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Late picking up a rental car?
"Jimmy" wrote in message ... "Lawrence Akutagawa" wrote: The issue that I posed, just in case you miss it, has nothing to do with whether or not I know the answer. Instead, the issue is why you turn to us here for an answer rather than to the Alamo folks, given that you are most interested in Alamo. Companies often have unofficial grace periods and other customer courtesies that aren't part of their published rules. For example, people have discussed Southwest's flat tire rule, where if you arrive less than 2 hours late for a flight for a good reason, they'll let you take the next flight at no extra cost, even though the rules state otherwise. It's quite possible that the people who answer the 800 number will say something is forbidden, when in fact the employees on the ground allow it. That's why I'm interested in people's first-hand experience. In fact, two other posters *did* have just the information I was looking for, so asking this question here was a good idea. Happy trolling, Jimmy ****** Let me get this straight...you'll take the word of people here over what someone at Alamo says? That is essentially your rationale for asking this question here? So if a number of people here say that you can be as late as 12 hours and you show up two hours late only to find that your reserved car has been given to someone else because you didn't show up in the requisite time, you will complain that the Alamo counter person is wrong because a number of people on rec.travel.usa-canada in response to your question said that you can be as late as 12 hours. Do I have this right? |
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Late picking up a rental car?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Jimmy
wrote: :Binyamin Dissen wrote: : Jimmy wrote: : :1. Honor the rate, and set the return time to 4 pm Sunday : :2. Honor the rate, but I'd have to bring it back at noon Sunday : :or : :3. Make me pay the much higher walk-up rate : My experience has been (2). Of course, with all the nickel and diming : nowadays, that may have changed. :In another forum, several people said (1) is what they're supposed to :do. Was yours an unpaid reservation, or was it prepaid? Sorry. (1). Unpaid. In my cases the return time was predetermined. : P.S. With Alamo it is quite likely that you will be in line for a ho :(I assume you meant to say "hour". -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. |
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Late picking up a rental car?
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
: Jimmy wrote: : :1. Honor the rate, and set the return time to 4 pm Sunday : :2. Honor the rate, but I'd have to bring it back at noon Sunday : :or : :3. Make me pay the much higher walk-up rate Sorry. (1). Unpaid. In my cases the return time was predetermined. What do you mean by predetermined? Jimmy |
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Jimmy
wrote: :Binyamin Dissen wrote: : : Jimmy wrote: : : :1. Honor the rate, and set the return time to 4 pm Sunday : : :2. Honor the rate, but I'd have to bring it back at noon Sunday : : :or : : :3. Make me pay the much higher walk-up rate : Sorry. (1). Unpaid. : In my cases the return time was predetermined. :What do you mean by predetermined? I was leaving at a specific time anyway. I didn't stay longer because I arrived late. -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. |
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Late picking up a rental car?
Mark Brader wrote:
Jimmy Geldburg: What happens if you're late picking up a rental car, for which you have an unpaid reservation with a very low guaranteed rate? Tough **** can happen. Let's say I have a car reserved at noon on a Friday, for two days. If I pick up the car at 4 pm Friday, would they: 1. Honor the rate, and set the return time to 4 pm Sunday 2. Honor the rate, but I'd have to bring it back at noon Sunday or 3. Make me pay the much higher walk-up rate There's also 4. Have no cars available because they already assumed you weren't coming and rented the last one to someone else. I have no idea at what point that's likely to happen, but whatever their policy is on the rate, you should at least telephone them -- preferably, at the specific location where you're picking it up -- as soon as you know you're going to be hours late. Ditto. It's happened to me., if you are arriving by plane, always put the flight number on the reservation, so at least they'll know if the flight is delayed. If you don't.. you get there and all the rental counters are shut and you can be looking for a bus or taxi at midnight... |
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Jimmy wrote:
"Lawrence Akutagawa" wrote: The issue that I posed, just in case you miss it, has nothing to do with whether or not I know the answer. Instead, the issue is why you turn to us here for an answer rather than to the Alamo folks, given that you are most interested in Alamo. Companies often have unofficial grace periods and other customer courtesies that aren't part of their published rules. For example, people have discussed Southwest's flat tire rule, where if you arrive less than 2 hours late for a flight for a good reason, they'll let you take the next flight at no extra cost, even though the rules state otherwise. It's quite possible that the people who answer the 800 number will say something is forbidden, when in fact the employees on the ground allow it. That's why I'm interested in people's first-hand experience. In fact, two other posters *did* have just the information I was looking for, so asking this question here was a good idea. Happy trolling, Jimmy It's very simple. If you don't show up for hours and they have a queue of customers waiting for a car, then your car will be gone, and it could be the last one. T. |
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