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Rental car Shock

It's good to check rates as often as you can and rebook when prices drop, but it's especially helpful in the last week (and often in the last 2-3 days) before your trip. I can't count how many times I've been able to drop my rates in half or more then final week before a trip. We had three separate weeks of rentals in Hawaii last month (all reserved as midsize and ended up in Minivans or SUVs thanks to my status with National), and they all ended up being about $200/week after taxes. They were considerably more when originally booked.
 
Kauai Kid said:
Savings was $139.57-$55 for the card=$84.57 savings for two weeks
Mahalo, Sterling
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Interesting that Costco is still $300 more for 2 weeks for our mid-SUV than Alamo through Hawaiian Air :confused:
 
As noted before, check Costco often.

I'm in Maui now and we booked our rental through them for 15 days here back in December, full size car for $680. Checked occasionally and found it dropped to $390. Then 6 weeks prior to the trip I began checking it twice a day, once in the morning, once in the evening and found the price bouncing around by $20 - $50. Every time it dropped I would rebook and cancel the old reservation. Got it down to $337 about 22 weeks prior and then the prices shot up.

The other thing of real note on a trip two weeks or longer, check both in a 2 week block and then break it down into 1 week rentals. At one point the difference in price was over $100.
 
UWSurfer said:
As noted before, check Costco often.

I'm in Maui now and we booked our rental through them for 15 days here back in December, full size car for $680. . Got it down to $337 about 22 weeks prior and then the prices shot up.

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Do you mean 22 days or 22 weeks ?
 
daventrina said:
Wonder if that is because the figured out that Ironman was coming to town?
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Didn't she say this was for Maui? Ironman only impacts the Big Island.
 
With Enterprise, (and maybe others) it might help to check other locations too. A few months back I saved $300 on a ten day rental just by getting the car from a location fifteen miles away.
 
petertdavis said:
With Enterprise, (and maybe others) it might help to check other locations too. A few months back I saved $300 on a ten day rental just by getting the car from a location fifteen miles away.
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How much extra time do you think this took to get the car, and then to return it? I agree that's a chunk of money. We did this when we rented on Molokai. I would never do it again. Took way too much time and hassle to get the car, I wish we'd just done it at the airport.
 
Luanne said:
How much extra time do you think this took to get the car, and then to return it? I agree that's a chunk of money. We did this when we rented on Molokai. I would never do it again. Took way too much time and hassle to get the car, I wish we'd just done it at the airport.
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It didn't take any extra time for me, but I would agree that it really depends on each person's circumstances. It happened by chance that the cheaper Enterprise location was next to somewhere I needed to go anyway. Just saying it's something to take into consideration.
 
Current price on Costco for car rental Dec. 27-Jan.11 is $1675.

Anita
 
I've been finding that many times Costco's price starts out higher than others, but as you get closer to the date of travel drops tremendously.
 
I just rebooked thru costco travel for the Big Island and saved a little over $200. Alamo is the provider both times. Avis and Budget were over $4000 for the 4 weeks. Alamo for economy car was $906.00. Enterprise was $8.00 cheaper. This was 10 minutes ago.
 
geoand said:
I just rebooked thru costco travel for the Big Island and saved a little over $200. Alamo is the provider both times. Avis and Budget were over $4000 for the 4 weeks. Alamo for economy car was $906.00. Enterprise was $8.00 cheaper. This was 10 minutes ago.
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Check again in another 10 minutes. It will probably have changed again. ;)
 
HTSE rates

Check rates when booking through Hawaii Time Share Exchange. They got me the best deal with Thrifty: four weeks on Oahu for $720 including all taxes and fees for a Ford Focus 4 door.
 
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