If you work for, or are retired from, a corporation large enough to have a corporate rental contract, employees can get the same rates for personal use. The rates can be up to 50% less than the list price.
What dates and did you have to prepay? Also, I think a Nissan Rogue is a midsize, not a small SUV.
Even declining the rental company insurance (which we always decline) we haven't gotten that good a price for a midsize SUV on Maui in awhile. This year was $1469 for 22 days in Feb/March. Next year for 21 days I have a reservation for $1968. Hoping/thinking that rate will drop as our rental isn't until the Feb/March timeframe.
Oh I will definitely keep checking. As I said, it's early. I was just saying that this year's rental in Feb/March was more than what @Henry M. is paying. Could be time of year.
You can perhaps check off airport locations as well and autoslash is great, just another option.
PHX is the place where off-airport is (used to be anyway) a big win. You can take a limo from PHX to your hotel/TS, settle in, wait a day to rent a car, rent just down the street, for 2 days less or even the same # of days as at the airport, return it, take a limo back to PHX, and prob pay less than you'd pay at PHX. I'm not sure if the rental companies have tried to take back the arbitrage profit by hiking rates off-airport, but it used to be that way.
I never take the rental company insurance. My credit card offers full primary coverage for something like $19.95/rental, not per day. My own car insurance also covers me while driving a rental car.
I also got the check-in email from Hertz for the first time. I didn't find a better rate than my corporate discount, it seemed like the check-in process was just way to sell the added services and insurance, check the box do decline the insurance, then a couple of warning screens about why their insurance is the best, then have to do another click confirm I really want to decline that, then similar hoop jumping for roadside assistance, and then again for the prepaid gas.
I think I do remember seeing that after it said I didn't need to check-in. The email just made me think about the car size again because I remembered I reserved the larger car. I hit Modify reservation and found the deal afterwards.
That's about what we are paying for three weeks this year. Though ours is through Costco. I couldn't get a better rate through the corp rates we can get from Avis. I really would prefer to use Avis and will even pay a small premium as our corp rate gives us Preferred and includes LDW.Just rented a mid-size for 3 weeks in Kauai next February, using National's corporate contract. I'm not sure I'll need 9 additional drivers.
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