MJ_/\_
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Hi Everyone - new here and new to the travel points and loyalty thingymajig.My kids finished school last year and the wife and I now have more time and money to travel (yay) and I've just realised there is this whole gamified world of travel hacks I had no real idea existed that I am now starting to get my head around.
I think I have settled on Accor as the hotel chain to focus on and the Accor Plus Explorer membership as step#1... but, I have questions that I hope someone can help talk me through.
1. Is there any advantage to getting the Accor Plus Explorer membership before Jan 1st 2025? We don't have too much travel planned for the rest of this year (some of those red hot offers look tempting though), but are starting to plan a month in Japan next year (love Japan) and I'm thinking that we really need those 20 status nights to apply to 2025 as I don't think I'd be able to hit Platinum this year (which would be the aim, but could possibly get there towards the end of our Japan trip)... are there any advantages to having the membership date in the 2nd half of the year (there was a little discussion earlier on this thread, but I didn't really get the reasoning). Do they have good sign up promos later in the year?
2. Just checking, but I don't think you can stack the 20 free nights from Accor Plus and also the 20 free nights from ALL PLUS Voyageur - can you? Any tips for getting additional status nights cheap? I see a fast track thread that I'll read in more detail, but nothing on at the moment? would there normally be more of those later in the year?
3. Any other tips a newbie with zero status anywhere should be aware of?
Thanks heaps
I think I have settled on Accor as the hotel chain to focus on and the Accor Plus Explorer membership as step#1... but, I have questions that I hope someone can help talk me through.
1. Is there any advantage to getting the Accor Plus Explorer membership before Jan 1st 2025? We don't have too much travel planned for the rest of this year (some of those red hot offers look tempting though), but are starting to plan a month in Japan next year (love Japan) and I'm thinking that we really need those 20 status nights to apply to 2025 as I don't think I'd be able to hit Platinum this year (which would be the aim, but could possibly get there towards the end of our Japan trip)... are there any advantages to having the membership date in the 2nd half of the year (there was a little discussion earlier on this thread, but I didn't really get the reasoning). Do they have good sign up promos later in the year?
2. Just checking, but I don't think you can stack the 20 free nights from Accor Plus and also the 20 free nights from ALL PLUS Voyageur - can you? Any tips for getting additional status nights cheap? I see a fast track thread that I'll read in more detail, but nothing on at the moment? would there normally be more of those later in the year?
3. Any other tips a newbie with zero status anywhere should be aware of?
Thanks heaps