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

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• Mark says:

  12 Dec12 December 08:28

  Quick way to get some extra points. You don’t get any points for altering your newsletter subscription if you have already subscribed to any option – only if you have never subscribed to any Accor newsletter.

  • Richard says:

    12 Dec12 December 12:32

    Hmm, I’d maybe try that again. I got the points and I was definitely already signed up (or at least, I already got the emails, maybe I was signed up in some different system). Some things needed a couple of attempts to work properly though.

• Rob says:

  12 Dec12 December 08:41

  Yes, as long as your Iberia account is 90 days old, you can use Combine My Avios to move them.

• peter says:

  12 Dec12 December 08:43

  and the award for the most frustrating, un-intuative award quiz of 2015 goes to….THIS!

  • peter says:

    12 Dec12 December 09:39

    i think i’ve cracked it, lord only knows how…

  • Joe says:

    12 Dec12 December 09:58

    Really? They just gave you EUR20 for clicking some stuff. Probably my favourite quiz of the year.

    O/T, but my email from Accor tells me that I need 4,000 points before I can convert to Avios, not 3,000. Frustratingly, I’d registered my Iberia account with them but somehow did not set that up for auto-convert – instead, it’s still converting to Avios! Whoops.

• Doug says:

  12 Dec12 December 09:01

  anyway to buy the remaining 900 points? or transfer from any other program?

  • MileStalker says:

    12 Dec12 December 10:10

    E-Rewards

• Andrew says:

  12 Dec12 December 09:06

  I got the first quiz question wrong and was surprised to learn that you can earn points from travel agent bookings. I’ve had mixed success getting points on rooms booked through the corporate travel agent in the past, especially at Ibis Styles properties. Have the ts and cs changed?

  • peter says:

    12 Dec12 December 09:31

    this is interesting, i booked through booking.com last year at the sofitel beverly hills…when i enquired why i hadnt received any points i was told it was because i had booked through a 3rd party

    • peter says:

      12 Dec12 December 09:32

      actually it was this year….july 2015 🙂

    • TimS says:

      12 Dec12 December 09:38

      Booking.com isn’t classed as a travel agent in this context though.

    • Lady London says:

      12 Dec12 December 14:04

      the 3rd parties they list as excluded are actually the online travel bookers. “Real” travel agents are a dying breed, having been pretty much killed off by the airlines. Bookings through these are explicitly stated in the t’s and c’s as earning. I’m guessing this also helps them keep large corporates and their travel agents onside – they probably get 10% instead of the online bookers apparently taking 25% regularly?

      • RIccati says:

        15 Dec15 December 21:18

        It is very much a background. Whining, mostly from hotels that they could have sold inventory more expensively — go ahead!

        “So if the OTAs are able to sell a hotel’s core product – namely the room night – at a lower rate, then something is wrong and something has to change.”

        This conclusion is a fallacy. Just because you produce the goods at certain cost/price, does not mean that someone can’t manage your efforts to be more efficient and produce at cheaper price.

        Further, hotel room pricing has little to do with production (maintaining/cleaning) and more with yield management — customer expectations and consumer surplus (i.e., how much extra they have they could have spend).

  • Alan says:

    12 Dec12 December 10:24

    They’re very picky about which travel agent rates count, I had to fight to even get F&B credit on a recent stay on an ineligible Trailfinders rate

  • Rob says:

    12 Dec12 December 11:20

    Corporate travel agents are OK otherwise business travellers would never earn. Expedia etc are wholesalers and not travel agents.

    • Alan says:

      12 Dec12 December 11:59

      Although beware that not all rates are necessarily eligible – our booking cost the same via TA as direct (but put it all in the one package for convenience), however from the hotel’s POV it was a discounted rate (with Trailfinders pocketing the difference!) and thus they tried to deny points on both room and A$400 F&B spend!

      On the upside with Accor – got a 4 category upgrade at a Sebel last week, fantastic treatment as Plat.

• Andrew H says:

  12 Dec12 December 09:35

  Confused about something above.. “If your account is set up to automatically convert points to miles, you will presumably receive these as miles instead.” So if I’m set up to autoconvert to Iberia, but the minimum conversion to Avios points is 3,000 points, what happens to the 1100 points earned from the quiz?

  • TimS says:

    12 Dec12 December 09:43

    I think it depends how/when you set up the auto convert.

    If you do it now, or did it the “normal” way, there is a minimum 3000 point conversion level.

    There used to be an alternate way of setting up auto convert that allowed you to convert with no minimum that some of us used in the past. I don’t think the trick works anymore though.

    • Rob says:

      12 Dec12 December 11:19

      That is absolutely correct.

  • TimS says:

    12 Dec12 December 09:45

    And what happens to your points if you aren’t at the 3000 threshold is that they will sit in your account until you reach the minimum auto convert threshold.

• Richard says:

  12 Dec12 December 09:42

  Thanks to HeadforPoints for publicising this! An easy 1100 points – once I’d switched to my iPad because I too couldn’t make the site work in IE

• Ian says:

  12 Dec12 December 09:45

  Could only seem to get 900 points.

  • Andrew H says:

    12 Dec12 December 09:50

    Got my 1,100 (Iand I’m a classic member only).

    Ian, did you do the bottom one about subscribing to the newsletter? 200 points for that.

    • AndyS says:

      12 Dec12 December 10:39

      i missed that one at first. am already a subscriber but still got the points just for clicking

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