Goldorak

Great news !
A long awaited benefit : it will possible now to earn reward (not status) LCAH points for F&B expenses in some Accorhotels restaurants in France, without actually staying at the hotel.
https://secure.accorhotels.com/leclu...index.fr.shtml

At the moment it seems to be limited to some restaurants in France :
- Pullman Paris centre Bercy
- Sofitel Paris le Faubourg
- Sofitel Paris Arc de triomphe
- Mercure Paris centre Tour Eiffel
- Novotel paris La Défense
- Ibis Nanterre La Défense
- Novotel Massy Palaiseau
- Mercure Massy Gare TGV
- Pullman Roissy CDG airport
- Pullman Toulouse centre
- Sofitel Marseille vieux port

1 EUR spent (before taxes) = 1 LCAH reward point

Of couse, it may be disappointing that it is only in a few hotels in France, but let' see this on the positive side : it may just be the beginning and we can hope that this will be extended to more hotels and more countries. I can already see some fights between people eating together : who will win giving his/her LCAH card when paying the bill

T&C mentions some points to consider :
- it says that this offer is temporary and valid until 31/12/2018 but can be reconducted automatically for 1-year periods
- eligible expenses : breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, drinks
- max 5 invoices/day/member in eligible restaurants
- something "weird": "lorsque la dépense dans un Restaurant Participant suit ou précède une réservation de nuitée au sein de l’hôtel du Restaurant Participant, le montant de cette dépense ne pourra être compté dans les dépenses éligibles du séjour." It can be translated into "when expenses in a participating restaurant is just before or after a night booking in the same hotel, this expense will not be counted in the eligible expenses of the stay". Not sure how to interpret that. Does that mean that the expenses made in the restaurant before checking-in or after check-out will not be eligible for status+reward points (case of F&B expenses during a stay) but will be eligible for reward points as per this new benefit/offer ?

Enjoy your meals while earning points

Maelstrom

This is fantastic news. I know that Golden Circle have something like this for their program, and I am very happy to see this (slowly) being introduced to Accor.

Of interest to me in Google Translating the terms and conditions:
So this can't be used as a way to extend Rewards Points expiry, with the one-night stay requirement remaining.

I'm also assuming that multipliers from status will also not apply.

Thanks for the post, Goldorak, and I look forward to seeing this rolled out across the program in the future!

Dav77

Goldorak

Not sure I understand correctly what you mean by "day use". Did you have a room for day use (as they have in some airport hotels for instance), or do you simply mean eating at the restaurant of the hotel without any room booked (day use or classic night use) ? If the former, then it's normal that you earned points for the room + F&B consumed during the stay. If the latter, then you can be happy as you shouldn't have earned points as per the T&C of the program.

Dav77

RafKa

I have yet to have any points credited for meals (breakfast, dinner) taken DURING my stay when I'm on a prepaid rate, I don't even bother doing a retro claim. I can't imagine how they would handle points credit with no stay involved...

jiunsoh

https://secure.accorhotels.com/leclu...index.en.shtml

this is the english page, with the conditions stating member required to save a card before June2018, and register the offer via email sent to member? :

To take advantage of the Offer, the Member must meet all the following criteria without exception:
- Be a Member of the Le Club AccorHotels programme and have agreed to the programme’s General Conditions of Use.
- Have gone to the “My Profile” tab in the Le Club AccorHotels online account and saved a valid Visa® card to the “My payment cards” section before 15th June 2018 at 00:01 CET.
- Have registered for the Offer, according to the procedure described in article 3.2.

3.2. Registration procedure

Subject to the conditions listed in article 3.1 being met, registering for the Offer can only be done online, via the email launching the Offer. The aforementioned email contains a link to the Offer registration page. From that page, the Member must accept the Offer’s General Conditions of Use and click on “I confirm my registration”.

Registering for the Offer is free.

martin_paris

If your stay is booked on an eligible rate and through an eligible channel there is absolutely no reason for you not to get credit for revenue generated through your meals. It's actually posted at the same time as the points linked to revenue generated by rooms. If you feel you don't then you should indeed request a retro claim.

Maelstrom

Assuming that you are booking through eligible channels, your points from the prepaid accommodation and additional eligible expenses should be posted together in one total after you check-out. Minus taxes, of course. If you're only getting credited for accommodation, you should be requesting your points through retro claims.

Goldorak

carnarvon

I always get points for F&B when staying with prepaid rate.

How do you book your stays ?

RafKa

I always book through Accor.com

All of this may be Brazil-specific, but it is the case in 100% of my stays here (10-15 per year):

Post-stay, I usually get separate tax receipts for the stay amount, and another one for F&B.

The only way I get credit for, say, breakfast is if it's included in the rate. Also, it doesn't seem to matter whether it's a prepaid rate or not, as in Brazil Accor usually charges you the full amount of the stay upfront.

Yes, I do get all the receipts eventually, but knowing what LCAH IT & CS are like, I never bother chasing them for sums below EUR 50 in F&B (which in Brazil would be 99% of my stays).

AccorHotels Concierge

Hi Dear members,

Thanks you for this thread and you enthusiasm!
I'm happy that you like it, enjoy!

Best regards,
Amy


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Goldorak

coolhead

If this is introduced in Asia region and Singapore in particular, just take my cash Accorplus.