Kitty, good point, but from what the avis lady said miles are unlimited.

Nanook, did you try the a weekend day? How about a different location. It seems the ones with the most cars have the best rates.

I just booked 39 weekend day rentals Fridays Saturdays Sundays for a total(tax included) of $940(will be paid for with my BA visa of course ). It is more than I had originally intended to pay but I switched from the airport location to a downtown hotel (added about $4 to each)that is literally across the parking lot from my building, which means no driving out to the airport and no airport parking on Friday's, just a stroll over at 10am each day to hand in my old rental agreement and pick up my new one. I won't even have to bother trying to get in to a Geo metro.

Be warned that if you do this on a Friday and hand your rental agreement back in before Friday midnight your weekend cheap weekend rate will convert to an expensive weekday rate, Sat and Sun it doesn't matter you can check out and check back in within minutes and the rate won't change and you will get your miles).

The agent who you book this with will love you (quicker than booking it yourself online) as it really improves their performance numbers (apparently they are rated on bookings per hour that actually get paid for).

Coupons will not work on this promo as most Avis coupons are valid for midsize and above. However, if you are preferred select you get a one class upgrade but if you are not planning on driving it is irrelevant.

There is a Catholic seminary just down the road and I am going to see if we can work something out with them without exposing myself to all sorts of liability. Tax credit or not someone may as well get some use out of the cars. If anyone has experience in this sort of thing I would appreciate any suggestions.

Weekday rates were no lower than $42 and that was not worth it for me.

In the end it worked out to about 2.35 cents per mile which is just on the threshold for me and the convenience tipped the balance. If I had to drive to the airport every weekend day I probably wouldn't have done it, or at least as many.

Of course I would have preferred to do a mileage run to some exotic place but my family responsibilities just don't give me the time for that at present so this will have to suffice. Hope some of you find some cheap Avis rentals too.

I just had a thought, I wonder if they let you rent more than one car at the same time and if BA would give credit for more than one daily rental. If not BA allows you to have up to 4 people in your household account so if one of the other household members didn't mind tagging along (my wife is too busy and she looks at all this mileage accrual with a very skeptical eye to begin with, she is really going to think I am off my rocker when I tell her about this when she gets home this evening ) there shouldn't be a problem doubling the number of miles that can be earned from this promo.

If you haven't signed up for BA executive club yet then you are in luck as they will send you a coupon that can be used on your next Avis rental that will add 1500 free miles to your account(or 2500 miles for a rental in tandem with this promo).

[This message has been edited by Mvic (edited 09-12-2000).]