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This meant we needed to hire a car. Our first search direct with the car hire companies for a 16-day one-way deal gave prices ranging from $990-$1480. This felt like too much, so a lot of tip reading and searching later; I checked some aggregators and got the price down to $212, which was great, along with a $240 one-way fee.
On arrival at the National Car Rental office we were told that the Oregon roads were desperately unsafe and covered with ice, so we needed an SUV. To drive a standard car along the coastal highway would apparently end up with us crashing into the sea in a screaming ball of fire or similar. This sounded unlikely, but we played along.
He applied a bunch of discounts and offered us a Jeep Compass for a grand total of $770. This was quite a bit more than our original estimate, but came with a free fuel and insurance upgrade (in theory). The two tanks of fuel were worth $70 and I'm a terrible driver, so the insurance wasn't such a bad idea. In all we'd be getting a lot more room, comfort and security for around $150 difference, which over 16 days is not bad.
We arrived in San Diego, handed back the car and were told the charges were automatically applied to the credit hotel tampa card. No damages to inspect thanks to the full insurance, no credit hotel tampa card signature required, and no invoice or receipt given.
hotel tampa Calling National they claim that they don't get any money from Expedia for bookings (which seems a strange business model), so don't know how much we've already paid and that "Grand Total", means "Additional Charge".
Unsurprisingly there was nothing hotel tampa wrong with the roads of Oregon, and we saw plenty of smaller cars driving along without randomly exploding, but don't begrudge the upgrade. We had a nice car and we made use of the off-road facilities hotel tampa and insurance.
There's usually an extra "convenience fee" for picking up at an airport. Either take your hotel shuttle or public transport into town and visit a different rental location. On our booking this saved $120.
Unless you have a special corporate hotel tampa code, the best deals were found was through online holiday aggregators. General hotel tampa travel providers such as Expedia or Priceline were always cheaper and more upfront about fees than specialised car hire sites such as CarRentals who suggested that a one way fee 'may be applied'.
Upgrades – desk agents get paid commission on all desk sales, so they push hard. The full tank of gas, additional insurance, car model upgrades all equate to the agents sale bonus and are generally unnecessary.
Lots of tips lists say decline the insurance as your credit card will provide free insurance. This is only true for US credit cards. Foreign hotel tampa cards generally don't provide insurance cover, so you'll be charged for any damage to the car.
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Some years back I was looking for a car rent from NYC area. Your tip about the airport convenience fee is spot on. I decided to get the car from some of the city offices. Tried all kind of search pages, but the best deal was recommended to me by my friend who checked hotel tampa german Expedia among others. I was searching in US Expedia, the rental prices on both look pretty similar but that s only when you start digging into the details of the deal when you find out the real difference.
Basically german Expedia booking came with full insurance while on the US Expedia I would have to top up some 100-200 $ more! Couldn t believe there would be such difference, one would think it s the same company, it ought to be the same, but not. Same pickup hotel tampa location, same dates, same everything. I had to create a new search several times on both getting the same results before I was finally persuaded it was not a glitch. Needless hotel tampa to say I booked with german Expedia and got the insurance included which I wanted to get anyways.
That s a good point that I missed I l add it above. Our search on UK Expedia was also a lot cheaper than on the US Expedia as it included full insurance. Also, search on National UK was somewhat cheaper than National US, but still a lot more than Expedia.
Here s a rental issue (*cough scam cough*) a friend and I had while renting a car in Spain from Avis last summer they fill the car up with gas when you get it and you pay extra for a full tank (around 70 euro) and then you return it empty! We tried to argue saying it should come full and we will return it full but it s the new thing apparently. You should have seen us driving to the car rental agency in Valencia watching every tick of the gas gauge and hoping we were going to make it, keeping our speed low and the A/C off! There s no way we were returning hotel tampa it with any gas if possible and it was sucking fumes when we pulled hotel tampa into the parking lot.
That may be a US innovation We were given full tank of gas free with the upgrade, but weren t too worried as fuel is noticeably more expensive in California where we dropped hotel tampa off the car. More importantly, we were dropping it off at 6am to catch a flight, and felt it was worth losing a few dollars not to be driving round at 5am looking for a cheap petrol station!
When I returned the car I was surprise to be upgraded because hotel tampa I didn t know and the commercial never tell me clearly [I signed on their F...G tablet then I should have take more care when reading]. And after checking the internet, the Camaro was not a V8 but a only a V6. I m quite upset with their service.
Also, you should check the car before leaving the rental agency. On an other rental, they accused me of making some scratches on the front bumper when I returned the car. I noticed these scratches on the first day of my rental hotel tampa and never done them.
Great tips. American hotel tampa rental car companies are so obsessed with billing renters for scratches that I always inspect hotel tampa the car thoroughly renting, point out any blemish that looks the least bit dodgy to the attendant and take pictures even the tiniest scratch just to be safe.
Highlights so far would be driving along the Silk Road from Beijing to Istanbul, a complete circuit of South America and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in Costa Rica. I'm currently back in Beijing, as a base to visit more of Asia and attempt to learn Mandarin.