New: 15%+ return with triple Accor points on UK Novotel, Mercure, Ibis etc stays

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• Felicia says:

  25 Aug25 August 06:38

  I will give you a good reason to take the triple avios. if you do not have status and want to chase accor status, its the fastest way to get them via points. i had to be in the UK for 6 weeks and in that time using happy monday fares and the Facebook app, i am a platinum member now. the free pint overtime you checkin is a nice bonus. if you stay in pullman, you can even ask for a cocktail. i recommend the pullman martini 🙂

  • Bob says:

    25 Aug25 August 08:04

    …don’t understand how triple avios gets you to status faster than triple points…?

    • Rob says:

      25 Aug25 August 09:09

      Yes, should make no difference with triple Avios v triple points.

      • Felicia says:

        25 Aug25 August 15:32

        they convert your accor points automatically into avios. you earn accor points 3 times faster. once you get 3k they transfer it to iberiaplus. you will get you base points plus your accumulated bonus points and 200% of those base points.
        60 pound stay at novotel 144 points
        points accelerator 69 points
        three times more iberia bonus 288 points
        501 points for 60 pounds stay at Novotel.

        when you accumulate 3000 its automatically transfers to iberia so if you just get 2000 and use it before they transfer they points you are safe. just don’t accumulate more than 3000.
        i have a sneaky suspicion they will give double bonus points if 2 offers are registered. i will find out tomorrow with my pullman booking in KL

        for now all accor points count towards status qualification

• James67 says:

  25 Aug25 August 07:34

  OT but Accor: my points expire lare December courtesy of the quest competion last year , however, my last stay was 31st August 2015. Can I trust this December expiry date or should I do another hotel stay in the next few days to ensure my points will not suddenlh disappear on 1st September? I read through the old post on preventing points expiring but none of the comments say whether points expire early due to lack of a hotel stay in preceding 12 months where they have been extended by sone othef earning activity.

  • Concerto says:

    25 Aug25 August 09:11

    I am hoping my awful Aberdeen stay, mentioned below, will extend the validity of these points. That quiz was a stupid, badly managed gimmick.

  • bob says:

    25 Aug25 August 11:35

    Yes you can trust this december date.
    Only this year, because from next january the expiry date of your points will depend on your hotel stays.

    You may also top-up your points with a e-reward transfer…
    Or just buy one eclair au chocolat or one croissant at a Lenôtre shop in Paris in november, and your points will have a new expiry date of november 2017. Total cost 4 euros. Do present your cad for it to be swiped.

    • James67 says:

      25 Aug25 August 12:24

      Thanks Bob, I will have no problem to do a hotel stay before December but didn’t want to do one before next Wednesday as I had no need for that.

• Concerto says:

  25 Aug25 August 09:08

  I really don’t like the Accor brand but work puts me into these hotels fairly often (Novotel, Adagio) and I am unable to collect a single point for me. I am told it is a “group rate” or paid by someone else, despite a relatively high rate (EUR147 in Aix-en-Provence recently). Surely I’m not alone with this problem?

  OT But I had a leisure stay at the Aberdeen Mercure Caledonian and it was AWFUL, one of my worst hotel nights for a long time. Will write a post about it on Flyertalk sometime soon.

  • 1nfrequent says:

    25 Aug25 August 10:35

    My work also uses Accor brand properties but I find that I do get points on Novotel and Mercure stays. I do not get points on Ibis stays.

    Our bookings are made via a corporate travel agent, which I believe are booked on a group rate. A couple of Ibis managers have told me that it’s the group rate and corporate travel agent use that prevents me from getting points on stays with their brand.

    I offer that up for what it’s worth.

  • chris says:

    25 Aug25 August 10:55

    @Concerto

    Mercure is a mixed bag some are truly awful (the one in reading city centre for example); If you need to go back to Aberdeen Ardoe House just outside Aberdeen is a much better bet. Though i also quite like the Crowne Plaza at the airport; almost brand new the car park is reasonable – and they allow multiple entry and exits without charging more.

    • Concerto says:

      25 Aug25 August 15:37

      Thanks. At Crowne Plaza ABZ we parked around the corner for nothing because the road behind the hotel is technically a building site. Agree the hotel is nice.

• Ian says:

  25 Aug25 August 09:16

  Do you earn Accor points for stays where you pay, or part pay, using the Accor vouchers?

  • Alexey says:

    25 Aug25 August 17:35

    in past – yes , part paid by vouchers was also counting to the total spend , however didn’t check that recently

• Dwadda says:

  25 Aug25 August 09:32

  Triple Avios did NOT work for me!

  So I followed instructions and had a couple stays in a Grand Mecure, which boosted my Accor points above the 3000 threshold for conversion to Iberia and the system happily did the automatic transfer. However, I only got 3000 Avios, not even giving me a bonus for my most recent stays.

  The promotion page is so badly written that it is impossible to figure out what must be done to qualify. Is it necessary to stay 3 times?

  Has anyone got this to work?

  • Rob says:

    25 Aug25 August 10:12

    Hmmm. Did you set your account to auto-convert to Avios before the stay? The 3000 threshold would have had nothing to do with it as that only applies to existing points.

    • Dwadda says:

      25 Aug25 August 10:37

      Yes, I did set my account for automatic conversion to Iberia before even booking the stays. I’m just wondering if anyone else has managed to get this to work. If so, what hoops did they have to jump through. Reading the promo page it almost suggest that you have to stay 3 times or is that a maximum of 3 times? Very confusing language.

• Kai says:

  25 Aug25 August 13:24

  Trip points apply to base points only, so you will get around 6000 points back.

• Vivian says:

  25 Aug25 August 16:07

  Slightly OT but Accor-related. I’m trying to book a night at Ibis Styles in Zaragoza; when I’m at the payment page on the Accord website, I select the Amex card which is saved to my profile, and I get directed to a third party payment page which only accepts Visa. I haven’t seen this before when I booked with Accor (whether it’s Ibis or other brands). Anyone else had the same problem?

  • Brian says:

    25 Aug25 August 17:00

    Yes. I’ve had that – there are some hotels, mostly Ibis, I believe, that don’t take Amex.

  • Marco says:

    25 Aug25 August 17:15

    Phone up and book at the call centre. or get an online callback and they should accept Amex

• Alexey says:

  25 Aug25 August 17:33

  I don’t think platinum additional points are also tripled , only base point probably

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