Bits: has Accor scrapped Happy Mondays?, IHG redemption sale in Mexico / LATAM / Caribbean

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• Alan C says:

  2 May2 May 07:48

  The Accor 3 x 2 night = 6,000 points promotion.
  If I book a 2 night stay at the same property but in 2 separate bookings does this qualify as
  2 nights for the promotion?
  It’s cheaper to book this Friday and Saturday separately for some reason.

  • JamesB says:

    2 May2 May 07:56

    No

• JamesB says:

  2 May2 May 07:54

  OT bit: £25 off £100 has appeared on amex offers this morning.

  • Rob says:

    2 May2 May 08:12

    I’m guessing the missing word was Ocado? 🙂

    • Louise says:

      2 May2 May 08:18

      Harvey Nichols £30 off £100 and Hertz £30 off £150 on my Platintum

    • JamesB says:

      2 May2 May 08:27

      yes, lol, sorry.

      • Amit says:

        2 May2 May 08:32

        Think it’s only for new customers sadly

    • RussellH says:

      2 May2 May 11:06

      I have never seen the attraction of online supermarket shopping, TBH. I have this on both my Amex cards, and AFAIK Ocado do not operate around here.

      Much more (potentially) useful is 5% off P+O Ferries.

      • Mark says:

        2 May2 May 11:44

        Ocado are excellent – and no, I don’t work there or own shares!
        Quality, service, convenience of timed deliveries, freshly butchered meat (& fish) rather than selected from prepacks. I think they are unbeatable. (Unless you live next door to Waitrose!)
        There are plenty of Ocado voucher codes around – look out for the one with a whole year of free deliveries.

        • william merrett says:

          2 May2 May 15:51

          Another positive experience of Ocado here. Quality and freshness is excellent. If your a Vitality Health Platinum there’s also 25% off healthy food as well (max £25 per month discount) which is an excellent perk, obviously depends on your premium but as a reasonably young chap £25 a month is half of my insurance premium.

        • Fenny says:

          2 May2 May 17:20

          I keep being offered a 3 month free delivery pass by Ocado, but as the minimum order is £40, I don’t take advantage of it. I go into Waitrose every day to get my lunchtime coffee and, since they changed the rules, buy lunch or something for dinner. So my “big” weekly shop is fairly small these days – just the things I don’t want to carry home from work. And there’s the instore Virgin miles to be taken into account now.

• dgsupersonic says:

  2 May2 May 09:39

  I believe the IHG 50% reward sales reoccurs every year. Also important to check cash rates as they tend to be low during this time.

  Rob, is there a plan or intention to have more coverage for that part of the planet? The site is still heavily focussed on Asia and UAE regions.

  • Rob says:

    2 May2 May 09:47

    Depends what you’re after. The lack of BA coverage in LATAM means we will never do much of it. If LATAM (the airline) wanted to work with us on something then that might be an option.

• Nick says:

  2 May2 May 09:40

  Gutted aswell used it many times made some nights out etc at short notice much more possible thanks to a cheap room to stay in.

  Is alex Cruz now in charge of accor aswell hmmmmph. Don’t worry though upto 3 pieces from the basket now solves the issue. We were avid club Europe users for Europe hols. Booked Conrad algarve at the weekend with Thomson flight out then return aer lingus to Dublin then Flybe back to my local airport just easier and far less than the £2k BA wanted

• Pangolin says:

  2 May2 May 09:51

  Anyone paying £150 for a room in Ibis in Leeds is clearly doing something wrong! It sounds like he had unrealistically high expectations of what Ibis hotels offer.

  • Mark says:

    2 May2 May 14:07

    You’d be surprised – I was sometimes staying in the Ibis Styles in Manchester for £25 and it was selling for £120 by the time I checked in.

• NigelM says:

  2 May2 May 10:05

  Argh – shame the Latin American sale doesn’t include Buenos Aires, need to book something soon. Anybody have any hotel recommendations?

• wetboy1uk says:

  2 May2 May 10:39

  perhaps it is your greed at using this every weekend that has lead to it being removed. Some people are really greedy and selfish when it comes to a lot of deals on here. no wonder they get removed.

  • william merrett says:

    2 May2 May 12:07

    Seriously, a multinational company makes an offer with no restrictions that is openly available every weekend through a public website and your advice to mark is not to use it? That’s just a bit weird.

    If they intended it as a perk they could easily have restricted it to once a year per account but they did not, it was explicitly open to all every weekend.

  • NigelM says:

    2 May2 May 13:21

    Wetboy1uk, you make no sense. It wasn’t a pricing error or a limited stock offer. That you think one person’s use of the offer would be ‘selfish’ and more than a drop in the ocean suggests you can’t grasp how many thousands of hotel rooms and transactions they process.

    • wetboy1uk says:

      2 May2 May 13:37

      And perhaps you are not understanding that there are some selfish people on here. Tesco promotions for additional points for example – people buying loads of the same item they don’t need just to sell on and make points. Tesco don’t put limits on these promotion but neither do they expect some greedy individuals to buy large quantities of the same items which they don’t want just to satisfy their own greed. In my opinion one of the reasons we are seeing less and less promotions due to the minority who behave in this way. Just look back at the number of promotions which were around this time last year compared to now. These days most posts on here are reviews and the like as promotions have dried up.

      • Mark says:

        2 May2 May 14:01

        So your justification for believing that I was booking far too many hotel rooms at the advertised rate was because of what other people do at Tesco with clubcard promotions? Le Accor sold a room that they believed would otherwise have been empty. If they wanted to implement a quota they could have. Happy Mondays is for weekends yet they were releasing rooms for that price on the site sometimes for Tuesday and Wednesday, I guess that’s because they could sell them for twice as much but just didn’t want too ?

      • Mark says:

        2 May2 May 14:05

        One further point unlike the Tesco people you refer too

        ” Tesco don’t put limits on these promotion but neither do they expect some greedy individuals to buy large quantities of the same items which they don’t want just to satisfy their own greed”

        Your right I didn’t even want to sleep in those hotels or even visit those cities, pay for the flights or eat and drink in the local towns, I just booked them for a laugh.

      • Fenny says:

        2 May2 May 17:22

        Is there much of a second hand market for weekend hotel rooms booked and paid for? It’s not like buying a boat load of Lego and selling it off on Ebay afterwards.

• JamesB says:

  2 May2 May 10:56

  Soon be staying in an Ibis refurbished superior room with nespresso etc in Milan. Curious to see what it is like, primarily chose it as it’s close to the station for an early train to Venice.

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