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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: meow meow on June 22, 2016, 09:12:29 AM
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going to the Rockies this summer for a family reunion type trip, plan on flying into Denver, didn't want to drive 10 hours. looking for rental cars because we're driving out into the mountains, and rental cars out of the airport are all over like $70/day for the most basic AF compact POS car. Anyone know why rentals are so expensive there? Other options? Really don't want to drive 10 hours, but also don't want to pay $500 for a rental car.
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going to the Rockies this summer for a family reunion type trip, plan on flying into Denver, didn't want to drive 10 hours. looking for rental cars because we're driving out into the mountains, and rental cars out of the airport are all over like $70/day for the most basic AF compact POS car. Anyone know why rentals are so expensive there? Other options? Really don't want to drive 10 hours, but also don't want to pay $500 for a rental car.
Try renting a car from Denver, but not out of the airport. If they won't come pick you up, you could just take Uber to the rental company.
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Tax and spend liberals is my official guess
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Fly to Grand Junction or Aspen or something like that. You don't want to be going back to Denver on a Sunday afternoon. You can get pickups (single cab) from Uhaul cheaper but you end up losing if you drive a lot of miles. Last summer we got a mid-size sedan out of Denver Intl, picked up Friday night, dropped off Sunday afternoon, for $130 out the door. That doesn't seem too bad?
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going to the Rockies this summer for a family reunion type trip, plan on flying into Denver, didn't want to drive 10 hours. looking for rental cars because we're driving out into the mountains, and rental cars out of the airport are all over like $70/day for the most basic AF compact POS car. Anyone know why rentals are so expensive there? Other options? Really don't want to drive 10 hours, but also don't want to pay $500 for a rental car.
Try renting a car from Denver, but not out of the airport. If they won't come pick you up, you could just take Uber to the rental company.
those are a little cheaper, but not sure if worth the hassle of having to uber to the rental place, think you won't end up saving much to be worth it. says there's unusually high demand in Denver during the dates I need it, wtf
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What are the dates?
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i rented in den about a month ago, the price was fine. you're maybe just hitting a seasonal rape rate or something.
i also rented pretty last minute. you could recheck with a few days to go and see if you can get a better rate.
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i rented in den about a month ago, the price was fine. you're maybe just hitting a seasonal rape rate or something.
i also rented pretty last minute. you could recheck with a few days to go and see if you can get a better rate.
yeah, if I was going in the next week or two it wouldn't be that bad, for some reason the middle of july is like over twice as much everywhere.
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yeah sounds like you're trying to rent it out to far in advance.. also make sure through a credit card or your insurance company you have a use of non owned car on one of them.
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Weird that the best time to be in the mountains is the most expensive time to rent a car. :confused:
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you should check if your employer has a rental car discount code you can use
also, check this out:
https://www.avis.com/car-rental/html/bridge/corp/coupons/leisure_pass.html (https://www.avis.com/car-rental/html/bridge/corp/coupons/leisure_pass.html)
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a $9 day pass will get you from DIA to Union Station on the new light rail, if rental rates are cheaper away from the airport.
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you should check if your employer has a rental car discount code you can use
ya
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buy Hertz free rental certificates off ebay for about $25-35/day. All you pay are the taxes.
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i rented in den about a month ago, the price was fine. you're maybe just hitting a seasonal rape rate or something.
i also rented pretty last minute. you could recheck with a few days to go and see if you can get a better rate.
yeah, if I was going in the next week or two it wouldn't be that bad, for some reason the middle of july is like over twice as much everywhere.
my experience has been you usually get the best rates around 10 days to 3 days before the pickup date and then the last 48 hours it goes the other way.
This is in FL but I usually reserve the best deal on the minimum acceptable size vehicle (the midsize SUVs are typically the best 3 months out for some reason) when I buy the plane tickets and then start checking 2 weeks away for a better deal as you can always cancel the higher $ reservation.
