People who have frequent business trips or travelers can look here, if you are a loyal user of Accor, there are some preferential information that you may not have noticed, the following is to give you a detailed introduction, if you are interested in it, you can continue to look down.
Accor has two membership programs, the one that is free for anyone to sign up for - "Accor Loyal Club", and the other one is the paid membership program - "Accor A Good", which we have introduced to you before, and the fast upgrade promotion is still going on now.
Buying the Accor A-Game card will automatically get you the Silver level of Accor Loyal Club, plus some other benefits that the free membership doesn't have, so if you use it well, you can definitely earn back your annual fee. This post will give you an overview of the benefits of the Accor A-Game card and how you can use it to get your money's worth.
Countries and hotels covered by the Accor A Plus CardThe benefits of the Accor A Plus Card apply to 1,100 hotels and 1,400 restaurants in 18 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, French Polynesia (also known as Tahiti);
China (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan), South Korea, Japan, Mongolia;
Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, India, the Maldives;
Several of these popular tourist places have luxury hotels distributed: such as Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, Phuket, Pattaya, Koh Samui, Phuket, Bali.
Especially in Australia and New Zealand, there are more than 200 hotels spread from Sydney, Gold Coast, Outback Desert, to Queenstown, Bora Bora and so on. If you travel to and from Australia often, or study and work in Australia, this card is a must-have.
Accor A Plus membership benefits are available for most of AccorHotels' hotel brands, which include:
Banyan Tree (F&B benefits only), Sofitel Legend, Fairmont, Sofitel Signature, Sofitel, MGallery, Mondrian, Pullman, Swiss?tel, Hyatt Regency, MGM Grand, Quay
West, Poetry Platinum, Hyatt_, Novotel, Mercure, Ibis, Ibis Chateau, Ibis Express
What are the benefits of Accor A-Grade membershipSimply put, the membership benefits include 1 or 2 free room vouchers, up to 50% discount on food and beverages, member discount on room bookings and an extra 10% off. The benefits of upgrading to an Accor membership are listed in order of value from high to low:
1 or 2 free room vouchers
up to 50% off food and beverages
Booking a room
All the members are welcome to join us for the first time at any of our hotels in the world.
Membership discounts and extra 10% off room bookings
Upgrades to Accor Loyal Club and other benefits
Let's look at the value of Accor A-List membership benefits from highest to lowest, and see how you can earn your way back to the membership fee.
One of the A-list benefits: free nights
Depending on the package you buy, there are either 1 or 2 free room vouchers included, which can be used at more than 1,000 hotels in the Asia-Pacific region.
In my personal opinion, this benefit is the best value of the Accor A-List benefits, and as long as you redeem at the right hotels, this alone is worth the annual fee.
Another benefit is that this free room at Accor A Plus, like Marriott's points rooms, can be booked and canceled free of charge if your itinerary changes, usually 1-2 days in advance.
I suggest you book free rooms in popular hotels and popular time slots as far in advance as possible, such as booking Sofitel Sanya Levin, Fairmont Chengdu, etc. during May 1 or November 11, which are almost always priced at 1,000++ during popular time slots. In the future, the country's doors are open, there are numerous value hotels overseas Japan Ginza, Sofitel Australia and so on.
Even if your itinerary has changed or you have booked a hotel during a sale, you can cancel the free room in minutes.
A Goodie Benefit No.2: Up to 50% discount on dining
Discounts on dining for members
Accor A Goodie members can enjoy the following discounts on dining:
1 person - 25% off
2 people - 50% off
3 people - 67% off
4 people - 25% off
5 people - 20% off
Looks complicated, doesn't it?
Simply understood, it means 25% off for 1 person, and whenever 2 or more people dine, the member himself is free, and everyone else pays full price.
If you're a frequent visitor to Australia and New Zealand, this benefit is even better value, as it's a straight 50% discount with the Accor A-Game card, regardless of how many people are dining at a table.
