Turo peer-to-peer car rentals now earn United MileagePlus miles. You can now add your MileagePlus number to your Turo account. (Each United frequent flyer account can only be linked to a single Turo account.)
Earning:
- 5 miles per dollar spent on your first Turo rental
- 1 mile per dollar on subsequent bookings
You can rent someone’s car on Turo, as an alternative to renting from a company like Hertz or Avis. It’s not always as seamless a pickup at airports, but you’re renting a specific vehicle rather than a broad category. You can choose much nicer cars, or cheaper cars! Sometimes you’ll get a much better deal renting from a private party. And you can organize dropoffs at your hotel, too.
In the past it’s been possible to earn 10 Capital One miles per dollar or earn up to 30,000 Southwest points across several rentals.
Perhaps the one thing I really don’t like about Turo is that rentals generally aren’t covered by credit card collision insurance (and this was true even when they had a marketing partnership with Capital One). Of course that coverage has been mostly peace of mind for me – I haven’t ever dinged a rental car. Hopefully writing that out loud doesn’t jinx the three decade-long streak.
@Gary: Cannot add at web site.
You can be the most careful driver in the world, but do you trust all the other idiots on the road? If someone plows into your rental car, you are responsible for the damage. Sure, you could fight it out with the other driver’s insurance company, but who wants to deal with that hassle, and what if the other driver is uninsured (estimates are that 8-14% of drivers in the US are uninsured).
The insurance issue is a deal breaker for me. Jonathan explains it well. I’m human and lots of other drivers are maniacs. I’ve had two collisions involving rental cars; one a fender bender, and the other a fatal accident involving a deer (fatal to the deer, that is).
One other time I drove off the paved road, some stones kicked up and there was damage. I reported it to the car rental agency when returning it, and the guy oddly said the damage was probably there before. Nothing ever came of it.