My other protip is make sure you join whatever free express or gold club you need to skip the counter, typically there is a guy in the garage telling you where to get your car and if he sees you have a family he might get you a bigger vehicle than you reserved. My last trip with the kids at FLL I reserved a full size and the guy sent to an isle with the loaded up Caravan that had a DVD and I still paid the same price.
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buy Hertz free rental certificates off ebay for about $25-35/day. All you pay are the taxes.
Non-transferable?
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buy Hertz free rental certificates off ebay for about $25-35/day. All you pay are the taxes.
Non-transferable?
technically, but they get used all the time. I've sold 19 this year.
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buy Hertz free rental certificates off ebay for about $25-35/day. All you pay are the taxes.
Non-transferable?
technically, but they get used all the time. I've sold 19 this year.
Would I have to join their rewards program or something?
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buy Hertz free rental certificates off ebay for about $25-35/day. All you pay are the taxes.
Non-transferable?
technically, but they get used all the time. I've sold 19 this year.
Would I have to join their rewards program or something?
you probably would want to sign up, but it's free. But not required. The next batch expires 6/30, then 9/30 after that for most of them.
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this seems like a lot of work to avoid just driving there yourself
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buy Hertz free rental certificates off ebay for about $25-35/day. All you pay are the taxes.
Non-transferable?
technically, but they get used all the time. I've sold 19 this year.
Would I have to join their rewards program or something?
you probably would want to sign up, but it's free. But not required. The next batch expires 6/30, then 9/30 after that for most of them.
Can I get a SUV or pickup? Up charge? I need 5 or 6 days early September.
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buy Hertz free rental certificates off ebay for about $25-35/day. All you pay are the taxes.
Non-transferable?
technically, but they get used all the time. I've sold 19 this year.
Would I have to join their rewards program or something?
you probably would want to sign up, but it's free. But not required. The next batch expires 6/30, then 9/30 after that for most of them.
Can I get a SUV or pickup? Up charge? I need 5 or 6 days early September.
compact through premium
here's an example
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-week-7-days-Hertz-Reward-Program-Free-Day-Coupons-Certificates-Vouchers-/262305628808?hash=item3d12a24288:g:DoIAAMXQVT9Sp6Bz
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buy Hertz free rental certificates off ebay for about $25-35/day. All you pay are the taxes.
Non-transferable?
technically, but they get used all the time. I've sold 19 this year.
Would I have to join their rewards program or something?
you probably would want to sign up, but it's free. But not required. The next batch expires 6/30, then 9/30 after that for most of them.
Can I get a SUV or pickup? Up charge? I need 5 or 6 days early September.
I assume like with any rental you can pay the fee to upgrade, but I've not done it while using one. I'm not too picky about rental cars so long as I get full size or above.
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so it's $250 for a 7-day rental, plus $19 shipping, plus all the normal taxes, which is like $20/day?? wow what a bargain
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wacky is on vacation, mocat
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so it's $250 for a 7-day rental, plus $19 shipping, plus all the normal taxes, which is like $20/day?? wow what a bargain
it can be. I rented a premium in SF for 2 days over Memorial Day. Initial charge was $265. I paid $7 in taxes (nothing for the certificates since I earn them). I also rented in Dallas for 3 days and paid something like $14 total, initial charge was something close to $100/day with taxes.
I sold most of mine for mid 20s with free ship. That one's overpriced, why it hasn't sold.
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I was in Denver a little over a month ago and rented a car and it was super easy.
Call the Holiday Inn on Tower Rd by the airport and tell them to come get you. Once you get there go inside the lobby to the Enterprise Rent-A-Car and ask for Monica. She is a gorgeous young lady that went to OU. Tell her the tall, ripped, and handsome guy from KSU sent you there.
Maybe some small talk after talking about KSU's dominance over OU the past few years in football. Then ask for the cheapest option they have, she will look through the books and ask if you want a free upgrade. The free upgrade will be a Jeep Grand Cherokee for the same price as the cheap car.
Thank her for her time and drop a line like, "TBT will be back again soon". Drive off in your upgrade and enjoy the mountains courtesy of your bud TBT.
