Avis - Avis or Hertz which is better???

I wonder if any of you can tell me if I should move from Avis to Hertz. I'm a Avis First member but their weekend rental rewards are no good for me, does Hertz or any other rental car company allow you to just accumulate free rental days and use them whenever you want???

Thanks

I know its exactly what you asked but I love being elite with national , plenty of discount codes out there and being to pick your car from the executive selection is awesome

I wonder if any of you can tell me if I should move from Avis to Hertz. I'm a Avis First member but their weekend rental rewards are no good for me, does Hertz or any other rental car company allow you to just accumulate free rental days and use them whenever you want???

Thanks

Hertz Gold points can be used towards weekday rentals, albeit at a worse rate than weekends. Their cheapest award tiers are also capacity controlled (the "standard" awards have a few blackout dates where they do impose capacity controls in certain cities, I believe).

When I rent a car, I'm far more concerned that I get a decent car and that the car is actually there. As a Hertz Five Star (finished 2011 with 19 rentals, 34 rental days), I've had a number of issues with this actually and my complaints to Hertz Corporate have generally been met with absolute indifference after taking months to respond.

I looked into matching to Avis to see if the grass was any greener, but they're unwilling to match to First. In your case, I'd get Hertz Gold (assuming they're still giving it away) and try it out to see what the customer service experience is like for you.

I am going to give Avis a try since I applied for Presidential Plus card that is supposed to give me complimentary Avis First membership - we'll see how it goes.... Pretty sick of Hertz attitude.

I tried to book a rental in Israel, and after I booked found out that they do not participate in Hertz rewards and do not issue award points at all! So I booked with Avis instead - not only did the rate come out to be cheaper, but they have a decent promotion with UA where I think I am supposed to be getting 150 UA miles/day, which will amount to about 1,000 points for me... beats shart stick in the eye from Hertz.

Outside the US and Europe, many Hertz and Avis locations are franchises, and so may not follow the same rules.

I looked into matching to Avis to see if the grass was any greener, but they're unwilling to match to First.
Many of us are still baffled as to whether there's much of any benefits to being First, other than a nicer-looking card. And you don't need a match to get to Preferred, you just sign up for it. (It's free to everyone all the time.)

(Certainly anyone who's interested in airline miles or hotel points promotions doesn't seem to get a single bit of benefit from Hertz First, since you have to not credit your rentals to any partner in order to earn those dubious Hertz First points/certs.)

Hi-
I'm Avis First and I'm wondering if I'm getting themost bang for my buck (or should I say my company's buck :) I usually have my rentals go towards Starwood points but I feel that 50 points per rental day seems insufficient. Should I switch this out towrds AA miles? What the best value?

Thanks,

Joe

I am going to give Avis a try since I applied for Presidential Plus card that is supposed to give me complimentary Avis First membership - we'll see how it goes.... Pretty sick of Hertz attitude.


PPlus actually gets you Avis President's Club.

I'm Avis First and I'm wondering if I'm getting themost bang for my buck (or should I say my company's buck :) I usually have my rentals go towards Starwood points but I feel that 50 points per rental day seems insufficient. Should I switch this out towrds AA miles? What the best value?
The best value is whoever (out of all the airlines and hotels that you collect with) has the best bonus that works for your situation.

With Avis, I've used AA, DL, UA, Best Western, and Club Carlson, but each of them only when they have a bonus. On the rare occasion I can't find any bonus, I'll use BA for short rentals, since they gave minimum of 500 miles per rental no matter how short (and because I do collect BA).

But unless you do a ton of short rentals, I'm not sure if joining a new airline program would make sense just for rentals. So perhaps you could list the airlines and hotel programs you belong to?

One site that list many bonuses, and lets you sort by several different ways, is:

http://www.frequentflyerbonuses.com/

There used to be an FT member named Evan! who would go through these and consolidate them, in a thread over in MilesBuzz!, in an easier to read format (on the above website you have to do a lot of clicking around to see which promos will and won't work for you), but he hasn't been on FT for about half a year, so that list is by now rather out of date.

(I don't have any rentals coming up in Jan or Feb, so I haven't taken the time to figure out what I would use among the present offers. A lot of the current ones seem to need 3 days -- which btw really means 2 days plus a couple hours, just enough to be billed as 3 full days.)


And welcome to FlyerTalk, jvaldes1973!

I'm working through the same question, Avis v Hertz for 2012 business travel.

I'm coming from National where I enjoyed reliable car class upgrades from intermediate to full size (with an Impala LTZ as a Full Size), picking my own car, and accumulating rewards toward anytime free rentals.

I've rented a bit with Avis and it has been fine, there are some decent discount codes that I can legitimately use, but it looks like Hertz will have the same or marginally better upgrade chances as I work up through the tiers, and the Hertz rewards will be useable for weekday or weekend rentals, which I much prefer.

Pick your own car I'll miss from National, but I've accomplished the same thing by simply asking at the counter with Avis and assume Hertz would be similar - they'll let you switch within the same class if they have availability.

Any experienced Avis (or Hertz) folk care to chime in? Anything I'm missing in my calculation based on the preferences articulated above?

Holy cow! Just did my second rental with Avis after being with Hertz pretty much exclusively for 7 years. Friday I got my Continental PP card and called in to get my Avis PC membership. Then before my flight to Seattle, downloaded Avis app on iPhone, and tried to price similar reservation that I had booked with Hertz. It came out over $100 cheaper with Avis! So, I cancelled Hertz reservation, booked Avis, and took off.

Four hours later, in SEA, found my car in the most prime spot - Lincoln MKS - just what I needed to fit my skis in. I reserved a Full-sized car. I was floored - I have never seen that kind of service from Hertz PC ever. So far so good, let's hope this continues.