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News in brief:

New Iberia Plus wine offer for 500 Avios

Iberia’s wine partner, Vinoseleccion, is running a new deal for UK residents.

For £50, you will receive six bottle of rioja plus free delivery plus 500 Avios in Iberia Plus.  These can be moved across to BAEC or avios.com using the ‘Combine My Avios’ functionality on any Avios website.

£50 is advertised as ‘half price’ but you should always treat these claims with caution where wine is concerned.  That said, Vinoseleccion seems to have a decent reputation overall.  Full details of the offer are here.

Miles & More launches new promo with Hertz

Miles & More, the Lufthansa Group frequent flyer scheme, has launched a new promotion with Hertz.

For bookings by 30th June, for rentals before 30th September, you will earn 1500 Miles & More miles per rental.  You will also be entered into a competition to win one of 20 prizes of 50,000 miles.

There is no minimum rental length so this could be good deal for one day hires.

Full details, including details of the codes which must be added to your booking (and which may or may not end up inflating the price of your rental) are here on hertz.com.

Don’t forget that Virgin Atlantic is also an excellent place to park miles from Hertz rentals – see here for details – earning 1000 miles every time.  That is where I sent the miles from the Hertz rental I did last weekend.

How to get FREE car rental status and other benefits via UK credit cards

How to get FREE car rental status and other benefits via UK credit cards (April 2024)

If you hire a car in the UK, you can get special benefits (discounts, upgrades, free additional drivers etc) if you have elite status with a car rental programme. You can get elite status for free via certain American Express cards.

The Platinum Card and American Express Business Platinum

The Platinum Card from American Express and American Express Business Platinum come with two free car hire status cards. Your supplementary Platinum cardholder can also receive status in their own right.

From Avis, you receive President’s Club status in Avis Preferred. This gets you up to 25% off standard rates, a free additional driver and a guaranteed one class upgrade. For weekend rentals you will receive a two class upgrade, subject to availability.

From Hertz, you receive ‘Five Star’ status in Hertz Gold Plus Rewards. This gets you up to 15% off standard rates, a free additional driver and a one class upgrade, subject to availability.

Hertz also offers Platinum cardholders a 4 hour grace period on rentals. Your final day is treated as 28 hours, so a 1pm pick up with a 5pm return the following day is only charged as one day, not two days. We wrote about the Hertz / Platinum 4 hour grace period here.

The Platinum Card also comes with full car hire insurance with no obligation to pay for the rental via American Express. You can refuse any attempts to sell you additional insurance at pick up. This benefit has substantial value if you rent on a regular basis.

You can find more details on the two Platinum cards, and apply, in our full reviews linked below. You can apply here for the personal card and here for the business card.

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is an excellent card in its own right. You receive 20,000 Membership Rewards points for signing up (convert to 20,000 Avios amongst other things), four airport lounge passes and £120 of Deliveroo credit. Even better, your first year is free.

There are two car rental benefits:

  • you receive Preferred Plus status in Avis Preferred
  • you receive a special package with Hertz – 10% off best available rates at participating locations, a one class upgrade for rentals of 5 days or more, subject to availability, and no additional driver fees

Find out more about the benefits of American Express Preferred Rewards Gold in our review. You can apply here.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

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Hertz and Gold Plus Rewards, Iberia and Iberia Plus, Lufthansa and Miles & More

Comments (36)

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  • shd says:
    1 Jun1 June 05:18

    Is there a way to combine this with another valid CDP one might be entitled to use or is it “either or”?

    • Bob says:
      2 Jun2 June 12:13

      You can can only use one CDP at a time.
      This is from where your rate is define.
      It cannot be changed afyter the booking of course.

      You can combine it on rare occasions with a promo discount, but really on rare occasions.
      But that’s a promo code not a CDP.

      My experience is that CDP from airlines are only interesting if you rent for more than 3 days or during the week-end.
      One or two days are most expensive than non airlines CDP if you have one.

      I do not really credit my rental days to airmiles FFP.

      I rather like to keep them at Hertz and transferred them when I need to IHG for instance.

      Everyone has a different requirement anyways.

  • Neil Holland says:
    1 Jun1 June 05:47

    Btw that’s a lot of Rioja for the money not just any old plonk.

    Buy, buy, buy…

  • Lee says:
    1 Jun1 June 05:57

    Sounds expensive for the Rioja – reserva in Aldi is a lot cheaper and just as good.