Here are a few benefits you may not know:
Firstly, the dining discounts on the Accor Amex card are unlimited, so you can enjoy the discounts anytime you go, as long as you're there during the year that your membership is valid.
Secondly, even if you don't stay at the hotel, but only go to the hotel restaurant, you can still enjoy the discount.
Lastly, the dining discount can be used for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner, basically as long as the restaurant is open for dinner.
I've gotten messages asking if I get a discount on taxes and service charges when I dine with the Accor A Plus card.
Generally, taxes and fees are discounted along with the cost of the meal, and service charges are generally not discounted. We recommend checking with the restaurant before dining if you are interested.
Banyan Tree Hotel Dining Discounts
Additionally, although you can't enjoy housing privileges at Banyan Tree Hotels, you can currently enjoy dining discounts. Especially when you dine at Banyan Tree resorts, a 50% discount on dining without the executive lounge is a great way to save money.
Monthly Dining Discounts
Every month, the hotel will offer some additional discounts on top of the normal discounts for existing members, such as half-price for meals for up to 5 people, or an extra bottle of wine for A-list members.
A good rights and interests of the third: booking discounts & discount 10%
First of all, to explain, AccorHotels discounts are considered real, from the daily price of the direct discounts down, the promotion when the hotel price is simply cabbage price. Unlike some ungenerous hotels, first price increases and then discounts, are false discounts.
Member Booking Discount
Members can enjoy a 10% discount on the best available rate when booking a room, in other words Accor A-Grade members have the lowest booking price in the official channels.
Monthly Hot Specials
"Hot Specials" is the name given to the limited-time housing discounts offered by AccorAccess, which are basically available every month, with discounts starting from 60% at the very least, and can be viewed in the Member Specials section of the AccorAccess public website.
10% off room rates
AccorHotels official channels about 4 times a year, the promotion lasts about 2 weeks, the promotion range generally includes 80% of the country's hotels, discounts of 60% -70% off including breakfast.
Accor A good member can be in the 6-7% discount on the basis of a 10% discount, that is, 50% -60% off with the morning booking. (e.g. 5% off + warm breakfast, Accor's crazy end-of-year promotion is now live!)
For one member, you can book up to two discounted rooms. What if I want to book 3 rooms at a time and still want the discount? Please see the tips later in the article.
Third A-grade benefit: Upgrade to Accor Loyalist Silver
With the purchase of an Accor A-grade card, you will automatically be upgraded to Accor Loyalist Silver, which is still relatively easy to upgrade to a first-class room at a more generous hotel with a Silver card.
Additionally, Silver level stays at hotels are rewarded with a welcome drink per person, usually a non-alcoholic beverage.
Good A Benefit No. 4: Gift Vouchers with Card Purchase
Generally, 1 birthday cake voucher will be given with the purchase of the card, and you can pick up the cake at the Asia Pacific hotel's own restaurant.
7 10% off room rate vouchers, if you decide to stay at the hotel at short notice, you can enjoy 10% off with the vouchers.
Follow Mr. R's group buy now for more benefits! See details at the end of the article.
Benefit No. 5 of A Good Deal: Comes with a secondary card
If you buy an upgraded package, you are getting 2 free room vouchers and 2 membership cards (1 main card and 1 secondary card).
You can choose to put both of the 2 free room coupons on the main card, or 1 room coupon on each of the main and secondary cards. Because you can't book 2 nights at the same time for the same member's free room, put it in both the 1 main and 1 secondary card and you can stay 2 nights in a row!
Besides the free room coupon, the other membership benefits are the same for both the main and secondary cards. For example, if 4 people go for a meal that was originally 25% off, with 1 main and 1 secondary card it's 50% off again!
If you are buying the basic version of the package, there is only 1 membership card and 1 free room coupon, there is no secondary card.
AccorAccorPlus Membership Fee Price 2021The AccorAccorPlus card is available in every country in Asia Pacific, and the price varies from country to country.
