News in brief:
Earn triple Club Eurostar points from an Accor hotel stay
Accor Live Limitless, the loyalty scheme for Ibis, Novotel, Mercure, Sofitel, Raffles, Fairmont, Pullman etc, has launched a promotion with Club Eurostar.
The Accor and Club Eurostar partnership works in both directions:
- you can earn Club Eurostar points instead of Accor Live Limitless points for your Accor stays, or convert your existing Accor balance
- you can convert Club Eurostar points into Accor Live Limitless points
Neither of these options offer great value as this HfP article explains. You are better off using your Accor points for free hotel nights and your Eurostar points for free train travel.
During this new special offer period, however, you can earn triple Club Eurostar points on every Accor stay. This IS a decent deal, especially compared to taking Avios, although it isn’t much use if you’re not an existing Club Eurostar points collector.
That said, you can top up your Club Eurostar account via American Express Membership Rewards at 15:1, so even if you have no Club Eurostar points you might to be able to get close to a free train ticket via this offer and top up with Amex points later.
If you want to look at the numbers:
- 2,000 Accor points = €40 of free Accor hotel room, so 1.7p per Accor point
- 2,000 Accor points = 2,000 Avios if you convert to Iberia Plus (but only 1,000 Avios in BA Executive Club) which I’d value at 1p per Accor point
- 2,000 Accor points = 175 Club Eurostar points which I’d value at £21 (ie 12p per Club Eurostar point as per our valuation here) so 1.05p per Accor point, tripled under this offer to 3.15p
The bottom line is that this is a pretty decent deal if you collect Club Eurostar points, and better value than using the Accor points for hotel stays or Avios.
You must book your Accor hotel between 15th July and 31st August and stay by 15th September. You MUST have your Accor accounts set to automatically convert your points to Club Eurostar.
Warning – if you activate automatic conversion, all of your existing Accor points will be transferred over to Club Eurostar without a bonus. Do not register for this offer unless you are happy with that.
You can find out more about the offer on the Accor site here.
Note that only Accor hotels in selected European countries, including the UK, are participating – check the small print. You can only earn the bonus once during the promotional period.
Good Liverpool hotel deal
If you need to be in Liverpool before the end of August, Travelzoo is running a good deal at the Jurys Inn hotel on the waterfront.
Stays from Sunday to Thursday are a flat £75 per night. This gets you:
- a Superior Room
- buffet breakfast for two people
- a bottle of cava in your room on arrival
Friday night stays cost £119. Saturday night stays are not available. The offer runs to 31st August.
Full details are on Travelzoo here.