Hertz Elite Members Can Gift Status For Free

This is a cool opportunity — if you have Hertz elite status, you can gift the same status to two other people. Hertz has offered this promotion a couple of times in recent years, and it’s awesome to see it return once again.

Gift Hertz status to friends or family members

Hertz has launched a promotion whereby current Five Star and President’s Circle members can gift equivalent status to a friend or family member. The gift must be requested by December 31, 2024, and status will then be valid between January 13 and December 31, 2025.

In order to take advantage of this, you just need to fill out a short form, including sharing your Gold Plus Rewards number and email address. Then you need to share the same information for your recipient(s). Presumably they’ll then be emailed to upgrade their status.

Here’s the link for gifting Five Star status, and here’s the link for gifting President’s Circle status.

Hertz President’s Circle status is potentially useful, and offers guaranteed car upgrades, the ability to choose from the President’s Circle section of the Hertz Ultimate Choice lot, and more. Since we’re talking about Hertz, though, just be sure you warn your friends about the risk of being arrested. 😉

You can even use this with credit card status

One cool angle here is that select premium credit cards offer complimentary Hertz President’s Circle elite status as an ongoing perk, and even those members can gift status with this offer. Specifically, the following cards offer Hertz President’s Circle status for both the primary cardmember and authorized users:

• The Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card (review) offers this as an ongoing perk
• The Platinum Card® from American Express (review) offers this as an ongoing perk (Enrollment required)

That’s a pretty cool opportunity, should you have friends who could benefit from this status, but you don’t want to add them as authorized users on your card.

Bottom line

Hertz is letting all elite members gift Five Star and President’s Circle status to two people, with status being valid between January 13 and December 31, 2025. This is a nice offer, especially when you consider that those who have received status through the Capital One Venture X and Amex Platinum Card can also gift status to others.

Do you plan on gifting Hertz elite status to someone else?

Upon enrollment, accessible through the Capital One website or mobile app, eligible cardholders will remain at upgraded status level through December 31, 2024. Please note, enrolling through the normal Hertz Gold Plus Rewards enrollment process (e.g. at Hertz.com) will not automatically detect a cardholder as being eligible for the program and cardholders will not be automatically upgraded to the applicable status tier. Additional terms apply.