Car rentals

[Cobster]

Looking to rent a car for 4-5 days.
Any of you have any experience with the stuff and if so, who has reasonable rates and what should I look out for?

 

[Serpent]

Looking to rent a car for 4-5 days.
Any of you have any experience with the stuff and if so, who has reasonable rates and what should I look out for?

In my experience, Enterprise is reasonable + they'll pick you and drop you off after the rental is returned.

One thing you might want to check is if your CC has rental insurance that covers collision and medical. If so, do not buy the rental company's daily insurance which can be a significant amount.

 

[wpgguy]

In my experience, Enterprise is reasonable + they'll pick you and drop you off after the rental is returned.

One thing you might want to check is if your CC has rental insurance that covers collision and medical. If so, do not buy the rental company's daily insurance which can be a significant amount.

Check with the company you buy your auto insurance from, or any insurance company for that matter. I don't know how it works in Ontario but in Manitoba you can buy rental car insurance from MPIC (gov. run auto ins.) for a fraction of the cost of the rental companies rate. Usually works out to about $4.00/$5.00 a day, or less, depending on the length.

I usually use Enterprise as well, used National a couple of times and all three times the cars were filthy inside when I picked them up. Every complaint was answered with "Oh, sorry about that" nothing more.

 

[Edifice]

This topic was covered a few weeks back.

 

[doinker]

check out www.carrentals.com and do a quick search there i rented from them in august a one week rental in calgary was $197 unlimited km

 

[cain3715]

http://www.zipcar.com/

You can rental hourly & daily.

You have to join as a member. Rates are in the $60's for regular cars and $80's for a higher end car (daily). The prices include insurance and they provide a gas card (so insurance and gas is included in your rental price). However, there is a daily mileage limit of 150 km.

If you need to get a membership right away, you can sign up on the web and then go into their office to pick up your membership card. The membership car is cool. You can place the membership card close to the wind shield and it opens the car you've reserved through the website. There are cars all over Toronto that you can pick up at random parking spots.