Accor Super Sale – get up to 30% off and free breakfast

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• HayMow says:

  18 Oct18 October 12:13

  Anyone else had any issues / oddities with Accor points posting in last month? – AwardWallet flashed up 2 days back that my Accor balance had gone up quite a lot (& to a suspiciously round number of 20,000 pts) but when I signed in to Accor to verify if this was the missing points from a mid September stay that I’d recently chased up on, the (website & app) points history were unavailable. Now that they are available again there’s in fact still no new transactions since early Sept. Any experience with similar ‘ghost’ transactions? thx

  • Janeyferr says:

    18 Oct18 October 12:19

    I’ve had this twice in the last month. Whilst it was present the account information on AwardWallet showed as my LeClub number as “Account Number” and 0123456789 as “Login”.

    I had this as well a few months (maybe a year?) ago as well and an old and told me it happens sometimes, just wait and it will go.

    I had a more exciting one last month when 43760 Best Western points spent a few minutes in an account I have never used.

    • HayMow says:

      18 Oct18 October 12:49

      Thanks Janeyferr – maybe it’s just an AwardWallet glitch then and nothing to do with Accor themselves – now you mention it I did wonder why there was an “Account” field with my no. and an “Account Number” that wasn’t but I only saw **6789…. Shame those BW points didn’t hang around though!

    • Genghis says:

      18 Oct18 October 13:29

      I had this perhaps 6 months ago with Accor. Noticed it on Awardwallet as the alert popped up but when I logged into my Accor account, I had 20k points and only had Silver status with an account number 123456789. It corrected back to Platinum the day after.

  • YL says:

    18 Oct18 October 15:39

    Yes, I had something like this happened at my account just recently. I did not actually notice my account was credited with of 20,000 pts, but noticed when AW showed that my account was down by 20,000 pts, it was very strange, as the balance was correct, so I just thought it was a glitch and ignored it.

  • HayMow says:

    18 Oct18 October 16:08

    Thx Genghis & YL – funny that they all involve the 20k amount, either up or down…
    I contacted AwardWallet who assured me that it is an Accor glitch not an AW one…
    Sounds like none of us would have known if it weren’t for AW which seemingly gets notified instantly of Accor changes (unlike for most other schemes, for me anyway), so I wonder if it’s just a regular system test or similar that Accor does and members wouldn’t otherwise notice as the system is taken down for a short time at an unpopular hour (in my case this Sunday am I think) so ordinarily you can’t check your balance so wouldn’t see it. ..
    I was also concerned that it wasn’t to do with some fraudulent access attempt. Hopefully not.

    • Genghis says:

      18 Oct18 October 16:55

      Potentially. Mine happened on a Sunday as well.

• James67 says:

  18 Oct18 October 13:20

  Another ‘sale’, another huge dose of salt required. This time I was checking Bangkok rates for which I am very familiar. Every sale rate comparable to or higher than pre-sale rates, sometimes substantially so. While there may be some bargains, I am convinced that on the whole the majority of travel industry sales are bordering on scams.

  • CV3V says:

    18 Oct18 October 15:46

    I do agree with you, but (much to my own surprise) my experience last year was the opposite and I had waited on this seasonal ‘sale’ I would have obtained a decent discount compared to what I had already prepaid (non-refundable) for some Accor bookings in Austria and Germany.

    As much I liked having Platinum status with Accor and Spire with IHG both have been ditched this year in favour of Hilton Diamond status and every stay has been enjoyable (room upgrades, free breakfasts, lounge access, random free stuff (jelly beans) and drinks vouchers), although late check out requests has required a bit of negotiation. Looking ahead I have just made my first ever booking with Marriot (!) using leftover SPG points and bagging 2 nights in Saigon which will include lounge access with breakfast etc. and perhaps an upgrade, this was after the IC wanted to charge $25 dollars per person for breakfast on a points redemption, compared to a cash stay where breakfast could be added for $18 for 2 people!