There are two main official channels in China:
Offline channels are purchased through telemarketing: 3088 RMB/set for new members and 2688 RMB/set for old members (including 2 membership cards and 2 free room coupons)
Offline channels can also be used for group purchases, that is to say, you can buy 6 sets and pay for 5 sets, and you can organize a group of co-workers, relatives and friends.
Online channels can be through Accor's WeChat mall, Taobao & Flying Pig's Accor flagship store: 1988 yuan / set (including 1 membership card 1 night free room, not 2 nights!)
When is the cheapest time to buy an Accor A-game card?
First of all, the online activities to buy Accor Aja are basically fixed a few times in a year with e-commerce festivals, such as Double Eleven, 618 and so on. Flying Pig Accor flagship store's all-time low price is 1,588 yuan per set, of course, 1 card 1 night.
If it's an offline event, it's basically unattainable, so come and buy the card at a discounted price through a group buy!
How can it be worth the year_which AccorHotels free room is cost-effective to book with A Jia card?Of course, the more expensive the hotel booking the more cost-effective, the following list of several of the most worthwhile redemption of the hotel, the peak season prices are more than 1,000 yuan +, and even reached 2,000 yuan +:
Domestic hotels
Platinum Sanya
Fairmont Chengdu
Sofitel Kunming
Sofitel Macau sixteen shops< /p>
When we can go abroad, these overseas hotels don't have too much value
Sofitel Legend Hanoi Metropolis: where Kim Jong-un and Trump met, there are only five Sofitel Legends in the world, and this is the only one that can be redeemed with a free room for the daily price of 1,500 yuan.
The MGallery in Queenstown, New Zealand
The MGallery Saigon, Vietnam
Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua
The Novotel Naha, Okinawa, Japan
The Prestige Phu Quoc Island Hotel in Vietnam, where the base room type is a one-bedroom villa, each with its own pool.
Tips for booking a free roomTipsPolicy states that free rooms cannot be used consecutively at the same hotel.
How to crack it: Some friends have tested it successfully by booking separately with the main card and the secondary card, for example, booking the 1st day with the main card and the 2nd day with the secondary card.
The terms and conditions state that the free rate depends on the number of rooms available at the hotel.
Hack: As mentioned earlier, hotels have a quota of free rooms available each day, and just like points rooms, it's possible to not book them. So be sure to plan ahead and book in advance, as early as 12 months in advance. If you can be sure that you'll be traveling on, say, May 11, go ahead and book a few months in advance.
Popular hotels are bound to be super-expensive during popular times, so if you can book a free room, it's really great value.
And, free rooms can be canceled for free once they're booked, so it's good to book the popular hotels first and cancel for free if your trip changes.
Even if you don't get it the first time, you can brush up on the site from time to time because free rooms are free to cancel, and after a while, someone might cancel so the free room will be released again.
Very few free room bookings have restrictions, such as having to book 3 nights in a row before you can book 1 night.
How to crack it: Before booking, you can go to Accor Ajia public number above to check the booking hotel list and information. The hotels that require 3 nights to be booked before giving 1 free night are usually the ones with super high prices.
For example, Fairmont Maldives, Sofitel Private Island Resort Tahiti, the price of one night has 3,000 yuan +, even if the booking of 3 nights to use 1 night free room is still cost-effective.
Free room booking is generally the basic room type
Crack method: I think this is not a problem, free room is generally exchanged in the price of higher hotels, these hotels even if the basic room type is equipped with facilities is also very good.
Additionally, you can book a higher level room type for other days, and the probability is that the hotel will upgrade the free room this night together.
If you don't want to spend more money, you can specify in the notes, such as it is a birthday, anniversary, the first time to stay in this hotel, etc., to see if luck can be upgraded.
My own experience is that 8 times out of 10, you can be upgraded to a higher room type.
Do I need to pay extra to book a free room?
Useful tips: Free rooms are usually available at no extra cost at all, but if you want to upgrade to a higher level room, for example, if you are sold out of the basic room type, you can book it for an extra cost on top of the free room voucher.
Personal advice, if the basic room type is booked out, you can see if there is a hot special room, or other members of the room rate, it is not recommended to add money to the booking.
