Let's hear about about L & M car rental

[Pluto4President]

hey stranger - you have a good trip as well. You leave the day after I get back.

 

[friskykitten]

I went ahead and reserved a minivan for the first week in June. The quote was $159.95; add in the taxes and fees and it comes to $209.68 total. Not bad when others are close to $400/wk. I tried to get a quote through travelocity but L&M wouldn't even come up. I got it to show about a month ago but not since then. I don't know why????

Hopefully I will even get a lower rate but I would be happy with what I got.

 

[Pluto4President]

Got my minivan today! 5 minutes - no probs - brand new Mercury Villager. Friendly & Courteous staff. Thumbs up!.



Footnote: EA had full sizes and one blazer - cya...

 

[pbhunt]

No Way Pluto! You have a laptop and time to post? Thanks for the info on L&M, we would have taken the Blazer from National, if, of course we'd been there! We're going with our $65/4 day quote from National, hope they'll honor it. Have a wonderful time on your vacation, best wishes...Patti

 

[friskykitten]

Thanks for the report Pluto!! I was wondering about their minivans. The one on the website looks like a Windstar and the Kia Sepphia everyone keeps talking about must be a Kia Sadoma. I think the Sepphia is a much smaller car (but not sure). But it is nice to know there are also Mercury Villagers. Any Dodge Caravans? And are the seats power adjustable? (Very short so I need power driver seat!!! )

Have a great time at Disney!!

 

[Pluto4President]

pb - no laptop sorry, sitting in the internet cafe aboard the Disney Magic - a little better than a lap top

frisky - they had a kia minivan, not sure the model, I asked for the villager. As for power seats, nope. Power windows, locks, rear a/c, rear stero control, remote key chain etc. Didn't see windstar, but they had loads of vans. All looked like they were in pretty good shape.

All in all, the experience was a pleasure, considering that I got a minivan for $195 with taxes for 8 full days. That was only $20 more than my fullsize with National.

The L&M lot is right next to the National lot. When you go up the escalator, it's first lot as you make a left, instead of first if you make a right.

The counter is just passed the National counter. No lines, and it was a breeze.

THEY DID ASK FOR INSURANCE PAPERS THOUGH!!!! I brought my declaration page and that was fine.

anything else?

 

[maiyasgram]

We rented from L&M last week. We had a midsize reserved, but was upgraded to a minivan on arrival. Total cost for the week including taxes and airport fees was $159.76. Pickup and return no hassles, I would definatley use them again.
Cherie

PS.....don't forget to bring proof of insurance

 

[CarolMN]

Thanks for all the posts on L & M. We have a minvan reserved with them for 2/14 -2/23. The price for 9 days is $181.93 plus tax.

I emailed their customer service asking what documents they would accept as proof of insurance. Here's the reply:


"From: "Customer Service" <services@lmcarrental.net> | Block Address | Add to Address Book
Subject: Re: L&M Car Rental, Customer Service E-mail At 1-12-2002 at 10:43:07 AM
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:39:32 -0500

Carol,

The insurance card that you carry in your wallet or vehicle will be
fine.
We just need something that is current to show you are coverd.
Allisn
Customer Service Rep"

 

[CaliforniaDreaming]

Pluto, could you please check to see what all they have for Luxury Cars when you return your minivan? Also, I got the rate of about $100 less than Dollar with L&M for a minivan, but it says that my dates are too far in advance. How far away from the pick-up date can you book?

One more question! They are telling me that a luxury car would be $741 while National is saying $460. Why is L&M's luxury car 3 times the price of their minivan?

Thanks!

 

[Pluto4President]

Oh Cali my boy,

I'll try and check out YOUR aisle Sunday when we return. As for the other questions, I would suggest emailing them or giving them a call for accurate answers...

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

I received a nice gift from L&M today. A virus. Luckily I have Norton set up to scan my mail.
I wrote and told them of it.
Lets hope only their email was affected by it.

 

[pbhunt]

Wow Pluto, I forgot you were on your cruise! Internet Cafe onboard is definitely nicer than a plain old laptop! Only 92 days, 4 hours..... until we leave, but who's counting? Have a wonderful vacation!

Gail, Virus infected e-mail from a major corporation? That's a little disturbing. I hope their online security with Credit Card #'s, personal info, etc. is OK or better than OK.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

I was a little surprised when I received the email and my virus program did its thing.
Then to find out it was from them really blew me away. I sure hope it was just their mailing/address book list. the virus was w32.badtransb@mm.enc and w32.bddtransb@mm
I copied the link so you all can see it.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.b@mm.html
This also covers the one with the "enc" at the end.

Sort of makes me edgy that a major company does not have a warning in place for things like this, but, of course they could be using Windows NT and never know about it.

 

[Pluto4President]

Jeeze- talk about icing on the cake Gail! You had a bad taste with them before that. Oh well, no virus, good service, new van, good price, no problems

By the way, hear the weather isn't that great there


Thanks PB - having a great time - in ST Maarten now - got a little tipsy topside - heat, sun, heineken - they don't match

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Hi,
Glad you did well with them. The weather here in CT is fine, we did have snow and it is melting, only had about 4".
The weather in Fla. for the week beginning on Friday, looks pretty darn good to me, mid to high 70's, sunshine, hey, works for me.
Enjoy yourself.

 

[Big V]

I feel sorry for you Pluto. NOT! Hope you're having a great vacation.

 

[Buckleybunch]

Does your insurance card work for proof of insurance?? I won't have time to go get my declaration page from the safety deposit box

 

[lawgs]

wonder if they would accept a photo copy of your current ....insurance "proof"...

would save having to take the proof out of the car and perhaps losing it in a day of magic in florida....

just wonder if they would accept that....but i do not think i will email them to ask......

 

[CarolMN]

Does your insurance card work for proof of insurance??

I sent them an email asking that very question. They said the insurance card/wallet card was acceptable. If you want to see the actual text of the reply, you can read my post on page 5 of this thread.

 

[Rolo]

L& M seems to have great prices, I got a minivan for $213/week !! The bad news, I got a virus from them. Thankfully, my Norton antivirus program worked. I would have thought they would have corrected the virus problem Gail reported two days ago already. I called them also to tell them of the virus. They acted as if it was all new news to them.. Humm Should I be worried about their reliability??