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Love Costco Car Rentals

I checked a couple of weeks ago and the best rate I found for a 10/26 week rental at FLL was at Hertz for $ 325 using Interval rate. Costco rates were much higher at the time. However, i rechecked Costco yesterday and reserved an Alamo for $280. It pays to keep checking. I doubt it will get much lower because half of the cost is in fees and taxes.
 
My rental for Maui went down again today (this is a change from yesterday). Only dropped $14 this time, but the overall savings is huge. We have a fullsize for two weeks for $311. :cheer:
 
I'm curious: Do you catch any grief for repeatedly booking, cancelling, then rebooking when a better rate is found? (Sounds like some of you may do this multiple times up to the departure time.)
 
muranojo said:
I'm curious: Do you catch any grief for repeatedly booking, cancelling, then rebooking when a better rate is found? (Sounds like some of you may do this multiple times up to the departure time.)
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Not at all.

You do it all on-line and in fact the confirmation e-mail states you can't change the reservation, only cancel it and book new. So the system is setup to do just that.
 
muranojo said:
I'm curious: Do you catch any grief for repeatedly booking, cancelling, then rebooking when a better rate is found? (Sounds like some of you may do this multiple times up to the departure time.)
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I've rebooked my Maui 8-day rental at least 10 times over the past 6 months -- 4 days consecutively when it went down by $5 each day. The rates fluctuate daily.

In fact, I tried to rebook my LAS 3-day rental yesterday after seeing the price went down by $10. While I was booking it, Costco told me the price changed -- it went up $3 in between the search and pressing the confirm button (after I entered all my info in). I still booked it, but lost out on a whopping $3.

-ryan
 
muranojo said:
I'm curious: Do you catch any grief for repeatedly booking, cancelling, then rebooking when a better rate is found? (Sounds like some of you may do this multiple times up to the departure time.)
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Not at all, it's all done online, no calls to the vendor.
 
Superchief said:
I checked a couple of weeks ago and the best rate I found for a 10/26 week rental at FLL was at Hertz for $ 325 using Interval rate. Costco rates were much higher at the time. However, i rechecked Costco yesterday and reserved an Alamo for $280. It pays to keep checking. I doubt it will get much lower because half of the cost is in fees and taxes.
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You need to keep checking. We have rarely paid more than $250 for our 13-day rentals out of MCO, TPA and FLL. You didn't say what vehicle type you needed. I usually reserve intermediate cars.
 
jtp1947 said:
Not at all, it's all done online, no calls to the vendor.
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Thanks to you and others for answering my question.

I'll definitely use the same process next time I book.
 
Costco just saved me yet another $50 (well, $49.75) on an upcoming Hawaii rental. Price is now just $134.99 (that's $67.49 for the rental itself, and $67.50 for taxes and fees) from Budget in Kauai for a week in an Intermediate car (exact same price for Standard, though). This now qualifies as one of those ridiculously cheap rentals, from my experience.
 
Glad I saw this post as it was a reminder to keep checking for I car 5-25 Oct LIH

Back in June Discount Hawaii Car Rental $561

8/26 Costco $429

8/26 Hot Wire $386

8/26 Orbitz $386

8/26 Rebooked Discount HI Car Rental $$370.58 fone 800-292-1930 (Their "New and Improved" Web Site is terrible. Suggest you call.

Mahalo nui loa for the reminder. You just saved us $190.35 almost 34%:

cheer:


Sterling
 
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Ken555 said:
Costco just saved me yet another $50 (well, $49.75) on an upcoming Hawaii rental. Price is now just $134.99 (that's $67.49 for the rental itself, and $67.50 for taxes and fees) from Budget in Kauai for a week in an Intermediate car (exact same price for Standard, though). This now qualifies as one of those ridiculously cheap rentals, from my experience.
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Yeah, I can't believe how cheap our rental is for Maui in a couple weeks. It cost me more to rent a car for Disneyland. lol
 
Ken555 said:
Costco just saved me yet another $50 (well, $49.75) on an upcoming Hawaii rental. Price is now just $134.99 (that's $67.49 for the rental itself, and $67.50 for taxes and fees) from Budget in Kauai for a week in an Intermediate car (exact same price for Standard, though). This now qualifies as one of those ridiculously cheap rentals, from my experience.
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Now just $120.05 for the same rental - $54.59 base rate + $65.46 taxes & fees.
 
Costco is always a good basis to start. Then if you want to low ball priceline that will work sometimes.

My latest is a week rental for $156 for a Dodge Durrango. Picked it up today has 3K miles on it. It was off airport.
 
Rates are not budging for us yet. Two November minivan rentals and rates haven't come down at all hardly. Except for one $10 reduction on one of the weeks. Is it because we are needing a minivan? Same thing over at Discount Hawaii Car Rental. In fact, DHCR is about $150 cheaper and has been since we started looking almost a year ago.
 
I started another thread on this. We're renting a car in FL, picking up at Tampa airport. It's a short trip, just under 4 days. Price with Costco started at $144 for a full size and as of today the price is $96. Yesterday it was $102. I'll be checking daily until we leave (late October). :D
 
Superchief said:
I checked a couple of weeks ago and the best rate I found for a 10/26 week rental at FLL was at Hertz for $ 325 using Interval rate. Costco rates were much higher at the time. However, i rechecked Costco yesterday and reserved an Alamo for $280. It pays to keep checking. I doubt it will get much lower because half of the cost is in fees and taxes.
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Update: I just reserved a Budget std. for a week for $190 through Costco, only $116 for rate plus extortion:mad:(taxes on those who can't vote) taxes and fees. Rates seem to get lower as the date approaches, at least for off season rentals.
 
Superchief said:
Update: I just reserved a Budget std. for a week for $190 through Costco, only $116 for rate plus extortion:mad:(taxes on those who can't vote) taxes and fees. Rates seem to get lower as the date approaches, at least for off season rentals.
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We always have a vote, take our travel business elsewhere.
 
Ken555 said:
Now just $120.05 for the same rental - $54.59 base rate + $65.46 taxes & fees.
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Update: $100.30 - $37.52 base rate + $62.78 taxes & fees

Week rental Intermediate car Lihue
 
Ken555 said:
Update: $100.30 - $37.52 base rate + $62.78 taxes & fees

Week rental Intermediate car Lihue
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Shoot at these prices we could rent two cars instead of a minivan for less. Our minivan prices for early November are not moving at all.
 
dioxide45 said:
Shoot at these prices we could rent two cars instead of a minivan for less. Our minivan prices for early November are not moving at all.
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Patience.


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Looks like prices for full size cars dropped as did mini van prices through Costco, still cheaper for us though through Hawaii Discount Car Rental for the mini van. It would be cheaper to get two full size cars, but having a van saves on fuel and makes experiencing Hawaii as a group easier and better.
 
What happened to Avis and Budget

Doing a search tonight using the low price finder for Hawaii in November and the only companies that come up are Alamo and Enterprise. What happened to Avis and Budget? They were there earlier today.
 
dioxide45 said:
Doing a search tonight using the low price finder for Hawaii in November and the only companies that come up are Alamo and Enterprise. What happened to Avis and Budget? They were there earlier today.
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The Costco Travel website was glitching out earlier today but it's back to normal noe.

We leave for Maui in 2 weeks and I just rebooked our car for the 4th time. Intermediate car is now down to $335 including all taxes/fees with Alamo (via Costco).

H
 
Will you be on maui at westin kaanapali? we will be there for halloween week. If you are there lets meet up.
 
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