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Car rental company Avis is currently offering up to 5,800 bonus Avios for car hire – if you book quickly!
There are actually two separate offers but both require a rental minimum of 3 days and the rental car group must be Group C or higher:
- 5000 bonus Avios – limited to the first 100 people to book!
- 800 bonus Avios for rentals before 7th April 2017.
The standard minimum earning for a 3 day Class C rental is 700 Avios, so with the 800 Bonus that works at 1,500 – or 500 Avios per day. That’s OK, but certainly not great.
If you can book tonight though, you should be in with a decent chance of being one of the first 100 and could collect a hefty 6,500 Avios in total – 2,166 Avios per day!
As ever with these deals, make sure you read the terms carefully (included at the bottom of this post) and shop around to make sure you aren’t paying more by booking through BA than the bonus Avios are worth.
Anything else?
Yep – it seems that if you book your car using a British Airways American Express Card, you should get a further bonus of 750 Avios minimum.
Bottom line
If you are one of the first 100 people to book, 6,500 Avios for a 3 day rental is a pretty solid return. I received the promo email this evening and although all global bookings are eligible, the offer is only available to people in the UK, so as long as you are quick to book you should have a good chance of getting the 5,000 bonus Avios.
Prices for car rental vary hugely and you can sometimes find amazing deals by shopping around, so don’t be blinded by the bonus Avios!
Terms:
Offer 1:
| This promotion is open to residents of the United Kingdom (UK), aged 23 years or over and who hold a valid UK driving licence.
To qualify, a person must rent a vehicle from any Avis rental location worldwide and pay in full. The rental length must be a minimum of 3 days and the rental car group must be a minimum car group C. The rental must be pre-reserved at www.ba.com (post-pin) and www.avisba.com (with Executive Club passenger type selected) or with the British Airways Call Centre (Qualifying Entrant).
Rentals must include the British Airways Executive Club membership number of the first named driver (the renter). This Executive Club number must be given at time of reservation and the card shown at time of rental. Only Qualifying Entrants may enter into this promotion. |
| Rule 2: Employees, workers or other agents of Avis Budget Europe Limited (the “Promoter”), Avis Budget Services Limited and Avis Budget Car Rental LLC, Inc, their affiliates, subsidiaries, agencies (together ‘Avis‘) and anyone else professionally connected with Avis or the promotion, including any family members of such persons are excluded from this promotion. |
| Rule 3: Only one entry into the promotion is permitted by each Qualifying Entrant by making a reservation at www.ba.com (post-pin) and avisba.com (with Executive Club passenger type selected) or with the British Airways Call Centre, completing the rental and paying in full. |
| Rule 4: Please be aware the usual booking charges apply on rentals booked via the British Airways call centre. No additional fee or charge is payable to enter into this promotion. The prize is available to the first 100 people who book their Avis rental and pay in full, matching the qualifying criteria in Rule 1 above, whose reservation results in a completed rental within the promotional period set out in Rule 5 below. More information on prize availability can be found at www.avisba.com/promotion |
| Rule 5: The opening date for the promotion is 00:01 on 7th February 2017. The closing date for the promotion is 23.59 on 7th April 2017. Rentals must be reserved and completed during this period to qualify.The Promoter does not represent, warrant or guarantee the availability of (i) any website or computer system in its custody or control or belonging to any third party or (ii) any telecommunications systems necessary for accessing any Promoter website or computer system.
No responsibility is accepted by the Promoter for rentals, incomplete or delayed regardless of cause whether delayed or incomplete due to systems failure, or for rentals not received or incompletely received due to traffic congestion, unauthorized human intervention, failure of computer or telecommunications systems or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information or the failure to capture any such information.
