Picking Up Rental - Dumb Question Ahead

[stephd219]

When you pick up your rental, does one person from your party go pick up the car while the rest wait in the waiting area near the counters or do you all shlep down to the garage and get the car?

We have always ALL gone down to get the car with all the luggage, and it's a huge pain. If DH goes and gets the car, is there a pick-up area near the doors where the rental counters are located? Will the return to this area be obvious from the parking garage?

 

[gmeh1]

When you pick up your rental, does one person from your party go pick up the car while the rest wait in the waiting area near the counters or do you all shlep down to the garage and get the car?

We have always ALL gone down to get the car with all the luggage, and it's a huge pain. If DH goes and gets the car, is there a pick-up area near the doors where the rental counters are located? Will the return to this area be obvious from the parking garage?

You cannot access the lower level of the terminal. You would have to wait upstairs at arrivals/baggage claim for your DH to pick you up. The lower level is for busses, cabs and others on "official" business, not passenger vehicles.

There are signs directing folks to the arrival flights/ baggage claim area.

 

[bumbershoot]

You cannot access the lower level of the terminal. You would have to wait upstairs at arrivals/baggage claim for your DH to pick you up. The lower level is for busses, cabs and others on "official" business, not passenger vehicles.

Well, you *can* access it if you misread the signs, turn at the wrong time, and end up in a place where you can't just back up. Thankfully, they have signs telling you what to do (push the button, the gate raises, go on through on a drive of shame past all the people who are supposed to be in there, then I think you push another button to get out, shamefaced).


But since you don't want to do that (trust me, you don't, it's embarrassing), the driver would have to find their way out, around, and then to the other area where you can be picked up.

 

[gmeh1]

Well, you *can* access it if you misread the signs, turn at the wrong time, and end up in a place where you can't just back up. Thankfully, they have signs telling you what to do (push the button, the gate raises, go on through on a drive of shame past all the people who are supposed to be in there, then I think you push another button to get out, shamefaced).


But since you don't want to do that (trust me, you don't, it's embarrassing), the driver would have to find their way out, around, and then to the other area where you can be picked up.

Very true, but, they can make you back up from that gate if there is nothing behind you. Granted, they don't do that often, but, it is congested enough in that area, simply stated, private passenger vehicles are not allowed in that area.

 

[stephd219]

Thanks for the help. Guess we will all be heading down to the rental area.

 

[seashoreCM]

It can be confusing trying to bring the car and rendezvous with the rest of your party standing at the arrivals curbside. Many pylons holding up the awning look alike. Also the rest of your party has to be waiting at a car area, not a bus area or taxi area, all of which alternate down the curbside.

 

[bumbershoot]

Very true, but, they can make you back up from that gate if there is nothing behind you. Granted, they don't do that often, but, it is congested enough in that area, simply stated, private passenger vehicles are not allowed in that area.

OH, I wasn't saying it to make people go there. It was a warning to make sure of where you're turning, because it's really embarrassing.

I really doubt if they would make you back up, because it would be incredibly dangerous to do so. From memory, the turn is a fairly tight left, off of speedy traffic, so you'd be backing up, turning, blindly, into traffic that's moving along at a good clip.

That's why they have the signs telling dingbats like me what to do, now that they've gotten themselves into that situation. (we had left something at the Hyatt, and were just trying to get back to the Hyatt a few days later to pick it up, and I mis-read the signs...I was so worried about accidentally ending up in the rental car lot, with my rental car that we were NOT yet returning, that I made the mistake)

 

[gmeh1]

OH, I wasn't saying it to make people go there. It was a warning to make sure of where you're turning, because it's really embarrassing.

I really doubt if they would make you back up, because it would be incredibly dangerous to do so. From memory, the turn is a fairly tight left, off of speedy traffic, so you'd be backing up, turning, blindly, into traffic that's moving along at a good clip.

That's why they have the signs telling dingbats like me what to do, now that they've gotten themselves into that situation. (we had left something at the Hyatt, and were just trying to get back to the Hyatt a few days later to pick it up, and I mis-read the signs...I was so worried about accidentally ending up in the rental car lot, with my rental car that we were NOT yet returning, that I made the mistake)

You would have been better of hitting the return area. They would have let you out.
I did not think that you were telling people to go there. It is dangerous to back up, but, I have seen it. SCARY.