Get a 30% bonus when you transfer Avios to Accor Live Limitless hotel points

Accor Live Limitless, the loyalty programme for Novotel, Pullman, Mercure, Raffles, Sofitel, ibis etc, has launched a transfer bonus with Avios, via Qatar Privilege Club.

When you convert Avios into Accor Live Limitless points by 31st May, you will receive a 30% bonus.

In order to do this, your Accor Live Limitless account needs to be connected to your Qatar Privilege Club Avios account. You would be crazy if you hadn’t already done this because anyone who does so receives Avios on all of their Accor hotel stays – ON TOP of their usual Accor Live Limitless points.

It is a complex scheme and I don’t want to run over it again here. If you want to learn more about it, read this HfP article on the Qatar Privilege Club Avios / Accor Live Limitless partnership. You can transfer Avios from British Airways to Qatar Privilege Club using the instructions here – it’s instant, free and reversible.

What’s the bonus?

Until 31st May, you will receive 1,300 Accor Live Limitless points (usually 1,000) for every 4,500 Avios you convert from your Qatar Privilege Club account.

Don’t get too excited about this.  Accor points have a fixed value of 2 Eurocents each.  There is no ‘reward chart’ – the points cost for a night is simply the cash price in Euro multiplied by 50.

This means that you are swapping 4,500 Avios in Qatar Privilege Club for a €26 (£22.60) Accor hotel discount.  This is just 0.50p per Avios, which is poor. You would be crazy to do this given that converting Avios to Nectar gets you 0.66p per Avios point.

There are only two reasons why I think you might want to do this:

• Accor Live Limitless points expire after 12 months with no account activity. Making an Avios transfer into Accor will reset your expiry date and you might as well do it whilst there is a bonus on.

• You may have been interested in some of the recent ‘Limitless Experiences’ VIP Accor redemptions – such as BST Hyde Park VIP tickets – and want to get some Accor points to take part in this or future events.

You can find out more about the Accor / Avios transfer bonus on this page of the Accor Live Limitless website.

Our two-part HfP guide to Accor Live Limitless starts here.

PS. There is also a transfer bonus for moving miles out of Aegean Airlines, ITA Airways or Finnair into Accor. If you have a few orphaned miles in any of these programmes then this might be an opportunity.

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (June 2023)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 13th June, the sign-up bonus on The Platinum Card is doubled to 60,000 Membership Rewards points – and you get £200 to spend at Amex Travel too! Apply here.

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital On Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

EDIT: Applications for this card are temporarily suspended due to IT issues with the British Airways On Business SME loyalty scheme.

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.