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Tips when renting with Hertz:

Hertz #1 Club Gold Plus Rewards Program
The Hertz Gold Plus Rewards® program is free and very beneficial. You can enroll Here

 A) After your first Hertz Gold Rental you do not need to go to the counter again (At locations that participate in Hertz Gold Service).
They will have your receipt preprinted (and waiting for you in the car at many airports), so you can just drive out!

 B) For every dollar you spend they credit you points on the base rate of the rental and sometimes they even have double or triple point promotions.
These points can be redeemed for free rental days starting at 550 points for a weekend day or 2750 for a week.

C) Earn Elite Status quickly. You'll reach Hertz Five Star after just 7 rentals which will get you a complimentary 1 car class upgrade if available.
At 20 Rentals you'll reach Hertz Presidents Circle with a guaranteed complimentary upgrade. Upgrades are to a maximum of a premium.
There are many other benefits. check them out Here.

 AAA gives up to 1000 hertz points as a signup bonus or you can signup here for a 500 point signup bonus.

CDP
A CDP is a corporate account number but is not limited to private companies as many sales are tied with designated CDPs.
To find  cheap rates try different CDP corporate numbers many can be found in this thread or in the Car Rental Corporate Code Roundup thread.
Most CDPs do not waive underage fees with the exception of USAA (77694) but may be subject to proof of membership, and the Yeshiva Group (2046380) both waive the fee down to 18 y/o and have very good rates. AAA may also waive underage fees if the renter is above 20 years old.

Other great codes are:

Yeshiva: 2129719 Waives underage 18-19

Amex Travel Services: 1022855

AAdvatange: 217692

LAMC 3 marketing: 1906870

Yeshiva Student Association: 1876837

Chabad: 1908469

CBS Travel :  1976539

AAA: There are multiple 212 and 240 are examples or you can just type in AAA in cdp and it will come up

Car & Driver: 1757580


There are many more but we haven't found them to be cheaper then these.


To get your own CDP
You can sign up HERE if you are a sole proprietor or business owner with fewer than 100 employees.
You'll get 5 bonus credits for enrolling, an additional 5 credits for enrolling online, plus double credit for all your qualified rentals during the first 90 days after you enroll.
Every 15 credits you earn 1 free rental, and you can get a discount of up to 25% off on every rental worldwide.
After you join, you'll receive an e-mail within 2 business days to with your company's Corporate Discount Program (CDP) number and all the details of the program. Link.


CV Codes

CV codes are ConVention codes and go in the "Convention Number (CV):" box.
"CV" codes are hit or miss they can give amazing rates better then any CDP or PC or they can leave the rate the same, and they also work in conjunction with any CDP and PC code.
It doesn't hurt to add it to a reservation and can pull up flat rates of $30 a day for a premium car.
This works especially well in places that are expensive and often lowers the price substantially especially in major cities like NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami.
Meeting rates generally include unlimited mileage. CV weekend rates start at 12pm thursday through 12pm sunday. Friday pick ups, require a minimum 2 day rental. Extra day rate for weekly rentals is 1/5th of the weekly rate.

PC Codes
   
PC codes are Promotional Coupons which vary from time to time and from rental to rental check HERE for a well kept list of the current valid codes and here for an alternate list (looks like the alternate list hasn't been updated for a while - most pc's are expired).

Other Useful Tips
Play with the dates and times:There are different rates for different times (high season - low season) so if you are flexible it may pay to check days before and after pick up. Generally weekends are cheaper than weekdays so if you pick up on a weekend it can lower your rate substantially just remember weekends start at 12pm on Thursday. Additionally sometimes an extra day on a weekly rate can be much more than the rate per day with the daily rate, try making the reservation only for the week and then extending it either at pick up or even during the rental.

Local Editions: Airport rentals are generally more expensive than Local Editions as there is airport fees and taxes. So look around ideally for Hertz locations in or at airport hotels that are accessible via the airport shuttle.


