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Hertz points are a very valuable currency to have, though they are a bit less valuable than they were before they changed their award chart a few months ago.  Still, if you are lucky enough to have Hertz points, they can be extremely useful when you need to reserve a car somewhere that has very high rates.  We are starting to run a bit low on Hertz points cheap auto rentals due to a combination of not that many great Hertz promotions recently, and fewer rentals my husband has had to make for work.
However, we have a ski trip coming up where renting an SUV was pretty pricey.  Sadly, we didn t have enough Hertz points to cover the whole rental, but we had enough to cover a few of the days.  In playing around with the website, I learned that you can essentially combine cash and points to secure a rental by just using points for a few of the rental days.
We re running even lower on points now, but I have just enough left to show you how this might work.  Say you want to rent a SUV during ski season out of Denver.  You can rent a basic car and try and upgrade on-site for a lesser surcharge, but if you absolutely need to guarantee that you will have a SUV, then you need to bite the bullet and reserve that type of vehicle.  This means potentially cheap auto rentals shelling out big money.  On this weekend cheap auto rentals I picked, SUVs are about $100 per night.  They are considered a specialty vehicle so they require 825 Hertz points for a weekend day, or 1,000 points for a non-weekend day (though they will also sell them to you at that price on the weekend, so be careful).
cheap auto rentals If you didn t have enough points cheap auto rentals to cover the whole weekend, you can still make the rental much less painful by using points for at least one of the nights.  To do this select use points cheap auto rentals box on the main search screen.  You can also use your different codes and coupons as you normally would.
I wish I had enough Hertz points stashed away to cover all of my expensive rentals, but since I don t have an endless cheap auto rentals supply of points, sometimes I can just cover part of the rental with points.  I m very glad Hertz has that as an option!
Sign up for E-rewards and you can earn 500 Hertz points every quarter by using $60 in E-rewards currency. That s 2000 points toward the current amount of 2750 for a week. I used 2500 points(before devaluation) to secure a rental car for the week between Xmas and New Years. Paying cash would have $700 minimum. I couldn t find a cheaper rate than that anywhere. Hertz points saved me quite a bit. One warning though, I ve never been able to get the Hertz website to say I had enough points for a week(even when I had over 5500 points). I always just call in and ask and the rep has never had a problem reserving cheap auto rentals me a car for weekly rate of 2750 or 2500 before deval. Hope this helps.
I recommend the United MileagePlus card for rental protection, but I can t swear as to how it will work if part of the reservation is on points. My hunch is that it would work, but I think you would have to be in the situation cheap auto rentals to find out for sure so I hope to never have to find out.
[ ] You used to have to pay a fee to join what was then called the Hertz #1 Club Gold program, which allows you to skip the counter and pickup your car more quickly.  The program has a new name and is free to anyone who signs up.  This is a great time-saver when traveling with antsy kids, plus you can accrue points to redeem on future rentals.  MommyPoints has a great post on why Hertz points can be really valuable for traveling families. [ ]
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