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Get triple Accor points on your next two hotel stays – and a 20% bonus on gift cards

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If you are an Accor Live Limitless member, there is an attractive ‘triple points’ offer for bookings made over the Black Friday weekend.

You can also get a 20% bonus when you buy Accor gift cards.

Combine these two offers and you’ve got a good deal.

New Accor 'triple points' hotel promotion

Earn triple Accor Live Limitless points

Take a look here for details of this offer, as well as the registration link.

Remember that Accor brands include ibis, Novotel, Sofitel, Mercure, MGallery, Raffles, Fairmont, Swissotel, Pullman etc.

As usual with Accor offers, it is a bit of a faff:

  • you need to register in advance of booking via this page of the Accor site (stays booked before registration do not count)
  • you must book your stay by Monday 27th November
  • you must book for at least two nights
  • you must stay between 12th December 2023 and 28th February 2024
  • you will earn triple base points on up to two stays during the promo period

The offer is valid at Accor hotels in Europe and North Africa only.

What are triple Accor points worth?

Our article on what we think Accor Live Limitless points are worth is here.

1 point is worth 2 Eurocents off your next booking, although you need to redeem in chunks of 2,000 points.

The standard earn rate at most brands is 2.5 points per €1. Triple base points means 7.5 points per €1. This means 15 Eurocents of free stays for every €1 you spend, pre-tax, which is a decent return. Anyone with elite status will earn even more.

You can also transfer your Accor points to Avios although you lose value compared to using them for a discount on a future stay.

You can find out more, and register for triple points, here.

If you want to learn more about Accor Live Limitless, our full review of the scheme is here.

get a 20% bonus when you buy an Accor gift card

And …. get a 20% bonus when you buy an Accor gift card

Accor is also running a special Black Friday promotion on its UK gift cards.

Via this page of the Accor website, you can purchase gift cards from £50 to £250 and get an extra 20% loaded on top.

The offer runs until Monday.

The gift cards are only valid at participating hotels in Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and Switzerland. That said, the value will be reduced outside the UK because the hotel is likely to use a poor exchange rate when you redeem.

Note that the gift cards cannot be used on the Accor website, which means that you won’t be able to benefit from any cheaper pre-paid rates. If you tend to book flexible rates, however, it is a genuine saving.

You can use the gift card towards food, drink and other room charges on a pre-paid stay, of course.

You can stack this offer with the triple points deal above.

Let’s assume that, as an Accor Platinum member, I book a £300 ‘pay on departure’ UK stay. I can pay for this with a £250 gift card, giving me an immediate saving of £50.

As a Platinum member I would get 7.5 base points per €1 via ‘triple points’ plus an extra 1.875 on top as a status bonus. This is a total of 9.375 points per €1, or 18.75 Eurocents per €1.

18.75% of (£300 – 20% VAT) £250 which is another £46.88, albeit received in Accor points to use on a future stay. I’ve got a £96.88 discount on my £300 stay by combining the two deals.


Accor Live Limitless update – April 2024:

Earn bonus Accor points: Accor is not currently running a global promotion

New to Accor Live Limitless?  Read our review of Accor Live Limitless here and our article on points expiry rules here. Our analysis of what Accor Live Limitless points are worth is here.

Want to earn more hotel points?  Click here to see our complete list of promotions from Accor and the other major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.

Comments (13)

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  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    To save people looking both the LHR and LGW Sofitels are on the list of hotels that take the gift cards,

    • BJ says:

      Yes, anybody using one or both of these offers would be much better using them on the higher end brands. Since the end of the pandemic hotel rate inflation has been the norm but I think the worst examples has been Ibis and Premier Inn (not Accor). Many of these are mow charging well over double their typical pre-pandemic rates not only in key cities but chain-wide.

  • AirMax says:

    At the risk of sounding stupid, does choosing a particular currency gift card lock you into using it in a particular country?

    • Rob says:

      No, you can use it in any of the countries listed but you’re at the mercy of whatever FX rate is applied if you use it outside the UK.

      • planeconcorde says:

        If you navigate to say the Germany Accor hotels web site then you can purchase the gift cards in Euros. So you can lock in your credit card’s today exchange rate, instead of risking the Accor internal future exchange rate. That’s assuming your hotel stay is in a euro currency country.

  • AL says:

    I loathe the notion of signing up for ALL, for some reason. But I am on the verge of paying for a Fairmont stay via Emyr, so maybe getting some points is better than none.

    • Rob says:

      Would be daft to say no.

      Remember to link your Accor and Qatar Privilege Club accounts so you earn some Avios from the stay.

  • Lee Pearce says:

    Sometimes I will book refundable rooms with ACCOR (IBIS), hence why I’m looking at the card.

    However, I usually book the pre-paid rate, including breakfast, but I can’t use the gift card to pay for the room.

    So one way around this is to book a pre-paid room only and use the card to pay for the breakfast.

    Does anyone know if the pre-paid breakfast rate is different to the pay on the stay rate?

  • Concerto says:

    Do the 2 nights need to be consecutive?

  • Skywalker says:

    Silly question but can I use these particular gift cards to pay for existing bookings, or only those that have been booked after the gift card purchase? TIA

    • planeconcorde says:

      Can be for existing OR new bookings, but either must be pay on departure.

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