Get 1,000 bonus Accor hotel points on your next stay if you opt in to earning Avios on top

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Not many Avios collectors know that you can now double-up when you stay at any Accor hotel.

As well as earning Accor Live Limitless points as usual from your Novotel, Mercure, Raffles, Fairmont, Sofitel, Ibis etc stays, you now earn a slug of Avios on top. You get Accor points AND Avios.

There is no catch, except that the Avios will drop into a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account and not your British Airways Executive Club account. As long as your BA and Qatar accounts are linked, however, it is a 30 seconds job to move them across.

Everyone who enrols in this partnership between 1st July and 31st July will earn 1,000 bonus Accor Live Limitless points (worth €20 or 1,000 Avios) on their next Accor hotel stay before 14th September.

The partnership also works in reverse.

If you book a cash ticket on Qatar Airways and credit the flight to a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account, you will earn Accor Live Limitless points from the flight. This is on top of the Avios you earn in Qatar Airways Privilege Club.

To summarise:

• you earn Avios AND Accor Live Limitless points when you stay at Accor hotels

• you earn Accor Live Limitless points AND Avios when you fly with Qatar Airways and credit your flight to Qatar Airways Privilege Club

This is a clear win for anyone who either collects Avios, flies on Qatar Airways or stays in Accor hotels.  You are going to be better off in the future.

You can find full details, and register, via this special page of the Qatar Airways website. You must use this particular page to receive the extra 1,000 Accor points on your next booking.

How do you get your 1,000 bonus Accor points?

Qatar Airways and Accor have launched a new promotion for anyone who links their Accor and Qatar Airways Privilege Club accounts for the first time.

If your Qatar Airways Privilege Club and Accor Live Limitless accounts are newly linked, you will get 1,000 bonus Accor Live Limitless points on your next stay.

Here’s the small print:

• your Qatar Airways Privilege Club and Accor Live Limitless accounts must be linked between 1st July and 31st July

• you must book (but not necessarily complete) your hotel stay between 1st July and 31st July

• your stay must be by 15th September

Full details of the offer are on the Qatar Airways website here.

How does the Qatar Airways Privilege Club Avios / Accor partnership work?

I will now run over the basics of the Avios / Accor partnership in case you are not familiar with it.

This is going to get a little complicated, so let’s start with a simple overview:

Yes, as it shows:

• When you stay at Accor hotels, you will earn 1 Avios in Qatar Airways Privilege Club per €1 spent – on top of the Accor points you would usually earn

• When you fly with Qatar Airways and credit the flight to Qatar Airways Privilege Club, you will earn 1 Accor hotel point per $2 spent – on top of the Avios you would usually earn

Let’s summarise what this means:

• Stay in Accor hotels? You can only be better off by registering for this offer.  There is no downside. You get your usual Accor Live Limitless points, and a few days later some Avios will also appear in your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account. You can transfer these to your British Airways Executive Club account.

• Fly with Qatar Airways? If you credit your flight to Qatar Airways Privilege Club, you will gain some Accor Live Limitless points too. The Avios you earn from your flight can easily be moved from Qatar Airways Privilege Club to British Airways Executive Club. However, there is one snag – you won’t earn British Airways Executive Club tier points if you credit Qatar Airways flights to Qatar Airways Privilege Club.

Bottom line:

• this is a no-brainer if you stay in Accor hotels – open a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account via this link and connect it to your Accor Live Limitless account via this link. Accor will automatically send Avios to your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account after every hotel stay.

• it is NOT a no-brainer if you fly with Qatar Airways – you need to decide whether it is worth sacrificing British Airways Executive Club tier points for some Accor Live Limitless hotel points. This will impact whether you credit Qatar Airways flights to Executive Club or Privilege Club.

You can transfer Avios into Accor points, and vice versa

Remember that you can transfer Avios points, held in Qatar Airways Privilege Club, into Accor Live Limitless points, and vice versa.

• 2,000 Accor points = 1,000 Avios in Qatar Airways Privilege Club or British Airways Executive Club (but 2,000 Avios in Iberia Plus, so send your Accor points to an Iberia Avios account)

• 4,500 Avios in Qatar Airways Privilege Club = 1,000 Accor points

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 Airways Privilege Club for a €20 Accor hotel discount.  This is just 0.44 Eurocents per Avios, which is VERY poor. You would be crazy to do this given that converting Avios to Nectar gets you 0.5p per Avios point.

Sign up even if you have ZERO interest in the other scheme!

Why?  Because:

• in the worse case scenario, an Accor guest can take the Avios earned in Qatar Airways Privilege Club and convert them back into more Accor points ….

• …. and an Avios collector can take the Accor points earned and convert them back into more Avios!

And, of course, if you book an Accor stay under this offer you’ll get 1,000 bonus Accor Live Limitless points for your trouble.

Conclusion

This is, I accept, a bit complex.

Let’s assume that you don’t fly with Qatar Airways on cash tickets. If this is you, you can cut to the chase. This is what you should do:

• open a Qatar Airways Privilege Club account here

• link it to your British Airways Executive Club account by following the instructions here

• link it to your Accor Live Limitless account by following the link here and clicking ‘Get Started’

There’s nothing else to do. Whenever you stay at an Accor hotel from now on, a handful of Avios (1 per €1 spent) will drop into your Qatar Airways Privilege Club account. You still get your Accor points as usual. You can move the Avios across to your linked British Airways Executive Club account. It’s free Avios, basically.

You can find out more about the Accor / Avios partnership:

• on the Qatar Airways website here

• on the Accor Live Limitless website here

The ‘1,000 bonus Accor points’ offer, which requires a hotel booking made by 31st July, is outlined here.

PS. If your Accor account is already linked to Flying Blue due to their similar offer, you can switch to Qatar Airways Privilege Club as long as you linked them over 12 months ago. If you linked your Accor account to Flying Blue under a year ago, you need to wait.

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2025)

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. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on the ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 30,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (30,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

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, and the standard card is FREE. Capital on Tap cards also have no FX fees.

There is also a British Airways American Express card for small businesses:

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.