Le Club Accorhotels members who sign up for email receive regular notices of discount hotel rate promotions. Often these sales open up for LeClubAccorhotels members prior to booking availability opening for the public.

Today I received an email on 14 different regional Accor Hotels rate discounts around the world.

Book these promotional Private Sale rates April 16-25, 2013.

All of these discount rates are prepaid at time of booking. No changes or refunds allowed.

United States & Canada

40% off hotels in USA and Canada. Offer valid for stays from 1st July – 15th September 2013. Read More…

Le Club Accorhotels members can earn 4x miles with Delta Skymiles or 3x miles with Aeroplan (Air Canada) for stays through April 15, 2013. 

4x Delta Miles means 8,000 miles for 4,000 LeClubAccorhotels points. 4,000 Accor points have a fixed value of $120 or 80 EUR as hotel stay credits. 8,000 miles for $120 is a good buy if this were a straight purchase of miles.

Full Terms and Conditions for the Delta and Aeroplan offer are listed at the end of this post. Here are the main points:

• 1/28/13 to 2/28/13 hotel reservations must be made January 28, 2013 to February 28, 2013 for a stay completed by April 15, 2013.
• 4/15/13 Last night to stay for 4x Delta miles.
• 2,500+ participating Accor Hotels worldwide.
• Set up automatic conversion of Accor points to Delta Skymiles.
• North America hotels include rate discount and breakfast. Read More…

Sofitel Hotels has a 3rd night free rate offer for stays from November 15 to January 15, 2013 they call the Winter Collection Rate. This special offer rate includes a complimentary chocolate buffet one day of your stay and a 3pm late checkout.

The 3rd night free rate is based on the Best Flexible Rate or typically called the Premium Rate on Accor’s website. The 33% discount is generally the best deal for hotels I checked, where the 3-for-2 rate could be located, compared to the 15-Day Advance Purchase discount of 20% to 30% for the Sofitel Hotel.

The Sofitel Winter Collection rate is prepaid and nonrefundable. The main advantage of this rate is a slightly greater discount and a 3-day advance purchase rate compared to the 15-day advance purchase rate normally offering the deepest discount.

Sofitel Winter Collection 3rd Night Free.

Sofitel Hotels are a global luxury brand of Accor Hotels. There are a handful of Sofitel properties in the USA in locations like Beverly Hills, Miami, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Minneapolis. The San Francisco Bay Area Sofitel property is convenient for Oracle headquarters, but 20 miles south outside the city of San Francisco if you are a tourist. 

Sofitel Washington, DC Lafayette Square for $197.76 per night Dec 7-10.

This is week 4, the last week of Le Club Accorhotels Facebook Discovery Game to earn free 500 points each week for pinning 10 Accor brand hotels on a world map.

China tripped me up this week since I pinned Shanghai before seeing Guanddong farther south.

You earn 50 Accor points for every correct pin. Pin all ten hotels correctly and you receive 500 points and an entry into a 15,000 points sweepstakes.

Members could earn 2,000 points with this game over the four weeks. I earned 2,000 free Accor points.

2,000 Le Club Accorhotels points can be redeemed for a 40 EUR or $60 USD hotel credit certificate for Accor Hotels worldwide.

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This is week 3 in Le Club Accorhotels Facebook Discovery Game for 500 points each week over four weeks for pinning 10 Accor brand hotels on a world map.

Two sets of pins are quite close to each other in Europe making it a little harder to accurately place the pins this week.

You earn 50 Accor points for every correct pin. Pin all ten hotels correctly and you receive 500 points and an entry into a 15,000 points sweepstakes.

Potential to earn 2,000 points with this game over the four weeks.

2,000 Accor points can be redeemed for a 40 EUR or $60 USD hotel credit certificate for Accor Hotels worldwide.

Related post:

Le Club Accorhotels Facebook game for 2,000 points = $60 hotel credit (Oct 23, 2012)

Le Club Accorhotels has Discovery Tour, a Facebook geography quiz to match 10 Accor brand hotels with pins already located on the world map.

You earn 50 points for each correct answer, 500 points for all ten correct answers and one entry into bigger points prizes for 15,000 points (40 winners) and 1,000,000 (one million) points for one Grand Prize Winner. 

The game runs from Tuesday, October 16, 10am Paris time through Tuesday November 13, 9:59am Paris time.

