for certain benefits, will save at least 20 percent on a rolling list of more than 10,000 hotels worldwide and will earn 10 percent back in Uber One credits on all hotel bookings under the partnership.

Vacation rentals from Vrbo, which is owned by Expedia, will be added later this year, the Uber release noted. 

Ariane Gorin, the CEO of Expedia, said in the release that the joint venture “gets us one step closer to offering a seamless traveler experience” and will help “travelers spend less time planning and more time enjoying the journey.”

At the product event, Uber also unveiled new initiatives geared toward providing customers with restaurant recommendations and a platform to shop. The company, which brought in more than $43.9 million in revenue in 2024, previously added food and grocery delivery services. 

In September, the Department of Justice sued Uber for discriminating against those with disabilities, including those with service animals and mobility devices — such as stowable wheelchairs. Last month, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim denied Uber’s motion to dismiss the case.

Less than two weeks later, Kim agreed to give Uber until April 17 to file its answer to the complaint. Uber filed its answer on the due date, according to the court docket.