Does somebody know a nice car rental company ? If anybody knows a renting agency which offers a good deal.
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I have been doing some googling on the internet for renting a car in california.
I recently used Hertz and National. Satisfied with both.
BTW, since your question does not deal directly with Switzerland, it
has been moved here.
Avis
Alamo
Budget
Enterprise*
Enterprise Rent-A-Car always offered great weekly deals.
If you want to rent exotic cars, such as; Lamborghinis, Bentleys, or Rolls, go to Beverly Hills Rent-A-Car.
We spent this Xmas & New year in California and used auto-europe to hire a Mustang (big disappointment).
The actual hire turned out to be with Hertz, but the saving over the Hertz price was about $300.
I have also used the a car in Geneve and have saved nearly 200 Chfs for a 4 day hire period.
Example: B class merc auto eur: £230 hertz: £259
Try them and let me know how you get on!
If you want "nice" then go to National . About 15 years ago while vacationing in California many years ago my wife had tossed her wedding ring up onto the dash not thinking that it could fall down into the defroster vents. Well it did. I took the car to a local Chrysler dealer but he said it would be very complicated and costly (about a thousand $) as they would have to remove the whole dash in order to get at the duct work..!!
The wife and I said ah forget it and at the end of the vacation we returned the car to National at the airport (SFO). While they were doing the paper work I casually mentioned that if any proceeding customer of that car should happen to find a wedding ring that it was ours. The woman at the desk was shocked to hear the story, she got on the phone, called the rental return crew and told them to pull the car from service. She took my home address and said she'd send it back to me if they found it. I thought yea right, whatever..
3 weeks later there it was in the mail....!!!! They didn't even charge me for retrieval of the ring..!! It goes without saying I have never used a different rental agency since.
Thanks to Everboby for some interesting tips
You can use www.fatwallet.com to find deals and coupons from different auto rental companies.
It is a very popular bargain hunters site with a travel section: http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/travel-deals/790643/
Good luck.
We always use http://www.hotwire.com/car/index.jsp whenever renting a car in the States. Hotwire offers cars from the major rental companies (Hertz, National, Avis, Budget, Alamo, etc.) but at significantly lower prices. You won't, however, know which company you're renting from until you confirm and prepay your reservation. Hotwire rates do not include insurance, but neither do the rates listed by the major car rental companies.
You can use http://www.kayak.com/cars to compare the rates offered at different car rental sites, including hotwire, priceline, and expedia.
I like these guys http://www.rentawreck.com/ as much for the name as anything else...
I always use the strategy of reserving a car which is one or two classes below what I
want and then upgrading at the desk at pickup. Does anyone know whether this actually
does get me a better deal (which is the reason for this ) ?
I don't know if you get a better deal by paying for the upgrade when you pick up the car. At Hotwire there isn't a large price differential between an economy car rented at LAX (Los Angeles) for $20.95 per day and a full size at $23.95 per day. A premium car is $33.95. I've gotten lucky quite a few times by reserving a lower level car and then getting upgraded a few levels because they were out of the size that I reserved. If I know the market where I'm renting a car, I've even used this technique knowing that the chances would be in my favor that they would have to upgrade me.
Early 2007 at SFO I went from a (reserved) Mazda 3 (or similar) to a Mustang for $3 extra a day