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I love National. The whole bypass the counter and just go pick out whatever car you want is awesome!
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I love National. The whole bypass the counter and just go pick out whatever car you want is awesome!
Absolutely! I am executive elite with them. Whatever I want for mid size price. I hate when I hit a hayseed airport without Executive aisle.
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I love National. The whole bypass the counter and just go pick out whatever car you want is awesome!
Absolutely! I am executive elite with them. Whatever I want for mid size price. I hate when I hit a hayseed airport without Executive aisle.
And, you can just walk the eff away from the car when you drop it off. No nonsense. Love them.
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they all have that don't they? i know hertz does too.
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tastemaker approved, SD endorsed and notarized protip: get a rental with your UR points
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tastemaker approved, SD endorsed and notarized protip: get a rental with your UR points
was not aware you could redeem UR for rentals. says it will cost a little over 3k UR points per day for the basic Rio/Versa type car.
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they all have that don't they? i know hertz does too.
Which part? The walk away part definitely not.
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tastemaker approved, SD endorsed and notarized protip: get a rental with your UR points
never do this
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they all have that don't they? i know hertz does too.
Which part? The walk away part definitely not.
depends on the airport
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tastemaker approved, SD endorsed and notarized protip: get a rental with your UR points
never do this
even if I can get a 5 day rental for 15k UR points instead of paying $400?
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they all have that don't they? i know hertz does too.
Which part? The walk away part definitely not.
depends on the airport
they all have that don't they? i know hertz does too.
Which part? The walk away part definitely not.
you travel way too much to not know this
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A 10 hour drive to the mountains can be a lot of fun. The drive home blows.
We drive but it's only about 8 hours for us, and I've got lots of kids so airfare + car rental gets expensive.
Where are you going in the Rockies?
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tastemaker approved, SD endorsed and notarized protip: get a rental with your UR points
never do this
sometimes you should do this. you should always check, on any travel thing you are buying. sometimes there are weird price discrepancies between cash and ur prices.
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A 10 hour drive to the mountains can be a lot of fun. The drive home blows.
We drive but it's only about 8 hours for us, and I've got lots of kids so airfare + car rental gets expensive.
Where are you going in the Rockies?
pretty much Rocky Mountain National park area, and just me and my daughter, so no, I don't think the drive through Kansas/Eastern Colorado will be fun
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that drive sucks balls and is never fun. what's fun is getting off the plane at DIA after an hour long flight while your sucker ass friends are driving through Topeka.
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Second kid really has sd slipping
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holy crap I'm going to Denver in mid July also and cars are in fact crazy expensive.
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that drive sucks balls and is never fun. what's fun is getting off the plane at DIA after an hour long flight while your sucker ass friends are driving through Topeka.
pretty much the only reason to live in kc over mhk. quick easy flights to dia.
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direct out salina :cool:
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that drive sucks balls and is never fun. what's fun is getting off the plane at DIA after an hour long flight while your sucker ass friends are driving through Topeka.
pretty much the only reason to live in kc over mhk. quick easy flights to dia.
you could drive to Salina!
http://ksnt.com/2016/06/18/great-lakes-launches-salina-denver-flights/
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Planning a trip to denver in Aug and my buds want to drive. Looking at flights, tell me about Frontier. It's super cheap
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Planning a trip to denver in Aug and my buds want to drive. Looking at flights, tell me about Frontier. It's super cheap
It's basically RyanAir now. Or it was when I flew it like two years ago and decided I would avoid it if at all possible. But it's a pretty cheap short flight, so why not.
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Planning a trip to denver in Aug and my buds want to drive. Looking at flights, tell me about Frontier. It's super cheap
I still have 30K miles I could get your flights with and you'd give me like half the cost of the flight or something.
I still have them because the last 2 times I used them for peoples' flights to or from here, the flights got canceled.
If I still have them by September or so when they expire, I'll be redeeming them for future rental car vouchers.
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holy crap I'm going to Denver in mid July also and cars are in fact crazy expensive.
I know, right? I just booked 5 days for 15k UR points. No regrets.
