Get 1,050 free Le Club AccorHotels points, worth €20, with a quick game

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• DJ says:

  12 Dec12 December 04:41

  It worked well on Firefox and was an easy 850 points, posted immediately

• Sandgrounder says:

  12 Dec12 December 05:35

  If you have benefitted from instant conversion in the past, your account should still be enabled. I switched auto convert back on this week after a long time and my sub 1000 balance transferred overnight.

  • ankomonkey says:

    12 Dec12 December 21:21

    I had this experience too.

• Guesswho2000 says:

  12 Dec12 December 06:01

  For info, you can still auto convert, although I have no idea whether you need to have enabled it previously.

  I did the quiz, etc. earlier, have already had the email from Accor confirming the auto convert to IB.

  • ee says:

    12 Dec12 December 07:39

    How is auto convert enabled, I can’t find the option! Thanks!

    • Guesswho2000 says:

      12 Dec12 December 23:59

      Raffles ran a post on it a year ago – https://headforpoints.com/2014/08/06/how-to-convert-accor-points-to-avios/

      I assume it still works, my account has been set up that was since 2013, but I don’t see why people can’t still set it up that way. I’ve just opened an account for my other half, so I’ll see whether I can do the same with hers!

      • ee says:

        13 Dec13 December 13:31

        Thanks. I really don’t understand Accor – my account says “Automatic conversion to a single partner is activated. You may deactivate this option at any time or choose another partner by clicking on the link below.” However my recent stay at Pullman creditted as Accor points rather than Avios to BA. Very odd.

        • neuromancer says:

          13 Dec13 December 17:28

          Automatic conversion is not exactly what you think. It converts automatically when you reach a threshold, 3000 for Iberia.
          There was a glitch to allow transfer at any time, but it has not worked for years.

• Discount mike says:

  12 Dec12 December 06:27

  Nice! easiest 20 euros I have earned in my life. Or in the last week

• Cloud Runner says:

  12 Dec12 December 06:39

  Worked perfectly on Chrome on my laptop. An easy way to add 1050 points, thanks 🙂

• Peaceful Waters says:

  12 Dec12 December 06:44

  I found it hard going on chrome and safari but seem to have 1,100 points.

• Nick says:

  12 Dec12 December 06:51

  Does this reset the counter as a credit to the daft Accor rules of activity in past 12 months on the account to prevent points being lost?

  • James67 says:

    12 Dec12 December 07:01

    I don’t think so, it needs to be a stay IIRC.

    • MileStalker says:

      12 Dec12 December 07:30

      Does not need to be a stay. Converting E-Rewards points to Accor Le Club or earning badges with their Places app on Facebook will reset the counter.

  • Bob says:

    12 Dec12 December 10:02

    @Nick

    No it does not.
    I just played yesterday and it did not change the expiration date of my points.

    However I found that a link send to register myself at e-rewards and get 250 points just to register (and press the button on the e-rewards site to send the points to Le Club) have been transferred to my Le Club account and have changed the expiration date of my points last november. My points now are due to expire in november 2016.

    The normal rule is that only room occupation changes the expiration date.
    It seems from 3 years ago, an update of their system may have not been properly done and there are few opportunities I have encountered that delayed the expiration of your points.
    It is not the case of this game. It has been the case of e-rewards transfer (at least from now for the welcome bonus).

    I do remind all HFP readers, travelling in Paris or in Cannes, that a purchase of a 4 euros éclair au chocolat or a croissant in a Lenôtre boutique or restaurant will change the expiration date of your points. It should not but it seems still to work.

    • Nick says:

      13 Dec13 December 12:13

      Thanks though ive emailed Accor yesterday requesting a car hire with europcar be credited from a hire in October. Ive tried twice on accor website to request points you go through a special link from accor to europcar or so I thought. Its the same set up on europcar except no accor logo at the top. Anyway fill it in says wait 30 days I doubt it will work and surprisingly it didn’t. Emailed europcar they say try on their website do that same email back wait 30 days guess what nowt…..claiming points from europcar on accor are a joke.

      Emailed azccor complaining and requested points so far…………nowt!

  • Nick says:

    13 Dec13 December 16:22

    Accor policy on expiration is indeed daft and it’s the major reason I don’t use their hotels anymore. I did in the past and had built up quite a balance, only to lose the whole lot purely because my business travel plans changed.

• Andrew says:

  12 Dec12 December 06:55

  “CORRECT – you DO NOT have access to the executive lounge because you’re *just* gold. Get back in your box.”

  Thanks for the perky reminder, Accor. (I’ll take your EUR20, though) 🙂

  • Richard says:

    12 Dec12 December 12:30

    The whole thing just sums up the Accor experience. Technically incompetent, lost in translation, trying to be friendly but getting it wrong and actually coming across as rather rude. But also bizarrely, unnecessarily, preposterously generous.

    I suppose if you’re sitting in Paris, and your surveys are telling you that you haven’t quite figured out how to appeal to that weirdly-mannered English-speaking world, then waving 20-euro notes around is a pretty solid strategy.

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