Free room and hot special room combination
Practical tips: or take Tahiti, once Tahiti in May launched a hot special room, directly discounted 50%, the price of 2200 yuan +. At this time, book a 3-night free room and use 1 free room coupon. Even with the card fee ($1,988), the average is only $2,147 a night. In the same timeframe, the price for 4 nights at this hotel on Ctrip above is $4,000
x4 nights = $16,000.
Not to mention, 50% off dining for 2 at the resort restaurant is just perfect for a honeymoon.
Didn't use up the free room voucher within a year
Hack: If you don't use up the free room voucher within the validity of your membership, you can extend it for 4-6 months in case of renewal, and if you don't renew your membership, the free voucher will be automatically canceled.
How do I use my free room voucher?
The free room voucher works in the same way as a points-based booking, just log in to your member account, and when you book a room on the Accor website or Accor app you will see a "StayPlus Free Room" button that you can turn on or off.
If you turn it on, you'll see that some hotels offer free rooms, so you can book them directly.
After the booking is successful, you will receive a confirmation email in your mailbox, and you can just check in when it's time.
Or, you can call Accor's reservation number 4008182688 to confirm your membership and book a free room directly.
Clever use of Accor A-Game card for dining discountsDiscounts are only available at Accor hotels' own restaurants
Hack: Discounts are actually available at most of the hotel restaurants. It is recommended to make a reservation and inquire before dining. The hotel's phone number can be directly in the official website search for the hotel's name, which will have the hotel front desk phone number, so that the front office to transfer to the restaurant to consult on it.
Some holidays are excluded
Useful tips: There are a few days of the year when you can't use the Accor A Plus dining discount, such as Christmas, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day and so on, but most of the time you can enjoy the dining privileges normally.
The Accor Aplus card is a real-name card
Useful tips: Because the Accor Aplus card is a real-name card, hotels may ask for ID verification if you lend your card to someone else, so it's best not to lend it out.
Difference between Accor Ace Card and Accor Loyal ClubAs mentioned earlier, the biggest difference is that the Accor Heartland is free to sign up for, while the Accor Ace is a paid membership.
The two membership programs are also interconnected, and Accor A Plus members are also Accor Loyalist Silver members.
The Accor A Plus discount is only available in Asia Pacific, but because A Plus members are also Loyalist Silver members, they can enjoy Silver membership benefits worldwide, i.e. they can accumulate Loyalist points and upgrade to a higher level of Loyalist. Accor Platinum and Diamond cards can enjoy free double breakfast, executive treatment, suite upgrades and other privileges, and now there is also a fast upgrade to preserve the level of activities
If you are not a member of Accor Loyalist Clubs: as long as you apply for the card, you will automatically become a member of the Loyalist Clubs Silver Card;
If you are already a member of the Accor Loyalist Clubs: a new A-Jia card can be bound to the original Loyalist Clubs member, and the level of the level can be transferred flatly, and it won't be downgrade. This is equivalent to adding the A-Game card benefits on top of the original Loyalist Club.
If the A-Card expires and is renewed: the previous year's membership level will be assessed in accordance with the Loyalty Club terms and conditions.
If the A-Game card expires and is not renewed: a new Loyalty Club membership number will be assigned and the membership points will be transferred to the Loyalty Club membership card.
Who is suitable for the Accor A-Game card?As long as you will go abroad to book your own hotel, especially if you often go to Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, Korea, Singapore and other places with high hotel prices, or often go to Bali, Koh Samui, the Maldives, Pattaya and other islands for vacation, use the free room combined with the promotional price, and use the card to enjoy a 50% discount on meals, basically, a trip to be able to return the cost of the card or even make a big profit.
It is well known that because of the epidemic, the value of the current Ajia card greatly reduced, but, Ajia card in the country also has a triple-digit number of high-star hotels applicable, so if you plan to go to some popular areas of the vacation (such as Sanya), and there is a need to eat in the hotel, is still very suitable for the purchase of this card.