One Way Rental Cars?

great_lakes_mom
Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:48:52 +0000

I have rented cars one way at times, and costs vary widely. If you can somehow intuit what the rental company wants or needs it can be a good deal, like taking cars out of Phx to go north at the end of the spring tourist season. There is also some mysterious difference between leased locations for a company and main locations for a company.

When my S was going to Pitt, I used to get a one way from Pitt airport to Northern Illinois to get his stuff home. Rentals in IL were hundreds of dollars cheaper for a one way than going an hour N to our home in WI, and this was with Hertz. One way in the NW from Portland to Seattle was not to bad, but Bellingham to Seattle, very expensive. That main site/leased location thing again.

Budget has often been good to me with one way rentals. I very often pick up in a city and drop off at the airport for an additional $10 or so with various companies. This has saved me hundreds in Phx. and Denver, where the airport taxes are out of sight expensive.