The Promoter reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds (a) to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of this promotion (b) to be acting in violation of these rules (c) to be acting otherwise than in good faith or (e) to have provided any false or misleading information as part of the process of entering in the promotion. |
| Rule 6: The promotion will take place in the UK. The Promoter shall, within one (1) week of the end of the promotion, write to the winners by email supplied notifying the winner of the outcomes. |
| Rule 7: There are 100 prizes. Each prize consists of 5000 bonus Avios, to be awarded in addition to the standard and any promotional Avios that the rental qualifies for.Avios are issued and redeemed in accordance with British Airways Executive Club terms and conditions, all bookings are subject to availability.
This prize is non-transferable and may only be awarded to the person named as a winner. The prize is not to be exchanged for cash, or other consideration, or auctioned on the internet, or used as part of a longer rental. Any additional products or services outside of the above terms and conditions will be the responsibility of the renter and charged locally. All cars are subject to availability.
No cash alternative to the prizes will be offered. Avis reserves the right to substitute the prizes with an alternative of similar characteristics and of commensurate value at its discretion.
The prize cannot be combined with any other offer, promotion or certificate. Other restrictions may apply. |
| Rule 8: If requested, the winners shall take part in publicity resulting from this promotion without further compensation. The names of all Qualifying Entrants who become winners may be published and distributed, provided that the winners consent to this in advance. |
| Rule 9: The rules and any dispute or difference relating to them shall be governed by the laws of England, and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England. |
| Rule 10: All information you provide on ‘entry’ will be held on the Promoter’s database. From time to time the Promoter may wish to use your name and address to send you information on Avis products and promotions that may interest you. |
| Rule 11: Please direct any queries or complaints regarding this promotion to the Promoter at the address provided in the terms and conditions. |
| Rule 12: Avis have a right to vary the terms of this agreement or cancel or postpone the promotion at its discretion. |
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Offer 2:
1. This Promotion is open to British Airways Executive Club (BAEC) members (“Eligible Participants”)
2. To Participate, Eligible Participants must rent a vehicle within the rental card group c and minimum of 3 days. (“Eligible Rentals”)
3. The Eligible Rental must be made between 00:01 GMT 7 February 2017 and 23:59 GMT 7 April 2017.
4. Eligible Rentals must be made using a British Airways/Avis Worldwide Discount (AWD) number: Gold members N744400; Silver members N744300; Bronze members N284300; Blue members N744100.
5. Reservations made on ba.com (post-login) and avisba.com (with British Airways Executive Club passenger type selected) or with the British Airways Call Centre will automatically have the correct AWD embedded in the rental.
6. To collect Avios the Eligible Rentals must include the British Airways Executive Club membership number of the first named driver (the “renter”). The BAEC account number must be given at time of rental.
7. Valid for all rental locations worldwide.
8. Eligible Rentals will receive 800 bonus Avios in addition to the standard award of 3 Avios per £1 spent, with a minimum standard award of 700 Avios for 3+ day rentals.
9. A minimum of 1,500 Avios (made up of minimum 700 standard Avios for 3+ day rentals plus 800 bonus Avios) will be awarded per qualifying rental, to a maximum of 10,000 Avios per rental.
10. This Avios bonus is not valid on Prestige, Van or Chauffeur Drive rentals worldwide.
11. Offer may not be used in conjunction with any other coupon, promotion or mileage offer.
12. The awarding of Avios may take up to 8 weeks from date of rental.
13. This promotion is subject to the Avis and British Airways partnership Terms and Conditions available at avisba.com.
14. This promotion and all Avios issued are subject to Executive Club terms and conditions. (britishairways.com/conditions)
15. Renter must meet standard Avis age, driver and credit requirements.
16. Promoter: Avis Budget EMEA Ltd, Avis House, Park Road, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 2EW, United Kingdom. British Airways PLC is not a Promoter but is only a Supplier of the Avios points.
Weird. I ran the Iberia Plus version of this on my blog a few days ago. Obviously Avis got crushed by last year’s 18,000 Avios promo, but I wonder whether the first 100 customers applies to each programme separately, or overall. And surely Avis gets 100 car rental bookings in a matter of minutes or hours so this smells like bait-and-switch to me…
Got to be booked through the BA Avis page though and UK only so I think it should have been ok for a day or so.