Get 11,500 Avios points or £140 for 3 x 2-night Accor stays, however cheap

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• Andrew says:

  8 Sep8 September 07:41

  I can very rarely get the Happy Mondays calendar to work. You just have to go to the main website, and put in MONDAY where it says “preferential code”.

• Reney says:

  8 Sep8 September 08:17

  Hi,

  Thank you, been waiting for this, two questions:

  1. Are you sure Amex plat still offer top level Le ClubAccor, I say this because I logged in last night to apply for it I only see the other two hotel chain and some golf club.

  2. If my friend is staying at an Ibis in Amsterdam can I book for her instead (I’m not going)?

  • Rob says:

    8 Sep8 September 08:40

    Hmmm.

    It isn’t on the main Platinum page I agree. HOWEVER if you click ‘Enrol’ on the benefits page then it IS there, along with Starwood and Carlson, and it lets you complete the form. I am giving Amex IT the benefit of the doubt on this for now.

    2nd point – if you book a room in both names, with you as first named guest as it will be off your account, then it will count ok.

    • nick says:

      8 Sep8 September 08:57

      Annex recently told me that the hotel status benefit is a first-year benefit only- it does not renew in later years. Surely this is nonsense?!

      • Rob says:

        8 Sep8 September 09:05

        Yes, it is nonsense. Never trust the call centre.

        To be honest, most of the Brighton call centre staff tell people to look at HFP for info anyway!

  • Reney says:

    8 Sep8 September 08:45

    Noooo! that’s the main reason for me to upgrade to plat, I have sent them a message to ask.

    sorry one more:

    I need a five night stay, would it work if I book two nights on Accor then one night with Kaligo (for the BA Amex offer) than another two night with Accor. Would that count as consecutive??

    • Rob says:

      8 Sep8 September 08:51

      Just edited my comment to say that it IS still there if you click ‘Enrol’ so I am guessing it is an IT cock up on the front page.

      They did remove free Hilton Gold with zero warning 18 months ago though so I don’t put anything past them!

      • Reney says:

        8 Sep8 September 09:18

        If I click through to enrol it is there but in stage 2 it disappear again!

    • Rob says:

      8 Sep8 September 08:52

      You MIGHT get away with it – as long as:

      a) you checked out after the first 2 nights inc settling your bill

      b) this is very important – your Accor number must NOT be in the booking for the 3rd night. The hotel might ‘helpfully’ put it in, make sure they don’t. If the Accor number stays in then it will be treated as one consecutive stay.

      • Reney says:

        8 Sep8 September 09:02

        Thanks, not sure I can be bothered to check out and settle. Plus Kaligo doesn’t seem to be working this morning or there really isn’t any hotel with rooms left in the whole of Bali!

  • Oh! Matron! says:

    8 Sep8 September 08:49

    I got my Platinum card renewed last week, if that’s any help

• Sebastian says:

  8 Sep8 September 09:28

  If this was 1×3 stays I could’ve done it, however with all the bookings I currently have, I don’t think I’ll be able to do the six night 🙁

• RIccati says:

  8 Sep8 September 09:54

  Already have a plenty of x2 night bookings with Accor and decided NOT to re-shuffle. Unfortunate.

  This is unlike the past year promos, particularly with miles, where existing bookings counted.

  • RIccati says:

    8 Sep8 September 09:57

    I.e., by reshuffling one would spend more money than promotion’s worth and/or be taken away from preferential locations.

    Pretty useless promo for a regular traveller.

• DJ says:

  8 Sep8 September 10:29

  This is a very poorly constructed promotion. You have 13 days to book accomodation and I for one have already made my reservations for the next 7 weeks. To cancel and re-book would cost far more than the promotional benefit.
  The only real gain is to achieve status, which at gold is not very much. I am currently platinum.
  The booking window is really too short. At least with IHG you have 90 plus days to book and accumulate

• Andrew says:

  8 Sep8 September 10:34

  Is there any mention on whether IBIS budget is excluded?

  • Rob says:

    8 Sep8 September 11:16

    It IS excluded.

    Ibis Budget, F1 / Formule 1 and Etap hotels globally do not participate at all in the programme. Standard Ibis / Ibis Styles is fine.

• Rich says:

  8 Sep8 September 12:14

  I have just over 1K Acccor points as a result of the Accor / triple Avios promo a couple of months ago. I’m sure I read via a comment on here that they would autoconvert to Avios after each stay, without having to wait to reach 2000 points to cash out.

  Maybe I read it wrong, or set it up wrong, but they didn’t. Is there anyway to get those 1000 points out? I have no planned stays at Accor.

  • Rob says:

    8 Sep8 September 14:59

    There was a link which, when activated, converted all your existing balance and future points. Not sure if it is still working. See https://headforpoints.com/2014/08/06/how-to-convert-accor-points-to-avios/

    • Rich says:

      15 Sep15 September 14:40

      Worked a treat, thanks.

      At least I *think* it worked. I went through the complicated hoop-jumping exercise on Wednesday. Nothing happened until overnight last night, when my Accor balance dropped to zero. Nothing in my Iberia Plus account yet, but I presume they will arrive in the fullness of time…

  • CV3V says:

    8 Sep8 September 16:27

    has worked ok for me on recent stays, set up to BA avios though not Iberia

• General Mayhem says:

  8 Sep8 September 13:27

  Have just been on the Amex Platinum website, and cannot find the Accor link anywhere.

  The call centre, when I phoned them, rather casually said “oh we dropped that months ago” and replaced it with something or other but could not say what.

  So left with Club Carlson, and er….

  Hmmmm..

  • Scottnothing says:

    8 Sep8 September 14:10

    Wow, you’re right. The following text has been removed from the Amex Platinum Card description on their main website:

    “Enjoy elite tier membership including Starwood Preferred Guest Gold, Le Club Accor Hotels Platinum, Club Carlson Gold Elite, Hertz #1 Club Gold and Avis Preferred”

    A rather cheeky” enhancement” to the card’s benefits!

    • Rob says:

      8 Sep8 September 14:57

      Line has gone but benefits are still listed on the Platinum website – except for Accor. You can still sign up for Accor though via the form on the Platinum website.

      • Alan says:

        8 Sep8 September 15:11

        However – I found that if I clicked the enrolment link for any of the hotel ones it then showed Accor OK, but if you then select Accor and click next it crashes out. Can’t tell if bad Amex IT as usual or if they’ve just made a stealth devaluation (also quite possible). Would be very annoying if so, really find Accor Plat pretty handy.

  • Kai says:

    8 Sep8 September 14:54

    I got my Platinum card two weeks ago and can confirm elite hotel status are still a benefit.

  • Rob says:

    8 Sep8 September 14:58

    Click ‘Enrol’ for any of the hotel schemes and you go to a generic enrollment page. Accor is still on it.

  • CV3V says:

    8 Sep8 September 16:31

    i signed up for Platinum via Amex just 2 months ago, using the usual enrolment option. However, o see that its now disappeared. The website seems to have had a revamp. I find Accor Plat to be one of the best benefits, Accor seem to respect the status.

    • Rob says:

      8 Sep8 September 17:02

      It has now gone from the enrollment page as well. Hmmm.

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