One way deal with Alamo US - super deal for a road trip

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We're spending next March in Florida, but we wanted to end the journey with a road trip up the east coast, seeing some friends and finishing with three days in New York.

This was originally going to be an expensive prospect because most of the time a journey like this would incur a 'one way fee' on top of what you're paying for the hire - in the order of £300-500 most of the time.

But there's two times of year where not only this fee gets waived, but the daily rates are discounted too! This is because there is a surge of cars being used by the 'snowbirds' from North USA into Florida over the winter. They want a way to get those additional cars down there without having to transport them, and get them back once winter is over.
So October time you can get cheap cars driving into Florida, and right now you can book cars from 1st April through May and as long as you drop them off in another state, the one way fee is waived (only certain locations).
What's more the base rates are low for most categories, we're paying $35 a day for a minivan, others are set at $24.95.

We've just booked a drive from Orlando to Manhattan, four days in a minivan, $190 all in. Now that doesn't include the extra insurance we need as Brits but none of the UK companies seem to offer these deals, so I've booked Alamo.com direct and then will add the excess cover - £12.90 for four days, from a UK insurer. Without the deal my original prices were £700 and up.

Anyway, it's certainly added a fun extra for us as a family, and I thought for some of you it might be an interesting bit of information if you didn't know about it.

This is the link to the one way offers at Alamo:
alamo/en_US/car-rent...s-landing.html

According to Autoslash other companies do it to:
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and this one for Spring autoslash/blog-and-t...y-less-special