Le Club Accorhotels, the loyalty scheme for Novotel, Sofitel, Mercure, Ibis, M Gallery, Pullman etc, has launched a new promotion in association with avios.com and British Airways Executive Club.
Accor has teamed up with avios.com to offer triple Avios points on stays until the end of October, for bookings made after 1st July.
To qualify for the ‘triple points’ offer, you must select Avios Travel Rewards Programme or British Airways Executive Club as your earnings partner in your Le Club Accorhotels account. You do NOT have to register for the promotion. There is also no minimum stay.
Beware of doing this if you have a large existing Accor points balance as – if you have over 4,000 points – it will convert your existing balance as well as those from future stays. One way of getting around this, as was pointed out in the comments below, is to make a ‘fake’ future booking to take your existing balance down to nil. You can cancel it in a few months when you have removed the auto-convert from your account.
Full details of the avios.com version can be found on the Accor website here. The British Airways Executive Club version is here.
Whilst that page says that you must book directly from there, the terms and conditions make it clear that you can actually book via any Accor booking channel and still get the bonus.
The standard Avios earning rate with Accor is 1.25 Avios per €1 (0.625 Avios per €1 at Ibis and Ibis Styles) so this becomes 3.75 Avios per €1 (1.875 per €1 at Ibis). See here for details.
This is not a bad return, although remember that many hotel groups give a flat 500 Avios points per stay as their standard reward. You would still need to spend at least €133 with Accor to earn 500 Avios – whilst Club Carlson, IHG Rewards Club and Hyatt Gold Passport give you – for most brands- 500 Avios per stay every day of the year, even for one-night stays, if you choose to take miles instead of points.
It IS a better deal than taking Le Club Accorhotels points, assuming you would convert them to Avios in the end. You earn – as a base level member – 2.5 Accor points per €1. These convert at 1:1 into Iberia Plus (2:1, oddly, into BA) but you need to convert at least 3,000 points at a time.
Far better to earn 3.75 Avios per €1 with an immediate conversion into avios.com rather than earning 2.5 Accor point per €1 and converting them to Iberia Plus when you have 3,000 of them.
You can see all of the small print on the Accor website.
PS. If you are looking for a UK hotel room for this weekend, remember that Accor runs its ‘Happy Mondays’ promotion every Monday and Tuesday. Empty rooms for next weekend will be sold at prices from £25 (provincial Ibis) to £60 (Novotel). Full details in this article.
(Want to earn more hotel points? To see our complete list of promotions from the major chains, click here to visit our ‘Hotel Promos’ page or use the link in the menu bar at the top of the page.)
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Raffles, according to the Accor website, there is also a triple points promotion for BA Executive Club members (http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/leclub/hotels-offers/promotion-42279-promotion.shtml)
Ah, didn’t see that version! Thanks.
Be wary of accor bookings not made directly and claiming bonus points. I had a real headache when taking advantage last year of a similar offer. If it says dufferrent bookings routes allowed on the T&Ca make sure you take a screen shot
A few Days ago there was an Iberia triple Points offer, but its seems like they’ve pulled it???
It did clearly say Iberia.
http://loyaltylobby.com/2015/07/02/le-club-accorhotels-iberia-plus-triple-avios-july-1-october-31-2015/
It said Iberia but if you read the terms and conditions John posted it is clearly avios.com.
If you have a balance of Accor points, perhaps it’s worth converting these to Iberia @ 1:1 before you nominate all your new points to go to BA/Avios.com. Otherwise there may be a risk of converting your existing balance at 2:1.
Just make a cancellable booking to “deposit” your points first before setting up auto-convert.
How does this work? If you cancel a booking, the points balance will not change?
If you cancel a booking, the points will be returned to your account instantaneously.
So an existing balance with auto convert? I can’t just keep those in place ?
If you are over 4,000 it will send the lot over, yes
Also, perhaps worth mentioning that if you set up the autoconvert from Le Club Accorhotels to British Airways Executive Club through the weblink listed on the BA website (http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/leclub/executiveclub), the autoconvert will take place after each stay, rather than every time 4,000 Accor points are accumulated.