Which rental car companies offer the ‘direct to garage’ option at MCO

[robotango]

Originally Posted by robrar

How does this work? I've been Avis Preferred for a few years, but never rented from them at MCO. In other locations I've gone straight to the garage and my name is on the indicator board showing where my allocated car is located (space and row number), keys are in the car and I've shown my licence as I exit the garage. If I have a choice of cars does this work in a similar way?

Thanks for any advice, at that point in the journey I'm normally keen for the car collection to be as smooth as possible!

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Before you arrive make sure you link your booking to your Avis preferred account so it shows on the Avis preferred app, when you arrive just open the app, it recognises your at the airport and allows you to click collect car. The app tells you the location of your allotted car and gives you a couple of other locations of cars in the same category. These are available if you don’t like the car your allotted, just take the one you like and leave the garage. When it does give you your choices however, you need to be quick, one of my other car options had been taken leaving me with just two, I saw someone getting in and driving away.

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Originally Posted by robotango

Before you arrive make sure you link your booking to your Avis preferred account so it shows on the Avis preferred app, when you arrive just open the app, it recognises your at the airport and allows you to click collect car. The app tells you the location of your allotted car and gives you a couple of other locations of cars in the same category. These are available if you don’t like the car your allotted, just take the one you like and leave the garage. When it does give you your choices however, you need to be quick, one of my other car options had been taken leaving me with just two, I saw someone getting in and driving away.

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Thanks, that's very helpful. My booking is already shown in the Avis app, although I'm not sure I'd have checked that on arrival as it's not something I've done before so this is great advice. All I need to do now is work out what cars have Apple CarPlay and hopefully select one of those when I get to MCO...