Emerald Aisle 12/01

[DebbieB]

We arrived at MCO around noon. Our luggage took awhile to come, we made it over to National around 12:45. The EA was disappointing, intermediates only (some looked even smaller), Grand Am, Alero. Luckily, I had a full size reserved, so I went to that aisle. There were 15 or 20 cars, mostly Malibu's. I had a Malibu on one of our trips last year, I wasn't thrilled with it (it's kind of plain). I was hoping for a Camry, I loved the one I had last December, but no luck. So I took a Olds Intrigue with about 9,000 miles on it, inside was clean, non-smoking. I usually try to find a new car, I noticed most of the cars had 20,000+ miles. I have a feeling that since they are in bankrupcy they aren't replacing the cars as fast (I found cars under 1,000 miles on previous trips). I didn't any dirty cars like others described.

 

[zulaya]

I didn't hear that National was in bankrupty . I like the convenience of EA, but it's just been not stellar, nothing really exciting in the Aisle. Maybe 'cause too many people are going EA nowadays. I guess you just have to get there at the right time to be able to snag a good car for the price you pay.

 

[DebbieB]

Returned car today - it turned out to be $5 less than my internet reservation. The reason was that when I set it up originally, I put arriving at 12:00pm and returning at 1:00pm. We actually took it at 12:51 and returned it at 11:00am, so it was actually 1 less day. Even though the weekly rate was the same, when they divided it by 6 days instead of 7 for the one free day coupon, the discount was about $2 more and the taxes were less because one is a per day tax. So it ended up being $115 for 6 days after Disney Club discount, one free day & taxes.

I checked out the EA walking out of the garage this morning, there were some full sizes on the aisle but no vans or SUV's. Lots of full sizes in the regular aisle.