    • James67 says:

      18 Oct18 October 18:59

      Replied earlier today, I guess my comment lost somewhere in HFP space. Agree with all this, so much so I’ll manage only 2 paid nights at IHG this year. I tend though to avoid the old horror hiltons in favour of newer hotels, DT, GI and Hamptons. With diamond, its worked out great. Quite farcical for IHG that the best thing about spire was the hilton status match.

      • CV3V says:

        18 Oct18 October 22:25

        I stayed in the edi Hilton Grosvenor last weekend, which has a bad reputation, however I had a great stay! Upgraded to a suite, drinks vouchers and breakfast. Cost £32 and 12000 points!

        • James67 says:

          18 Oct18 October 23:24

          Good to hear, that was the hilton that finished me many years back after a horrendous stay. I had a friend stsy there last year though and they were positive about it too.

  • Lady London says:

    19 Oct19 October 18:37

    + 1 for the destinations I need to book and checked in this Accor sale as soon as I got their email.

    None of them any lower, whatsoever.

    • Alan says:

      19 Oct19 October 22:13

      My folks just booked a night in Glasgow at the Novotel there (€200 worth of Accor points that are due to expire in December so worth resetting the expiry date!) – comparing with the week before when the sale isn’t on the rates were vastly cheaper for all room types, even moreso when adding in breakfast so in some situations it can be a genuinely decent deal!

• Steve says:

  18 Oct18 October 15:56

  I agree with one comment where this is, in reality, a breakfast thrown in for free (or a small supplement). Still a good deal but the 30% off seems a bit wide of the mark as far as I can tell.

  Lastly, I had a non cancellable booking already in an Accor. The price on this deal was a smidge more that my existing price. contacted the hotel directly and they were happy to charge the little more and amend the booking to bed and breakfast.

  • HayMow says:

    18 Oct18 October 17:29

    Good to know that can be done – thanks, Steve

  • Nick says:

    18 Oct18 October 21:29

    Thanks. Not just me then?!

    I find if I book a room ring the Sofitel Heathrow ask how much parking is then the cost to upgrade to a luxury room often gets me cheaper parking than the website stay and fly, and my room has twice been upgraded for free( I’m only silver by the way).

    Finally booked a happy Mondays last week for a stay at the Mercure York £40 absolute bargain despite being 3 miles out. Grim 80’s throwback comes to mind but got a free drinks voucher as silver. Do I get any points for the stat? One email says no I don’t the other from hotel said credit for any points in 7 days? Not sure on a HM deal.

    • Brian says:

      18 Oct18 October 23:19

      Yes, you get points on all stays with a paid cash element.

• Roger says:

  18 Oct18 October 18:03

  OT- Any ideas on how I can earn approx 150 Accor points to be upgraded to higher tier without spending money. I signed up for e-Rewards using Accor, but still awaiting points to be credited.

  hope get the 300 points to get my higher status.

  • James67 says:

    18 Oct18 October 18:50

    Could be wrong but in back of my mind I think you can do MR-Finnair-accor but if that’s true it’s probably very expensive. Best just get a happy monday night for somebody else if not yourself.

    • Rob says:

      18 Oct18 October 19:05

      You can but 7:1 I think?

  • Axel Heyst says:

    18 Oct18 October 18:50

    Did you sign up for accor places?, you should get 200- 500 points after 3 – 4 stays, stayl registrations can be backdated a number of months but take a while to post.

    e-Rewards take about 2 weeks to post to accor

    • DTLW201 says:

      19 Oct19 October 10:43

      What are accor places? Im new to the scheme to scrape out as many avios as I can quickly….

      • Rob says:

        19 Oct19 October 11:41

        It is an app. If you ‘check in’ to the app whilst staying in an Accor hotel, or within a certain period of time afterwards, you get some bonus points. Which may or may not ever arrive.

        • DTLW201 says:

          19 Oct19 October 17:15

          sounds about right for club accor…. Ill give it a go for my last few stays…

          Thanks for the heads up Axel…

• Roger says:

  18 Oct18 October 21:57

  Thanks guys.
  I managed to transfer some e-rewards points to Accor.
  Once its credited I will enjoy my Gold Status with them.

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