Alamo Guide (Accelerated Check-In & Skip The Counter - Updated)

[mick]

Originally Posted by munmun

Hi Chris

Already agreed a Alamo booking through Andy and wanted to find out if included a beat the line incentive, pleased to say it does.

I hate hire car lines

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Hi J

I know we've just exchanged a few PMs but I didn't ask if you are into MCO? If so did you see my reference to the VTP being reinstated but only collection from side A at the minute. Hopefully when international flights are fully restored they will have pick up on side B as well just as they did in 2019.

We always go to side B at MCO as it's nearer to gates 70-99 and much better for the 417 south when we go on auto-pilot.

Mick

[munmun]

Originally Posted by mick

Hi J

I know we've just exchanged a few PMs but I didn't ask if you are into MCO? If so did you see my reference to the VTP being reinstated but only collection from side A at the minute. Hopefully when international flights are fully restored they will have pick up on side B as well just as they did in 2019.

We always go to side B at MCO as it's nearer to gates 70-99 and much better for the 417 south when we go on auto-pilot.

Mick

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Hi Mick

We are Tampa travellers, don't spend much time in Orlando unless we have grandchildren in tow. Mostly fly into TPA.

[ChrisS]

Originally Posted by DFCH-Andy

It was just to see if Alamo bookings through me are eligible for the online check in… they are.

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Andy, is Skip the Counter available at all, major, Alamo depots? I know the much smaller/quieter depots where everything is done in the portokabin may not offer Skip.

Originally Posted by munmun

Hi Chris

Already agreed a Alamo booking through Andy and wanted to find out if included a beat the line incentive, pleased to say it does.

I hate hire car lines

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MM, I don't like car hire, period, hence buying an awld Fl banger - since 2015 Fl motor ownership has saved us circa Ł11k+.

[munmun]

Originally Posted by ChrisS

Andy, is Skip the Counter available at all, major, Alamo depots? I know the much smaller/quieter depots where everything is done in the portokabin may not offer Skip.



MM, I don't like car hire, period, hence buying an awld Fl banger - since 2015 Fl motor ownership has saved us circa Ł11k+.

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Chris, if I spent a long time in Fl I would also buy. When we owned a home in Antigua we had a Toyota Hilux twin cab truck and a very old Land-rover. I miss them both.

We did have to spend time getting Tax discs, Mot and of course insurance so I'm not sure how much we saved but it was good to own them. We sold the Hilux to the people who bought our home and the Landy for more money than we paid for it to the son of a friend.

[DFCH-Andy]

Originally Posted by ChrisS

Andy, is Skip the Counter available at all, major, Alamo depots? I know the much smaller/quieter depots where everything is done in the portokabin may not offer Skip.

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Miami, MCO and Tampa, Fort Lauderdale all offer the online check in, skip the counter.

Sanford, Melbourne, Disney Car Care Center and all the hotel locations and smaller offices offer the online check in, some offer the self service kiosk but not the skip the counter.

Seems madness in todays age of technology and apps, that the rental counter even exists... but I suppose its a money making thing when their staff push the upgrades and other insurances you don't need.

[99plums]

Originally Posted by DFCH-Andy

Miami, MCO and Tampa, Fort Lauderdale all offer the online check in, skip the counter.

Sanford, Melbourne, Disney Car Care Center and all the hotel locations and smaller offices offer the online check in, some offer the self service kiosk but not the skip the counter.

Seems madness in todays age of technology and apps, that the rental counter even exists... but I suppose its a money making thing when their staff push the upgrades and other insurances you don't need.

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I wonder how the skip the counter service is working with the current shortage of cars.
If there was only one or two vehicles in the row, people would end up fighting over them!
I wonder if they now keep all the keys in the hut, so they can control it.

[pc32435]

Sorry, just so I understand is it Terminal A is only one open for collection at the moment? We usually use B

[mick]

Originally Posted by pc32435

Sorry, just so I understand is it Terminal A is only one open for collection at the moment? We usually use B

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Welcome to the DIBB

I started a Visitor Toll Pass thread some months ago and it became very extensive. I then created another VTP reminder thread a month or so back.

Sorry for the ramble.

One of the posts in one of those threads showed a photo of a sign on a lift saying the garage B was closed. Then a later post said that garage B was now open, Sorry but it would be a monumental task to find those two posts.

If you're using the VTP though you can only collect on side A at the minute.

You may get more responses in future if you avoid posting in a sticky which are usually kept for standard procedural type discussions. In this case skipping the counter with Alamo.

Mick

[stanleycamel]

Originally Posted by pc32435

Sorry, just so I understand is it Terminal A is only one open for collection at the moment? We usually use B

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Yes there are drop off points in Terminal B but no pickup point when I used it - it isn't really that far to pop over to get to the booth/machine and it is opposite the Terminal A car hire desks. As mick says Terminal B happens to be more convenient if you are heading South out of the airport to the 417 and Disney.

Both Terminals A and B are now open.

[mto]

I've booked with Virgin Holidays and am trying to do STC, but when I enter the booking reference (I've tried both the VH and VA reference numbers) i get the message

We're sorry, but there's something wrong with the reservation number you entered. Please try again or call us for assistance.

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?