One of Uber's new features allows users to book US hotels in the app through a partnership with Expedia, the travel booking company that the Financial Times reported Uber considered bidding for in 2024 and where Khosrowshahi was previously CEO. Later this year, Uber plans to expand travel booking to include properties listed on Expedia's vacation-rental site Vrbo and to allow users to book Uber rides to and from where they're staying. Uber is also adding a "travel mode" to the app with suggestions on what t ...

Uber is checking into the hotel business. The ride-hailing company on Wednesday said it'll now let users book hotels directly in the Uber app. You can browse through more than 700,000 hotels around the world via a partnership with Expedia. This might be most appealing for Uber One subscribers, who'll score a 20% discount on a rolling list of 10,000 hotels. Members also get 10% back in Uber Credits on all bookings. (Uber One costs $9.99 a month.) To book a hotel through the Uber app, tap the new Hotels icon ...

"We're no longer just an app for rides, or even two apps, or [a] family of apps for both rides and eats," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said during the company's event. "Uber is now an app for everything, where you can go, you can get and now you can travel," he said. Image Credits:Uber Uber customers in the United States can now book hotels directly through the app, one of several new features announced Wednesday that pushes far beyond the company's original ride-hailing purpose and even deeper into its users ...