Get a huge 18,700 Avios for ONE UK Avis rental – but does it make sense?

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• Arun says:

  8 Dec8 December 13:45

  I got to Avis today only to be told that I didn’t pass a security clearance! Has anyone else had the same issue?

  • Henry says:

    8 Dec8 December 14:22

    Being greedy – I booked 2 cars – one being picked up today and one tomorrow. Just been called to say that is very strange and a security risk and therefore they are going to send it to the security department!!! So will see what happens when I turn up!

    • the real harry says:

      8 Dec8 December 15:56

      haha! security risk!

      what nincompoops

    • BigDave says:

      8 Dec8 December 16:04

      Oh no hope you don’t get frisked too much
      picked up my car this morning, a renault capture in the end, had to cycle to work which is near the avis place at the airport, now the car is in my drive and i’ve had to park our car out in the street – the kids and mrs think i’m nuts hope it was all worth it – this point collecting is a disease…

      • Chris says:

        8 Dec8 December 16:48

        I joined forces with a colleague who took advantage of the same offer. We drove 40 minutes to Lancaster in his car, picked up both hire cars, parked his hire car elsewhere in Lancaster. I then drove my hire car back and he drove his own car. We’ll do the reverse on Saturday afternoon (office is closed from 1pm), and we shared a belly laugh together as we thought of the effort we had gone to!

        • Henry says:

          8 Dec8 December 21:32

          Just an update – managed to pick up car for today but refused car for tomorrow! Now it is probably my fault for booking two cars for the same time period at the same depot but really annoyed at missing out on the bonus Avios!
          It can’t be for Security reasons otherwise they wouldn’t let me have the car today. Crazy really – do they not want the money!!

        • the real harry says:

          8 Dec8 December 21:35

          they might have twigged it’s costing them £100 to let you have the car 🙂

• Simon Schus says:

  8 Dec8 December 17:19

  Boo, I’m out the country.

• @mkcol says:

  9 Dec9 December 12:09

  Booked a Hyundai i10 for E49.15ish
  Today I have collected a Hyundai Tucson….I only had 1.5cm spare each side when reversing in the drive against brick walls. That was fun!!

  • JP says:

    9 Dec9 December 16:31

    I don’t want to ruin your day but you needed to book at least a group c car for the offer (which is a Hyundai i30 and up – Hopefully was just a typo when you posted….)

• Andrew C says:

  9 Dec9 December 18:17

  Picked up my rental this morning from Basingstoke and was upgraded to a Skoda Octavia. I don’t know how Skoda have managed to make a car so boring but they have. The lady at AVIS said that there had been a lot of customers taking advantage of the deal, I wonder how many of them were HFP readers!

• Alex says:

  9 Dec9 December 18:35

  Apparently this was causing huge issues at Avis in Liverpool today. Many many bookings and not enough cars. I set my parents onto this offer and my mum was lucky and got a car. She overheard plenty of folk in there asking if they could just leave the cars there as they didn’t want them anyway!!

• Simon says:

  9 Dec9 December 20:56

  Collected my rental from Portsmouth Avis this afternoon and was upgraded to an Audi A3. I drove it two streets away and parked it in a residential area – I’ll be back on Monday to return it with less and a mile added to the odometer!

• Britbronco says:

  9 Dec9 December 21:28

  A warning to anyone just parking nearby, there is a £12+VAT refuelling charge for rentals under 75km, unless you provide a fuel receipt.

  • Britbronco says:

    10 Dec10 December 21:34

    The small print, and plenty of experienced posts on FlyerTalk, suggest this is added to your bill automatically if returning with less than 75km

• Simon says:

  9 Dec9 December 21:46

  I ‘picked up’ 2 cars today. Was planning on driving them round the corner onto a street lit residential area i’d found on google earth but the guy on the Avis desk was really helpful. He waived both £12 refuelling charges and asked me to take the keys but leave the cars in the Avis compound as would be safer. He said he’d had c.20 bookings via Iberia and knew the score for avios so knew it wasn’t some sort of fraud trick on Avis. He was very company loyal and asked me to come back with the keys to ‘return’ the cars at the right time, said it was a bit daft of Iberia but was happy for my business with Avis. For extra security he said there was no need to tell me which cars I was due to collect!

  • Alan says:

    9 Dec9 December 21:51

    Nice to see some common sense – that also means they won’t need to go to the cost and hassle of cleaning and prepping the cars again 🙂

    • the real harry says:

      9 Dec9 December 22:48

      yes but I smell a lack of Avios being awarded

      • Alan says:

        10 Dec10 December 00:02

        With the key return on the day and closing out the folio then it should be OK – although the general crapness of hire car companies managing to award points in general may be more of an issue!

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