The Contest ended Monday at Midnight EST. A winner has been drawn using random.org and notified. (I was unable to post sooner due to some crazy travel).
And the winner is…

 
 
 
Congratulations gpapadop! Enjoy the luggage and the $100 AmEx gift card.
Thank you all for participating!
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The contest to win a $500 gift from National Car Rental AND get free rentals is coming to a close! The contest in about 24 hours – at Midnight EST on November 5th. To enter, leave a comment sharing your travel wisdom – your ‘Traveller Truth’ as a comment on the original post announcing the contest. (Do NOT leave a comment here). I will be drawing a random winner from all valid entries sometime on Tuesday 11/6. I thank National Car rental for giving me the opportunity to run the …

National Car Rental has an exciting new promotion! To celebrate the return of 12Free (when you rent twice, you get a third rental, free!), National Car Rental is giving away $500 of prizes (outlined below) to one lucky reader from this blog!
To enter, here is all that you need to do:
Post a comment below sharing what your ‘Traveler Truth’ is – your rule of the road. For example: ‘pack light and only bring what you need’, ‘cook your meals instead of buying’, ‘if you don’t ask you don’t get’.
The contest …

The National Car Rental 25th Anniversary giveaway is over and a winner has been decided! The winner get’s a $25 gift card from National Car Rental.
…and the winner is – entry #6 by Jason

Congratulations to you Jason. I will be sending you an email to confirm the win. Please reply back ASAP to claim your prize. Thank you to everyone who participated!
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National Car Rental is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary! To celebrate it they are running a promotion on their Emerald Club Facebook page. You can enter to win a $25 gift card by submitting a ‘Blast from the past‘ story, picture or video of what you were doing 25 years ago. (Yes, the rules stipulate that you need to be at least 25 years old to enter).
As a part of their celebration, National has extended to me the opportunity to run my own promotion to give away a $25 gift card. …

A reader of our blog, Andy, asked me what I thought about the CapitalOne Venture Card. It is well advertised on TV that it earn two points per dollar charged. My co-blogger, the Nomad rated it as one of the Best ‘other’ rewards Card. Good deal or not? As I started typing my response to Andy’s email, I realized that I was really giving him a comparison between the Venture card and a typical Airline Miles or Hotel Points card. I decided to give Andy my response as a blog …

Before I delve into the details, let me give you the one line conclusion:
Use the highest grade Visa card you have or if you have the Amex premium protection plan, use your Amex card.

 
Car rental collision damage waiver is probably the most common way to ‘lure’ card members. All card issuers say they offer collision damage waiver, so you can decline the CDW (collision damage waiver) offered by the car rental companies. Seems like a huge benefit! But you will get scared if you read the fine print of …

Hertz was one of the first Car Rental companies to introduce in-car navigation systems called NeverLost, way back when. The problem was that even in the second decade of the 21st century, they were still using the navigation system from the 90s. It was slow and cumbersome to use. Had no touchscreen and virtually no options such as ‘use freeways’, ‘fastest route’ etc. Quite frankly I felt better off using Google Maps on my phone, rather than using Mr. NeverLost.
I rented a car from Hertz yesterday and to my pleasant …