Airport Car Rental Tips

Shopping on the Internet can be the quickest and best way to compare many Rental Car rates at Airports. The days of phoning every car rental company to see who's got the best rates are a thing of the past. Browse through many of the car rental booking engines on the Web and enter your destination and dates in the privacy of your office or home. It will search every car rental company in the area, saving you dozens of phone calls, and return a list of options arranged by price. It will even return the names of some local companies that you might not know about. If you like any of the rates you see, you can reserve the car with the click of a key on your laptop. Try renting a car over the web, click here to start comparing Airport Car Rentals at USA Airports.

Make your reservation as soon as you have decided on plans. Most Airport Rental Car Companies increase their rates as reservations come in and their fleets become booked. Also, certain classes of cars will sell out faster and you may have to end up reserving and paying for a larger vehicle than you want.

Book the smallest car that you will need and hope for a free upgrade. But, remember you may get stuck with that small car. The smallest cars have the cheapest rates, and if the location doesn't have a subcompact when you arrive, they'll give you a free upgrade to the next smallest vehicle they have on the lot. The people who deliver cars to satellite locations (called shuttlers) don't like squeezing into subcompacts any more than you do, so they don't stock the lot with small cars unless they have to. In locations with very few cars, you will often, as a result, be given a full size car for the price of a subcompact. And if they do have a subcompact, and you want a bigger car, you can always ask for an upgrade on the spot, but there's no reason not to try for the lower rate. This strategy surely won't work at a giant airport like Miami's, where there are hundreds of cars (and therefore dozens of subcompacts) on hand. But it will work in downtown locations and smaller airports with room for only a few cars.