Accor multi-room booking – how to maximise points?

[Supergers49]

Good Afternoon,

I need to book 5 rooms at an Accor property. I understand I can only earn redeemable points on 2 of those rooms if I book directly. With a multi-room booking their does not appear to be any discernible difference between the member rates bookable directly on the Accor website or via booking.com. I intend to book 2-rooms directly, but was wondering if anyone else had any ideas on how to maximise the value of the other 3 rooms (beyond booking.com via a £/back website)?

Unfortunately all the other hotels in the near vicinity are considerably more expensive, therefore spreading the bookings across chains doesn’t appear to be a suitable option.

TIA for the ideas.

[DarrenS]

In my experience you get more £/back if you go to Accor via the £/back site, rather than Booking.com.

[Supergers49]

DarrenS wrote:

In my experience you get more £/back if you go to Accor via the £/back site, rather than Booking.com.

That does appear to be the case. Thanks

[Skywalker]

Just wondering if this would work – would separate bookings do it (even booking them on separate days)?

1 x 2 rooms on one booking reference
1 x 2 rooms on another booking reference
And then 1 separate?

Or would the system class them as duplicate and cancel some?

Maybe @Rob would have a better idea here 🙂

[Supergers49]

Skywalker wrote:

would separate bookings do it (even booking them on separate days)?

1 x 2 rooms on one booking reference
1 x 2 rooms on another booking reference
And then 1 separate?

As it happens I have booked 1×1 room, 1×2 rooms, and 1×2 rooms… so have three different booking references. I will report back what I get (or do not get) back in points.

[ffwd]

I have (a couple of times a year) booked more than 2 rooms with Accor and normally do one booking per room. You do not get the Accor points for the extra rooms.

[avythos]

Interesting.
My understanding is that say family room where you get one room half price you get the points on the booking value,

I have booked 1 room and 1 room with a family halfprice additional room, I am expecting to get points for all three rooms for the booking, is that not going to be the case? I happen to have gold access if that makes an iota of difference.
Since I have free refunds, I would have to question the value of the booking if wasn’t the case I would get the points for all the rooms booked.

[Lady London]

Are you a meeting planner? Accor has a program.

For exanple there’s double points in March (was triple in January and February), but sadly on this particular offer (just checked for you) they wanted a minimum of 8 rooms, this is not always the case though.

[avythos]

In my case no, just a simple family trip for 3 nights in Krakow.