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Earn 9,000 Avios for a 3-day Avis weekend car rental

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Avios (through Iberia Plus) and Avis have teamed up to offer another generous car rental promotion.  It’s nowhere near as good as the ‘18,000 Avios for a weekend rental’ offer they ran 18 months ago but it is certainly pretty decent.

Full details can be found – in English – on the Avis / Iberia Plus microsite here.

Here are the core terms and conditions:

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You earn at least 9,000 Avios.  This consists of 8,300 bonus Avios and the usual spend-based Avios award which, for a 3-day rental, is at least 700 Avios.

Your rental must include a Saturday night

Your rental must be for at least 3 days

You must rent a Group C car or higher

You must complete your rental by 15th December

You must book at iberia.com or rentacar-iberia.com or avis.es 

Not valid on Corporate AWD rentals, Prestige rentals, Chauffeur Drive or Van rentals

Valid for all participating offices in Spain mainland, Balearics and Canaries, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and United Kingdom

It may take 8 weeks for the bonus Avios to arrive

Vehicles must be collected and returned on the dates booked. Any cars not checked out and returned as per the booking will not qualify. [This means you cannot pick up the car, drive it around the block and return it immediately – it must be returned on the booked return date]

You need to credit the rental to an Iberia Plus account to receive the 9,000 Avios.  You will NOT receive the points if you give a British Airways, AerClub, Vueling Club or avios.com number.

You can move the Avios over to British Airways using the ‘Combine My Avios’ function on any of the Avios websites, although if your Iberia Plus account is brand new you will need to wait until it is 90 days old.

If you can pick up a car for £20 per day then you could pick up some reasonably priced Avios points here.  That said, it isn’t worth doing purely for the points unless you have a convenient and cheap Avis depot near you and somewhere to park the car for 72 hours.

If you do need a car for a long weekend over the next two months, however, then this is well worth a look.

You can learn more on the Avis / Iberia website here.

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2025)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

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There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

30,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending £15,000 Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on the ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 30,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (30,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

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There is also a British Airways American Express card for small businesses:

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There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

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Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

Category

Avis and Avis Preferred, British Airways and Avios, Iberia and Club Iberia Plus

Comments (52)

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  • pablo says:
    8 Oct8 October 05:25

    Tempting. £47 for a 3 day rental, 0.52p per mile. Just need to decide if it’s worth the hassle. Are they quick in posting the miles or is it really an 8 week wait?

    • Shoestring says:
      8 Oct8 October 06:06

      IB are *never* quick in posting miles

    • Nick_C says:
      8 Oct8 October 08:22

      What location is that? Cheapest I am seeing for Group C is £73.

      Some group C cards come up at £56, but they are Budget, not Avis.

      I’m looking at Peterborough.

  • ZumoDeNaranja says:
    8 Oct8 October 06:21

    Good luck with actually getting the Avios.

    My experience of a number of Avis promos is that it takes literally months of chasing their appalling CS before you actually see anything credit 🙁

    Add Iberia into the mix and you’re just asking for pain !

    • Dan From London says:
      8 Oct8 October 07:19

      To be fair the 90000 avios from the recent promotion took less than 3 weeks. Felt like much longer because I was concerned they’d never arrive.

      I use the boomerang app in gmail to remind myself to chase these things up.

      • Shoestring says:
        8 Oct8 October 09:50

        That’s a bit different as IB promised to deliver the points within 10 days. They did a manual trawl and awarded them in bulk, not in 9000 point lots.

      • Russ says:
        8 Oct8 October 12:28

        Mine to and currently spending them in a hot climate so can’t complain. Is it too much to wish Iberia will turn this into an annual promotion?!?

  • Bach says:
    8 Oct8 October 07:04

    I know people complain a lot about issues getting the points… so just to give another story – i rent a lot as I don’t own a car so use these promotions from BA or Iberia heavily. I always got the points to post without issues except for the Black Friday offers in 2017. This was apparently due to a wide IT issue… but i got them in the end without much of a fight, through Twitter and then emails, with a good compensation as well.

    • Chris says:
      8 Oct8 October 14:47

      Exactly the same for me.
      I rented weekly when there was the Virgin 6,000 miles offer earlier this year. Every single one of them posted correctly.

      But I did use the specific link for the deal and I saw comments here about people trying to combine non-Virgin Avis AWD codes and then complaining as the miles didn’t post.

  • Chris says:
    8 Oct8 October 07:44

    I’ve got an annoying situation with Avis – they’re claiming there’s damage to a car hired in July. But they’ve not sent any info to me or even an invoice. Does the Platinum hire car insurance work if using a Gold Business card??

    • Michael Jennings says:
      8 Oct8 October 09:53

      Both Visa and Mastercard have guidelines that state that banks should automatically issue a chargeback if a car rental company does not send an invoice for a repair when requested. I would recommend proceeding this way.

  • Rash says:
    8 Oct8 October 07:51

    Slightly worrying thing is there is no book here link, the terms do specify which websites to use though. Last Avis/Virgin promos tracked fine for me, I did 6 I think and they tracked fine

  • Marcw says:
    8 Oct8 October 08:01

    Never had a problem getting the promo Avios from Avis. Always smooth.

  • vol says:
    8 Oct8 October 08:33

    A list of cheap Avis offices would be good! I’m in London and nothing is coming up as cheap

    • Rash says:
      8 Oct8 October 08:48

      Depends on the weekend and supply and demand, I’ve seen more expensive locations go very cheap if they do not have enough bookings.

    • Rob says:
      8 Oct8 October 09:12

      That’s ‘cos it’s London!

      • vol says:
        8 Oct8 October 10:02

        I know ????

      • kk says:
        8 Oct8 October 19:19

        Last time, around 2 years ago, it cost was only 70-odd quid from LCY and they gave me a SUV, so it’s not just about London.

    • kk says:
      8 Oct8 October 19:18

      For me it’s coming up at 200 Euros in London. Wtf?

  • Mike says:
    8 Oct8 October 09:14

    What happens if you book for 3 days but return the car after 46 hours? I need a car from Saturday Lunchtime to Monday Morning during the promotion.

    • bsuije says:
      8 Oct8 October 17:43

      I think a “day” counts as a 24 hour period. So your example above would not be a 3-day rental (Saturday lunchtime to Sunday lunchtime = 1 day, etc.). On the search box, somewhere at the bottom, it tells you how many days’ rental you are booking once you put in your details. I was also considering Saturday to Monday, but it told me that was only a 2 day rental. Had to add in a Friday to make it a 3 day one.

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