{"id":3543,"date":"2017-06-11T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stillaslife.com\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2017-06-14T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T10:18:42","slug":"my-first-experience-as-a-hertz-gold-plus-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/my-first-experience-as-a-hertz-gold-plus-member\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Experience as a Hertz Gold Plus Member"},"content":{"rendered":"
As an Avis<\/a> Preferred, Budget Fastbreak and Hertz Gold Plus member, I rent about 30 cars a year, usually with Avis<\/a> as their prices are generally the best. However, I recently had need of a van at short notice, and my nearest Avis<\/a> depots were both booked out. Hertz had the next best price and had one available, so I went with them. This is actually the first time I\u2019ve booked a van with them since becoming a Gold Plus member, and to be honest, I was really disappointed, so I thought I would share my experience in the form of my responses to their post-rental survey.<\/p>\n The first and perhaps most important question:<\/p>\n <\/a>How likely are you to recommend Hertz to a friend or colleague?<\/strong> 2\/10<\/p>\n The next question is “Why?” I broke it down into 10 points.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I rent around 20-30 vehicles a year of different shapes and sizes for varying durations all over the place, so I’ve seen it all before. No individual thing was inherently awful, and I’ve encountered all these things separately before, but all up, these things make me very distrustful of Hertz and sceptical about doing business with them in the future.<\/p>\n That said, I do like the ability to\u00a0earn points towards free rentals with Hertz while at the same time earn points with my choice of third party rewards program including the likes of Velocity Frequent Flyer points or Accor Le Club points.\u00a0It’s a great feature of their loyalty program. Avis<\/a> and Budget only let you earn third party reward points, so it’s like getting double the rewards. Do I want to deal with a company that is untrustworthy just to get double the rewards though? It’s tempting, but at the end of the day, I’d prefer to deal with a company I can trust, and that puts Hertz at the bottom of the list of rental car<\/a> providers I will use in the future. I’d rent from them again if they were the cheapest or only option, but that would be about it.<\/p>\n I’d love to hear your experience with Hertz Gold Plus program. Am I the only one that’s had such a bad experience with it? Do they always hide their surcharges and incorrectly claim tax inclusivity on their quotes? Let me know in the comments below!<\/p>\n Feature image credit: istock.com\/tupungato<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As an Avis Preferred, Budget Fastbreak and Hertz Gold Plus member, I rent about 30 cars a year, usually with Avis as their prices are generally the best. However, I recently had need of a van at short notice, and my nearest Avis depots were both booked out. Hertz had the next best price and … Leer m\u00e1s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wordproof_timestamp":false},"categories":[1234],"tags":[1726,1724,1725,1728,1727],"country":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Hertz-Signs-Small.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillaslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n