bumbershoot
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- Mar 5, 2007
Some places sneak fees in on top of that.
What agencies put extra fees? Let alone sneak them?
Try being from Australia and having to add extra insurance coverage on top!
Like many Americans do when renting abroad? Adding it to our car in Ireland doubled the cost.
The taxes and fees are outrageous. We decided to rent from Alamo at the Car Care Center and it is saving us $100 for the same vehicle and duration.
Remember that for your next trip it might be opposite.
Like second driver fee for my spouse.
If you have Costco and like Alamo, renting with that combo gives you an extra driver for free.
OP there's not a lot of context there to help out with or even just to give other posters an idea of what the context is.
How many days, what car class, what rental car company, are you booking directly through the rental car company's website or through another website, is the pick up location the airport, etc
Agreed.
Two week rental that’s a fine total. Two days, not so much. Unless it’s a Lamborghini. Then it’s fine.
In November 2017, on an 11 night visit to WDW while renting a car for the entire trip, we flew into TPA, and out of MCO. I priced out two rental options: a one-way Avis rental from TPA to MCO, where we would have one car for the entire trip, and I compared that to a one-way rental from the Avis at the Hilton Disney Springs to MCO. While the base rate was the same, the cost was much higher for TPA to MCO (airport to airport) rental.
In fact, the difference was so high that it was cheaper to rent two vehicles; the first was a one-way, one-day (3 hours really) rental from TPA to Disney Springs, and then from Disney Springs to MCO for the entirety of the trip.
The culprit was all of the daily TPA Airport fees that would have carried through the entire 11 day rental period. Picking up the same car from Disney Springs for same duration and base rate eliminated a ton of fees.
On the flip side, we once flew into Tampa and rented there specifically because the flight and rental car were so much *cheaper*. Plus Tampa had a Trader Joe’s and Orlando didn’t yet, so we could stop there on the way.
It's never ever clear to me that the car-rental insurance provided by my credit card that supposedly has car-rental insurance with it (Amex) would actually pay for everything if something happened. DH always buys all the insurance at the car-rental place. It's usually more than the cost of the rental. (We're from New York, not Australia, btw.)
If you’re not clear on your insurance or the cc insurance, are you guys clear on what the rental agency insurance wound cover?
It’s an actual question. I mean, I’m not totally clear on what the rental insurance would cover, though I know when my now-ex used his corporate rate with National that included insurance, they didn’t even LOOK at the car when he returned it.