To achieve Gold or Platinum status in Accor’s ALL program, you normally need 30 or 60 nights per year, respectively.

Thanks to a new partnership, however, just one night is now enough – though not in a hotel, but rather on a train. Accor has recently invested in the luxury train operator Orient Express, which offers various itineraries within Italy.

ALL members now receive not only points, but also, as permanent offer, direct Gold status for bookings in the Deluxe cabin (which you probably can’t really call 2nd class…) and Platinum status for bookings in a suite.

The eight different routes each last 1 or 2 nights, but they cost no less than 30 or 60 nights in an upscale mid-range hotel…