Many of us have left with more than one Le Club Accorhotels account due to Platinum sign up promotions. I used to advise to contact the customer service and request them to merge the accounts. I later changed my advise after LoyaltyLobby reader contacted me and told that the customer service has refused to do this and rather had closed his account.
If you have ended up with more than one account, you should just sweep the points that you have to one of the airline partners that Le Club Accorhotels has. This usually requires you to have minimum number of points account, but this requirement can be bypassed by signing up for automatic conversion promotion.
Here’s what you need to do:
1. Sign up for the conversion promotion using this link
2. Sign in to your account and choose the airline partner of your choice where you would like the auto deposit to go and enable the auto transfer of points to miles
To make sure that the auto conversion was set up correctly I went back and tried to sign up for it again. The auto sweep promotional code had been applied to the account.
The points that you have should automatically convert to the miles that you prefer the next time they have a sweep. There is no minimums for mileage conversions using this offer.
I decided to convert these to my recently opened Iberia Plus account. I have quite a few Avios on my British Airways account that you can freely move to Iberia if needed at some later point in time. Some awards are better value when issued using Iberia vs. British Airways Avios.
Here’s list of current Le Club Accorhotels airline transfer partners:
Conclusion
This is an easy and painless way to drain your old Le Club Accorhotel account(s) that you may have out of points. Just choose one of the airlines from the above list with whom you have relationship with and some miles already banked.
LoyaltyLobby reader alerted me about this transfer possibility that had been first covered by a FlyerTalk member on his post here.
Hi,
I don’t see the “link” you refer to! 😉
Just refresh now. Post has been updated with the correct links and screen shots.
I’d like to do the conversion, where are the links?
It is up now.
i get “error.fides.0609” every time…
Do you have auto conversion enabled? You have to disable it first and then sign up this conversion promotion.
Is that correct that I still have to collect some points to initiate the transfer? Or when do they transfer the existing points?
This should work for existing points in your account as well. We should learn soon. I just activated this yesterday.
Hi, your list above shows that you can transfer to Qantas however this option does not seem available to me (nor is it listed in the drop down box on your screen shot). Is Qantas still an Accor partner airline?
Could be that it is only a conversion partner and not an automatic transfer one.
Thanks for sharing, great information!
So we need to stay at accor hotel to activate this autotransfer option??
Once I got promotional 500 accor points, and some day later changed burning to autotransfer(simply using option from profile, not any special link like in your news) – nothing transfered. Months later stayed couple days in Mercure, earn some points which were converted to M&M miles but my promo 500 stay on account…
This link_SHOULD_convert the ones that you have in your account as well. I initiated this yesterday so should learn soon.
Anyway to pick qantas for this option? It doesn’t show up in the first list and have previously asked Accor but no reply.
Could be that it is only a conversion partner but not automatic transfer one. The list that I have up was taken from Accor’s website yesterday.
It does convert the existing ones automatically. Just got a confirmation mail now. Great! So I now only have the platinum account! Thanks for the tip!!!
Great! Exactly as it should work.
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Do note as well that it’s better to transfer to IB Plus as using the BA.com Combine my Avios tool you can easily move them into your BA account thus getting you 1:1 instead of 2:1 if going direct to BA.
That was my point of moving them to Iberia first, although I may end up using them on the BA side. Your Iberia Plus account, however, needsto be open for some time before the transfer is possible.
John, Thanks for sharing this, my Gold account drained so I can start afresh with the Platinum card. A great tip!
Hi John! Many thanks for yet another great tip! Your Website is becoming the premier place to get the best scoop on travel/points/miles!
Here is a suggestion for conversions to Avios: Do not choose “Avios” as the travel partner. Instead, choose “Executive Club.” (I had tried with Avios, but got an error message, and had no trouble when using Executive Club.)
What a great way to a) cash in on essentially the only benefit Accor Le Club offers (extra points), and b) adding miles to an account to either top off an award or keep the account active.
I recently gave Accor hotels a try enjoying the platinum status you helped me get (thanks!) As you well stated, there aren’t many benefits to have with them. I stayed at a Novotel as a platinum and got nothing. No upgrade, no breakfast, no Internet, not even a single bottle of water. Just extra points for a chain I don’t see the point of being loyal to. I sent them an email courteously commenting on my stay (in addition to completing their survey) and in each case asked to be contacted. That was two months ago, and I have neither heard from them nor expect to. They are obviously not interested in creating a loyal following, nor encouraging people with elite status elsewhere (Hyatt, Marriott, SPG, Hilton, or even stingy ole IHG) to divert business to them. Fine with me; I’ll “suffer” elsewhere with the generous upgrades, free breakfasts, lounge access, warm welcomes, great service, and free Internet that other chains reward loyalty with.
