No monetary refund will be given for cancellation of a reservation booked using rewards. An equivale

Costco Travel has long been The Rapid Traveler s go-to car rental booking tool, booking there as a baseline, then getting a reference at Hotwire and working Priceline to see if Costco can be beat. Trying rental car places all the other usual suspects, including AutoSlash, seldom comes close.
If you have access to Capital One s rewards site ( we got 100K points for the Venture card promotion) I have found their car rental rates to be amazingly rental car places low. I went to New Orleans for Jazz Fest - flying into Gulfport/Biloxi Mississippi and renting a car to drive in. (cheaper)
Capital One is the de classe credit card issuer among the credit card cognoscenti for violating rental car places the first credit card commandment  of thou shalt pull no other bureau but one and for the banality of cash back. So it will be no small delight to test their willingness to hold their collective noses and use Capital One in search of a good deal.
This requires a card with access to Capital One No Hassle Rewards. Fee-free cards work the same as annual fee-charging cards like Venture. Click Redeem, then Book Rewards Travel (Powered by Travelocity) .
Search results will quote the price in miles at varying rates depending rental car places on type of card. The Venture card prices at 1 mile = 1 cent, but other cards have price bands for awards. In a test search for Orlando (MCO), 10 pm June 7 6 pm June 10, the Venture card priced at 6,339 miles while a no-fee Platinum card priced at 15,000 miles. Rewards are not the point, though.
No monetary refund will be given for cancellation of a reservation booked using rewards. An equivalent amount of Rewards, minus any cancellation or change fees, will be credited back to your Rewards account if changes to your rewards reservation result in a refund.
rental car places The test search yields a price of $63.39 with Budget. And this is powered by Travelocity. So what does Travelocity price? Same search, of the national agencies, Dollar/Thrifty is cheapest at $159.73, while Budget is $282.66!!!
Very interesting. I tried a weekend in LAS, and while the Compact/Intermediate prices weren t that much better like your example, the Luxury rental car places car (and higher classes of rentals) was comparable to the lowest price car. This could be useful when a bigger car or minivan is required.
@New Girl in the Air is it really not coming up as an option? My no-fee shows the booking option when I click explore rewards from my account. I also have a Venture but that brings up a totally different pricing structure.
@Jean-Marc the cancelation rules included in the post seem to apply equally to points and cash reservations: refunds for both are the the form of points, but those are easy to redeem for statement credits for travel.
@mwwalk I have never been totally clear what kinds of reservations can still earn miles in gray area cases, but since it is a prepaid reservation you may have an issue. Best to assume you will not get it and do your value calculation of the savings versus miles (and mileage surcharge). Let us know if you try it.
Can t believe rental car places it. I have a week rental in Lihue Kauai that I ve been watching and had booked at $346. Cap 1 is showing $182. Also, I cancelled my Venture, but converted my venture business into the Fee Free Spark and still had access.
@Rapid Travel Chai, no luck. Exploring rewards brings very limited choices just cash gift cards, with no options to book travel. I have an old card that has always been straight cash back (not under the disguise of miles or points ) not sure if that makes a difference.
I use a similar technique occasionally on delta.com when nothing else is working. rental car places You can go to the Skymiles Marketplace and use miles for a car rental. Sometimes it has a significantly lower rate than what I see elsewhere but the real trick is that they let you pay with a combination of miles and cash. If you drop the miles slider down to 1000 miles, you ll notice that the cash goes up at a rate of $.008/skymile.
Last comment make sure you understand insurance implications. I think, but am not sure, that there may be issues with coverage when the entire car rental is not placed on the card providing the coverage.
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