FYI - Dollar Rate Dropped for Late June

[keishashadow]

Just booked a ressie yesterday with Dollar for 8 days end of June.

Just checked; it dropped $20

Now I've got a compact for $200.

Didn't use any code; just clicked on the city special.

Booked the compact in lieu of the intermediate becasue it stated that:

Compact (Caliber) seats 5 pp & 2 large & 3 small bags

vs

Intermediate (Sebring) 5 pp & 1 large & 1 small bag

Seems odd to me, sure hope whatever we get will hold our stuff lol.

Q After checking in @ desk in terminal; when you stroll over to the garage; do you get to select your car ala Alamo & National or are you assigned a specific vehicle.

 

[I'mNoPrince]

They assign a car for you at Dollar.

I have a Caliber /Compact reserved for the 1st week of June at their DTD hotel location for $125 for 7days. KISS2 code

we are going with the compact as we only need it to get around and do grocery runs. I just wonder what they will give if out of calibers.

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

We also got a great rate on a compact with Dollar for our upcoming October trip.

If you haven't already, sign up for the Dollar Express program ... It doesn't cost anything and you will have a special line for faster pickup.

I just wonder what they will give if out of calibers.

We asked a similar question in a previous thread (http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1356883) and someone posted that they *never* had the class of car they booked, however they booked Economy and got a Compact most of the time, and a Mid-size every now and then.

I guess we'll have to wait and see what we get when we arrive.

 

[I'mNoPrince]

My problem is we booked a full size when it was a Magnum ,Then they switched to the Chargers . But I still ended up with a stinking Taurus ,I really hate that car.

I just couldn't find what the older Compacts were. I really like the Calipers and have seen them at the DTD location each time I reserved there even tryied to switch out my Taurus for one but they wanted to charge me more.

 

[englishteacha]

You might want to try your dates using the KISS2 code...the city special was great at $202 total, but KISS2 brought it down to $162 for 8 days in June! Wahooo!

 

[sammielynn]

The best I can find at dollar is $192 for a compact for May 27 - June 5. Is this a good rate.
Also I read on the another post that Dollar just does not seem to have economy cars on their lot and if you book one you will get a compact. I wonder if that is worth the risk?

 

[keishashadow]

All the codes & corp. id's added another $20 to the ressie; will keep checking though - amusing that I now consider $200 to be a good rate. The fly in the ointment seems to be the extra day charge (ranging from $35 to $20+).

Since we never seem to get what car they feature on the web-sites, I too wonder what's sitting on the aisle. Think I'll start another thread lol.

I'm just worried that a compact won't hold our luggage. We got stuck with a PT cruiser once when Alamo ran out of mid-sized suvs & it would only hold 1 large bag in the trunk and had to have youngest DS sit on luggage.