Bits: impressive Accor ‘Black Friday’ sale, 25% off Iberia tickets, £10 Amazon cashback last call

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• Martin says:

  28 Nov28 November 06:10

  Well the Accor deal certainly looked good, so I used the link to try and book rooms in Birmingham in January. £25 per room (plus £5.95 for breakfast per person). Bargain. Only the website won’t complete the booking, saying ‘sorry these rooms have just been sold’ after taking you the whole way through. But the rooms are still showing on offer at £25. Grrr. So after 7 attempts! I called the booking line, at 13p per minute. The very pleasant man said he too could see the rooms there at £25 but was unable to book it for me as it was ‘an Internet only deal’.
  So an email generating business left a poor taste in my mouth. Email fired off to Accor. No reply as yet.

  • Brian says:

    28 Nov28 November 08:22

    Must be a browser thing, or perhaps for that hotel only. I booked two nights at the Mercure Oxford for January – £40 a night for a hotel that is rarely, if ever, under £125, and is the best place to stay, location-wise.

    Never use the booking line – if you do a dummy booking and then leave the page inactive for a bit, you’ll get a pop-up asking if you need help. Click on the call-back button and they will call you back instantly on your number for free.

  • Max says:

    30 Nov30 November 12:28

    Are you trying to book more than one rooms? It’s possible that they only have one room left at £25, so it still shows available but you can’t book more than one rooms.

• Peter says:

  28 Nov28 November 06:34

  I’m not getting any joy with accor deal with my android phone. I’m just being offered the winter sale prices.

• 3CT says:

  28 Nov28 November 06:38

  Cheers – 2 nights bookedat the Ibis in Euston for 23/12 and 3/1 for £40 per night as I’m off to the darts at Ally Pally. Good stuff.

• 3CT says:

  28 Nov28 November 06:38

  Cheers – 2 nights booked at the Ibis in Euston for 23/12 and 3/1 for £40 per night as I’m off to the darts at Ally Pally. Good stuff.

• Stuart says:

  28 Nov28 November 07:43

  Thanks Rob – all my December/January London weekends sorted at £60/night Novotels.

• Brian says:

  28 Nov28 November 08:23

  Worth pointing out, since Rob doesn’t make it explicit in his post, that these rates are valid ALL WEEK! So not just at weekends like with the Happy Mondays deal.

• Peter K says:

  28 Nov28 November 09:05

  O/T what’s the “Test” section of HfP that’s password protected? Have I missed something?

  • Rob says:

    28 Nov28 November 09:42

    It is a dummy page for a new competition, pending approval by the sponsor. Only visible on mobile.

• tony says:

  28 Nov28 November 09:19

  Couple of things to add…

  1) I’ve noticed a bug with the Accor website where rooms won’t complete on the Happy Monday deal if you say there’s 1 person in the room it won’t work, but changing in to 2 shifts everything.

  2) There’s an Ibis Budget in Whitechapel that shows for £25. Not sure I’d have the stomach to try it, but staggering distance from the City or Brick Lane if you feel so inclined.

  • Joe says:

    28 Nov28 November 10:06

    The ibis budget in Whitechapel is ok, the area isn’t great but the rooms are clean and modern, stayed here for £25 last time was out in London. Would stay again if out in east London…

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