Last chance to get free Accor Gold status for two years via ibis Business

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• ChasP says:

  19 Feb19 February 03:37

  “You get a 50% points bonus for being Gold. I earned 18,872 base points in Accor Live Limitless from my stay. 18,872 base points meant that I earned a Gold status bonus of 9,435 points”

  Surely your bonus at 50% would be about 6285 ? Those numbers suggest 100% bonus

  • Martin says:

    19 Feb19 February 04:35

    I always thought 50% of 18,872
    Was 9,436…
    Chas ?? Am I missing something ??

    • TGLoyalty says:

      19 Feb19 February 09:58

      Yes because halving it means you got a 100% bonus

      You need to divide by 1.5 that means base was about 12,580 and 6290 bonus

      • TGLoyalty says:

        19 Feb19 February 09:59

        But I’ve misread too. 18,872 were the base points and ChasP was probably lacking the same sleep/coffee I am this morning.

• ChasP says:

  19 Feb19 February 03:40

  Ah so the bonus points are additional ? oh for an edit button

• Will says:

  19 Feb19 February 05:10

  My ibis business subscription ends on 31 July 2023.

  The FAQ states: “Subscribers can renew their ibis BUSINESS subscription from 30 days before their current subscription expires (D-30 before expiry).”

  Has anyone worked out a way to force the renewal before then? Could I just subscribe again as a new member? Or is there a better way to go about it?

  • planeconcorde says:

    19 Feb19 February 09:12

    I have the same issue with my ibis business renewal in July 2023. Yesterday I attempted to renew early and it give an error message can only renew 30 days early. Apart from applying as a new member with a different email address, I have yet to come up with a better renewal strategy.

• Pj92 says:

  19 Feb19 February 06:34

  The t&cs on the linked page mention an All Plus Voyager that gives 20 status nights and a 20% discount? Maybe there will be 2 subscription levels.

  • planeconcorde says:

    19 Feb19 February 09:14

    Yes, two different subscription cards. The current “The Business Plus card” will become “ALL PLUS Voyageur” with changes to its benefits.

  • Lady London says:

    19 Feb19 February 11:32

    The Business card was always a very expensive card though, you’d need to stay more at more expensive Accor to make the numbers work.

    And as with a few hotel groups these days, if you’ve a China or Apac address there are quite frequently more advantageous offers than both these cards

• John says:

  19 Feb19 February 07:42

  WHAT REMAINS THE SAME :

  – A minimum of Gold status with all its benefits is guaranteed for the duration of your current subscription.

  That’s what I see under your link. So you get Gold + 10 nights towards platinum.

  It’s the new card Voyager (which replaces a business card) which lose Gold and only gain 20 qualifying nights.

  • Rob says:

    19 Feb19 February 08:12

    You keep Gold until your current ibis Business sub ends.

• Tiberius says:

  19 Feb19 February 07:43

  Would it be possible to status match Accor Gold to the Hilton equivalent?

  • MarkZ says:

    19 Feb19 February 07:49

    Should still be possible (Rob and others may care to confirm) – certainly I have done so in the past.

• vol says:

  19 Feb19 February 08:01

  If someone signed up for the two year subscription at this stage, what would their gold status end date be?

  • MarkZ says:

    19 Feb19 February 08:06

    If you sign up now, then the end date should be 28th February 2025.

  • MarkZ says:

    19 Feb19 February 08:11

    However, based on my own experience, the Gold expiry date is advanced at the turn of the year, which can be a bit confusing. Last year, my Gold expiry date was 31st December 2022. Shortly after 1st January 2023, it became 31st December 2023, but my ibis Business expiry date is 29th February 2024, so I expect my Gold expiry date to advance again shortly after 1st January 2024.

  • Lee says:

    19 Feb19 February 08:42

    I signed up 1 year yesterday now showing gold expires at the end of 2024

    • Guernsey Globetrotter says:

      19 Feb19 February 09:14

      Yes, as @Rob ‘s article implies, buying the 2 year membership now should give Gold status until the end of 2025 as, even though the Ibis card will expire in February of that year, the Gold status should continue to the end of that calendar year.

      Normally the best value was therefore to only subscribe for the one year’s membership in January every other year, as you’d then be paying only £65 for 2 years of Gold but of course that no longer works from next month, so it’s pay £65 now for Gold til the end of 2024 or £119 til end of 2025.

      Unfortunately, for those of us running the standard January renewal cycle, current members may not be able to do this but them’s the breaks !

  • planeconcorde says:

    19 Feb19 February 09:07

    I bought the ibis Business Card for the first time July 2022, on a one year subscription. Within a day or so was upgraded to Accor GOLD with expiry of end December 2023. Whereas the ibis Business Card expiry is July 2023.

    • Lady London says:

      19 Feb19 February 11:38

      The first year I bought it in something like November, nothing in the conditions about this but early the following year my status disappeared. Accor stood firm and said the status was only till the end of the year purchased.

      I kicked up a stink but they didn’t budge for my subscription. However some months after that the conditions did include something about that and it was rest of current year then more.

      B*st*rd Accor. I would never trust them.

      • Roy says:

        19 Feb19 February 23:25

        They did fix that. 2 year cards really do give you Gold for two years these days (plus in practice an extension to the end of the calendar year after it expires, although I don’t think the T&Cs promise that)

• planeconcorde says:

  19 Feb19 February 09:03

  The current “ibis Business Card” will become “ALL PLUS ibis”.
  The current “The Business Plus card” will become “ALL PLUS Voyageur”.

  But what’s the new subscription fee for both new cards? So far we don’t know. In some cases “ALL PLUS Voyageur” may be better long term option after the current Ibis business subscription ends.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    19 Feb19 February 10:12

    Current it’s £65 and £170 a year. Unless you stay a lot at the premium brands for the 5% discount to matter I think it’s not worth the extra expense

    • planeconcorde says:

      19 Feb19 February 10:50

      On current rates, the difference is £105 which is cheaper than 10 nights of mattress runs to get the extra 10 night award credit. It comes down to how many paid nights you expect to do in a year and is it worth paying the extra to get a minimum of 30 nights required to reach gold.

      • TGLoyalty says:

        19 Feb19 February 13:19

        This is true if you really needed the nights.

        For me gold would be it. I’m not going to do lots of nights.

    • Lady London says:

      19 Feb19 February 11:40

      Yeah Accor keeps talking about 10%. but IM experience it’s only ever 5% except for very rarw exceptions.

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