How does Accor treat you as an Elite guest?

[puchu]

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[cityfan]

Property: Pullman Sails in the Desert, Ayres Rock Resort, Uluru, NT
Status: Accor Plus - Platinum
Room booked: Superior twin bedroom
Room upgraded/type: Not offered
Rate: $500 per night (Easter holidays)
Early check in/late out early check in at 1200hrs (we arrived 1000hrs).
Welcome drink: Yes x 4 - house/sparkling wine and all their beers
Welcome gift: 750ml sparkling wine delivered to room after check in.

Booked an Easter break for the family (2 pre-teen kids) for 4 nights. It is impossible to book through Accor website (same for all accommodation at Ayres Rock Resort) so booked directly with hotel by phone. Airport coach transfers are included in the price. Accor Plus status was honoured for meals at the hotel and neighbouring Desert Gardens hotel with the usual confusion of whether kids meals are included for the discount or not (I usually find that the discount is better if one of the adult main courses is free). Platinum status was honoured with complimentary breakfast ($48 per adult, $24 per child) but I had to request it every morning. They offer a takeaway breakfast for guests on sunrise tours but this is not included as a benefit to ALL members. Rooms are good, there are free activities for the kids. There is a nearby small cinema showing 2 films per day on a rotating basis, and a decent resort-style pool (but wait for the water to warm up under the sun). Resort "Town Square" including souvenir shops, IGA supermarket and further eateries a short walk away. Free shuttle bus to the other hotels, backpacker lodge (which has a pub and bottleshop on site), camp ground and camel farm/tours. Overall a well run and designed hotel, expect to pay higher prices as befits remoteness.

 

[Daver6]

Property: Sofitel Melbourne
Status: Accor Plus - Platinum
Room booked: Superior bay view
Room upgraded/type: Yes. Luxury corner (few square metres bigger).
Rate: flexible, two night stay
Early check in/late out Check-in is 3pm. Arrive just after 2pm and room was ready. Requested and granted 1pm checkout
Welcome drink: Yes x2
Welcome gift: Not sure. Was given some chocolate at check-in. Also had some fresh fruit delivered to my room which I requested when they reached out a couple of days prior. To be honest, I don't need a $10 bottle of wine so happy with the fruit.

 

[aikman]

A few first time stays in Melbourne as Platinum recently. Got drink cards at all of them. 50% upgrade strike rate, or is it 75%?

Property: Shadow Play Melbourne by Peppers
Room booked: 1 bedroom
Room upgraded/type: Yes - 2 bedroom
Rate: $130 red hot room
Welcome gift: bottle of wine and pack of roasted almonds
Good for when you need a kitchen and laundry. Breakfast was a choice of one main dish from a set menu plus two drinks. The main dish I got was pretty average. The pool was hilariously small. Nothing more than a plunge pool.

Property: The Olsen - Art Series
Room booked: deluxe studio suite
Room upgraded/type: No
Rate: $132 red hot room
Welcome gift: bottle of wine and cheese plate
Large room with a mini kitchen. I guess the art part is because of a couple of paintings on the wall. Breakfast was a la carte. I was told that platinums can order anything off the menu. The main dish here was good, like what you would get at a nice cafe. The pool was directly on top of the footpath!

Property: Novotel Melbourne South Wharf
Room booked: standard room
Room upgraded/type: Yes - 1 bedroom suite
Rate: $143 red hot room
Welcome gift: bottle of wine
Modern spacious suite with excellent views of the city and the river. Breakfast was buffet and I was shocked to find no scrambled eggs. In its place was a mysterious muffin shaped egg mixture patty.

Property: Pullman Melbourne on the Park
Room booked: standard room
Room upgraded/type: Not sure if its considered an upgrade - I got standard room on the executive lounge floor
Rate: $200 flexible rate
Welcome gift: bottle of wine and packet of popcorn
I was surprised at the modern touches in the room including the magic bathroom glass wall. Executive lounge wasn't huge but food and drink was plentiful. I rank the buffet breakfast here as the best one I've been to in Melbourne so far. Not many buffets offer self serve fried, scrambled, boiled and poached eggs all at once.

 

[fly2earth]

Property: Pullman Auckland Airport
Status: Accor Plus - gold
Room booked: Superior Room
Room upgraded/type: Executive Room King Bed
Rate: Red Hot Room ($225)
Early check in/late out: Wasn't required
Welcome drink: Yes x 2
Welcome gift: chocolates

Amazing new property. I can still smell the fresh hotel vibe. Doing a DSC run, so out early tomorrow. Nice to get 2 vouchers and the upgrade to the executive lounge.

Minibar is free (sans alcoholic drinks) but probably prefer to get a drink at the lounge. I appreciated that they had a universal plug adapter. Great tarmac views. Will be my to go to property moving forward

Wow free minibar...I can consume the whole fridge

I chose the Novotel cos the rate for the Novotel was higher that day and I get the luxury to redeem my free stay at either of those so picked the no-brainer option (also got upgraded to the highest room type with direct tarmac view and its sorrounding delta/marshland however no executive rooms or lounges). It also feels like a new hotel but not as new as the Pullman...The road less travelled...

