News in brief: Best Western launching a £48 sale at 9am Best Western is, we believe, launching a ‘£48, 48-hour’ flash sale at 9am today. That’s it. We know nothing more! However, .....

1 Oct 20201 October 2020 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment

Accor offers a paid loyalty programme for regular ibis guests – ibis Business. You are probably thinking that “I don’t stay much in ibis hotels” and “I don’t stay .....

24 Sep 202024 September 2020 by Rob Burgess • 20 comments

The key hotel chains are extending their coronavirus flexible booking policies. These policies were first introduced a few months ago with many due to expire at the end of August. We are now seeing a .....

7 Sep 20207 September 2020 by Rhys Jones • 11 comments

Accor Hotels, which owns Novotel / Ibis / Mercure / M Gallery / Sofitel / Pullman / Raffles / Swissotel / Fairmont etc, has brought back its potentially generous promotion to earn 6,000 bonus Avios or .....

2 Sep 20202 September 2020 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

Marriott Bonvoy has launched a short-term status match. If you have elite status with Hilton Honors, IHG Rewards Club, World of Hyatt or Accor Live Limitless, it is worth a look. How does the Marriott .....

28 Aug 202028 August 2020 by Rob Burgess • 117 comments

If you are looking for a place by the coast to spend your Accor Live Limitless points, the Queen’s Hotel in Bournemouth has rebranded under Accor’s Mercure brand. The hotel home page is .....

13 Aug 202013 August 2020 by Rhys Jones • Leave a comment

Welcome to our (used to be) regular round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running. After a four month hiatus, I have brought back this monthly recap.  Let’s hope I am not tempting .....

5 Aug 20205 August 2020 by Rob Burgess • 19 comments

Today, our ‘My Favourite Hotel’ review is from London. We are currently running this reader-written feature to provide some positivity and inspiration to Head for Points.  You can find .....

2 Aug 20202 August 2020 by Anika Burnett • 23 comments

Last month we ran a long piece about the troubles at Travelodge. You can read our story about the Travelodge rebranding and financial crisis here.  To summarise, the (hedge fund) owners of Travelodge .....

30 Jul 202030 July 2020 by Rob Burgess • 65 comments

Is it possible to book multiple rooms at the same property on the same night, earn points from them all and have them all count as qualifying nights for elite status or for a promotion? I’m not .....

27 Jul 202027 July 2020 by Rob Burgess • 16 comments

Accor Live Limitless is offering 500 bonus points on your next stay at a participating Fairmont, Raffles, Swissotel, Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Novotel, Novotel Suites, Mercure, Adagio, Ibis, Ibis .....

25 Jul 202025 July 2020 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment

Accor, which runs the Ibis, Novotel, Mercure, Sofitel etc hotel brands, is offering a discount of up to 25% on many UK hotels to NHS staff. The offers runs until 31st December. There are very few .....

2 Jul 20202 July 2020 by Rob Burgess • 72 comments

You can pick up some free points in Accor Live Limitless, the loyalty programme for Sofitel, Novotel, Ibis, Mercure, Fairmont, Raffles, M Gallery and other brands, by signing up to their .....

28 Jun 202028 June 2020 by Rob Burgess • 14 comments

Today, our ‘My Favourite Hotel’ review is from Canada. We are currently running this reader-written feature to provide some positivity and inspiration to Head for Points.  You can find .....

28 Jun 202028 June 2020 by Anika Burnett • 25 comments