Nice to see the return to Topic
AZBuck,
I really need to update my records from my last few trips -- Good reminder. And thanks for this info!
Mark
Seek car rental suggestions for one-way Tacoma-San Francisco, off airport pickup
Who do you guys recommend for one-way rental Tacoma to San Francisco. I'm more than happy to pick up and drop off at off airport location if it's gonna save me some $. I always use Enterprise with off-airport(i.e. for NY/NYC, pick up in Jersey City and save big) but they do not do one-way rentals.
Would also consider driving a car tat someone needs moved from Seattle-Tacoma area to Sanoma-San Jose area. Any info on how to hook up for 'drive my car' deal would be great.
-Duck
About taxes and Under 25 Fees.
The Under 25 fee is bushleague for those of us "young" adults that have a fine driving record and alot of driving experience. Unforunately there is no way around it though. The one thing I have learned is that it varies by each company in each state, and even sometimes as the taxes by each branch. I know in Louisianna National Rent-a-Car is a wonderful ten dollars a day and that if you research the different companies and branches you can often (though not alway) find someone that offers a under 25 fee of less than 25 dollars a day.
~quinn
NY to CA rental car -- Oct/Nov 2006
I rented a car from Budget.
It was a terrible experience for the most part. * Just little things like:
- They never went over the rental time / estimate costs.
- They never went around the car with me to point out dings so I was so stressed worrying about ones I noticed.
- They were hard to pin down on the phone.
- They didn't reply to my email to customer service trying to sort my issues.
- They ended up phoning at 5am CA time to say the car was "late" - when in fact I'd phoned them two days earlier to confirm it was being returned 2 days EARLIER - to San Jose (they were still expecting it to be returned to NY) Nevermind it's confusing and it was frustrating and it was by far the worst part of the whole entire month-long journey.
Now for the money - they charged me the following for one a month rental:
$ 1059.99 - rental
$ 300.00 - one way fee
$ 194.21 - 14.28% fee (Fuel service fee?)
$ 207.87 - tax @ 13.375
$ 1762.07
That's my car rental two cents at any rate. I won't use them again - though customer service on the West Coast (San Jose Intl)* was far superior to what I experienced at LaGuardia. I am sure there will be other people who had a great experience with Budget, but I simply am not one of them...
C'est la vie!
Cali
Oh, my....sorry for your bad experience
What a huge expense! I'm sorry your experience was so poor. I hope more people report back their experiences in the future so we can get an idea of what companies are good to do business with and which aren't. I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way.