ALL Accor+ Explorer Membership Discussion

[aikman]

Looks like an announcement will be made today regarding changes to the program. From what I can gather the dining discount will become a flat 30% and the free night will be subject to a 2 night stay. Comes into effect October 1.

 

[comehither]

All those promotions for sign up make sense now.

 

[markis10]

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[dairyfloss]

Looks like an announcement will be made today regarding changes to the program. From what I can gather the dining discount will become a flat 30% and the free night will be subject to a 2 night stay. Comes into effect October 1.

This will be fun over on the A+ Fb group

 

[Aeryn]

Looks like an announcement will be made today regarding changes to the program. From what I can gather the dining discount will become a flat 30% and the free night will be subject to a 2 night stay. Comes into effect October 1.

I already thought the free night was subject to a 2 night stay, at least IME can never find free nights when looking for just 1 night on a weekend, but as soon as you search for 2 nights, no issue finding free + paid (and they always apply the free night to the cheaper of the 2 nights).

Then again i refuse to use the free night for any booking where it doesnt fully recoup the annual fee.

 

[jase05]

I already thought the free night was subject to a 2 night stay, at least IME can never find free nights when looking for just 1 night on a weekend, but as soon as you search for 2 nights, no issue finding free + paid (and they always apply the free night to the cheaper of the 2 nights).

Then again i refuse to use the free night for any booking where it doesnt fully recoup the annual fee.

Currently it’s not a requirement but personally don’t have an issue with that changing

 

[comehither]

Changes landed

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[Human]

Changes landed

Benefits

One card gives you exclusive benefits across 1,000 hotels and over 1,400 restaurants in Asia Pacific. Discover all Accor Plus benefits

www.accorplus.com

Well, they're not too bad actually.

• The 15% off drinks gets extended to all Accor hotels in Asia/Pacific rather than Asia only.
• 10% off hotels in Asia/Pacific changed to 15% off worldwide (but can no longer be combined with 5% ALL discount).
• 20 status nights changed to 30 status nights (ie. automatic Gold rather than automatic Silver)..
• 1 free night in Asia/Pacific changed to 2 free nights for stays of 2 nights or more (but with a caveat that it may not apply to all Explorer memberships ... waiting to see if it applies to those whose membership is through AmEx Platinum).
• Dining discount becomes a flat 30%.

Particularly if there are now 2 free nights instead of 1 (and it is currently an "if"), that's an overall positive set of changes in my book. Hopefully I'm not missing something bad.

 

[comehither]

You missed you have to book 2 nights to get one free.

 

[Human]

You missed you have to book 2 nights to get one free.

Post now edited. All the changes are in the right hand column below. For me, the changes are still slightly positive overall.

 

[oz_mark]

Overall I'd say neutral to a slight plus for me.
I generally used Stay Plus on multinights anyway, so having two is an improvement
Lose out a bit on the dining discount, but gain on the beverages.

 

[jase05]

Swings and roundabouts for us but think it might be a slight positive.
We eat out most nights as a couple and often at Accor properties so lose on the discount but pick that up with an extra stay plus night which as a rule usually gets us upgraded to a suite or one of the highest rooms on offer. We also stay quite a bit in the ME and Europe so the members rate should knock a bit of that price off. Drinks are an added bonus too
Not much to complain about from MPOV

 

[aikman]

Won't be able to use the free night anymore on expensive hotels that I otherwise couldn't afford to stay at.

 

[Nat]

Looks like you can no longer use the Accor+ renewal date trick to push out your status - Previously status was determined at renewal based on either the current or previous calendar year. In the new terms this has changed to "ALL Accor+ Explorer Membership status (e.g. Gold, Platinum and Diamond) is assessed in the same manner as ALL Accor members."

Also this clause might affect adding other methods to reach Platinum without staying "regardless of the number or types of ALL Accor+ memberships the Member holds, a limit of 30 bonus Status Nights awarded across all memberships held will be counted towards determining the annual Status Nights' balance for that Member"

 

[markis10]

Be interesting to see if they now allow membership for those with other paid subscriptions, was meant to happen last year.

 

[comehither]

I travel solo a lot so an immediate 30% food is good. Wonder if it will apply to the current dodgy 15% restaurants

 

[oz_mark]

Be interesting to see if they now allow membership for those with other paid subscriptions, was meant to happen last year.

Rebranding was supposed to happen last year as well. I would suspect this change will be done in conjunction with the replatforming. Interesting that the member for a day certs also stop at the same time.

 

[aikman]

Looks like you can no longer use the Accor+ renewal date trick to push out your status - Previously status was determined at renewal based on either the current or previous calendar year. In the new terms this has changed to "ALL Accor+ Explorer Membership status (e.g. Gold, Platinum and Diamond) is assessed in the same manner as ALL Accor members."

I don't understand how this will work in practice. Terms says you will never be downgraded to Silver so status is still somehow linked to your membership expiry date.

 

[markis10]

You will never be downgraded so long as your part of the program and getting 30 nights credit

 

[oz_mark]

I don't understand how this will work in practice. Terms says you will never be downgraded to Silver so status is still somehow linked to your membership expiry date.

By virtue of being given 30 status nights, which gives you gold.