Just a note that you are (twice) better to transfer/convert to Iberia Plus Avios than to BA one. You can later link the accounts and transfer from Iberia to BA.
Thanks to you I am aware of the favourable transfer ratio to Iberia (and then onto BA,) but I have neither set up an Iberia Avios account, nor had too many Accor points (about 1,000 for a two-night stay.) So, I just added these points to BA to help top off a future award.
Thanks again!
Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me – I got an error code ‘error.fides.0609’ when I click on request transfer bottom…
I’ve got the e-mail from accorhotels that points will be transferred automatically when balance reaches xxxx points… 🙁
Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me – I’ve got an error code (error.fides.0609) when I click on request transfer and e-mail from accorhotels wrote that points will be transferred when balance reaches xxxx… 🙁
You have to cancel your automatic conversion of points to miles BEFORE you sign up for this promotion that doesn’t have ant minimum requirement. Then you can activate it againt and choose the partner airline.
Thanks John O., it seems that it was succesful in this way because I’ve got the same message (‘your account already contains a promotional code….)!
Although I still can see my 1000 points on my account, will the transfer be done later?
You should get an email confirmation in about 24 hours that the points in your account has been comnverted to miles.
Great, thank you!
Didnt know that going through these partner landing pages was applying a promo code… I was able to convert my accor to avios at the 2.5 iberia avios rate in March without hitting the min threshold… But whatever I tried, couldnt convert my wife’s 1.5k points to iberia miles… Now I know!!! Loss of 2.25k avios…
Ouch. It is still better to go through Iberia even if the Avios would end up on BA account at the end.
Thanks,
I stayed with the platinum card at novotel and grand mercure. In grand mercure i got the 2nd time free drink and fruit and a strategically located room. In novotel i got an superior to deluxe upgrade and a late checkout at 4pm. Both hotels in indonesia.
Will now see if it is interesting to convert the points to miles.
Beast deal is to move them to Iberia Avios.
Hi John,
Thanks for the tip but in the new redesign of the Le Club website these options don’t come up anymore / are totally buried…. can you update this post to reflect the new design changes?
Log in to your Le Club account, Click on ‘My Account’ at top of screen and then click on ‘Access my account’. Click on ‘My loyalty card’ on the left of screen and then click on ‘My rewards’. Under ‘Use your points with our partners’, click on the link called ‘Activate/deactivate automatic conversion of my points into partner points’. Choose the Option 2 and choose your frequent flyer program. I wanted to choose Qantas’ Frequent Flyer, but it’s no longer available.
Thank you – what a maze of a site.
Yes – Qantas seems to have been removed.
Good one Accor… 🙁
I will do an update on this. You may have to activate the conversion of points to miles after each stay by going through the specific link first. Otherwise, it will only convert if you have few thousands points.
There seems to have been a change with Qantas, however.
Thanks John! I used this option to get rid of the points in my old account. I moved them to Krisflyer as I had some points expiring that I’d like to keep. Pity Qantas is no longer available 🙁
Is this still working? been trying but still not able to do it with Avios
Yes, I tried it tonight and it works!
I cannot figure out how to get my 329 Accor points transferred into Delta SkyMiles. The people at Accor are of no help, telling me I need to follow a special link only available from Delta. I cannot find this link, and I emailed Delta and they did not know what I was talking about. The links on this page do not work anymore, and my account on Accor does not look like the screenshots on this page. Could you please help me understand how to complete a transfer with no minimum in December 2014? I would really appreciate it. After several days of attempts and emails back and forth with Accor, I can’t figure it out.
I have an update coming to this article in the next few days. Stay tuned.
Hello all
I’m easily confused but went through the promotional link above and then enabled the auto transfer to Iberia. I still received an email stating:
As soon as our partner validates, all points earned will be automatically transferred to your Iberia account as soon as you reach a total of 3,000 Le Club Accorhotels points.
Is this normal and the points will still automatically come across to Iberia even if only a few hundred points?
Thanks!