Alamo has different rate for Canadians?

[rickdl]

I was going through the list of Car Rental agencies in the Orlando Website looking for a Minivan rental in April from the Orlando Airport (MCO).

One very strange thing I noticed, is on the Alamo website, if I say I'm an American resident it gives me a normal rate, but as soon as I changed it to a Canadian resident and re-tried I got a much much lower rate.

I retried it a second time to confirm, still the same thing.. Is there some kind of hidden incentive for them to charge canadian residents a lower rate than americans?

I got $267.90 per week for a minivan, with $44.65 extra per day, so for 10 days it's $401.85 but I used the one-week e-coupon code that's on a link right on their home page, for an extra $20 off, so gives me $381.85 for 10 days total for a Minivan. Plus all the crappy taxes/surcharges it's $523.55 total. But that's still a huge discount off the quote they gave me if I was an american.

Oh forgot to mention that's including a $49.95 infant seat rental. So for others, it would have only been like $473 or so total.

Anyone else notice this? All of the other agencies gave me charges of around $600 to $809.28 for 10 days minivan with infant seat. Alamo's rate only became the lowest if/when I selected Canada as "Where do you Live?" question on the home page.

 

[bunnyfoo]

I think the Alamo site converts the total rental rate to Canadian funds at the bottom of the page. Is that what you mean? I noticed the last time I got a quote from the site, there was an estimated total and then an estimated total in Canadian. I've never priced out a quote as an American - if Canadians get a better rate, that great for us

 

[Ham Ham]

Apparently Alamo is tired of picking up all the timbit crumbs Canadians leave behind.

 

[rickdl]

I think the Alamo site converts the total rental rate to Canadian funds at the bottom of the page. Is that what you mean?

No, although yes it does show the quote in CDN dollars, it also shows the amount in american dollars at the same time on the left side. The american dollar amount is still much lower than the american dollar amount it shows for non-canadian residents.

I was just curious why Alamo is doing this, i.e. charging such a different rate through their website for Canadians in Orlando than US residents. Either way I'm happy to get such a low rate.