Accor is launching a luxury ‘soft’ hotel brand – its 39th

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• Crafty says:

  5 Sep5 September 06:49

  The chain pseudo-luxury market is so saturated and undifferentiated, and this only seems to worsen the situation.

  • WaynedP says:

    5 Sep5 September 07:22

    But on the bright side, some creative PR/Marketing bod was paid handsomely to dream up a flowery launch spiel.

    Wonder if they’ve ever had the insalubrious experience of an outer city Ibis ?

  • Ross Parker says:

    5 Sep5 September 10:15

    Absolutely. Even within Accor there is already MGallery.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      6 Sep6 September 00:17

      MGallery isn’t luxury.

• Mark says:

  5 Sep5 September 07:36

  I’m getting the 100% bonus points from just 7000…14000 in total for $94.50.

  • Rob says:

    5 Sep5 September 09:55

    Thanks. Must be a personalised minimum.

• Mark M says:

  5 Sep5 September 11:34

  Do IHG Abassador members still get a 10% points redemption rebate, which would make buying these points even beter value?

  • Kevin says:

    5 Sep5 September 11:36

    No longer applicable anymore now.

• Kevin says:

  5 Sep5 September 11:36

  Is IHG no FX fee offer applicable for buying points in this situation.

  • Rob says:

    5 Sep5 September 14:48

    Should be, no-one said it was only valid for in-person transactions AFAIK.

• Nat says:

  5 Sep5 September 11:50

  Helpful article but why the presumption that “most HfP readers” have or use nectar?! I honestly can’t remember the last time I bought something in Argos, Sainsburys (maybe a paper from a local?) or eBay. It’s a great scheme but only beneficial if you can use it!

  • Travel Strong says:

    5 Sep5 September 13:07

    There’s a lot of small reasons why you would make an effort with Nectar, and the small reasons add up to a lot. Incremental points per £ benefit on Nectar amex over MR cards, for example, even if you do not use ebay/etc.

    I also did not use the scheme, but once the Avios partnership was announced I’ve accumulated around 20k extra Avios with very little effort. I did choose to travel another 1 or 2 miles a month to divert a small amount of shopping to Sainsbury’s to hit offers/targets (e.g. 1500 points for doing a smartshop).

• Janeyferr says:

  5 Sep5 September 12:49

  Got some decent points value on a couple of bookings in Birmingham during the Commonwealth games August 2022.

  • Rob says:

    5 Sep5 September 14:47

    Rhys is in Oxford today and the Courtyard last night was 15k Marriott points or £389 cash! Bargains are still out there in the various schemes.

  • Usatb says:

    5 Sep5 September 14:52

    Had several of mine cancelled this week by the hotel without warning. Indigo for example cancelled some.. wouldn’t say why just they were going to be closed for 3 weeks. Sounds to me they’ve rented the place to one of the teams or media and kicked out booked guests.

• Dave says:

  5 Sep5 September 14:14

  A Nectar/Avios bonus offer? I am still waiting for my Avios from their opening offer, applied for on 25 January 2021. BA claim to have been looking into it since March. Nectar points taken on date of application. Lots of promises from BA but still no fulfillment of the basic Avios let alone the bonus..

• CramondBen says:

  5 Sep5 September 17:27

  Hi All, my BA flight was cancelled, and I requested an evoucher on 31 Aug, has been 6 days, still waiting for the evoucher to be issued, is this normal? thanks.

  • ChrisC says:

    5 Sep5 September 17:35

    Can sometimes take a week or more depending on how complex the original booking was.

    I presume you’ve checked your spam folder as I’ve had a couple of vouchers go there.

    • CramondBen says:

      5 Sep5 September 20:24

      Thanks Chris.

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