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Best Car Rental Resources, Tricks and Traps One of the LEAST fun aspects of travel is renting a car, ranking just behind having your spouse run off with a scuba instructor.    There s not much you can do about your spouse other than to be more attentive and fun.   But there IS a lot you can do about getting a decent price renting a decent car.
Over the past decade, the car rental industry has since devolved into the Neanderthal of the travel business.   The excessive fees and taxes demanded by the rental companies could test even a cleric’s patience.   I can’t tell you that I’ve actually seen a rabbi or priest driven to slugging a car rental agent, but I bet it happens.   When you arrive at the car rental used scamp travel trailer counter and give the service agent your reservation number, you enter what can best be described as  “Car Rent-hell.”   The first sign – the upgrade switcheroo.   “We can upgrade you to a larger car,” the service agent says sweetly.   Are those eyelashes twitching at you or perhaps she just has some dust in her eyes.   Hard to tell.   But for a few more dollars per day, you can get a larger car that consumes more gasoline and emits more pollution.
If you get past that temptation, then there’s the “collision damage waiver and the loss damage waiver .   The first covers used scamp travel trailer you in the event of a collision, while the second covers any loss to the rental used scamp travel trailer company. For the uninitiated, the collision damage waiver is not insurance; it’s an agreement that the rental company will give up its right to recover costs of property damage to the auto from the renter, regardless of who is at fault in an accident. If you have liability insurance, your property damage liability will usually pay for the damage to the rental vehicle.   And if that doesn’t cover it, most Gold or Platinum credit cards, such as Visa and MasterCard, will cover the collision damage waiver.   Therefore, generally, you do not need this extra expense.  But most consumers don’t know it, and the car rental agent isn’t going to tell you that the $8-$10 per day that they want to charge you is, in fact, totally unnecessary.   Heck, it represents a 50% increase over the price that you were originally prepared to pay for the darn car, and the service agent probably gets a commission or a gold star if he or she can talk you into it.
We haven’t escaped from Car Rent-hell yet.  More charges will further inflate your daily tab.   Examples include airport taxes, used scamp travel trailer city and county taxes, drop-off fees, fuel charges, mileage fees, additional driver fees, younger driver fees, out of state charges and equipment rental fees.   Oh, I should also mention Personal Accident Insurance (which purportedly covers a portion of your medical bills should you be hurt in an accident and is useless used scamp travel trailer if you have your own medical insurance) and Personal Effects Coverage used scamp travel trailer (which allegedly protect your personal belongings against damage).      All of these various charges can increase the total cost of the car rental by up to 150%.     Your $15 per day bargain becomes closer to $40 per day!    It may not be illegal, but it is scummy.  And it should be illegal.
Then, of course, there is the prepaid gas option.  Unless used scamp travel trailer you are desperate to save a few seconds, you are wasting money. If you prepay for a tank of gas and brought it back with even 5 gallons left in the tank — which is pretty typical — then you lose money.  You just gave the rental car company the value of 5 gallons of gas. Unless you push the car back onto the lot with an empty tank, you lose money prepaying for gas.   From a financial standpoint, prepaying used scamp travel trailer is a bad idea unless you re absolutely used scamp travel trailer certain that you ll use the full tank .and then spend the money you save on a lottery ticket where you probably stand a better chance of winning .
The on-line travel services that most people use for car rentals are  Kayak, Hotwire, Priceline, Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz and CarRentals.com.   My recent searches have shown that all, but CarRentals.com , offer pretty much the same price.   The latter offered some deals that were 20% below what the others showed.   Yes, this is odd, given that CarRentals and Hotwire are owned by Expedia. Go figure!    My suspicion is that CarRentals focuses more on independent rental companies many of which don t have airport locations.     Most travel sites don’t work with all rental used scamp travel trailer companies, and some don’t even include all the major brands. For instance, Orbitz doesn’t show results for Enterprise, National used scamp travel trailer or Alamo, while Expedia doesn’t include Avis or Budget, so don’t assume you’re seeing all of your options if you search used scamp travel trailer only one site.
The best deals appear to be offered by independent rental companies such as Ace, Payless, Fox, Sixt, Enterprise and Advantage.    Some of the car rental companies used scamp travel trailer that used to offer decent deals, like Dollar and Budget, have lost their value sheen.   And fagettabout Avis and Hertz:  they are only worth considering if you rental frequently and have club or member benefits.
Bottom line: It is essential that you check more than one website if you plan to rent a car.  I ve found CarRentals.com is offering consistently low prices and should be part of your review.   But don t rely upon just one site and watch out for the various insurance, gasoline and other added services pushed by most all car rental companies.
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