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Rental Car
Advice This advice can save you money and a lot of hassle. We learned point 5 and 6 below the hard way! 1. Check with your insurance or credit card company in advance to see if they will cover any damage done to the car. You will be offered insurance from the rental agency which adds quite a bit to your daily rental fee.2. Check off-airport rates. When traveling to an airport, realize that the airport branch of the rental car agency charges more than a local branch, sometimes significantly more. We recently traveled to Austin, TX and found out that airport rental agency charged almost double the rate when compared to non-airport rental car agency – same company! So we took the hotel shuttle to our hotel and called a local branch to come pick us up. We saved $90.00 over a two days!
3.
Understand all the taxes and fees that you will pay. The final rate is much more
than the advertised daily rate for the car. Every city is different, airports
are more expensive, some agencies have expensive one-way drop-off charges.
(Enterprise had no drop-off charges at the time of this article but their
policies were not uniformly accepted by all local dealers in the U.S. Call
ahead and check with your drop-off location.) If you rent in NY your price
is going to have some HUGE taxes added on, compared to renting across the river
in NJ. 5.
Inspect the car thoroughly! Sometimes they move the cars out fast to accommodate
a busy line of people, but on the way in they may look the car over very
carefully. This is especially true if you’re doing a one way rental between
cities. Don't feel pressured when you inspect the car going out. 6. One Way Rentals: We rented one way from
Enterprise in Orlando. We thought we could turn the car in during our time
with family in Ohio where we didn't need a car for a week and then re-rent a car
to go one way back to California. Sounds easy but franchise owners have
different rules and rates then the corporate stores. They wanted a dollar
a mile in addition to our rate!!! We took the train home. Once
you get a one-way rental, I recommend keeping it the entire time, or call in
advance to make sure you drop off and pick back up.
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