Taking a drive down memory lane is a great way to remember where you’ve been and where you are going. National Car Rental loyalty program has a lot of memories since it’s founding 25 years ago. To celebrate their anniversary, they are have given us two $25 Visa cards and a “Go Like A Pro” gift basket to give away.
The Emerald Club, National Car Rental’s loyalty program is also running a Facebook promotion to give away additional prizes by sharing videos, photo’s or text’s of your memory from 25 years ago.
$25 Gift Card Give Away Sponsored By National Car Rental
National Car Rental is sponsoring this promotion to give away two gift cards and a gift basket to Points, Miles & Martinis readers. They have given us two $25 Amex Visa gift certificates and one “Go Like A Pro” gift basket to give away. So to celebrate their 25th anniversary, we will be giving away a grand prize and runner up prize detailed below.
Grand Prize
- One “Go Like A Pro” Gift Basket
- One $25 Amex Visa gift card
Runner Up Prize
- One $25 Amex Visa gift card
Great Scott
How To Enter
- Leave a comment in this post with where you were traveling 25 years ago
- If you were not yet around 25 years ago, leave a comment with your first travel memory
How To Win
- A grand prize winner and runner up winner will be selected at 9 AM EST on Friday March 9th
- The winners will be announced on Friday evening
For an additional chance to win a $25 Amex Visa gift, National Car Rental is running a “25 Days of Emerald Club” month-long contest for photos, videos or stories of what you were doing 25 years ago. If you submit your answers on their Facebook page, you’ll earn a chance to win a $25 Amex Visa gift card. You can enter through their Facebook page Blast from the Past contest.
Promotion Details
- Each winner will receive a $25 Amex Visa gift card
- The grand prize winner will receive a gift basket containing:
- National tumbler
- A National embossed leather writing pad
- A National pen set
- A weekend duffle bag
- A driving kit
Bottom Line
Emerald club has been around for a long time. It’s great they are giving away gift cards to celebrate their anniversary and help their fans with a little extra travel cash.
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25 years ago I was single in college and traveling around greece!
I was 4 years old, taking my first trip to Scotland to visit my grandparents.
25 years ago I was 8 years old and visiting Mount Rushmore and Glacier National Park with my parents. Nice memories, those ones. Hope to take my kids someday.
25 years ago I was 6 years old, I will never forget we moved to Chicago from Florida that January and I got to see snow for the first time.
I was 3 years old, too young to remember anything. However, I do remember the first time I came to US. It was a late afternoon in DCA, nice people, fresh air and blue sky.
25 years ago I took my first trip from the East Coast to California to attend a friend’s wedding. I rented a car afterwards and drove down the PCH.
25 years ago I was 12 years old riding with my grandmother from Georgia to South Carolina to visit my cousins.
I wasn’t around 25 years ago so my first travel memory is flying down to Orlando on Spirit with my family to visit Disney World
I was traveling back and forth from college 25 years ago
25 years ago I had just arrived in Germany as a young soldier, and was making plans for the conquest of Europe. I managed to explore much of Germany, along with parts of Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and Spain in the two years I was there.
I wasn’t traveling to anywhere because my family was broke.
25 years ago I must have been roaming somewhere in the Middle East with my parents
I was not born yet, but the first vacation I remember was in St.Thomas US Virgin Islands. I loved the parrots at the hotel.
25 years ago, I was traveling to elementary school. But my first travel memory (and possibly first memory ever) was eating cookies on my very first flight (to Vermont) as a 2-year old.
I was 11 years old and taking my first airplane flight from DFW to Toronto, Canada on People’s Express 🙂
I was only 2 years old 25 years ago 🙂 my first travel memory is when i was 6 years old and my family took Lufthansa to move to the united states from india.
25 years ago, I was 4. I already had 5 trips from Tennessee to visit family in California.
25 years ago I was a fetus but my first travel memory was Disney world in 1990!
travelled to spring break in Daytona by bus from Chicago!
25 Years ago travelled by loaded miniVan to Outer Banks with our 4 kids. All under 4. Wow. It was fun. But messy.
25 years ago, the bulk of my traveling was by car all around southern CA. Didn’t get the opportunity to fly much until I headed off to college!
25 years ago I was traveling with my parents from LAX to Seoul Gimpo on a Korean Airlines flight on our way to see relatives in the Philippines. I don’t quite remember much, except I felt like a piece of duty-free merchandise as my parents passed me around the plane showing me off..both to the flight attendants and fellow passengers!
25 years ago I went on my first international flight. Its amazing how much international flights have changed since then!
disney world with my parents, i was 2
About 25 years ago my husband and I flew with our twin daughters, who were just infants, to Mexico City, Mexico on Pan Am. I remember we were fortunate to have all the seats in the middle row to spread out. We had lots of fun on that trip!
i was on a study abroad program at the university of london 25 years ago! feels like yesterday…
Going to Tinnerman Canoe base in Canada for a week!
Approximately 25 years ago I took my first flight(s) from MSP-LAX.
San Diego trip
I would have been traveling to Fort Lauderdale, San Diego, and Seattle among others.
Almost that old! I grew up in Penang, Malaysia since I was about 4. First memories of traveling were going to Pulau Langkawi and Pulau Pangkor with my family!
I was in China 25 years ago!
1987, that was many many years back, but I wish I travelled more then. Now, I am too old to travel like you guys! But, I will still try!
Twenty five years ago, I was working as a teacher. I would have just returned from Spring Break in St. Thomas.
25 Years ago, I took my first car trip in the family station wagon to Wisconsin to see my grandparents.
Twenty five years ago I went on a cruise with my family and went snorkeling for the first time!
On the bus to Junior High School.
I had the pleasure of taking my first plane ride 25 years ago. (Family trip to CA)
Thank you!
25 years ago I was traveling in the back seat (although I guess I still do in coach) of my parents’ car to visit my grandparents.
Traveling around Europe with my parents
First travel memories would be sleeping on the floor at the bulkhead of an Aer Lingus 747 bound for Shannon, Ireland. Also, going up into the cockpit was the coolest thing a 4 year old plane junkie could ever do!
1987? I was in jr high. That summer, my sister and I flew from ATL to Baltimore to visit our cousins. Visited the acquarium, some tall ship moored in Chesapeake Bay, and ate about a ton of steamed blue crabs! Our uncle from Denver also came out and then drove all of us up to NYC in his 1977 Town Car to visit our other uncle, who was a grad student at Columbia. We spent a few days in the city, visiting MOMA, the MMA, the Statue of Liberty (long climb up!), barely eating half a sandwich from Carnegie Deli, and hanging out in Central Park. Good times.
my first travel memory was going to my grandparent’s house on a 13 hour road trip!
27 years old and burned out by an 80 hr work week, a buddy and I borrowed his parents VW bus and headed to Colorado. Got to Vail found a job parking cars that gave us a ski pass, lived on happy hour food and kind strangers and slept in the van at various dead end roads. A great 2 months!
25 years ago I spent a week at Disney. I don’t remember much; I was two. 🙂
25 years ago, I just graduated and started my very first job. The first trip was to Phoenix, AZ for a training. Thanks.
8 years old…my big trips were to my grandparents’ cabin in northern Wisconsin.
25 years ago I was still a minor and was flying back and forth between Seattle and Eugene on Horizon Air. At that time all but one daily flight was operated by Metro III 18-seaters, with one daily flight on a 37-seat Dash 8. I always figured out a way to work myself onto that Dash 8 flight, as it had actual in-flight service, and even a snack in those days.
Just about 25 years ago I went on my first solo plane trip from NY to Cleveland to see my grandparents. I was only 5 and thought I was just the coolest!