Uber to introduce hotel booking feature and ‘room service’ options - BERITAJA

Uber announced connected Wednesday that U.S. and world customers will soon beryllium capable to book hotels and picnic rentals connected its app and moreover bid room work to their edifice rooms, arsenic it seeks to modulation to an end-to-end recreation platform.

“Uber is becoming an app for everything, Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s CEO, said during a product announcement.

The app, founded successful 2009 successful San Francisco by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick arsenic a elemental cab-hailing service, will aviator and grow its edifice preservation work to U.S. users opening successful June earlier rolling retired a world update.

More than 700,000 hotels and Vrbo properties will beryllium bookable connected the app later this twelvemonth done a business pinch Expedia, the institution said.

Uber rides will beryllium integrated straight into the Expedia app opening successful June, while Expedia’s edifice inventory will beryllium consolidated into the Uber app.

“Travel should consciousness effortless,” Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin said successful the announcement.

Other accommodation and recreation booking sites for illustration Airbnb and Booking.com besides person their ain s apps.

Other ride-sharing apps, for illustration Lyft, which connection modular thrust options, luxury vehicles, and services specified arsenic motorcycle and scooter rentals, arsenic good arsenic assisted rides, do not presently connection edifice booking services, for illustration Uber plans to.

Uber is besides introducing Travel Mode wrong the Uber and Uber Eats apps, which will propose celebrated tourer destinations, alteration OpenTable reservations and present Uber’s type of “room service” wherever users could bid items to beryllium delivered straight to their edifice room door.

The rollout will besides see a spate of updates for Uber One customers, including the expertise to petition items from immoderate shop — moreover those not listed connected the app — and the action to book Uber Black aliases Uber Black SUV, pinch the driver arriving pinch a portion aliases snack successful hand.

The move is aimed astatine boosting Uber One memberships, the app’s subscription service, which costs US$9.99 a month, by offering a scope of discounts and in installments rewards for customers who motion up and book their recreation done the app.

At the extremity of 2025, Uber said it had 46 cardinal Uber One members, up 55 percent from the twelvemonth prior, and that Uber One had go integral to customer retention.

The app’s caller offerings will connection 10 percent backmost successful Uber credits and 20 percent disconnected edifice bookings.

The announcement follows a bid of restructuring efforts and caller business partnerships aimed astatine expanding the app’s functionality.

Earlier this year, Uber introduced a robotaxi and added an in-app parking preservation option. It besides announced Uber Air arsenic portion of its aerial ridesharing service, which will let users to book flights.