    • Genghis says:
      1 Jun1 June 06:03

      I’ll be sticking to Majestic Calais

      • Nony says:
        2 Jun2 June 01:30

        Do you really go to Calais to pickup £1.99 bottles of wine?

    • Linda Wardley says:
      1 Jun1 June 06:35

      Aldi do not take Amex though

      • Genghis says:
        1 Jun1 June 06:44

        Does a shop not taking Amex (which is cheaper) drive you to shop elsewhere (which is more expensive)? Sounds like some expensive points you might be picking up.

        • Linda Wardley says:
          1 Jun1 June 06:56

          No need to make assumptions Genghis, was just stating a fact, when I typed the post I did add an emoji but it doesn’t show.

          • Worzel says:
            1 Jun1 June 07:41

            Genghis- maybe you need to get yourself on that Telepathy refresher course!

            🙂 .

          • Alan says:
            1 Jun1 June 12:00

            Yes if you add old-school character emoji the system converts them to display as icons, but icon-based ones don’t seem to be accepted 🙂

      • Bill says:
        1 Jun1 June 07:50

        Try aldi website instead

        • Genghis says:
          1 Jun1 June 07:58

          Still seems to just be MC and Visa? Didn’t realise Aldi deliver wine though. There’s Xmas booze sorted.

    • David P says:
      1 Jun1 June 11:19

      This reserva is made by CVNE, one of the better known wineries in the rioja region. General retail price in this country will be somewhere north of £13 per bottle for the reserva, although I think current stocks are of the 2010 whilst this offer from VS is for the 2012.

      With all due respect to Aldi’s rioja reserva, which is a wine which I think is quite nice for the price point, the CVNE reserva is streets ahead in terms of quality so for me it’s definitely one to buy.

  • Alex W says:
    1 Jun1 June 06:39

    For anyone chasing a Marriott travel package (there seem to be quite a few on here!):

    Save up to 35% on base rate
    2,000 Marriott Rewards points on rentals of 2-4 days
    5,000 Marriott Rewards points on rentals of 5 or more days
    Use CDP# 154080 & PC# 169680

    http://offer.hertz.com/offers/index.jsp?targetPage=MAupto5000pts.jsp&id=36383

  • EOC says:
    1 Jun1 June 07:05

    Bought some from last offer and quality was great. Just re-upped on this offer but nowhere to insert IB card number so have had to send tedious follow up email to VS. Yawn.

  • Concerto says:
    1 Jun1 June 09:06

    Trouble with the M&M offers at Hertz and Europcar is that they often do not track and it’s almost impossible to reclaim the points. So it ends up irritating me and I stopped using these promotions.

    Avis is somewhat more reliable and thanks to FT I have a contact email address to fix uncredited rentals. Does anyone have similar contacts for Hertz and Europcar?

    • Rash says:
      1 Jun1 June 11:02

      I have heard contacting them via twitter usually works to get issues resolved

  • ADS says:
    1 Jun1 June 10:18

    OT – waitrose spend has started tracking on Shop VS again. looks like minimum of 2 points per transaction (lots of my transactions are between £1 and £3), but a tx over £15 came through as 14 points. Also, the newish Waitrose near Victoria doesn’t seem to track.

  • Sussex Bantam says:
    1 Jun1 June 11:43

    Completely OT – but need some help on churning strategy following the demise of the 20K upgrade to platinum offer.

    Mrs SB has a gold card which is approaching the one year anniversary. My options are:

    1) Refer myself for gold card = 9K for Mrs SB, 22K for me
    2) Refer myself for plat card = 9k (I think) for Mrs SB, 35K for me
    3) Upgrade Mrs SB to plat and then refer to gold card = ??
    4) Upgrade Mrs SB to plat and then refer to plat card = ??

    Can anyone fill in the blanks on 3 and 4 for me ?

    Thanks

    • Nick M says:
      1 Jun1 June 12:23

      As a data point – My wife was offered 10k to upgrade Gold-Plat a few days ago… not sure whether or not to actually go for it as I left it a bit late and we’re now into Year 2.

      • TGLoyalty says:
        1 Jun1 June 20:21

        Pro rata refund on gold fee so don’t let that stop you

    • Adil says:
      1 Jun1 June 17:11

      3) You’d get 22K still, she’d get 12K
      4) You’d get 35K, she’d get 18K

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