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Accor Happy Mondays – the best hotel deal in the UK – now bookable two weeks in advance

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The Accor ‘Happy Mondays’ deal is the most generous hotel promotion available for last minute weekend rooms in the UK.  

If you find yourself in need of a hotel room for the coming weekend or the weekend after, it is definitely the first place you should look.

You will find Mercure, Novotel, Pullman and Ibis hotels at excellent prices.

It is nice and simple, and potentially a good deal. Every Monday and Tuesday, Accor makes a raft of UK hotel rooms available at discount prices for the coming weekend and the following weekend.

Accor Happy Mondays

If you need a hotel for a date further in advance, one option is book a reward room with another chain now – just to guarantee a bed.  Make a diary note to return to this page on the Monday or Tuesday before your stay and see if you can get a ‘Happy Mondays’ deal.  You can then cancel your reward night with the other hotel.

How to book Happy Mondays

The dedicated Happy Mondays booking page is here.

Occasionally the site is not updated on a Monday or the calendar is broken.  Don’t panic.  Instead, you should book by using the promotional code MONDAY on the main Accor home page.  Note that the box from the code sometimes does not appear until your start typing in a city name.  You then need to click on the icon marked ‘Preferential Code’ and enter the word MONDAY.

Here is a summary of the Happy Mondays rules:

These are ‘room only’ deals and only some Accor hotels will be participating on any particular date

The headline prices are:

£25 – Ibis province hotels (some ibis Budget hotels in London show at £25 as well – Ibis Excel London Docklands is often available.)

£40 – Novotel and Mercure provincial hotels, ibis London hotels, selected Mercure and Novotel London hotels

£60 – Mercure, Novotel, ibis styles in London

This offer can be booked online by using the ‘preferential code’ of MONDAY or via the Happy Mondays page

Bookings will earn Le Club AccorHotels points

This is a pretty decent offer, especially in London.

It has to said that there are currently fewer hotels participating in Happy Mondays than usual.  I am hoping that this is temporary and down to higher weekend occupancy rates as the tourist seasons picks up.

The only good London deal for the coming weekend (these examples refer to July 2016 when this article was originally published) is the Novotel at Excel for £60.  This is a very expensive weekend in general though – the Novotel Blackfriars which I reviewed here is £250.  

Looking forward to the following Saturday – as you can now book two weekends ahead – it is a lot better.   The Pullman St Pancras is £90, the ibis Styles at Southwark is £50, the Novotel Excel is still there at £60 and the ibis Earls Court is £40.

If you get lucky, there are some excellent deals to be had here.  And, now you can book up to two weeks in advance, it is easier to plan around the best offers.

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Comments (52)

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  • N says:
    12 Jul12 July 08:51

    Any previous experience on how likely it is that I might be able to get the Oxford Novotel in the HM deal in a few weeks? I have something cancellable booked elsewhere but wouldn’t mind paying £25-60!

    • Brian says:
      12 Jul12 July 08:58

      Hadn’t realised there was a Novotel in Oxford! The Mercure there occasionally appears and is as well-located as any Oxford hotel, so an absolute steal at the HM rate, but it’s very rare, unfortunately.

      • N says:
        12 Jul12 July 09:17

        It is a Mercure, my bad.

        I’m still at the “pre-coffee” stage of my morning!

        • Brian says:
          12 Jul12 July 09:26

          Ok. As I said, the Mercure is very rarely offered, but Sundays do occasionally appear. Definitely worth checking, just in case.

  • signol says:
    12 Jul12 July 08:53

    I had last Saturday night at the Ibis Budget LCY for £25. Budget here really does mean budget! But at the price can’t complain. There was interesting availability showing though, 3 different ranges of hotels on the main website, mobile website and app.

  • Concerto says:
    12 Jul12 July 09:13

    I really don’t like Accor and it’s archi modern French style. Just completed two weeks in an Adagio in Aix-en-Provence and was so glad to leave at the end. But these are excellent deals none the less, especially for London.

  • Concerto says:
    12 Jul12 July 09:55

    No, I’ve done them all, don’t worry. The only one I found pleasant was Sofitel.

    • Concerto says:
      12 Jul12 July 09:56

      PS, “done them all” means tried all the separate brands.

    • Lady London says:
      12 Jul12 July 23:55

      Yes the orange boxes, extrovert-coloured murals and general plasticky-ness can be a bit overwhelming at some of the Accor brands

      I’m all agog to see what they will do with Fairmont, Raffles, and Swissotel. Did you know that gives them the Savoy Hotel in London, for instance?

  • Ed says:
    12 Jul12 July 10:05

    Accor related – having had my account blocked/closed having made use of thier points quiz and auto-transfer to Iberia. I’m pleased to report it was reinstated with a 300 point good will gesture following some emails, they also auto-converted my points to IB. Which has made me much warmer to Accor than I was a few weeks back. Does anyone know how long the conversion usually takes?

    • roberto says:
      12 Jul12 July 10:36

      Still can’t get my auto convert to iberia ( on my 5 of my HH accounts ) to work.. grrrrrrr……

      Waiting to see if the 1000 accor meeting points hit to push them over the minimum to manual transfer before the 1100 points in each account expire..

      Tried everything from different browsers to different trousers..

      • harry says:
        12 Jul12 July 10:58

        You saw that it was recently confirmed to still be working fine? Not a solution for you but maybe enough encouragement to try something different.

    • harry says:
      12 Jul12 July 10:45

      ISTR it was very quick

  • Olivier says:
    12 Jul12 July 11:43

    Any recommendation of an Accor hotel on a sea-side town within an hour of train from London to spend a week end this summer? Looks like the 2 Accor properties in Brighton have mixed reviews

  • Adrian says:
    12 Jul12 July 13:45

    I did my auto convert and it worked fine after a couple of goes, I’ve tried 20 times to do my wife’s and nothing works!

  • Ceri Chaplin says:
    13 Jul13 July 14:56

    Result!
    Cancelled a fleixble 3 night booking for Thurs-Sun next weekend saved over £200 with 3 nights in the IBIS Styles in Southward for £150, including breakfast and free wifi!

    • Mark e says:
      16 Jul16 July 01:28

      My handy hint for that hotel, bring a double plug if you have two mobiles, only one socket available when I stayed and It was impossible to gain another by unplugging the TV or kettle.

      • Rob says:
        16 Jul16 July 08:23

        Oddly I was thinking last night, in Hamburg, that I need a double socket Euro converter plug!

      • Fenny says:
        17 Jul17 July 00:58

        Or a multi-USB charger that runs off a single cable. I have a Euro cable that came with one of my appliances that fits my charger. I also carry a UK 4-way extension lead that I can plug into a single EU/US adaptor, which usually reduces the need to find lots of sockets.

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