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Need award booking help? We can help you find flights that you can book with miles free of charge. Just fill out our form for personal help. Recommended Travel Credit Cards Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express Platinum Card from American Express See our full discussion of the best cards. Mon December 24, 2012 • EFFECTIVE 4/1/13, ALL PRESIDENT’S CLUB MEMBERS VIA THE UNITED CLUB CARD WILL BE DOWNGRADED TO AVIS FIRST STATUS. THE PRESIDENT’S CLUB BENEFIT WILL NO LONGER BE OFFERED. Avis President’s Club is an invitation-only elite program for car rentals, currently available to holders of the prestigious Centurion (Black) Card from American Express, or…for the rest of us…the United Mileage Plus Club or Presidential Plus credit cards from Chase. They also offers access to all United Club lounges. Here is what Avis President’s Club status offers… Free 2-class car upgrades (i.e., midsize to a premium) from every intermediate or higher rental
Guaranteed car availability — even without a reservation — you can walk up to the counter and they will pull a car for you on sold out days Up to 30% off standard rental rates Free day of GPS system for rentals of 3 days or more Anecdotally, people who use the President’s Club status say they are pleased with the upgrades. Some report locations offering them the best vehicle on the lot, including Cadillacs and Infinitis. Your experience may vary, but the frequent travelers at FlyerTalk report good experiences — no guarantees of great cars every time — but experiences that are much better than renting at Avis without any sort of status. Here is a sampling of what they have to say: “I was PC for a short bit. I regularly got upgraded from full-size to “luxury” (and I use that term loosely with Avis), specialty cars, or premium cars. Other than the upgrades, I can’t remember getting any special treatment… no welcome party, valet back to the , etc.”
“Routinely upgraded to Luxury class from Intermediate. Lots of Caddys, lots of SUVs. Of course, that also gets you Lincoln Town Cars and (if there are any left) and Ford Crown Victorias… “I am used to be upgraded to Caddys from Full Size cars and also being given SUVs in the winter time. Last rental I got a brand new BMW 328i with I-Drive (which is really bad IMHO) from IAH, but the rental was appreciated.” “I almost always receive an upgrade (2 class), and often if I speak to the desk I can talk myself into a speciality car. I absolutely love the guaranteed availability, I just used it this afternoon to book a car for 10 days. Every location within 50 miles was listed online as sold out. I called customer service, and they are arranging to have a full size car made available to be at the location of my preference. I have found that if I mention the magic words “President’s Club” I see hoops appear and employees start a jumpin'” To enroll in President’s Club if you hold a United Mileage Plus Club or Presidential Plus credit card, go to this link.
7 Best Travel Credit Cards of 2017 – Earn more miles and points Credit cards with airline mile transfer feature Best American Airlines credit card in 2017? It might not say American on it $0 introductory annual fee, then $95 Foreign Transaction Fee Waived Points Can Transfer to Airline Miles ?I’ve been a loyal Avis customer since 2007 when I first got President’s Club status through Continental, but now that I’ve lost status TWICE in the last 3 months I think it’s finally time to move on. When I say loyal, I mean for 6 years no other rental car companies existed for me — I wouldn’t even check another company to compare prices. I was in love with the perks of my status and the consistent level of service Avis offered and I needed nothing more. Then in December on our trip to Santa Rosa I lost Chairman’s status in a horrific way. Jeanne & I show up at the Avis location and there’s no car for me in the special Chairman’s area. We look for my name on the board and are directed to a super basic, slightly dirty car in the class I’d selected.
With horror growing in my heart, I pulled up my Avis account on my phone to discover not only was I not a Chairman, I had zero status with Avis. Now I’d known this day was coming, I no longer met the requirements of being a Chairman and they were probably a year overdue adjusting my status, so not complaining about that. It was just hard that 3 days before I had top status and with no email update or anything I had nothing 🙁 So as we drove off to go wine tasting, my mind was busy trying to find a solution, quickly remembering my United Mileage Plus Club Card came with President’s Club status. Not Chairman but still enough perks to be worthwhile. Then earlier this month, after only about 2 months of President’s Club status, I hear a rumor that that benefit was going away. And a week or two later, I get this email: Oh that hurt! And while I hold out hope that I’ll log in to my account on Monday and see that they haven’t actually changed my status yet, I don’t want to live with the uncertainty that I’ll show up for a reservation and that’s the day my status is gone. A
nd the fact that the exciting 2 day free weekend rental deal reservations are being cancelled. Fortunately I’d already been aware of a status match opportunity through National Emerald Club. With my President’s Club status I could match to Executive Elite. Since there seem to be alot of great discount codes out there for National I think I’m most excited about only having to rent a mid-size car in order to get my pick of the executive lot. I guess we’ll see once I have my first rental and take a peek at the executive lot options. I’m grateful I got a soft landing from my Avis status but I’m still wistful for the days of completely over-the-top-treatment when cars were delivered/picked up from my hotel and I could enjoy the occasional funny exclamations when I’d show up at the counter “But you don’t look like a Chairman!” 🙂 Never miss another post! Sign up to receive new content via e-mail or RSS Feed. Get real-time updates on our travel adventures via Twitter feed (and say hi!) and like us on Facebook.