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one time i flew boston-mci nonstop on frontier. pretty great!
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I like the animals on the tail fin of frontier planes
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Planning a trip to denver in Aug and my buds want to drive. Looking at flights, tell me about Frontier. It's super cheap
It's basically RyanAir now. Or it was when I flew it like two years ago and decided I would avoid it if at all possible. But it's a pretty cheap short flight, so why not.
I don't really know what this means. Extra fees for everything?
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Planning a trip to denver in Aug and my buds want to drive. Looking at flights, tell me about Frontier. It's super cheap
It's basically RyanAir now. Or it was when I flew it like two years ago and decided I would avoid it if at all possible. But it's a pretty cheap short flight, so why not.
I don't really know what this means. Extra fees for everything?
Yeah I think you had to pay for coffee
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http://m.jsonline.com/news/blogs/205673321.html
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Oh. Well I don't get beverage service stuff anyway.
We might work out a deal here trim.
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We might work out a deal here trim.
It'll work out great for you if you're in a situation where the flights would be ideal but if Frontier decided not to fly them, you'd be able to ride with your bros instead.
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Yeah, I need to make sure we are actually going tho. Trip plans with this group fall through more often than kc kat paks
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Oh yeah, I'm in no rush. Just saying that if you do this, to make sure you have an adequate contingency plan because since they became a sub-viakoffman airline, my experience is that they're 0% on actually flying the planes they sell tickets for.
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frontiers the one with super cheap flights outta Denver but then makes up their money through your luggage right? Mrs. yla actually got us out of paying for all of those fees by using her non active duty family member military ID, was great. god bless our troops
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Yeah, lib, if you fly and have buddies who drive, throw all your non-essential crap that you can't fit in your pockets into your buddies' car.
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frontier used to be great
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you're going to pay as much for your luggage as you do the flight lib
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What luggage?
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What luggage?
well they charge for carry on as well
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Mc's article said under seat is still free. It's 3 days in denver, I think a backpack will be plenty
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I have a meeting in 6 minutes. Can I book a rental before then? Tune it later to find out.
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I have a meeting in 6 minutes. Can I book a rental before then? Tune it later to find out.
Unless you are stupid and ignorant, yes.
Royals aren't gonna win 'em all
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I have a meeting in 6 minutes. Can I book a rental before then? Tune it later to find out.
Unless you are stupid and ignorant, yes.
Royals aren't gonna win 'em all
this quote is hilarious because if an iPhone app was the only way slobber could rent a car he wouldn't be able to in 60 minutes, let alone 6 min.
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A 10 hour drive to the mountains can be a lot of fun. The drive home blows.
We drive but it's only about 8 hours for us, and I've got lots of kids so airfare + car rental gets expensive.
Where are you going in the Rockies?
pretty much Rocky Mountain National park area, and just me and my daughter, so no, I don't think the drive through Kansas/Eastern Colorado will be fun
Estes Park and RMNP are incredible. It's basically the perfect summer mountain vacation. I bet you and your daughter would have run on the road trip, too.
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I have a meeting in 6 minutes. Can I book a rental before then? Tune it later to find out.
Unless you are stupid and ignorant, yes.
Royals aren't gonna win 'em all
Fail. Things that hung me up:
1. I had to consolidate my Chase UR points from 3 accounts to 1.
2. I needed to double check my flight times for pick-up/drop-off times.
3. I spent time looking up if the Rav4 is standard all-wheel drive
4. Then I got scared and was trying to think if I could even fit an elk in a Rav4. I'm not tying my prize meat to the roof.
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I have a meeting in 6 minutes. Can I book a rental before then? Tune it later to find out.
Unless you are stupid and ignorant, yes.
Royals aren't gonna win 'em all
this quote is hilarious because if an iPhone app was the only way slobber could rent a car he wouldn't be able to in 60 minutes, let alone 6 min.
I got a message leaving a plane that my ride wasn't going to be there. By the time I was out of jetway, I had a car. smdh
Royals aren't gonna win 'em all