Accor Explorer Plus Dining Variations

[serfty]

Not all hotels and/or hotel restaurants provide Explorer Plus benefits; also there are blackout dates.

The Variations/Exclusions are listed on this web page: (it appears to be kept up to date)

ALL Accor+ Explorer Member Dining Benefits Variations

Discover Accor Plus membership stay and dining exceptions for some hotels and resorts. Also, access blackout dates of the year.

www.accorplus.com

For Australia the following currently apply:

Dining:

AUSTRALIA

• Fairmont Resort Blue Mountains – MGallery Collection: 1 Sublime Point and Leura Golf Club Bistro
• Hyde Melbourne Place: Marmelo
• The Brighton Hotel Sydney – MGallery Collection: All restaurants and bars
• The Porter House Hotel Sydney – MGallery Collection: Lee Ho cough Restaurant
• Mercure Portsea: All restaurants and bars excluding Portsea Golf Club
• Mercure Sydney Liverpool: The Atrium and The Laneway
• Mercure Tamworth: All restaurants and bars
• Mercure Warragul: All restaurants and bars
• Novotel Wollongong Northbeach: Palisade Restaurant, Pepe’s on the Beach
• ibis Styles The Entrance: All restaurants and bars
• Manly Pacific Hotel: Cibaria and 55 North
• Mount Lofty House Adelaide Hills: All restaurants and bars
• Reef House Adults Retreat: All restaurants and bars

Blackout Dates:

AUSTRALIA
New Year’s Day: 1 January 2026
Australia Day: 26 January 2026
Valentine’s Day: 14 February 2026
Good Friday: 3 April 2026
Easter Weekend: 4 – 6 April 2026
Anzac Day: 25 April 2026
Mother’s Day: 10 May 2026
King’s Birthday – excluding Western Australia and Queensland: 8 June 2026
King’s Birthday – Western Australia: 28 September 2026
King’s Birthday – Queensland: 5 October 2026
Labour Day – New South Wales / South Australia/ Australian Capital Territory: 5 October 2026
Melbourne Cup Day: 3 November 2026
Christmas Day: 25 December 2026
Boxing Day: 26 December 2026
New Year’s Eve: 31 December 2026

 

[markis10]

The list is not up to date, many many restaurants are shown as accepting explorer that in fact are not participating, some examples are the Sebel in Dockland and the Mercure Tokyu Stay in Osaka.

 

[sudoer]

Mercure Tokyu Stay in Tokyo

Osaka? I don't think there is a Mercure Tokyu Stay in Tokyo..?

 

[markis10]

Osaka? I don't think there is a Mercure Tokyu Stay in Tokyo..?

Yep Osaka

 

[oz_mark]

Worth noting the Stays Exceptions page has also been updated recently (and added a few hotels where you have to book three nights to get the StayPlus)

ALL Accor+ Explorer Member Stay Benefits Variations

Discover Accor Plus membership stay and dining exceptions for some hotels and resorts. Also, access blackout dates of the year.

www.accorplus.com

 

[serfty]

The list is not up to date, many many restaurants are shown as accepting explorer that in fact are not participating, some examples are the Sebel in Dockland and the Mercure Tokyu Stay in Osaka.

Good, we should note here all such variations.

 

[markis10]

Noosa discounts only for a breakfast at the old Sofitel
Here is a post from the Accor Plus Facebook Members site with more detail of the VIC issues, worth checking before dining regardless:

There’s a few Melbourne restaurants listed as participating on the website that have never participated as far as I’m aware:
Capri, Sebel Docklands
Soul Cafe, Mercure Welcome (listed on both the participating list and the exemption list)
Scotch Notch Cafe, Mantra Melton (advised this over the phone)
Others are shown as participating in the list but do not participate when you read the details:
Spike Bar, Mercure Portsea
Marmello, Hyde Melbourne
Newmason, Mercure Warragul
Then there’s restaurants that closed/became non-Accor years ago but still appear as a participating restaurant:
Felt, Hotel Lindrum (closed)
Classico and French Wine Cafe, The Blackman (closed)
The Orchard, Sebel Ringwood (non-Accor now)
Wokks Thai, some old Ibis in Carlton (closed)
Naima, Mercure St Kilda Road (non-Accor now)
Esplanade Diner, Novotel St Kilda (closed)
The Argus, Peppers Hepburn Springs (non-Accor now)
Faro, Sebel Moorabbin (closed)
Jazz corner cafe and Birds Upstairs, Jazz Corner Hotel (non-Accor now)