Car Rental during Peak Seasons

I have to go to Florida in December, and I was checking the car rental
prices at MIA and FLL, where the peak season rates (I guess after 12/15)
are around $90 per day for a compact car. Then I checked the car rental
rates for places like Enterprise's non-airport locations, and the rate
is around $35 per day. This is a good method to use if you can get to
one of the non-airport locations and back for not a lot of money.

"SMS" wrote in message
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I have to go to Florida in December, and I was checking the car rental
prices at MIA and FLL, where the peak season rates (I guess after 12/15)
are around $90 per day for a compact car. Then I checked the car rental
rates for places like Enterprise's non-airport locations, and the rate is
around $35 per day. This is a good method to use if you can get to one of
the non-airport locations and back for not a lot of money.

I was trying to find a rental car for Mon.-Sat. of Thanksgiving week
(another peak season) at SMF (Sacramento). The cheapest I could find on
Orbitz was nearly $300 for an economy car. I checked Hotwire and found an
economy for $187. Then I tried a lowball bid of $20/day ($111 total, with
taxes and fees) on Priceline and got a MID-SIZED. Like the song says, you
better shop around.

J-Man wrote:
"SMS" wrote in message
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I have to go to Florida in December, and I was checking the car rental
prices at MIA and FLL, where the peak season rates (I guess after 12/15)
are around $90 per day for a compact car. Then I checked the car rental
rates for places like Enterprise's non-airport locations, and the rate is
around $35 per day. This is a good method to use if you can get to one of
the non-airport locations and back for not a lot of money.

I was trying to find a rental car for Mon.-Sat. of Thanksgiving week
(another peak season) at SMF (Sacramento). The cheapest I could find on
Orbitz was nearly $300 for an economy car. I checked Hotwire and found an
economy for $187. Then I tried a lowball bid of $20/day ($111 total, with
taxes and fees) on Priceline and got a MID-SIZED. Like the song says, you
better shop around.

Well I finally got a price from Hertz of $45/day for a compact, versus
$38 from Enterprise, so it was worth not having someone drive down ferry
us back and forth to the airport. There was a big difference in rates
between the Hertz rate and the next rate up, $500/week for the second
tier rental companies, and $550 for National, Alamo, Budget, and Avis.

I might try a low-ball bid on Priceline in a few weeks.