You can get instant Gold status with Club Carlson by signing up for the program by by following the instructions below. This offer is available for address in the Asia Pacific region. You can open an account i.e. in Thailand and later change the address back where you live.
Edit: 2PM EST (March 11): seems that Club Carlson has now deactivated this offer. As I posted originally on March 9, this was likely to be time sensitive sign up promo. You can get Club Carlson Gold status by doing a status match from Le Club Accorhotels Platinum status. You can get Le Club Accorhotels Platinum status by following the instructions here.
The Gold status normally requires 20 stays or 35 qualifying nights in a calendar year.
1. You need to sign up for a new account using promotional code JetAGD12. You can sign up for the account here.
2. Your address has to be in one of the following countries: Afghanistan, Australia, Bhutan, Cook Isl, China, Micronesia, Federated States, Guam, India, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Dem People’s Republic of Korea, Republic Of Korea, Marshall Isl/Mariana Isl, Mongolia, Northern Mariana Isl, Nepal, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Tuvalu, Taiwan, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna Isl, Samoa, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Macao, Maldives, New Zealand, Philippines, Solomon Isl, Myanmar, Republic of Palau, Nauru, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Kiribati, Hong Kong, Fiji Islands, Brunei, Samoa American, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, Heard Island and Mcdonald Isls, British Indian Ocean Terr, Norfolk Island, Niue, Pitcairn, Tokelau, Bangladesh, New Caledonia
3. The Gold status is instantaneous. You can later move the account address to your permanent one.
This offer was originally open for Jet Privilege Gold and Platinum members, but the offer was withdrawn. Club Carlson then introduced a new offer that requires you to input a Jet Privilege number and your account is only upgraded after your status with Jet is confirmed. You can access that offer.
Seems that Club Carlson just activated this old promo by a mistake and I think that it will be soon withdrawn
Club Carlson Gold benefits are:
- Earn an additional 50% bonus Gold Points on every eligible stay
- Receive 2,000 bonus points with our online booking bonus when you book at clubcarlson.com or any Carlson Rezidor hotel brand website
- Complimentary room upgrades (subject to availability)
- Early Check In and Late Check Out upon request (subject to availability)
You will also have access for special elite member offers like Stay 2 pay for 1 and Stay 4 pay for 2.
If you already have a Club Carlson account that has points, you can just open a new one. Later just transfer the points from your old account to your newly opened one. You can do this just by phoning Club Carlson customer service.
Edit: I signed up a friend using this offer an hour ago and it went through just fine and the Gold status was activated instantaneously. When tried doing it again right now, I received the following error message “We are sorry but we have encountered an unexpected error processing your request. Please contact customer support to fulfill your request”. If you get this error message, you may want to try few hours later. US based companies tend to update their computer systems in the early hours of Sunday morning and this error message may be caused by this.
Edit 2: The signing up is now working again. The error message above was likely for the Sunday morning system updates in the States.
Conclusion
Club Carlson had very good promotions in 2012 and we should soon learn about their spring 2013 promotion. The first quarter promotion is for triple points and it is about to expire.
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Doesn’t work.
It worked two hours ago when I started to write this, but gave an error message that I added to the piece above. It maybe due to system updates in the US at this hour on Sunday morning. I would try again in few hours.
It worked. It’s good to point out that if you make any kind of mistake (in my case the passwords didn’t match) and the form is submitted, you need to close the browser and start all over again.
Just tried and it worked for me,signed up using the code and Australian address and got the Gold Elite Status.
Yeah, I got the same error as in your Edit above.
I tried again now and it worked just fine now. 🙂
See, How I knew that this would be likely for Sunday morning system updates in the states? lol.
Hehe 🙂 Thanks for this one, it can always come in handy. 🙂
Thank You! It’s working fine just applied instant upgrade.
Thank you. I managed to sign up for the gold status after few tries.
Signed up and received Carlson Red 🙁
Thank you! I signed up and got the Gold Elite status immediately.
It doesn’t work don’t know why
It definitely works now. Just sign up using an alternate email address.
Works great from NZ thanks. Now I don’t need to wait for their reply to Match accor plat.
I used a local coffee house address (search google (Seattle US based) for address, post code and ph #) in Sydney – My gold card account activated. I then logged out of website. Re-logged on, then updated address to US.
Worked like a charm…
Thanks John
I used my hotel that I typically stay in in Singapore and worked great, thank you.
Just did it, worked for me.
Just signed up from Australia and got Gold status immediately.
Just worked nicely here for me, thanks John. Had just lost my Gold from prior status match. I just consolidate all the points into my wife’s account.
Yep. Makes sense to consolidate the points that is very easy with Club Carlson. Only one easy phone call.
Hi it worked just fine for our Aussie client. It came back immediately with a card, not gold… When we logged into the account it showed Gold Tier. 🙂 Customer is very happy with us! They can easily hit next tier.
Already a club member.What E-mail address do I use for the new account?
Likely better to use an email that is not currently on file with Club Carlson.
Not working for me now. Only red tier:(
Cool! Just signed up, instant gold (after logging into account). Thanks, John!!
Doesn’t work
Likely another early morning computer system update in the States. Try again in an hour or two.
Tried again at 9am East Coast time, still no go. What kind of company does computer updates at 9am EST?
They had an update yesterday morning but it was Sunday. If it doesn’t work in few hours time, maybe the offer has been discontinued?
You are doing something wrong. I just signed up a friend after first replying to your message to a CC Gold account. Working just fine.
I can’t imagine what I did wrong, email, Thailand address and phone. Just didnt work. Would’ve loved this! Do you know if I status match is it a once per life sort of thing? Or can I do it again at some point?
I will know soon, as I did CC Gold status match last year and was just downgraded to Silver. I emailed them a status match request on Sunday. Will do an updated post once I know for sure.
Thanks, def looking forward to hearing what you find.
Will be up in less than an hour.
May you tell what is gold status expire date?
Thanks
Tried incl. code – link seems to direct to general sign-up. Regret but seems code no longer works.
i signed up with the above link and code and out the country as SAMOA AMERICAN, i got signed up as a RED member, not GOLD. looks like a fake or expired deal.
also the OP failed to mention about how long the gold status is valid for?
There were hundreds that signed up yesterday using the promotion code that I posted here. This was still working when I checked it last time five hours ago. Haven’t checked since that. (Edit: Just did it now again and appears that they have pulled the offer)
Previous sign up promos have followed the typical member year expiry that is at the end of February the following year. If you qualify based on nights or stays in 2013, your status will then be valid until February 2015.