Virgin Holidays/Alamo

[toonarmani]

Originally Posted by MinniMouse

Thanks for the info folks. Will give it a try tomorrow and see how it goes

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Make sure you use the Virgin/Alamo Link

alamo/en_US/virgin.html

[speedygonzales]

Originally Posted by Mr Tom Morrow

I wont use VH for the very reason you have mentioned. With VA you get the Alamo number within a few minutes or a bit longer over the weekend

It's the Ref No you need and without it you cant do OLCI.

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This may have changed recently Mr M, as I've mentioned earlier I've used VH for Alamo as the price has always been VERY competitive for my dates, after booking at the start of January with VH, I was given a Virgin Holidays booking reference. OLCI is not available for the first 24 hours or so, but within the week I logged in with Alamo via the Virgin link, entered my Virgin reference and was able to complete the OLCI and was given an Alamo reference.

The whole process was a doddle, I'm checked in along with my free additional driver and we don't leave until July, can't wait!

[adamtoonarmy]

I've booked car hire with VH for my trip in June - just tried OLCI and Skip the Counter after reading this thread and it worked a treat. Just used the link posted above and my VH booking number. All sorted and have my skip the counter ticket and barcode.

[Nicki G]

I’ve also done skip counter for Aug, wasn’t obvious first time I looked but worked it out in end. I’d had same email about voucher not being sent until June

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by speedygonzales

This may have changed recently Mr M, as I've mentioned earlier I've used VH for Alamo as the price has always been VERY competitive for my dates, after booking at the start of January with VH, I was given a Virgin Holidays booking reference. OLCI is not available for the first 24 hours or so, but within the week I logged in with Alamo via the Virgin link, entered my Virgin reference and was able to complete the OLCI and was given an Alamo reference.

The whole process was a doddle, I'm checked in along with my free additional driver and we don't leave until July, can't wait!

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Mmm. Thank you, must be quite a recent change and to be honest makes total sense. I could never work out why VA and VH worked differently when VH actually fulfill the booking anyhow.
Well done.

[smudgester]

When doing the OLCI, what dates you use for license start/exipry date ? The ones on the paper copy or the ones on the plastic card ?

Also, do you need to take both parts to the US ?

[Florida Liz]

The dates on the plastic card.
The paper one isn’t valid any more

gov.uk/government/news/d...icence-changes

[wayne77]

OK,
So I booked car hire with Virgin Atlantic.com yesterday and the Booking Reference Number they supplied is not working on the Alamo site when I try to log in for online checkin.
Any advice?
Thanks.

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by wayne77

OK,
So I booked car hire with Virgin Atlantic.com yesterday and the Booking Reference Number they supplied is not working on the Alamo site when I try to log in for online checkin.
Any advice?
Thanks.

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Give it until Midday tomorrow, they are slow to link over the weekend.

[Chunky81]

It will take a few days before it will register on alamo, can’t remember exactly how long think it may be 72hrs.