Rental cars at the hotels??

babesboo99

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We are driving from NY and we are thinking of renting a car to drive down and to drive back. My question is do they have rental cars at the hotels so we can drive back. we want to drop off the car when we get there and then rent to drive back no sense in spending that money to keep the car for all that time.
 
You may end up paying more with two one-way rentals.

When you make one-way car rental reservations, you have to specify your pick-up and drop-off locations.

The rate is often different than that's available when pick up and return at the same location. Often coupon codes are not valid for one-way rentals.

Although the traditional "one-way drop charge" is now rare, you're likely to find either a much higher daily rate or a rate with a per-mile charge in addition to the daily rate (instead of unlimited miles).

Sometimes you can get a great deal in one direction. When rental car companies need to adjust their fleets, such as moving cars north or south to reflect seasonal tourism patterns, you can find rates for next to nothing. But this requires luck and is likely to help you in only one direction.

You may find that your best bet is to keep the car while you're Florida. That way, you can rent and return at your home city (using the best rate code and coupon code you can find), and you'll have the benefits of a car while you're at WDW. With major car rental companies, geographic restrictions within the United States are rare, although you'll want to confirm that the unlimited free miles are good for driving throughout the United States.

To answer the actual question, Disney-owned WDW resorts do not have car rental counters, but cars are easy to return and/or rent on or near WDW property, with courtesy service between your resort and the rental car office. There's a "sticky" at the top of the DISboards Transportation forum.
 

As Horace just noted, you may find it less expensive to keep the car than to do two one-way rentals.

But, to help with your question:
- The easiest is Alamo/National. There are two locations: one at the Car Care Center (CCC) (located along the Magic Kingdom exit road) and at the Dolphin hotel. If you're staying at a Disney resort, the CCC is probably the best way to go. If you are picking up a car, you call the local Alamo office (number is on their website) a day ahead and tell them when you would like to be picked up (probably about a half hour ahead of your reservation time) and at which resort you would like to be picked up from. They'll drive you in the Alamo bus to the CCC. When you drop a car off, the Alamo shuttle will take you pretty much anywhere on property.
- There are also several hotels on Hotel Plaza Blvd (the road with non-Disney hotels next to Downtown Disney Marketplace) that have car rental agencies. I believe Avis is at the Hilton (which is directly across the street from Marketplace) and Dollar is at the Wyndham (also easily walkable from DTD). I believe Budget also has an agency...I want to say at the Doubletree, but I'm not sure about that.

Again, look into just keeping the car. Its nice to have at Disney and it might wind up less expensive.
 
Two one way rentals can tack on at least $125 in drop off fee's in both directions. OUCH $250 I would not want to part with.
 
yeah I guess we will just have to think it through a little bit more before we go in Oct. We are staying at the BCV
 












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