 

[PineappleSkip]

chose the Novotel cos the rate for the Novotel was higher that day

Do you mean you chose the Pullman?


Property: Pullman Brisbane Airport (again)
Room booked: standard room
Room upgraded/type: 10th floor suite again, not the ducks nuts suite this time tho. Room 1003 is the gun.
Rate: flexible rate
Welcome gift: small box of cakey snacks. No bottle of Legacy to add to my collection this time, possibly a plus. And hey I got a suite.

Same, same here. Just a quick update on the canapes, large platters, we two were brought one each, and we sent one back as too much. There were originally four spring rolls per platter.


cheers skip

 

[fly2earth]

Do you mean you chose the Pullman?

No I chose the Novotel because it was priced higher that day so I was getting more value for my free night as opposed to choosing Pullman

Weird I never get welcome gifts for the high end hotels I stay at (specifically Sofitels and Pullmans) that I stay at and if I do they are more often they are soda water as opposed to wine. If I do get welcome gifts I usually get it from the check in desk. But I would get room upgrades (on rare instances up to a suite even). But then I usually book same day so maybe they don't have time to prepare my room. Mantra and Sebel on the other hand are more consistent with their welcome gifts.

 

[PineappleSkip]

But then I usually book same day

That would likely be it. Lady at a Mercure told me the did the welcome letters and gifts etc in the morning.

 

[oz_mark]

That would likely be it. Lady at a Mercure told me the did the welcome letters and gifts etc in the morning.

A lot of hotels do that stuff either in the morning, or in some cases paperwork is prepared overnight during some quiet periods.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Anyone stayed at Pullman Cairns International recently? (Not the Casino, the other one across the road)

Have they added an executive lounge? Or are they planning to add one?

While checking rollaway bed availability I saw this in the Accor App:



I’m guessing it’s generic text as no exec lounge is listed on website, nor on the Accor listing of hotels that have an Exec lounge.

 

[cityfan]

There is no club lounge at Pullman International Cairns but it probably has the best hotel lobby in CaIrns. I have found that it treats Gold/Platinum guests well with upgrades to one of the recently renovated rooms or a corner room

 

[Captain Halliday]

There is no club lounge at Pullman International Cairns but it probably has the best hotel lobby in CaIrns. I have found that it treats Gold/Platinum guests well with upgrades to one of the recently renovated rooms or a corner room

Thanks. I figured as much.

There was certainly no lounge when I stayed there about two years ago.

And I recall the breakfast was excellent.

Your tip on good Plat upgrade probably seals the deal.

 

[sudoer]

Anyone stayed at Pullman Cairns International recently?

Yep

How does Accor treat you as an Elite guest?

Property: Sebel Quay West Suites Sydney Status: Accor Plus -Diamond Room booked: Stayplus benefit Room upgraded/type: no Rate: $450 Early check in/late out: Wasn't required Welcome drink: Yes x 2 Welcome gift: Wine and sweets So I’d originally booked the Harbour Rocks Hotel Syd using my Stay...

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Non reno floors (above L13) are quite dated but plat welcome gift and welcome drink options were good. Breakfast was about what I'd expect at a Pullman.

If you end up staying, there's a lovely restaurant just behind the property called Four Cinq, and a hole in the wall brewery Coral Sea just around the corner.

 

[Daver6]

Yep

How does Accor treat you as an Elite guest?

Property: Sebel Quay West Suites Sydney Status: Accor Plus -Diamond Room booked: Stayplus benefit Room upgraded/type: no Rate: $450 Early check in/late out: Wasn't required Welcome drink: Yes x 2 Welcome gift: Wine and sweets So I’d originally booked the Harbour Rocks Hotel Syd using my Stay...

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

Non reno floors (above L13) are quite dated but plat welcome gift and welcome drink options were good. Breakfast was about what I'd expect at a Pullman.

If you end up staying, there's a lovely restaurant just behind the property called Four Cinq, and a hole in the way brewery called Coral Sea just around the corner.

And amazing coffee right nearby at Specialty Espresso & Brew Bar | The Chamber Room | Cairns, Australia

 

[ellen10]

We are stopping over in Singapore for 1 night on our way home from Europe. I have booked at the Mercure Icon, a new hotel, but really mainly for the location and price. But the reviews by members on AFF and elsewhere are awful. So I am looking at staying elsewhere.

I am looking at the Novotel Singapore on Kitchener reasonable rates (we only need one night). It's in Little India and on our last visit to Singapore my husband bought the "best" leather belt there he has owned (his quote), and would like to get another). So I am thinking of staying there, its a short taxi/grab ride to Chinatown or satay street for our evening or maybe we will eat in little India or the Arab area.

Has anyone stayed there/ or in the area?

 

[sudoer]

If it's a one night stay I don't think it matters too much. Like you say, you can Grab anywhere you'd like to go for dinner, and the Grab from the airport will be slightly cheaper anyway.