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Car rental...WTF?

Hack

Hack

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I fly to Vancouver two or three times a year and usually end up paying about $400 to rent a car out of YVR for a week or so...
I need to go out in a couple of weeks, but... It looks like I'll be "borrowing" a family member's wheels this time..!!

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Ouch.. That is a steep increase.
 
Not sure about Vancouver, but I've always had success making an offer in person at airport car rental stands in the USA. (They'll usually accept just about anything in las vegas)
 
I had to rent one for 2 days last week from Enterprise at LAX. I booked a standard and it was $66 a day which is pretty much post pandemic pricing - maybe $5 more - with the 2 day total being $197. It seems very similar to the pricing in your quote.

Those hidden taxes and fees get you every time.

I ended up with a Mazda CX-30. Nice little car
 
Was in AB years ago with an original plan to drive down from Banf to Vancouver. They wanted an extra $500 just to drop the car at a different location. Decided to fly instead, never made it but that’s another story.
 
I noticed this recently when reserving a car in Austin for a potential trip down to the Americas GP at the end of September. Where I've usually been able to find a small car in the US for $40-50/day, they're now $100+/day. I checked other weekends, too, and it's not just an event rate...
 
Priller said:
I noticed this recently when reserving a car in Austin for a potential trip down to the Americas GP at the end of September. Where I've usually been able to find a small car in the US for $40-50/day, they're now $100+/day. I checked other weekends, too, and it's not just an event rate...
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I think rental companies liquidated a lot of stock. Crazy high used car prices and no rental demand. That can limit availability and drives up daily rate. With less rentals that also means that overhead per rental has to increase.

Don't worry, there is no inflation, don't look behind the curtain. Printing trillions of dollars was necessary to save us and there are no harmful side effects.
 
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During the pandemic, when hardly anyone was travelling, the rental agencies didn't need cars, so they sold them off. Now that it's recovering, we have a semiconductor shortage, and they can't get cars, so you pay for what limited supply there is.
 
jc100 said:
What about stealing one? Those airport car parks always seem full of cars.
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Then you'd have to pay for the airport parking, could be more than the rental...
 
Lightcycle said:
Alamo seems to be all out of Intermediates, so if you are tied to them, no wonder you are paying through the nose.
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'Not tied to any one company, but...they all seem to have jacked their rates.
In any case... Family has offered me a car.
Just have to decide... BMW or Acura.
 
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