Accor Welcome Drink Experiences

[serfty]

Staying at an Ibis Styles in Southbank tonight and while redeeming an in app drink voucher, I accidently activated "help" and saw this.



That indicates hotels have the ability to populate this information - if kept up to date it could be very useful.

Failing that, I think this thread can be used members Silver and above post their "Welcome Drink" experince at individual hotels so others can get an idea of what they may expect.

 

[serfty]

Sofitel Dimonsuria Kuala Lumpur ... i had a sling.

 

[wamut]

My experience in Australia has, I think, always been what you had in Southbank - house wine or basic beer. I stayed at the Mondrian in Singapore last year and they had a couple of very nice coughtails available (the coughstar Martini was delicious) so it might be a SE Asian thing to be more generous?

 

[jase05]

Failing that, I think this thread can be used members Silver and above post their "Welcome Drink" experince at individual hotels so others can get an idea of what they may expect

I think most people post the welcome drinks on the “How does Accor treat you as an elite guest” pages but generally as mentioned it’s often a beer or house wine. Some have a mu or a list whilst others you just ask at the bar and often they can be pretty flexible. As a Diamond you often get some extra leeway and likewise the more expensive properties will often let you get pretty much anything. A few examples are Raffles Boston was a US$80 bar voucher, Raffles Jakarta, Raffles Doha, Fairmont Doha, Fairmont Washington to name a few help yourself to whatever.
Asia is definitely more generous and often is beer, wine and spirits with coughtails also on offer. We are current at the Pullman Adelaide and its beer, house wine or spirits but the barman let us be a bit more liberal with our selections as we are regulars so the “top shelf” stuff is allowed

 

[SYD]

Asia is definitely more generous and often is beer, wine and spirits with coughtails also on offer.

Except the cheaper seats (beds) in Jakarta. The Ibis Styles (CGK) is soda or juice. Ask for a beer or wine and they giggle. We had a similar experience downtown at the “all seasons Jakarta Thamrin” (not to be confused with a Four Seasons)! It’s actually not a bad place - technically an Ibis Budget but more likely an Ibis Styles (including rooftop restaurant and bar) - again, giggles asking for alcohol, even though they sell it….

 

[jase05]

Except the cheaper seats (beds) in Jakarta. The Ibis Styles (CGK) is soda or juice. Ask for a beer or wine and they giggle. We had a similar experience downtown at the “all seasons Jakarta Thamrin” (not to be confused with a Four Seasons)! It’s actually not a bad place - technically an Ibis Budget but more likely an Ibis Styles (including rooftop restaurant and bar) - again, giggles asking for alcohol, even though they sell it….

Pullman Chongqing was soft drink or tea/coffee only, no spirits.
Banyan Tree Shanghai flat out refused a welcome drink and said “oh we don’t honour that benefit”