When renting online ALWAYS print the confirmation and bring it with you. I have found deals with discount codes and so forth that the local branch wanted to not honor, but I had my confirmation in hand.

During my last trip to Hawaii over Christmas and New Years in Honolulu the online rates for that week for your basic crap box economy car was ranging $600-$700 for the week. I had booked through a source and got a rate of $245 for the week. Trust me, they did not want to honor it but I had the confirmation from the company website. They had no choice.

 

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Many credit card companies have this coverage. Read the fine print though. If you are renting anything other than a regular car to drive on regular roads it's great, but if it's a jeep or off road vehicle there are exceptions to the coverage. I know someone who got screwed by this.

 

Did they attempt to go rock crawling?

 

this is correct. they always stipulate in the fine-print about no off-road use.

the same can go for renting trucks to tow with, so make sure you ask before you do.

 

Took it on the beach. Got stuck during low tide.



High tide=Sunk jeep.

 

You can get discounts easily. I recently rented from hertz to drive to new mexico to go skiing. I applied the family discount coupon from simply google searching 'hertz coupons' online and negotiated 75$ of my 5 day rental by calling after the reservation and acting like I found a better deal and very politely asking if they can budge a little on the price.

 

hertz also has the special edition shelby mustang. meh.

https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/byr/index.js...United%20States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Mustan...-2008_Shelby_GT

 

They also have special edition corvettes and in some places lotus elises. I have a friend who rented one of the stangs and enjoyed it.

 

enterprise had some elises in las vegas a few years ago.