What match making? Have this become a dejting blog? Of course not, but some times its worth to look around for others. I recently wrote how you can become an Accor Gold member without staying a single night at a hotel. And if you always stays at Accor this is fine. But sometime we just find the right bargain on an other hotel chain. So what should you do? Stay without status, book another or solve the status problem? Many time, the solution is just a mail or webb formula away and is named match making.
As you remember you could get your Accor Gold thru the IBIS Business card and you thought the golden doors open for you. But then you find a sweet deal at lets say Best Western. What you do is that you contact Best Western and says, Hi I’m an Accor Gold member but I’m thinking to change my home hotekl change to Best Western. What can you do for me? Here is my Accor Gold card nummer.
Mostly they will come back to you and say something like. Oh hi, we are so happy you want to stay at our hotels world wide. Because you already have a status we will match this for you and you can now take benefit of our program on your next stay.
Of course you can make this matching with a lot of chains, both for hotel or airlines if they are in a different alliance. However you cant do it to often. The companies knows about this game and will in normal cases just allowed you to match once. So be a little picky and change once a year and you have a good chance to have at least one gold status al the time.