Alamo Insiders Rewards: Everything You Need to Know (2023)

Alamo Rent a Car is a US-based car rental company with locations in North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Oceania. They fall under the Enterprise Holding, Inc. umbrella, which owns bothEnterprise Rent-A-Carand National Car Rental.

Alamo Insiders is the rewards program for joining the Alamo Rent A Card for free and offers the opportunity to earn points and miles when booking with Alamo, as well as discounts and faster rental service.

How to join Alamo Insiders

Alamo Insiders is Alamo Rent A Car's loyalty program where you can join for free. You can create a free account by going toAlamo Insiders - Joinpage on their website. The site will require you to enter your name and email address and come up with a password to log into your account.

Alamo Insider benefits

The Alamo Insiders Rewards program doesn't offer rewards specific to Alamo, but it does allow you to earn airline miles, hotel points and more when you rent cars through them. You will also receive discounts when you book with Alamo as well as be able to enjoy faster service since your information is already in the system.

Here are the key benefits of Alamo Insiders:

• Get 5% off car rental rates when you book with Alamo in the US, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America.
• Enjoy faster service.
• Set up your account to automatically earn points, miles and more through Alamo Partner Rewards.

Alamo Partner Rewards-program

The Alamo Partner Rewards program allows you to earn points, miles and other rewards when you rent cars through Alamo.

Alamo Airline Partners

Earn airline miles when you book Alamo rentals with these frequent travel partners:

• Alaska Airlines
• All Nippon Airways (ANA)
• American Airlines AAdvantage
• Delta SkyMiles
• Eva Air
• Frontier Miles
• Korean Air
• Southwest Rapid Rewards
• Sun County Airlines

Alamo Hotel Partners

Earn hotel bonus points when you book Alamo rentals with these loyalty partners:

• Best Western Rewards
• Hilton honors

Other Alamo Partners

Earn rewards by booking Alamo rentals with these partners:

• AIR MILES (Canada)

How to earn points and miles with Alamo

The easiest way to earn points and miles on your Alamo reservations is by going toAlamo Partners sideand click on to the airline or hotel partner of your choice. This automatically adds the partner code for the airline or hotel you choose, so all you have to do is enter the booking details. You can do this without having an Alamo Insiders account (although I recommend having one).

If you have an Alamo account, you can also go to "My Profile" and add your preferred Partner Rewards program. When you do this, you earn points or miles with this partner anytime you book a rental car with Alamo.

Alamo Frequent Traveler Recover Fee

Before signing up to earn rewards, be aware that Alamo charges a Frequent Traveler Recover fee to earn points and miles with certain programs. Generally, this fee is up to $0.75 per day with the exception of Southwest Airlines, which is up to $1.50 per day.

This is something you will notice when choosing to earn rewards as you want to make sure the rewards you earn are worth more than this fee.

The following Alamo Partner Rewards programs are subject to a Frequent Traveler Recovery Fee:

• Alaska Airlines kilometerplan
• American Airlines AAdvantage
• Delta Air Lines Skymiles
• Frontier Airlines MyFrontier Rewards
• Southwest Airlines Fast Rewards
• Sun Country Ufly Rewards

Alamo + reward portals

You can earn even more rewards on your Alamo bookings when you use onecash back portal. Cash back portals allow you to earn cash backBesidesfor both the 5% discount and the points and miles you earn by using the Alamo Partner Rewards program.

Here is a quick overview of how cashback portals work:

1. Find Alamo on the online portal of your choice and click Buy Now.
2. The portal will drop you off at alamo.com to make your car reservation as normal (be sure to log into your Alamo Insider Rewards account).
3. Once you have booked and completed your reservation, the online portal will be notified.
4. Once the car reservation is completed, you will earn cash back (or other rewards) with the online portal.

If done right, you will be able to receive all of the following:

• Cash back (or other rewards) from the cash back portal.
• 5% off base rates for being an Alamo Insiders member.
• Points or miles from the Alamo Partner Rewards program.
• Points, miles or cash back if you used a rewards credit card to pay for your rental.

There are a handful of good cashback portals available and no portal is generally better than another as the cashback values ​​change on a consistent basis. You can choose a favorite or sign up for all of them if you want the option to book with the portal that has the best deals at the time of your Alamo reservation.

Cash back portalerare free to join and there are no costs associated with them.

If you don't have an account with any of the leading cash back portals, you can sign up for one of them through the Point Calculator and earn extra cash back when you rent cars and make other purchases online.

• Sign up for Rakuten
• Sign up for TopCashback
• Sign up for RebatesMe
• Sign Up For BeFrugal
• Sign up for MrRabates

Save on car rental insurance

Avoid the daily cost of Alamo's expensive rental car insurance by declining it and paying for your rental with a credit card that offers primary car rental insurance. Check out these top picks and be on your way to saving money AND earning rewards:

• Best for Flexible Travel Rewards: Chase Sapphire Preferred®-kort(free primary rental insurance).
• Best for high value: Chase Sapphire Reserve Card(free primary rental insurance).
• Best travel card for foodies: American Express® Gold Card.
• Best for luxury travel: Platinum Card® fra American Express.

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