Bits: has Accor scrapped Happy Mondays?, IHG redemption sale in Mexico / LATAM / Caribbean

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• vol says:

  2 May2 May 04:16

  Well that sucks 😐

  Seemingly no notice either.

  Nice deal while it lasted though 🙂

• Barry cutters says:

  2 May2 May 04:33

  Over the last few years Iv had many fri/sat nights in the Novotel London Bridge or the Pullman. Absolute cracker of a deal – but to be fair was a bit too good . Couldn’t expect it to continue forever the way it was..

  • Sue says:

    2 May2 May 06:56

    It was (is hopefully) a very good deal.

    We found it mostly in “older” regional properties, and when we stayed on the offer most of the other guests in the hotel ( Mecures ) were also using the offer …. would have been empty if not for some deals

    E mailed a hotel we have stayed at on the deal yesterday ( BH Monday ), and they said that it can only be booked on line, so they were not awair or it could just have been uninformed staff on the BH.

    Think that Accor are silly to remove it .. better to sell at £60 or £ 40 than have an empty room …. and there is always the bar and restaurant spend to get ….

    Mind you, they have removed the Ibis chain from the French special sales as well …. so maybe looking to increase spend per sold room.

• Matt says:

  2 May2 May 04:52

  Hopefully a lower discount means more availability. In London, I’d much rather have 20% off the Pullman/Novotel properties than a choice between the Ibis Earls Court and the Ibis London Docklands, which was sometimes the case during summer.

• krys_k says:

  2 May2 May 07:12

  OT (but hotel related) – I have by one day entered the second year of my amex platinum and wish to cancel today. In order to secure the hotel status do I need to re-enrol, or does this happen automatically? And how long will the status last until? Should I hold onto the card a little longer to ensure that status goes though or is it OK to cancel? Many thanks

• rick says:

  2 May2 May 07:17

  Amex Platinum

  Applied for a brand new card and have it for about two weeks.
  No fees charged yet. Also hold supplementary card on another Amex Platinum account which was upgraded from PRGC to Platinum.

  What are my odds of no fees being charged on my own Platinum card? Two weeks and counting. Are the fees generally applied when first statement is generated?

  • the real harry1 says:

    2 May2 May 07:49

    [we sort of decided not to mention this 🙂 ]

    • Toby says:

      2 May2 May 09:12

      Yes, shhh, as I’m in the same boat 🙂

  • Alan says:

    2 May2 May 09:11

    Seems to vary, some get charged straight away, some at first statement, some not at all (lucky sods!)

    • AndyF says:

      2 May2 May 20:12

      The fee’s post pretty quickly it took around two weeks.

• JamesB says:

  2 May2 May 07:34

  Is it possible loyaltylobby killed off happy Mondays by bringing it to the attention of (what I assume) a much larger readership?

  • NigelM says:

    2 May2 May 08:18

    Except that they only recently seemed to double down on the offer by making it more generous. It used to be 3 nights over the following weekend, then they made it 4 nights over the following two weekends. It seems odd that they expanded it like this just before shutting it down.

    I suspect the decision could be linked to the large fall in value of the £. Summer is coming up and their forward bookings could show a lot more tourists visiting London while it is a much cheaper destination. Combined with that, it’s a French company and UK revenue converted into euros will have been looking worse, particularly since redeemed points are worth euros (2000 = 40 euros), so knocking points off a £60 novotel night now leaves them with even less of a profit.

• Dave R says:

  2 May2 May 07:45

  Slight error.. The Pullman was £90

• rick says:

  2 May2 May 07:45

  Curve charges £2 fees for non-domestic currency withdrawal from atm.
  On Lloyds Avios card, if I was to set card currency as AUD and withdraw AUD while in AUS would I still be charged £2 fee per withdrawal?

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