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Car rental help!
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DH and I are going on a trip in September that will require renting a car. We travel ALL the time but we have never had to rent a car before! I am so frustrated looking at rates because our flight lands at noon on Saturday and then we depart at 5 pm on Wednesday. Having the car for 4 days and 2 hours (assuming 1 pm pick-up, 3 pm drop-off) adds about $60 on to having the car for straight up 4 days!! Does anyone have any suggestions on how to save a little $$$? Suggestions on which companies to use or how we can make the reservation work are welcome!
Re: Car rental help!
Try Priceline.
I am a huge fan of Hertz.
Also, try to go with a small vehicle if you can since it's just the two of you.
Thanks for the tips, everyone! We are going to Charleston, SC.
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Are you members of AAA? sometimes you can get deals from them.
We book the car size option that allows the rental car agency to specify what we get. It's usually the same price as the econo-box but we've always gotten something a little nicer.
If that extra 2 hours is really adding $60 to the price is there anything you can do to keep the rental to 4 days, eliminating that charge?
I use Expedia to compare rates and then reserve the car directly through the rental company with the lowest rate. I plug in our information, bookmark it, and constantly check rates right up until the day before we leave because prices go up and down all the time. If you reserve the car directly through the rental company, you can cancel and re-reserve at a lower price as many times as you want with no penalty. You don't even enter credit card information to make a reservation.
We spent five days in Orlando this past spring and I got a compact car for $88 out the door from Dollar. If I'd just blindly rented through a company like Hertz two months prior without comparing prices, that same car would have been about $300.