by Turo
posted on September 12, 2023
Hunt down your ticket to the Turo Eclipse Party
Update: All the special EVs for the Turo Eclipse Party have been booked now! Thanks everyone for participating in the scavenger hunt!
Calling all space cowboys, cowgirls, and cowpokes! Hunt down a ticket hidden in just 10 Austin-area EV listings on Turo and you and a friend get to attend the Turo Eclipse Party on Saturday, October 14 at a Texas Hill Country ranch!
About the event
The lucky folks who find and book the special EVs will celebrate like space cowboys at a unique event at a beautiful ranch, located just under two hours from Austin, Texas. You’ll get to view the annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire,” from one of the prime viewing locations in the country. Plus, enjoy food, drinks, and live music from local artists.
All guests will be given eclipse glasses to safely watch the eclipse and Turo-branded swag to take home. Like dressing up? Space cowboy attire is encouraged!
The event on Saturday, October 14 is from 9:30 am to 2 pm CT. In this part of central Texas, the eclipse itself will start at 10:22 am and end at 1:30 pm, with annularity (when you’ll be able to see the “ring of fire”) lasting a few minutes around 11:50 am.
How to attend
The scavenger hunt starts a month before the eclipse on Thursday, September 14 at 11:50 am CT and booking a special EV on Turo is your ticket to the event! Here’s how it works:
1) Hunt down one of just 10 EVs in Austin, Texas that have a special eclipse icon on their listing photo and say “Turo Eclipse Party” in the listing’s “Features” section.
2) If you’re lucky enough to find one of these special EVs, book it for October 14 (and if you like, October 13) for a special price of $14 per day.*
3) You and a friend get to attend the Turo Eclipse Party on Saturday, October 14! Please note: All guests must be 21+.
If you book one of the EVs, you’re agreeing to attend the party and Turo will email you with full event info.
About the eclipse
An annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire,” happens when the smaller-appearing moon passes directly between the sun and the Earth. During the eclipse, the moon looks like a dark disk in front of the sun, creating a glowing ring around the moon.
The path of the annular eclipse will pass through southern Oregon, the northeastern corner of California, northern Nevada, southern Utah, from the northwestern to the southeastern corners of New Mexico, and across a band of southern Texas. Anyone in the eclipse’s path will have a chance to see the eclipse if the skies are clear.
How to safely view the eclipse
A friendly reminder to anyone who wants to watch the eclipse to protect your eyes. Wear solar eclipse glasses or put a solar filter in front of your camera, telescope, or binoculars to help avoid damaging your eyes. Alternatively, if you don’t have eclipse glasses you can make a pinhole projector or look at the shadow on the ground cast by a colander, leaves, or your interlaced fingers.
*Excluding taxes and fees.
This is not a contest or sweepstakes. You must find the participating EVs in the Austin area, be approved to drive and complete the booking to receive tickets to the event. Daily price excludes taxes, fees, and protection plan costs and is only guaranteed to be $14 for October 13 and 14, 2023; any other dates booked are subject to the host’s standard pricing. Only the person who booked the trip may pick up the vehicle and must provide proof of identity and a valid driver’s license. Unless your guest is an approved driver on Turo, only the person who booked the vehicle is allowed to drive it. Turo will only provide food, drinks, swag, and entertainment during the event. Turo will not cover any costs incurred related to your travel to pick up the vehicle or get to or from the Austin area. You are still financially responsible for any damage caused to the vehicles and all Turo policies still apply. Smoking or vaping of any kind in any vehicle listed on Turo is prohibited. If your Turo account is not in good standing, you are not eligible for this promotion. If Turo suspects fraud, tampering, violations of our terms of service, or technical errors, we reserve the right to any remedy, including canceling your trip or your account. Employees and contractors of Turo and other companies associated with this event and offering, and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and advertising and promotion agencies, as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, and children) and household members of the employees or contractors, may not book the vehicles for access to the event.
Booking one of the participating EVs for October 14 or October 13 and 14 means you’re agreeing to attend the event.
If you book the vehicle and attend the event, you give Turo an exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, fully transferable, worldwide license to use, reproduce, distribute, communicate, and make available to the public, display, publicly perform, modify, adapt, publish, creative derivative works of and otherwise use, in whole or in part, with or without attribution any photographs, sound recordings, and/or video that may contain your likeness, name, voice or image taken at the event
