NEED MAJOR CAR RENTAL HELP...AMEX MESSED me up! deep doodoo

[3DisneyNUTS]

ok I use amex points to pay for car rental. I made my ressies with budget in Dec and of course as murphy's law would have it AMex no longer has bugdget in their rewards as of Jan 1st. I noticed this when I went to request a voucher with my points.
So what I need from you guys is the cheapest codes for either Hertz, Avis or Enterprise. We are traveling Feb 13th to the 18th. Thanks guys :)

With budget I got a rate of $135 after taxes for those days economy car :( I am bummed !

[sanibelover]

I think that rate ($135) is pretty good for this time of year. Hertz was well over $200 even with a AAA disount. Check www.mousesavers.com for lots of codes for rentals. I checked Budget with a Wal-Mart code and came up with $132 for an economy and $142 for an intermediate. (total cost)

What are you looking to pay?

[3DisneyNUTS]

I think that rate ($135) is pretty good for this time of year. Hertz was well over $200 even with a AAA disount. Check www.mousesavers.com for lots of codes for rentals. I checked Budget with a Wal-Mart code and came up with $132 for an economy and $142 for an intermediate. (total cost)

What are you looking to pay?
Well I am the queen of discounting and I want to cash in the coupon voucher I can get with my membership rewards points and budget is no longer affiliated with amex so I cannot use the code. I really want the $135 ish for either Hertz, enterprise or avis because those are the companies I can get the voucher for.. I have such a headache from this LOL

[sweetp267]

I was in the same boat. I was looking forward to using my 17,000 points for National on my Mar 30 trip. Now I see that I can't and since Avis is the only one that I have any kind of preferred status with I checked with them. Well the midsize rate with the appropriate codes for a weekly rental with all fees included is about $300 plus. Take away the $175 I would get with points, comes to about the same price I am getting currently with National. So don't feel bad, I feel like I am getting hosed too. Incedentally, I have stopped using my AMEX alot since I found out about the removal of most of the car companies.

[3DisneyNUTS]

Yeah it sucks. I am an emerald member with national. It totally stinks!

[Maddle]

That rate of $135 is pretty competitive. Using the Walmart code [ (BCD): W810011] it went down to $132.

Are you a member or Costco or BJ's Wholesale Clubs? The rate at Costco was about $10 less, and there is a coupon offered to bring it down a little more. I didn't try BJ's this time, but I have found their rate is usually the same as Costco. If you are not a member, that isn't enough of a discount to offset the membership fee.

Maddle

[Lewisc]

With some of the agencies the AMEX vouchers can only be used with high non-discounted rates. Do a search there have been a number of people who said using AMEX points for car rentals is a very bad deal.

[3DisneyNUTS]

With some of the agencies the AMEX vouchers can only be used with high non-discounted rates. Do a search there have been a number of people who said using AMEX points for car rentals is a very bad deal.


National would let you stack discounts so that with emerald club and entertainment coupons we would get our car for $40 for 8 days and 10 days was $60 after taxes total cash out of pocket. It looks like now we will be charging all of our purchases to Disney card at least to get the disney dollars.

[3DisneyNUTS]

That rate of $135 is pretty competitive. Using the Walmart code [ (BCD): W810011] it went down to $132.

Are you a member or Costco or BJ's Wholesale Clubs? The rate at Costco was about $10 less, and there is a coupon offered to bring it down a little more. I didn't try BJ's this time, but I have found their rate is usually the same as Costco. If you are not a member, that isn't enough of a discount to offset the membership fee.

Maddle
Thanks I will try the costco code since I have that membership. Could you pm me how to do it. I never tried through costco before. Do I call their travel number?

[salbythec]

I am going the end of April, I was able to book a full size car for 133.do(includes tax and fees)
I used alamo's site and two codes, a costco code and a code from dreams unlimited ( from the disboards)

The number for costco is 1-877-849-2730 you have to be a member to use this

[3DisneyNUTS]

Thanks Guys I just got off the costco website and it looks like I am going to go with their price and forget about cashing in the amex points. My total price is $128!! total including taxes for 6 days...Can't beat that with a stick LOL!