We flew in to Boston, so had no car. We were planning on taking a bus to New York for around $30 eac

We flew in to Boston, so had no car. We were planning on taking a bus to New York for around $30 each, but when I found out that two friends were going to do the same thing, I checked out car rental prices. To my surprise, a one-way car rental discount rome hotel from Boston to New York was just $88, including taxes and fees, for a day. We d have to pay for gas and tolls, so it wouldn t be cheaper yet, but it would be significantly more convenient and comfortable.
We then thought about how we would get to the airport the next day. Well, a shuttle was going to cost us another $60 to get the the airport for our 7am flight (and would mean leaving at 4am). That didn t sound very appealing, so having discount rome hotel a car looked like a very good option.
Just looking at the price (and leaving out the convenience factors), it would have been $120 for buses for the 4 of us, plus another $60 to get to the airport on Tuesday morning, for a total of $180. OK, well this became a no-brainer fairly quickly. We were only going to be driving around 300 miles, so add in another $50 for a tank of gas and $32 for tolls and we were still on track to save $10. The convenience itself was worth something, but I guess it s hard to quantify.
But wait, there s more. The night before we left, on a whim, I looked up prices at the Providence Airport, where my brother was going to be dropped off Monday morning anyway. Turns out, a rental there was just $66, so that s another $22 added to our savings.
We were given the option to either return discount rome hotel the car with a full tank of gas or to prepay for a full tank of gas (at a nice discount of almost 50 cents per gallon). While normally I would say returning discount rome hotel with a full tank of gas would be the best idea, since we knew we d be using at least 3/4 of the tank and weren t going to be excited to fill up the car at 5am, we decided to go with the prepaid option. Plus, we had just saved $22, so decided to roll the dice.
As you can see from the photo above, we got great use out of our gas and were left with about a gallon left in the tank, so when you figure in the discount, we came out even, if not ahead (and saved our time on Tuesday morning).
Renting a car, even for a one-way trip, was far cheaper than I expected. I learned a few things about car rentals (did you know your spouse can drive your rental car, no questions asked?) and saved a whole lot of time and money by investigating our options discount rome hotel instead of just assuming that buses were the way to go.
Last November I wanted to fly into New Orleans the saturday before Thanksgiving (when flights were cheap), and fly out the Saturday after (when flights were several hundred dollars more). I couldn t afford the flight back home, so I came up with a cheap solution.
Depends on where you re going from / to. Short trips in a major commuter corridor like Boston / NYC can be reasonable. But as soon as you go some place off the beaten path, or a long distance, they tack on drop fees in the hundreds of dollars, so you ll see estimates discount rome hotel of $40 / day but for a 3 day rental the total is $900.
I tried doing the same thing twice recently. Both times I opted not to rent. They wanted drop off fees. One wanted two hundred dollars, discount rome hotel and the other four hundred. Needless to say those extra costs made the idea very unattractive.