One way rentals:
When you are looking for a one way rental, every country and every corporate number will give a different price, usually its 1 of the following 3, either it will cost per mile or it will be unlimited miles with a drop fee or unlimited miles with no drop fee.
Look out it happens  sometimes the car you select they will charge $0.25 per mile while the next car class over will be unlimited miles with no drop fee, when it comes to one ways always look at all the car classes, I have seen many times a midsize SUV to be cheaper then a full size car.
Another thing to note is that certain locations in the same city will have a drop fee while others will not, for example to rent one way to NY, if you return to lynbrook NY there will always be a drop fee while if you return to brooklyn there is no drop fee and JFK will have a drop fee sometimes depending which country you use, sometimes it might be worth searching other pick up and other drop off locations nearby to get a totally different rate in a one way rental.

Underage
Many Hertz CDP's waive the underage fee in the usa - for example the Yeshiva association and USAA. Some countries do not waive underage.
UK 18-21 can not rent. 21-25 30GBP underage fee - no CDP's seem to waive atm.

Hertz Rate Matching
For most of the corporate locations in Europe, the UK and Australia it is sometimes possible to get Hertz to match their competitor's price so you can continue to earn points and status and enjoy their service.
Speak to your local Travel Agent.
Competitors Hertz will match.
Europe: Auto Europe, Avis, Enterprise, EuropCar, Kemwel, and Sixt
Australia and New Zealand: All

Get a status match real quick by messaging them on Twitter



Still not happy with your rates? Try posting here!




After you have rented please share you experience with others in the What did you reserve? What did you get? thread.


Coupon Spreadsheet http://bit.ly/hertzsavings
Alternate sheet Updated quite often: http://bit.ly/HertzDDF
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Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #340 on: April 02, 2012, 09:56:24 AM »
its a weekly PC. code. Look at hockers spreadsheet thread for something that will work for daily.
Didn't work on my weekly rental...

They Said it doesn't work for prepaid
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Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #341 on: April 03, 2012, 08:07:32 PM »
Am about to land in lax and am considering renting a car for a few hour. I tried changing to Argentina and using usaa but the cheapest comes out to $62.69!
Am I doing something wrong? Any tips.

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #342 on: April 03, 2012, 09:04:24 PM »
Am about to land in lax and am considering renting a car for a few hour. I tried changing to Argentina and using usaa but the cheapest comes out to $62.69!
Am I doing something wrong? Any tips.
yup sometimes the price goes up, its not always cheap to rent a car.
I hope you tried USA as well, not always is argentina cheapest you can try also Canada or south africa sometimes they're cheaper.


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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #343 on: April 06, 2012, 02:58:58 PM »
any luck with hertz sa in Manhattan ?

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #344 on: April 09, 2012, 12:05:26 PM »
I already posted this here  but figured i might be useful here also with all the USAA hertz info
Hertz gold
Pick-up: Bklyn- 1100 Coney Island Ave. 4/9
Drop-off: LGA 4/11
res. for economy
received   suzuki grand vitara
568.56 ZAR = 72.1901 US dollars
USAA SA prepaid
no issues whatsoever at pickup they had the car waiting when i got there spent aprox. a minute and half there

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #345 on: April 09, 2012, 11:58:15 PM »
my question is, how can you use lest say south africa and pre pay for when it asks for your card information it doesnt let you change the country?
what do you do? just put your normal country, but just as if its in south africa? also, if its pre pay if you dont end up renting you lose your money?
would really like to know.
thanks.

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #346 on: April 10, 2012, 05:03:22 AM »
my question is, how can you use lest say south africa and pre pay for when it asks for your card information it doesnt let you change the country?
what do you do? just put your normal country, but just as if its in south africa?
you would have to use your hertz gold account which already has your CC infoi in it and just select that

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #347 on: April 10, 2012, 09:38:17 AM »
But I would be able bto do that even though my cards address is in united states?

