Accor Plus has launched its first flash sale of 2024, which features a 10% discount off the price of all Accor Plus memberships till 18 February 2024.
Accor Plus members can look forward to benefits including up to 50% off dining, 15% off drinks, up to two complimentary hotel nights, and 20 status nights each year of membership.
Accor Plus offering 10% off memberships
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| Tier | Cost | Includes |
| Traveller | S$277 |
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| Explorer | S$376 |
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| Explorer Plus | S$484 |
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From 5-18 February 2024, all Accor Plus memberships are on sale at 10% off the usual price. Depending on which tier you’re looking at, prices range from S$277 to S$484 (versus S$308 to S$538 normally).
By way of comparison, here’s a rundown of the recent sales we’ve seen:
- 9-15 November 2023: 11% off all memberships
- 26-29 October 2023: 10% off all memberships
- 7-17 September 2023: 2,500 bonus points for Accor Plus Explorer only
Accor Plus offers 20 status nights per year
Back in August 2023, Accor Plus introduced a new perk called Status Accelerator, which grants 20 status nights each year to members when they commence or renew their membership.
As a reminder, here’s how many status nights are required to qualify for ALL elite status:
| Status | Status Nights | Status Points |
 Silver |
10 | 2,000 (€800 spend) |
 Gold |
30 | 7,000 (€2,800 spend) |
 Platinum |
60 | 14,000 (€5,600 spend) |
 Diamond |
N/A | 26,000 (€10,400 spend) |
This means that all Accor Plus members will receive, at a minimum, ALL Silver status (which requires 10 status nights).
Here’s a quick recap of the benefits available at each tier of ALL.
For avoidance of doubt, Status Accelerator applies regardless of whether you bought an Accor Plus membership, or received it as a benefit via a credit card.
Summary: Accor Plus benefits
Accor Plus is a dining and lifestyle membership that offers members discounts on hotel stays and restaurants across Asia Pacific.
Standard Accor Plus benefits include:
- 10% off best available public rate
- Up to 50% off member exclusive room rates with with Red Hot Room offers
- Up to 50% off dining across 1,400 restaurants in Asia Pacific
- 25% off dining: 1 member only
- 50% off dining: 1 member and 1 guest
- 33% off dining: 1 member and 2 guests
- 25% off dining: 1 member and 3 guests
- 15% off drinks bill in Asia
- Member exclusive More Escapes stay packages
- Early access to global Accor hotel sales
- Members’ exclusive experiences
- 20 status nights each year
Some examples of participating Accor Plus restaurants in Singapore include Prego, Mikuni and Asian Market Café at the Fairmont, SKAI, The Stamford Brasserie, CLOVE, at Swissotel and The Cliff and Kwee Zeen at the Sofitel Sentosa Resort.
Don’t forget that your dining benefits apply overseas too- even on breakfast. You’ll often find that it makes more sense to book a non-breakfast rate and then purchase breakfast at 50% off at the hotel itself.
Stay Plus certificates are offered to Explorer (1 certificate) and Explorer Plus (2 certificates) members Each Stay Plus certificate can be used for a one-night stay at participating hotels across Asia Pacific. Obviously, you’ll want to save this for a high-end chain like Sofitel or Mondrian, and steer clear of the cheaper ones.
Do note that Stay Plus nights are subject to blackout dates, and if you have more than one, you can’t redeem them for back-to-back nights at the same property.
I’ve written a comprehensive guide to using your Stay Plus benefit, which can be found below.
Which credit cards offer Accor Plus membership?
As an alternative to buying an Accor Plus membership outright, two credit cards in Singapore offer a complimentary Accor Plus Explorer membership.
| Card | Min. Income | Annual Fee |
 AMEX HighFlyer Card |
S$30,000 | S$304.59 |
 DBS Vantage Card |
S$120,000 | S$599.50 |
While it’s not easy to waive the annual fee for either card, it’s not impossible either:
- AMEX HighFlyer Card annual fee can be waived subject to an internal review that looks at your spending and tenure with American Express
- DBS Vantage Card annual fee can be waived with a minimum spend of S$60,000 in a membership year
If the annual fee is waived, you will still enjoy a renewal of the Accor Plus Explorer membership, together with the free hotel night.
Conclusion
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From now till 18 February 2024, Accor Plus is offering 10% off all memberships, which now start from S$277. I’d say the 2-night Explorer Plus membership has the greatest potential value, assuming you’re able to burn those nights at aspirational properties.
Don’t forget that you can get an Accor Plus membership with an AMEX HighFlyer Card (only for SME owners) or DBS Vantage Card (min. income: S$120,000) as well.
I have the Explorer level membership provided by DBS and it feels like this is fairly useless. Especially if you have Amex for the 50% dining discount already. The free night is almost never available anywhere you want to stay. Terrible program.
Honestly, at this point it’s just good for Red Hot Rooms andthe 20 nights. The dining benefit is a joke, half of the restaurants are officially excluded and even when it doesn’t say ‘excluded’ they will reject it once you show up. Only good experience I had on dining so far was Social Club in SGN. If you don’t travel frequently, skip it.
Yes, i previously joined because there was the intention to use it to claim two nights….. and this was for plans one year in advance. Turned out that one hotel was excluded… the other had rack rates that were much cheaper when you book off the shelf. In my opinion, you probably get value only when you are heading to expensive hub cities in Asia. Else, I second that… this is a useless program. Too many Accor Plus around and the inventory of rooms to claims have not increased… to Accor, it’s more like making you pay for a membersip… Read more »
Very poor value. Milelion, you should call this out for your readers. Try booking any decent hotel for the free night. You only get the no frills hotels.
I rather like my accor plus membership actually. I use the free night in Thailand Malaysia or Vietnam where you can usually book the sofitels, I book the no breakfast rate and save 50pc off when I buy it on the spot (which also gives me the flexibility to pick some days to eat bfast in the hotel, and other days to go out), and I like that I can enjoy 50pc off restaurants overseas too- sometimes in Australia they’re very lax about the 2 person rule and give you 50pc even when it’s just one person. It’s a classic… Read more »
I don’t think thats a fair assessment. I also will keep mine, Accor has great hotels where I’m vacationing and the RHR alone pays the bill. It’s about false advertising. There isnt a single Saturday night available all year in either Sofitel or Fairmont, all the while the same nights sell for only 300++.
If you run a program like this, blatant overpromising is poor style and I agree that you should report on this a bit more critically. I mean, look at how hard you hit on OCBC for their clawback clause….
It’s a bit strange that you bring up OCBC, because I don’t see how the two are remotely connected. One is a blatant unfair clause. The complaints here re: accor plus are about peoples’ subjective experiences with the programme.
my personal experience with accor plus has been more than fine. if yours wasn’t, by all means be critical. but expecting me to be critical because you had a bad experience is just weird.
I am planning a holiday at Novotel Bali Nusa Dua, would this membership grant me discount on the food/drinks bill at that Hotel? Is there a way to find out?
Asked via their chat and it is included, the accorplus website singapore also has a list of hotels that are excluded, the rest are all included in the program
how much would it cost for existing accor plus users (via DBS vantage) to upgrade to explorer plus?
no such option afaik