Honestly - I have never seen rates this high. Last year, for early June we paid about $118. for a 9 day mid-size through Alamo. It's not that I expect rates to be that low, but we are now looking at $700. for a 10 day compact.
Luckily, my company has a corporate rate set up with Hertz that I can use. At this time I am booked in a full size at $350. total. Not horrible, considering; but I prefer to use Alamo or National.
Try expedia.ca and for a prepaid rate you can get a compact for $215.54, midsize $221.00. full size $231.89CAN with Budget. All include taxes and fees. Us residents can book on expedia.ca as well. I just checked Jun 2 - 12th as an example.
Hi Everyone,
We're going down 5/1-5/8 and I was just plain shocked by what I saw regarding rates yesterday. I too looked at recent ressies and have not seen such high rates for National or Alamo. Yesterday I broke down and reserved with Hertz for $290 for aToyota Corrolla with AAA discount. I'm a member of Emerald Club and all other discount clubs but nothing seems to be less than $490 for just one week. Anyone have any good news lately with the big rental car companies?
Hang in there folks! When I first started looking for a car for our December trip I thought we might end up walking the rates were so high. About two weeks out the prices took a plunge. I got a compact for 5 days for less than $70. The guy at the counter thought it was a one day rental not 5 days because the price was so low. Many of the others I saw going in December also ended up with pretty good rates.
That's really what I'm hoping will happen. There can't be many people booking at this rate, so I can't imagine they won't drop the rates simply to increase the number of rentals.
Fingers crossed!!!
I will be there 5/1-5/8 and I reserved a compact car through Hertz for $276 with a coupon code. I still check back often,hopefully it will go down the closer it gets.
Just changed my reservation. Using Hertz I have a full size for the first week of May (7 day rental) for 268. It's 30 dollars cheaper than the CAA rate I booked.
I used the Global Sale code on the Hertz website. Make sure the code is in the box. Following one of the links on the site it didn't put the code in and gave me the full price. The code is 754910. It's worth a try
Did you try expedia.ca? I get a prepaid rate of $136.04 with Dollar or $143.07 inc taxes from May 5 - 12 for a full size. Oh cancel that I see you are flying into Lakeland so much more for a car rental than Orlando or Tampa.