Bits: €60 Accor offer?, get 25% off easyJet Plus, 70% bonus buying Virgin Points ending
News in brief:
Get a possible €60 of Accor points from a single stay
Accor has released what is, on the face of it, a very generous promotion.
You will receive 3,000 bonus ALL Accor points, worth €60 off a future stay, with your next 2+ night stay.
Full details and registration are here.
However, there are some issues and I would strongly recommend that you DON’T book a stay specifically to get the bonus, because it might not arrive.
Here are the problems:
- only the first 1,500 people to have a qualifying stay will receive the 3,000 bonus points – everyone else receives nothing
- the T&C say that the offer is only for people who received it via email, although it appears that anyone can register
There is also a bizarre typo on the website which says that 3,000 ALL Accor points are worth €50, when they are worth €60!
A ‘qualifying’ booking is:
- a booking made after registering at this page – existing bookings do NOT count
- for 2+ nights
- at an ALL Accor hotel in Europe or North Africa
- completed by 30th April (although the 1,500 participants cap could be hit far earlier)
You can only earn the bonus once.
€60 of bonus points, plus your usual base points, would be an excellent return at a participating ibis or ibis Styles hotel (note that many ibis Budget hotels are not part of ALL Accor) or other cheap property.
However, there is no guarantee that you will qualify – Accor may filter out people who were not emailed the offer and you may not be in the first 1,500 to complete a stay.
On the other hand, if you have a 2+ night Accor stay coming up which you can rebook without paying a higher rate, there’s no harm in registering (click here to register) and rebooking.
Hat-tip to Loyalty Lobby.
Get 25% off easyJet Plus membership
We recently covered a special easyJet Plus offer which is available for status members of The British Airways Club.
Tomorrow is your last day to claim this deal, which gets you 50% off your first year. You pay just £124.
If you don’t have BA status, don’t worry.
easyJet has released a code worth 25% off your first year of easyJet Plus membership. It’s not as good as the British Airways deal, but everyone qualifies for it.
You can find the code and full details here. The offer runs to 14th April.
Our full review of easyJet Plus is here.
70% bonus buying Virgin Points ends tomorrow
Virgin Atlantic’s 70% bonus for buying Virgin Points ends tomorrow, 31st March.
If you are short of points for your next redemption, this deal matches the highest bonus offer we have seen.
Click here to find out more and buy.
The annual purchase limit has been increased to 300,000 Virgin Points. Add on 70% and you could buy 510,000 Virgin Points via this offer.
The bonus depends on how many points you buy:
- 5,000 to 24,000 points – 20% bonus
- 25,000 to 69,000 points – 40% bonus
- 70,000 to 124,000 points – 60% bonus
- 125,000 to 300,000 points – 70% bonus
The cost is £15 per 1,000 points, with the bonus added on top.
At the top end, 300,000 Virgin Points, which comes to 510,000 points with the 70% bonus, will cost you £4,500. This works out at 0.88p each.
0.88p is exceptionally cheap for a direct miles purchase. Most Virgin Atlantic commercial partners will be paying the airline more than 0.88p for their miles. That said, as always, we don’t recommend buying speculatively.
Of course, since Virgin Atlantic adopted dynamic pricing for its rewards, it has become trickier to get value from Upper Class redemptions.
When we did our last analysis in July, there were excellent deals to be had to New York, Boston, Orlando, Atlanta and Washington in Upper Class.
It is trickier to secure well-priced Upper Class seats on other routes, unless you have a Virgin Atlantic Reward credit card voucher to use, but good deals are available in Economy and Premium.
Of course, you are not restricted to redeeming Virgin Points on Virgin Atlantic.
Virgin Atlantic is a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance. This allows redemptions across partners such as Aeromexico, Air France, China Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Garuda Indonesia, KLM, Korean Air, SAS and Vietnam Airlines.
You may also find value in top events at The O2, watching from the Virgin Red Room suite. I’m off to Def Leppard in July (now sold out via Virgin Red) and it seems to be the only place in the UK where you can still get non-resale tickets for anime sensation Miku in November (my son insists I take him, so I’ll be there too – Def Leppard it isn’t!)
The offer ends tomorrow, 31st March.