Dizneydaz
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I booked a Mid-size last week at Alamo for 11 days starting on Oct. 7th. It was $284 which isn't bad -much better than the almost $400 for National (for a midsize on the Emerald Aisle)
Yesterday I was able to book a new reservation at Alamo for.. wait for it...$184/11 days/complete for a Full Size! The rate on the full size was actually less than the mid-size.
That's only $17/day, complete!
I used Visa codes for the rental (those are the codes that got the lowest price). I found them on a link thru Mousesavers. All you need to do is pay for your rental with a Visa card.
Here's the info for the rate
Here's the link. There's a direct link to Alamo which will give the discount.
http://usa.visa.com/personal/discou...tegoryName=CarRental&categoryId=15&pageId=197
Now my booking starts at 11 p.m. on a Friday night (10/7) and ends around 6 p.m. on a Tuesday (10/18) which is 11 days.
I also checked for some relatives who are coming in on Sat. the 8th. Best I could get them for a Standard was $180. Which they are very happy with-they budgeted $400 for their car.
I booked a rate last week on Alamo and it was a better rate (by over $120) if I picked up at 12:00 a..m on 10/8 (Sat.) vs. 11:30 p.m. on Friday. Now it looks like the rate is better picking up on Friday night. It just shows that you really need to keep checking to see if your Alamo rates have fallen. They can fall for just a few hours and then head back up. There was one year when I rebooked twice in the 24 hours before our trip. It just kept fallling.
Oh, and I have a ressie with National that I will be canceling. Almost $400 for a Mid-Size! I can pick any car on the Emerald Aisle but for that rate I can get 2 at Alamo. I keep hoping National will fall but I don't think it will by that much. At least we still get to pick out our own car at Alamo and use the kiosk. And since we are getting in so late, there's a chance there won't be a Full Size vehicle we like. That happened about 3 years ago-there were about 3-4 families looking for a regular size car (I forget the exact descpription) and there was only one on the row. The attendant said we could take any car we wanted from the Emerald Aisle (even though we were with Alamo-I know, sister companies). Maybe we'll get that lucky this year.
Hope this helps someone.
For more information about my Pretrip Planning, please visit my PTR-see link in siggie below. Thanks.
Yesterday I was able to book a new reservation at Alamo for.. wait for it...$184/11 days/complete for a Full Size! The rate on the full size was actually less than the mid-size.
That's only $17/day, complete!I used Visa codes for the rental (those are the codes that got the lowest price). I found them on a link thru Mousesavers. All you need to do is pay for your rental with a Visa card.
Here's the info for the rate
This rate is good from 9/1/11 to 2/29/12
Here's the link. There's a direct link to Alamo which will give the discount.
http://usa.visa.com/personal/discou...tegoryName=CarRental&categoryId=15&pageId=197
Now my booking starts at 11 p.m. on a Friday night (10/7) and ends around 6 p.m. on a Tuesday (10/18) which is 11 days.
I also checked for some relatives who are coming in on Sat. the 8th. Best I could get them for a Standard was $180. Which they are very happy with-they budgeted $400 for their car.
I booked a rate last week on Alamo and it was a better rate (by over $120) if I picked up at 12:00 a..m on 10/8 (Sat.) vs. 11:30 p.m. on Friday. Now it looks like the rate is better picking up on Friday night. It just shows that you really need to keep checking to see if your Alamo rates have fallen. They can fall for just a few hours and then head back up. There was one year when I rebooked twice in the 24 hours before our trip. It just kept fallling.
Oh, and I have a ressie with National that I will be canceling. Almost $400 for a Mid-Size! I can pick any car on the Emerald Aisle but for that rate I can get 2 at Alamo.
I keep hoping National will fall but I don't think it will by that much. At least we still get to pick out our own car at Alamo and use the kiosk. And since we are getting in so late, there's a chance there won't be a Full Size vehicle we like. That happened about 3 years ago-there were about 3-4 families looking for a regular size car (I forget the exact descpription) and there was only one on the row. The attendant said we could take any car we wanted from the Emerald Aisle (even though we were with Alamo-I know, sister companies). Maybe we'll get that lucky this year.Hope this helps someone.
For more information about my Pretrip Planning, please visit my PTR-see link in siggie below. Thanks.
, have some nice extras, and have low mileage. Going in Sep. we have almost always gotten a new car.
