Comments on: Renting a car downtown? Avoid hotel checkout hours

By: Ray Mal

Ray Mal — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:41:52 +0000

As a European I regularily rent cars in the USA from web sites such as Travelsupermarket, Airline Network and eBookers. All state that you must pay for a tank of gas upfront. On nearly every occasion I tell the rental company (most often Dollar or Thrifty) that I will bring the car back full and they are happy. They rarely insist on charging me for the tank of fuel.

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:55:34 +0000

Thanks so much, I just booked 3 days at SFO via AutoEurope and saved over $130. I selected a pickup as SFO as I didn’t want to run into the “out of cars” issues at a downtown locaiton.

By: Hermann

Hermann — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:40:52 +0000

If you don’t know German, it might be somewhat more difficult, but you can get amazing rates from German travel agents like FTI or holidayautos, without smallprint fees.
Had midsize SUV for 2 weeks last christmas and cost my group 380EUR (some 530USD), including one tank of gas, unlimited mileage, unlimited extra drivers, LDW/CDW, LIS/EP and underage fees. They usually end up booking through Alamo.