Very good West Coast car price.

[cornishfrogboy]

Last night I was conducting research for my Summer 2021 West Coast vacation with no real intention of buying anything at that time.. then I found this..

I was on travel supermarket when I entered a search for a car to pick of at SFO int on 20/09/21 and drop at LAS int on 31/09/21.

I got a price (with CDW free extra driver and cancellation) of £295. Intrigued, I took it further. The site took me to Argus car hire. I clicked the deal that then took me to Alamo.. who I like.
I found a RAV4 at £345.

Thinking that I would cut out the middlemen, I tried a direct search on Alamo that came out at more than twice as much.

I returned to my original search and concluded the deal, which I believe to be exceptionally good when compared with other recent research.

Hoping that this helps others!

[tweety-pie]

That’s a brilliant price! HollidayAutos keep emailing me with a ‘sale’ but everything is much more expensive than we’ve ever paid before. We like Alamo and their prices arent much different. I’ll have a look on Travel Supermarket and see what comes up for our dates!

Thanks for the heads up!

[abzorba]

We've managed to get a BMW 740i for £900 for 16 nights from Hertz. It's listed as a Dream Car and Guaranteed Model but the price seems so good I'm worried what they'll actually have for us when we turn up to collect. But you getting a genuine good deal maybe makes me think there's good deals out there we've just got one as well and everything will be fine.

[Olympiad]

Hi - thats a great price but it might just be worth double checking that the big price difference isn't due to the inclusion of one-way drop off fees.

Hopefully not, but I recall when I was looking for one way from Albuquerque to San Fran a couple of years ago that a lot of the aggregator sites (didnt try argus) quotes prices without the one way fees (and just said in the t&cs that a fee may be payable on collection) whereas the direct sites showed all the fees.

As I say hopefully not and you've got a bargain but mentioning just in case.

[enjibenji]

Does it work out a lot cheaper than having a flydrive. We always do the car with flight with BA, I've never thought to do it separate.

[cornishfrogboy]

Originally Posted by Olympiad

Hi - thats a great price but it might just be worth double checking that the big price difference isn't due to the inclusion of one-way drop off fees.

Hopefully not, but I recall when I was looking for one way from Albuquerque to San Fran a couple of years ago that a lot of the aggregator sites (didnt try argus) quotes prices without the one way fees (and just said in the t&cs that a fee may be payable on collection) whereas the direct sites showed all the fees.

As I say hopefully not and you've got a bargain but mentioning just in case.

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Alamo have no State transfer fee between California and Nevada.
The deal is the total price. If they loaded a ‘one way fee’, then the deal would still look good.

[cornishfrogboy]

Originally Posted by enjibenji

Does it work out a lot cheaper than having a flydrive. We always do the car with flight with BA, I've never thought to do it separate.

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I looked at my BA as a fly drive, but found the car part to be very expensive.

[abzorba]

Originally Posted by cornishfrogboy

I looked at my BA as a fly drive, but found the car part to be very expensive.

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Same - we had a great deal on a car with BA for our cancelled 2020 booking but the prices were astronomic for 2021.

[enjibenji]

Originally Posted by cornishfrogboy

I looked at my BA as a fly drive, but found the car part to be very expensive.

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Ok thanks I will have a look. Do you have to pay all up front usually with car hire?

[YorkshireT]

BA I got a decent deal. As part of the deal I just got picked up hire in Vegas and drop off in LA 12 days later- Jeep Grand Cherokee or similar £500incl on top of flight price.