ALL Accor+ Explorer Membership Discussion

[jase05]

I would say the two month offer is just there to encourage people to signup/renew now knowing that the program changes are coming. Better than having them drop out, and maybe not come back....

Yep, I’d say Accor just trying to milk the last drop.
Would be surprised if they are pretty generous though and plenty will end up with Platinum until the end of 2026 but then all bets will be off and they’ll drop the hammer.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

Part of this change may be to align all ALL+ members to a single renewal date of 1 October, hence the 14 months for the price of 12 offers. I think we’ll see similar offers over the course of a year to support this. Makes things a lot simpler in their backend…
1 October - all Explorer memberships renew and given 30 status nights
31 December all ALL status assessed
1 January- all status adjusted.

The IT dept would be trying to have every member have their status assessed on 31 December and then immediately have that applied under new rules. Good for the systems.

The hope for those of us platinum or higher now may be that a more member / customer centric department determines that the resulting loss of goodwill will cost them more than the efficiency savings. That may result in current status being extended to 2026. If that is the case then it would be to 31 December.

Does that mean if I renew now my status will be valid through September 30?

 

[SYD]

Does that mean if I renew now my status will be valid through September 30?

I joined in July and my status was extended until July 26. So presumably any new or renew up until October should work the same?

What happens then - we’ll see.

 

[dairyfloss]

Part of this change may be to align all ALL+ members to a single renewal date of 1 October, hence the 14 months for the price of 12 offers. I think we’ll see similar offers over the course of a year to support this. Makes things a lot simpler in their backend…
1 October - all Explorer memberships renew and given 30 status nights
31 December all ALL status assessed
1 January- all status adjusted.

The IT dept would be trying to have every member have their status assessed on 31 December and then immediately have that applied under new rules. Good for the systems.

The hope for those of us platinum or higher now may be that a more member / customer centric department determines that the resulting loss of goodwill will cost them more than the efficiency savings. That may result in current status being extended to 2026. If that is the case then it would be to 31 December.

I think it’s pretty clear with the announced changes that membership in Accor Plus doesn’t need to align with Accor ALL in any particular way, going forwards. Status will be determined by the overarching ALL program rules of what you have done in the 12 months to December 31st of a given year (incl. up to 30 bonus/free nights from A+), and that’s that.

Sign ups to A+ will continue to run and renew on the same 12 month blocks as they do currently.

Maybe I’m being pessimistic here… but I think they’re trying to cull the numbers of the ‘not so loyal’ elite members from the base, and so I expect there will only be limited exceptions and extensions to elite accounts that haven’t made the cut, come Dec 31st 2025.

The one main caveat to my pessimism… I do think they will most likely honour elite members who have reached or retained Platinum under the pre-October rules before September 30th (even if it was with more than 30 bonus nights) with status maintained through the end of 2026. But this also remains to be seen!

Cheers,
Matt.

 

[dairyfloss]

Does that mean if I renew now my status will be valid through September 30?

I joined in July and my status was extended until July 26. So presumably any new or renew up until October should work the same?

What happens then - we’ll see.

Unfortunately, I don’t think either of you will see your status extended into 2026 unless you have the status nights or status points to secure it. Accor Plus no longer offers any kind of status extensions. The only benefit to status from A+ is the 30 bonus nights which are credited at the start of your new membership year

 

[kangarooflyer88]

Unfortunately, I don’t think either of you will see your status extended into 2026 unless you have the status nights or status points to secure it. Accor Plus no longer offers any kind of status extensions. The only benefit to status from A+ is the 30 bonus nights which are credited at the start of your new membership year

Let me clarify. If I were to renew my Accor+ right now on August 27th ahead of its expiry at the end of the month when would my membership be valid to? Would it just be 12 months (I.e. August 31, 2026) or would it be to October 31,2026 assuming they honour the 14 month bit? Or would it make sense to wait until September so I can re-join Accor+ as a new member and get it until November 30, 2026?

As for status nights as I mentioned earlier that should be taken care of since by the end of this week I’ll be at 29 nights of pure hotel night stays with no Accor membership bonus nights earned this year. So supposing I can get the 30 bonus points from Accor+ from renewal then I would just need to stay one night at an Accor property here in Europe and that’s it!

-RooFlyer88

 

[SYD]

Unfortunately, I don’t think either of you will see your status extended into 2026 unless you have the status nights or status points to secure it. Accor Plus no longer offers any kind of status extensions. The only benefit to status from A+ is the 30 bonus nights which are credited at the start of your new membership year

No, my status was extended until July 2026 when I signed up last month (just before the announcement).

The question is what happens from now until the transition date? Should be obvious if anyone has signed up/renewed recently?

 

[dairyfloss]

No, my status was extended until July 2026 when I signed up last month (just before the announcement).

The question is what happens from now until the transition date? Should be obvious if anyone has signed up/renewed recently?

I do hope for your sake that the A+ status date sticks, but without status from nights or points in 2025, there’s no guarantee it will… unless you were Gold? Gold is fine as all A+ are expected to get the nights to cover that each year regardless.

I think January is going to be busy for the A+ customer service team!

 

[Flyfrequently]

Received this email yesterday @SYD @dairyfloss


I had actually turned off auto renewal