Roame runs a 25% off summer sale on Friends of Roame through August 16, 2026. What the award-search tool does, who should buy it, and who should skip it.
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Roame is running a summer sale on its Friends of Roame membership through 11:59pm Pacific on August 16, 2026. After that, the discount drops. Before you jump on it, here's the honest version of whether a paid award-search tool is worth the money, because for a lot of people it isn't.
When you want to book a flight with points, the hard part isn't having the points. It's finding a seat the airline will actually let you book with them. Airline websites hide partner award space, only show one program at a time, and the good seats vanish fast.
Roame is a search engine for exactly that. You tell it where and roughly when you want to go, and it scans award availability across dozens of frequent-flyer programs at once, then shows you which flights have bookable award seats and how many points they cost. It turns "I'll spend three evenings clicking through airline sites" into one search.
Be honest with yourself about which one you are.
Buy it if:
Skip it if:
Friends of Roame runs about $110 a year at full price (the summer sale takes a chunk off that, see below). That sounds like a lot for a search tool. But one good premium redemption it helps you find, a lie-flat seat that would have cost thousands in cash, pays for the membership many times over. The tool only makes sense if you'll actually book with it. If you won't, even a free trial is a waste of your time.
Through August 16, you get 25% off your first payment on Friends of Roame:
REWARDSGURUThat brings the annual plan to about $82 for the first year (it renews at the regular rate after). After the sale ends, the standard discount drops to 10%, so if you were going to subscribe this year anyway, doing it before August 16 is the cheaper move.
Roame is a genuinely useful tool if you book award travel and hate hunting for space by hand. It is not a magic points machine, and it's dead weight if you don't have trips to book. If that first description is you, the summer sale is the cheapest this membership gets until it resets. If it's not, keep your $110 and use our free transfer-partner value table instead.
Roame membership pricing and sale terms verified against Roame's own subscription page and affiliate communication, August 2026. Sale ends 11:59pm PT August 16, 2026. This is analysis, not financial advice.