Le Club Accorhotels “Discovery Tour” Facebook contest

The best feature of this four week promotion is the potential to earn 500 points each week. There is no time limit to the game so you can always look up each hotel and verify the location before pinning the map. Also, you can change your choices and move hotels to different pins before you actually submit your answers. Read More…

Earn up to 4,500 bonus Avios points with three stays of 2-nights or more at Accor Hotels by September 30, 2012.

• 1,000 bonus Avios for your 1st 2-night stay
• 1,500 bonus Avios for your 2nd 2-night stay
• 2,000 bonus Avios for your 3rd 2-night stay

To collect Avios, you must be a member of Accor’s free loyalty program, Le Club Accorhotels, select Avios as your reward and register your Avios membership number with Accor. Read More…

Le Club Accor Hotels Gold and Platinum elites will receive a welcome amenity and free breakfast for two when redeeming a Le Club Accor hotel voucher for a stay at Accor Hotels in the USA and Canada during the month of August.

This offer requires the Le Club Accor member to redeem at least one hotel stay voucher to pay for the Accor hotel stay. Voucher must be presented at time of hotel check-in to qualify for this promotion.

2,000 Accor points can be redeemed for a USD$60 voucher. This offer applies whether you use one voucher or multiple vouchers to pay for the hotel stay.

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Accor Hotels seems to me to be more about regional discount rates and local loyalty bonuses rather than global promotions offered by most major hotel loyalty promotions.

Le Club Accorhotels requires work to dive into all those promotions and the limited availability of hotels in the USA for this loyalty program places it on the backburner for me.

Free elite membership was passed around for the launch of Le Club Accorhotels. I was looking at my LeClub Accorhotels Platinum card and wondering if I will even sleep in a member hotel bed before the card expires.

Now if I had global travel planned, then the hotel rate discount offers would motivate me to check Accor Hotels website offers more frequently.

This post is for travelers getting beyond the USA borders. Some of these hotel prices might make you think again about going downscale from the category 6 and 7 hotels in US-based hotel loyalty programs that dot European cities and international beach resorts.

Or you might find upscaling to an Accor budget hotel room is within your financial means when that hostel, B&B or couchsurfing scene gets too social.

Current Accor Hotels regional promotions: Read More…

Accor Hotels, the French-based hotel group that has the largest proportion of branded hotel rooms in Europe, has sold the US based Motel 6 chain for US$1.9B to Blackstone, a U.S. private equity group that also owns Hilton and La Quinta hotel chains.

After all the high finance maneuvers Accor will be left with about 330M EUR to invest in emerging Asia-Pacific and Latin America markets where most new hotel development globally is happening.

Motel 6 and Studio 6, an extended stay brand, is the largest budget hotel chain in the U.S. and Canada with 1,102 hotels and 107,000 rooms.

These ownership changes might have a limited impact on the operations of the Motel 6 chain when the deal is completed around October 2012.

Blackstone is like the WalMart of the hotel industry.

Will Blackstone attempt a loyalty program marketing strategy to re-image Motel 6 for the American traveler?

In the back of my Loyalty Traveler mind I am wondering if the new owners will try and implement a hotel loyalty program for the Motel 6 brand now that this ubiquitous Cinderella of the American budget traveler is out of the step-sister role it played with Accor.

The budget chains of Accor Hotels are not participants in Le Club Accor loyalty program. Motel 6 comprises almost 25% of Accor’s global properties and there is no points earning system in place for Motel 6 stays. Only a couple of promotional opportunities allowing summer month redemption of Accor cash certificates (2,000 Accor points = US$60) for Motel 6 stays were offered in the past few years.

Blackstone may just bring Motel 6 to the hotel ball. And even if Motel 6 does not dress up too pretty, obviously Blackstone sees something of value behind those doors.

A Motel 6 loyalty program is just my speculation, but that would be interesting news for the budget traveler. I’ll be watching Motel 6 in 2013 for changes.

News Sources: Bloomberg Financial – Accor to Sell Motel 6 to Blackstone for $1.9 Billion (May 22, 2012)

Financial Times – Accor sells US budget chain to Blackstone(May 22, 2012)

Hotel News Now – Blackstone buys Motel 6, Studio 6 for $1.9b (May 22, 2012)