Rundown of AccorHotels for Canadians

AccorHotels is a French hotel group headquartered in Paris, France. There are approximately 3,800 locations across the world.

The Branding

AccorHotels have separated their hotels into a few different types of branding:  economy, midscale, upscale, and luxury.

The economy brand was previously AccorHotel’s budget hotels, which was reinvented into the “ibis” brand, with the ibis budget, ibis Styles and ibis red logo. Another economy brand is their chain of hotelF1 locations which offer a room for washing your clothes, share bathrooms and show facilities.

Some previous economy and budget hotels were Motel 6, Studio 6 and Red Roof Inn, in which Motel 6 and Studio 6 were then sold to Blackstone.

The midscale brands include their largest brand Mercure, found in 732 locations and resort across the world. One that may be more recognizable for Canadians is the Novotel brand, which has 414 hotels in 61 countries. Adagio is a brand made to accommodate long term stay guests as the design is more apartment styled.

For  AccorHotel’s upscale brands, you will find the following brands: Grand Mercure, Grand Mercure Apartments, Mei Jue, Maha Cipta, The Sebel, Mama Shelter, Pullman and Mgalary.

Finally, the company’s luxury brands include Sofitel, Sofitel So and Sofitel Legend. As a more recognizable brand in Canada, Accor currently hold 121 properties for this brand.

Locations in Canada

There are currently only 8 locations in Canada, as listed below:

Accor Hotels	Address	Location
Sofitel Montreal Golden Mile	1155 Sherbrooke Queste, H3A 2N3	Montreal, Quebec
Novotel Montreal Airport	2599 Boulevard Alfred Nobel, H4S 2G1	Montreal, Quebec
Novotel Montreal Centre	1180 Rue de la Montagne, H3G 1Z1	Montreal, Quebec
Novotel Ottawa	33 Nicholas Street, K1N 9M7	Ottawa, Ontario
Novotel Toronto Centre	45 The Esplanade, M5E 1W2	Toronto, Ontario
Novotel Toronto North York	3 Park Home Avenue, M2N 6L3	Toronto, Ontario
Novotel Toronto Vaughan	200 Bass Pro Mills Drive, L4K 0B9	Vaughan, Ontario
Novotel Toronto Mississauga Centre	3670 Hurontario Street, L5B 1P3	Mississauga, Ontario

Le Club AccorHotels Loyalty Program

Individuals who stay at Accor hotels have an opportunity to earn points and redeem for free stays or choose to transfer their points to an airline partner. Le Club AccorHotels points do not have any expiration date, given that members stay at a participating AccorHotels location at least once a year.

Members can enjoy the following benefits: exclusive rates 48 hours before it is given to the public two times a year, as a gold status member you can enjoy an upgrade to the best room in the next category up, and you can receive free nights beginning from 2,000 points.

You also have the option to transfer your points to an airline partner listed below:

AeroMexico	Air Berlin	Air Canada
Air China	Air France KLM	Alitalia
Avianca Taca	British Airways	Cathay Pacific
Club Med	Delta Airlines	Emirates
Etihad	Finnair	Jet Airways
Lufthansa	Qantas Frequent Flyer	Singapore Airlines
TAP Portugal	Thai Airways	Turkish Airlines
Virgin Australia

We will also be writing a separate post on the loyalty program to elaborate more on the elite status, as well as earning and using points.

Accor Continues to Grow

In the most recent update of Accor, the hotel chain has completed the deal in buying Fairmont, Raffles and Swissotel for $2.9 Billion US. The three lines combines owns approximately 155 hotels, some iconic locations which we can all recognize are the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth, Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City and Fairmont Banff Springs.

While AccorHotels will become major shareholders in companies with Qatar and Saudi, QIA and King Holding will each keep minority stakes in the new Accor company.

The Bottom Line

With so many other options for accommodations in recent years, the introduction of AirBnB and residential stay, Accor continues to find ways to breakthrough this move in the hotel industry.