Rental Car Dropoff Fee

I would like to take a driving vacation anywhere in the US or Canada in
which I rent a car in one city, drive 750 to 2000 miles in two weeks
seeing the sights on the way, and return the car to another distant
city. I would like to avoid a drop off fee. How can I get a list of
pairs of cities for which there is no dropoff fee without having to
enter hundreds of pairs of cities into a car rental company's web page
in search of the desired outcome?

Marty wrote:

I would like to take a driving vacation anywhere in the US or Canada in
which I rent a car in one city, drive 750 to 2000 miles in two weeks
seeing the sights on the way, and return the car to another distant
city. I would like to avoid a drop off fee. How can I get a list of
pairs of cities for which there is no dropoff fee without having to
enter hundreds of pairs of cities into a car rental company's web page
in search of the desired outcome?

No idea, but why not do it as a loop so you return to the same city?
We've done this driving from New Jersey, although admittedly on longer
loops than two weeks.

--
Evelyn C. Leeper
God grant me the company of those who seek the truth,
and God deliver me from those who have found it. -Isaac Newton

Marty wrote:
I would like to take a driving vacation anywhere in the US or Canada in
which I rent a car in one city, drive 750 to 2000 miles in two weeks
seeing the sights on the way, and return the car to another distant
city. I would like to avoid a drop off fee. How can I get a list of
pairs of cities for which there is no dropoff fee without having to
enter hundreds of pairs of cities into a car rental company's web page
in search of the desired outcome?

I'm not sure there are such city pairs. There are regions that are
considered the "same place". In some areas they can be pretty large.
But I don't think they are 2000 miles kinda large. If anything, there
might be "destinations" to which they won't charge a drop off fee
because it is a place to which they want cars to go. But that could
be a very seasonal kinda thing.

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:58:56 -0500, "Evelyn C. Leeper"
wrote:

Marty wrote:

I would like to take a driving vacation anywhere in the US or Canada in
which I rent a car in one city, drive 750 to 2000 miles in two weeks
seeing the sights on the way, and return the car to another distant
city. I would like to avoid a drop off fee. How can I get a list of
pairs of cities for which there is no dropoff fee without having to
enter hundreds of pairs of cities into a car rental company's web page
in search of the desired outcome?

No idea, but why not do it as a loop so you return to the same city?
We've done this driving from New Jersey, although admittedly on longer
loops than two weeks.

Possibly, like me, to minimise duplication, see a wider
range of country and reduce the length of my next airflight.
I'll be going NYC to Chicago via Quebec and Niagara, so I'm
also interested in the responses to this thread. That cuts
my next flight from six hours to a bit over four.

I did similar trips last time (LA-San Juan, New Orleans-DC)
but found my cars the tedious, many tries way then.

Cheers, Alan, Australia

Hi!

Marty wrote:
I would like to take a driving vacation anywhere in the US or Canada in
which I rent a car in one city, drive 750 to 2000 miles in two weeks
seeing the sights on the way, and return the car to another distant
city. I would like to avoid a drop off fee. How can I get a list of
pairs of cities for which there is no dropoff fee without having to
enter hundreds of pairs of cities into a car rental company's web page
in search of the desired outcome?

Sometimes you have special offers from some agencies:

- A German TA offered:
Pick up in Boston
Drop off at LGA
(via Hertz), no fee!

- Another Germann TA offered:
Pick up in CA
Drop off in Seattle(OR)
(via AVIS), no fee!

I used both of them.

Both offers were not available directly from Hertz/Avis.

--
Gunter Herrmann
Orlando, Fl.