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I’ve got 4 sectors with QR next year and gold status would be pretty useful so was searching around and have seen that QR status match with Accor (Accor Platinum – QR gold) and then saw a post here:
However there is also a paid-for Chinese Accor Plus 2.0 Supreme card that could give another 30 nights (https://all.accor.com/a/en/loyalty-program/subscription-program-all-plus-china.html) for a cost of about £275 (RMB 2,688), which is something I have learned today! So you can ‘buy’ Platinum status for a cumulative cost of c. £530 (Ibis €99 + Voyageur €199 + China Supreme RMB 2,688). This Chinese Accor card also gives you some free night and discount vouchers, so your net cost to buy status could be lower if you can make genuine use of these offers.
which infers that you can buy Accor platinum for around £500.
Does this actually work with QR though?
Has anyone tried it?I did see the QR credit card which allows you to attain gold status but it was for US inhabitants only!
Obviously yet to decide if £530 is worth QR gold but it’d be nice to know if it’s feasible…
TVM!
The issue is that they have quotas for how many they match at each level – Diamond => Platinum goes quite quickly.
There’s also some uncertainty about when the quota period resets. On Flyertalk some say January and others have mentioned September, and there doesn’t seem to be any definitive confirmation from QR themselves.In any case, I’d make sure you really intend to make use of the Accor benefits also if you want to go down that route.
An alternative would be to sign up to Signature Absolute. That way it’s very little effort to reach Platinum and you effectively get reward points at a discount.It’s possible to achieve Gold status via Accor Platinum, but there is an annual cap assigned to the number of people who could attain status in this way.
Whether or not the offers you have mentioned stack or combine in the way you want to be able to achieve Accor Platinum/QR gold is another thing however.
Maybe take a leap of faith and report back?
Seems like the link you gave to the Accor website gives a QR code for offer signup via WeChat.
There is an easier way to get Platinum with Accor and its via the Brazilian Signature programme.
You pay €1,200 (give or take) and get 75,000 redeemable points (€1,500, guaranteed value) and 12,000 status points. Platinum requires 14,000 status points so you are about €800 of spend short, which a couple of stays would cover.
Snag is that points drop in month by month over a year.
Best time to join is November in the Black Friday offer.
We’ve never covered this because its a bit scrappy (website is in Portuguese) but the Loyalty Lobby website covers it in detail.
One thing with the Chinese offer is that you may not get the suite upgrade vouchers since I think these are triggered by base points and not nights. Could be wrong.
One thing with the Chinese offer is that you may not get the suite upgrade vouchers since I think these are triggered by base points and not nights. Could be wrong.
In 2021 I achieved Plat purely by 60 status nights and still managed to get the 2 Suite Night Upgrade vouchers
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