Get 50% bonus Avios with Avis car rentals

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• Robin Shone says:

  12 Feb12 February 06:44

  The IHG bonus offer appears to be targeted. I’m only offered 80% bonus but triggered at 5000 points

• Manya says:

  12 Feb12 February 07:58

  Hilton also offering a bonus when purchasing points. Email I received said 100%.

• ianM says:

  12 Feb12 February 08:04

  It’s a decent deal, IHG reward nights are far better value than Hilton, plenty decent properties for 20k or less, Hilton now 30k benchmark.

• Ed_fly says:

  12 Feb12 February 08:53

  Not only is the IHG bonus seemingly targeted (100% here) min spend is as well, mine is min purchase of 5,000 points before the 100% kicking in.

  Unless things have changed since I last looked, an obvious point purchase sweet spot is Mr and Mrs Smith hotels, which have generated a 0.6p per point return.

• Mattb says:

  12 Feb12 February 09:05

  Regarding the avis 1000 avios for first rental would I get that if I book direct with avis and put my BA number in during Checkout? Want to use the Amex £30 back offer but anything else would be a bonus.

  • Rob says:

    12 Feb12 February 19:44

    Correct, UK only. Added that in.

• David S says:

  12 Feb12 February 09:56

  Where I usually book my Avis vehicle you can have a Group A car or the next one up is a Group G. This has been the case for a few years so unless I’m booking a BA holiday to max tier points, I look elsewhere. However you can get a “Budget” vehicle in any group at the same location and for less than the Avis rate.
  They are the same vehicles and it avoids BA having to give you the extra Avios or free driver. It’s a right con

• Londonsteve says:

  12 Feb12 February 12:06

  I wonder how business is for Avis and the other big players these days? They’re affected by new vehicle supply problems and consequently prices for car rental rocketed to the point that in some places it’s cheaper to buy a second hand car than rent one for a couple of weeks. That’s certainly the case in the UK. More realistically a combination of Uber and tactical use of public transport (which can be more pleasant anyway as you watch the world go by rather than have to concentrate on an unfamiliar road in a foreign country) is now usually cheaper than car rental. The industry has a much slimmed down future at this rate, particularly in combination with declining rates of young people passing driving tests because they don’t see the point. I haven’t rented a car since before the pandemic and I can’t be the only one, every time I’ve looked the prices have been horrifying.

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    12 Feb12 February 15:47

    Uber prices have skyrocketed too though – have had more than a dozen rides in the last few months over €100 and particularly arriving at an airport to have to have quick fingers to get a ride before they’re all hoovered up by the rest of the plane.

    Hertz are north of £/$/$100 a day every time these days

• Colin MacKinnon says:

  12 Feb12 February 13:10

  It’s the nickel and dime-ing – or should I say the £100 and £500-ing!

  That’s what gets me. Got stung in Mexico while wife was sick – so it was take the car or leave it (and someone in the queue behind me who was told: there are no cars left!)

  Then in Denver, with BA car hire, “your extra driver is not included”.

  Or Panama, again: extra driver not included.

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