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #348 on: April 10, 2012, 12:21:35 PM »
i just did it
I already posted this here  but figured i might be useful here also with all the USAA hertz info
Hertz gold
Pick-up: Bklyn- 1100 Coney Island Ave. 4/9
Drop-off: LGA 4/11
res. for economy
received   suzuki grand vitara
568.56 ZAR = 72.1901 US dollars
USAA SA prepaid
no issues whatsoever at pickup they had the car waiting when i got there spent aprox. a minute and half there
i guess i'll find out if there are any issues when i return, but i doubt it

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #349 on: April 10, 2012, 02:02:31 PM »
But I would be able bto do that even though my cards address is in united states?
Yes
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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #350 on: April 12, 2012, 05:34:03 PM »
does anybody know if the infiniti fx35 from hertz comes fully loaded or stripped?

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #351 on: April 15, 2012, 12:39:58 PM »
does anybody know if the infiniti fx35 from hertz comes fully loaded or stripped?
I got it Fully loaded without Navi a year ago. I just saw on twitter from @hertzdeals $299 a week from LGA.

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #352 on: April 15, 2012, 10:02:53 PM »
I already posted this here  but figured i might be useful here also with all the USAA hertz info
Hertz gold
Pick-up: Bklyn- 1100 Coney Island Ave. 4/9
Drop-off: LGA 4/11
res. for economy
received   suzuki grand vitara
568.56 ZAR = 72.1901 US dollars
USAA SA prepaid
no issues whatsoever at pickup they had the car waiting when i got there spent aprox. a minute and half there
just picked up a mazda 3 @ lga one way to bklyn, for $39 using hertz USAA Brazil and again no issues even though it was considerably cheaper than the usa rate (maybe do to the gold status) but in any event i'm just letting everyone no that they didnt id USAA or hassle me about brazil
(as a side note, i res. an economy (kia rio) when i got there they had a mazda 3 waiting, iasked for an upgrade and they offered me an escalade or suburban but nothing else- just sayin there seems to be a surplus of SUV's due to high fuel prices)

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #353 on: April 16, 2012, 12:45:24 AM »
just picked up a mazda 3 @ lga one way to bklyn, for $39 using hertz USAA Brazil and again no issues even though it was considerably cheaper than the usa rate (maybe do to the gold status) but in any event i'm just letting everyone no that they didnt id USAA or hassle me about brazil
(as a side note, i res. an economy (kia rio) when i got there they had a mazda 3 waiting, iasked for an upgrade and they offered me an escalade or suburban but nothing else- just sayin there seems to be a surplus of SUV's due to high fuel prices)
they offered you a suburban or escalade???? im guessing this wasnt for free or was it?

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #354 on: April 16, 2012, 01:10:03 AM »
same rate - they offered either. it seems that they have a surplus of full size and premium suv's that they'd like to rent that no one wants being that they were over sold on cars they offered me one

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #355 on: April 16, 2012, 02:56:07 AM »
I got a guarenteed reservation  for a inf fx35 at lga for 300 bucks for the week I got to the airport they didn't give it to me I'm under 25 so they gave me a brand new ford edge limted edition nice car very smooth good on gas they got a whole bunch of them in lga they were very nice.

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #356 on: April 16, 2012, 01:42:20 PM »
I got a guarenteed reservation  for a inf fx35 at lga for 300 bucks for the week I got to the airport they didn't give it to me I'm under 25 so they gave me a brand new ford edge limted edition nice car very smooth good on gas they got a whole bunch of them in lga they were very nice.
you used the underage cupon code or USAA corporate?

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #357 on: April 16, 2012, 02:26:34 PM »
I got a guarenteed reservation  for a inf fx35 at lga for 300 bucks for the week I got to the airport they didn't give it to me I'm under 25 so they gave me a brand new ford edge limted edition nice car very smooth good on gas they got a whole bunch of them in lga they were very nice.
do u have hertz gold or you had to go to the counter

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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #358 on: April 16, 2012, 06:33:04 PM »
you used the underage coupon code or USAA corporate?
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Re: Hertz Master Thread
« Reply #359 on: April 16, 2012, 10:38:35 PM »
I guess he means PC# 144314. As seen on http://bit.ly/hertzsavings