What have you seen on the EA? (running thread)

[MickeyCrazed]

Arrived at the Asile on Saturday 1/25 and found a fantastic selection. Several Chevy Trackers, Suzuki SL7s, Jeep Wranglers and Toyota Camrys. We ended up with a PT Cruiser with only 4k miles. We had reserved a full size, but couldn't resist the opportunity to try out the PT Cruiser. It was a really cute car, with a "big" car feel. It was the smallest car that I have driven in about 10 years, and found it to be "quite comfortable."
However, I wouldn't want to be stuck in the backseat of that car. It seemed very cramped back there!

 

[shoes99]

Arrived on Wed 1/29 and there were one van, pt cruisers, lots of mid size cars, we chose a Mitsubishi Gallant again, even though I knew I had to open the trunk from the inside of the car. We like the Gallant and had no problems with the car. Still couldn't find the outside trunk key slot. I don't think it has one. We had a good 5 day rental with no problems

 

[grumpyandbashful]

We arrived on Saturday, Feb. 1, late afternoon. On the aisle there were tons of intermediate and full size cars, and nothing else except for one pick-up truck . We stood around a little while waiting for something more fun, but nothing showed up, so we just picked up a Chevy Malibu and took off. Plenty of legroom and trunk space for the two of us.

 

[DebbieB]

Arrived around 4:30pm on Thursday, February 6th on A side. The EA had Gallants, Centurys, Camrys. There were 4 of us so we took a red Grand Prix off the full size aisle, looked bigger than the others. It only had about 700 miles, had a moon roof and leather seats. Great car!

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

Still couldn't find the outside trunk key slot. I don't think it has one. We had a good 5 day rental with no problems

There isn't one.

 

[GAIL HAYDEN]

We arrived about 6 pm on Sat. 2/1 and there was really nothing of note on the aisle EXCEPT a ton of Galants. Looked like a clearance sale for them. We took an Intrepid from the full size aisle. Very poor selection.
We were on the B side.

 

[DebbieB]

Bump

Any recent reports?

 

[ncligs]

We arrived on Feb 14th(12:00 pm) and there were a lot of Gallants and Camrys.We just missed getting a PT Cruiser by 2 minutes.There was 2 of them and vacationers was just putting there luggage in the trunk .We ended up taking a Dodge Stratus, I refuse to drive a "foreign car" at any time.

 

[Hawkeye314]

We arrived in Fort lauderdale very late last Saturday night and went to the EA aisle at National (after waiting 25 minutes for a bus to take us to National which is different than MCO). All my son wanted us to rent was a PT Cruiser. he'd been talking about it for days. As the bus pulled up, there one was in the EA aisle. My wife ran up to it as I unloaded the massive amount of luggage for our family of five.

My wife quickly realized that the cargo area of the PT Cruiser was somewhat small and we would be in a bind as we drove with all of the luggage. A nice National employee asked her if we wanted an SUV and she responded that we would but that we didn't want to pay extra for it (by the way, there were about 4-5 other, more typical cars in the EA lot at that point).

As I approached he told me that I could "take care of him" and he would bring an SUV to me.

I gave him $10 and he brought me a brand new Chevy Blazer, marked it Emrald Aisle on the front and even helped me load in the luggage.

What a deal! I got an SUV for eight days in South Florida during President's Week for $200 (plus the $10 tip)!

 

[NanaDarling]

Bump.

Any reports from EA this week?

 

[mkymouse4ever]

 

[disney4me4ever]

Hi~

Thanks to the folks on this board, we had the smoothest car rental ever! Not much noteworthy on EA when we picked up our rental on 3/3. Mostly Galants, a couple Corollas. We wound up taking a Dodge Stratus, because DH is tall and needed the room.

Nancy

 

[maps]

arrived 2/26/03
other than the usual mid and full cars reported in the other posts
there wasn't much else
there was one chevy tracker that we took but didn't like it
the back was cramped, the back door swung out and you needed a lot of room behind you because it always fully opened, and the engine always seemed to rev out of control when you stepped on the gas
it did have a lot of head room though

 

[Melynny]

Thursday Feb 6th 9:30pm arrival...

Loads of cars. corollas, camrys, pt cruisers, full size pickup with 4 doors, galants, one small suv, centurys, malibus, chryslers.. midsize and one full size, monte carlo,

I picked a pt curiser so it would be easy to find.. not too happy with it but it held all of our luggage with the seat down ( me and mom traveling together).

 

[Gillian]

Saturday March 1, 10 PM (?)
Lots of cars on the Aisle but nothing thrilling - 2 Chrysler Concordes (looked nice & big), a chevy Venture van with people loading stuff into it, 2 Chevy trackers or Suzukis, a few Galants, a bunch of smaller than full size cars. It's possible there was a PT Cruiser, but I knew they would be too small for us.

I was looking for a Camry (no luck) and was heading over to the full size aisle when an attendant asked if he could help. It was late & I was very tired (flight delays, travelling with a 2 year old) and just said, "is there anything bigger?" He told me to take a minivan from the minivan aisle. So I did. He assured me it wouldn't be a problem, and it wasn't. I felt guilty though, because those concordes were plenty big enough for 4 people.

 

[mkymouse4ever]

 

[lawgs]

last year when we found a concorde on the aisle and went to chekc out.....the attendant told us we would have to pay more for that car since it was a "premium" .....even though we found it on the "full size" aisle ...we had reserved full size but did not see anything we liked on EA....

the check out attendant told us someone must have parked it in the wrong aisle.....guess it has something to do with the "mirror hangar placard" that you have to give into the booth....it must detail how the car can be allotted....


saying that ......what happened to the person ( gillian ) who got the mini van......did they change the " placard" before you checked out...

just wondering

 

[Gillian]

You know, they may have. I know there were 2 numbers written on it, one crossed off, but I think it was like that before we took it.

Those Concordes I saw were EA. I never made it over to the full size aisle.

 

[DebbieB]

Any reports since they have changed the rules for EA?

 

[Kitster]

Any information in the past few days??? inquiring minds want to know