Returning the car early

Open your trip, choose Change this trip, then Heading back early? Pick the new return time and add a note for your host. Before you send it, the form shows about how much comes back to you: half the value of the time you give up.

Nothing changes until the host accepts. Once they do, the refund goes back to your card and you check out as normal with the return scan. If the host declines or doesn't answer, the trip keeps its original return time. Bringing the car back early without an accepted request refunds nothing.

For 12 hours or less, use a time change instead, which refunds the full value. Hourly bookings can't be returned early for a refund.