Picking up a rental in MCO, dropping at TPA...anybody done this?

[MFLetou]

Has anybody picked up a rental at MCO and dropped it off at TPA? The catch is that I need to rent a minivan. 9/9-9/19 would be the dates. It looks like I'm going to have to pay a pretty hefty premium for the TPA dropoff....anybody have hints?

 

[jlewisinsyr]

I played around with this one, I ended up flying in and out of TPA instead, and just sucked up the short ride between TPA and Disney.

 

[webworm]

Has anybody picked up a rental at MCO and dropped it off at TPA? The catch is that I need to rent a minivan. 9/9-9/19 would be the dates. It looks like I'm going to have to pay a pretty hefty premium for the TPA dropoff....anybody have hints?

Several major car rental companies do not charge a dropoff charge within the sate of Florida. I don't know what size vehicle you need but just checking Alamo with pickup at MCO and dropoff at TPA the total for a midsize is $212.25. That is using Costco ID 7014627 and E Coupon AD2332FDA for $30.00 off. I just noticed you required a minvan so total is $500.00.

 

[antney79]

We are doing the same thing at the end of september and the cost was no more than dropping of at mco or tpa. Who are you looking at for pricing?

 

[shoes99]

We rented from National Emerald Aisle, midsize, at Tampa and returned the car to Orlando airport. We did not pay a dropoff charge for the mid-size rental, and we picked up a G6 from the aisle. Nice drive to Tampa but it was 11PM and traffic was light.
I just went in and did a dummy rental for a mini-van picking up at Tampa and returning to Orlando for 7 days late Aug. The rates were over $500 but I didn't see a separate drop-off charge.

 

[MFLetou]

We rented from National Emerald Aisle, midsize, at Tampa and returned the car to Orlando airport. We did not pay a dropoff charge for the mid-size rental, and we picked up a G6 from the aisle. Nice drive to Tampa but it was 11PM and traffic was light.
I just went in and did a dummy rental for a mini-van picking up at Tampa and returning to Orlando for 7 days late Aug. The rates were over $500 but I didn't see a separate drop-off charge.

Tampa TO MCO doesn't seem to be a problem, its the other way around---I presume because the MCO market is so large, they don't mind having cars dumped into that inventory, but they don't want to lose vans to Tampa.

I will try those Alamo codes. I couldn't get Alamo or National under $800 using the 'normal' codes that were getting me $435 for 10 days with a MCO-MCO rental. Budget and Avis flat out aren't permitting me to do a TPA dropoff with a minivan from MCO (just the minivan--everything else was fine). My cheapest option was Thrifty/Dollar, both of which are charging a $125.00 "drop off" fee. Essentially that is pricing out to about $600--so the base rate is the same as an MCO-MCO rental with them, plus the $125.

 

[MFLetou]

Several major car rental companies do not charge a dropoff charge within the sate of Florida. I don't know what size vehicle you need but just checking Alamo with pickup at MCO and dropoff at TPA the total for a midsize is $212.25. That is using Costco ID 7014627 and E Coupon AD2332FDA for $30.00 off. I just noticed you required a minvan so total is $500.00.

This comes out o $555.00

Think I can do better?

 

[Pembo]

We used Alamo, pick up Mco, drop off TPA and no extra charges.