Accor Live Limitless offering up to 6,000 bonus points (worth €120) for three stays- staycations included

Accor Live Limitless (ALL) doesn’t hold quarterly promotions the way Hilton, Marriott and other hotel chains do, but they’ve come up with a potentially interesting offer that might be useful to some. 

From 1 September to 15 December 2020, ALL members can earn up to 6,000 bonus points when they make three stays of at least two nights each. 2,000 ALL points is equal to €40, so that’s a maximum of €120 in bonus points- not a bad haul.

Accor’s 6,000 bonus points promotion

ALL members will first need to register via this link, and book three stays of at least two nights each by 9 October 2020. Stays can be anywhere from 1 September to 15 December 2020.

They will then earn up to 6,000 bonus points, split as follows:

• 500 points after the first stay (equivalent to €10)
• 2,500 points after the second stay (equivalent to €50) 
• 3,000 points after the third stay (equivalent to €60)

Bonus points will be credited to your account within 10 days of check-out, and only bookings made after registration are eligible for this bonus offer. Note that any stay partly or entirely paid with ALL points will not be eligible to receive this offer.

Obviously, the minimum two night per stay requirement isn’t ideal- most staycations are one night, after all. However, if you happen to be clearing leave, or booking one of those staycation packages with a minimum two night stay, there’s no harm registering. 

A word of warning to those of you who booked the Suite Life package at The Raffles Hotel. Although this package includes two nights, it only triggers a one night credit on the back end. That may be because Raffles codes the second night as a free, points-ineligible night. 

Reclaim expired ALL points

On 20 May 2020, Accor paused the expiry of ALL points until 15 December 2020. However, this arguably came way too late, given how most business and leisure travel had ceased for months before that. 

ALL is now offering members the chance to earn back points which expired between 1 January and 18 May 2020. Members who register and complete at least a single two-night stay before 15 December 2020 will have their points reinstated. 

This does feel kind of insulting, however. Those points should never have been allowed to expire in the first place (especially from March onwards, when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic), and ALL now wants you to jump through hoops on account of their failure to do something earlier. 

Which Accor hotels are approved for staycations?

The following Accor hotels are now approved to take staycation guests:

• Fairmont Singapore
• Raffles Hotel
• Sofitel Singapore City Centre
• Sofitel Singapore Sentosa Resort & Spa

Fragrance Hotels now operate the ibis Budget brand, but they do not participate in the ALL program. 

Conclusion

The two-night minimum means this promotion may not be that useful, but if you have even one qualifying stay, it’s a bonus €10 for a few seconds of registration effort. 

Members who have lost their ALL points during the COVID-19 pandemic also have the chance to earn them back, but this mechanism just rubs me wrong. There was really no reason to wait till end-May to announce a COVID-19 policy, and it’s another reason why ALL will never be seen in the same league as a Hilton Honors or World of Hyatt.