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A Rental Car Road Trip on a Shoestring Budget
Jaunted editor Paul Brady is back on terra firma in the U.S. after nearly a year away in South America. So how did he get back here? By taking the ultimate road-trip. All this week, he'll be telling us just how he did it. Any questions or suggestions? Let us know.
There's something uncanny about planning a one-way road trip through the southern United States from an internet cafe in Cartagena, Colombia. But plan ahead you must, if you want to take advantage of the incredibly cheap one-way rental car deals out of Florida on offer right now.
Why the bargains? As the companies gear up for summer road trip season, they realize all their inventory is at Florida airports, dumped there by snow bunnies who drove down for sun and fun but flew back home. By offering super-cheap rides to people like me--north-bound drivers with flexible travel plans--they can easily repopulate the country with rentals.
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Thanks To TerraPass Even The Worst Rental Car Can Be Green
Some rental car companies are feeling all warm and fuzzy inside lately. A year after starting a carbon offset program through the help of their green buddy TerraPass, they’re reporting that over 175,000 customers have chipped in a couple extra bucks per rental to save the earth. We can’t remember ever being offered this service in any of our rental car adventures over the last year, but we also just may have told the person at the counter that we weren’t interested in any more fees.
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Alamo The Latest To Offer Weekend Rental Deals
Not to be outdone by Enterprise, Alamo Rent A Car is hyping $10-a-day rentals, Thursday through Monday at "most" airport locations. Unlike the competition, which only offers sweet deals at "neighborhood" locations, this steal makes it possible to fly somewhere and grab a cheap car, instead of just renting for your staycation.
Alamo has a few restrictions that we'll just rip straight from the well-written press release:
There is a four-day maximum on rentals, which range from economy to premium-size cars, based upon availability. Special weekend airport rentals begin as early as 9 am on Thursdays and require an overnight Saturday rental. Vehicles must be returned to Alamo no later than pick-up time on Monday.
Since pricing on rental cars is even more complicated than airfares, we've had a little trouble finding a straight $10-a-day deal by plugging dates and destinations into alamo.com. But we did price a four-day rental out of Denver for $90 and a four-day deal out of Seattle for $92. Rates in Miami, where it's not currently cold as all get out, were predictably higher.
Related Stories:
· Alamo Rent A Car [Official Site]
· Enterprise's Sweet Weekend Rental Deal [Jaunted]
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