Tagged: car-rental

Rent a Car for a One-Way Road Trip for $20 a Day with No Drop-Off Fees

Every spring, the major rental car companies need to spread their cars from warm-weather cities, where vacationers tend to go in the winter, to locations across the country where the…

COVID-19 Cancellation Policy Finder for Airlines, Cruise Lines, Hotels, and Other Travel Operators

LAST UPDATED: AUGUST 3, 2020 CLICK HERE for our ongoing live blog of COVID-19 coverage with updates on the latest developments. For customers who need to cancel or change vacation…

Now Car Renters Will Scan Your Face: Hertz Goes Biometric

Calculating your forehead-to-eye ratio to expedite a car rental? Sure! Anything to help trim a few minutes off the arduous process of approving paperwork. Hertz announced today its…

Drive to Florida in a Rental Car for Only $7.99 a Day

Winter is coming, and in Florida, so are the tourists. Each year, the major car rental companies shift their inventory to where the business is, and now that summer is ending, Hertz…

Do I Need Car Insurance When I Rent a Vehicle? Maybe Not

Insurance is a huge profit center for car rental companies. Because people who rent cars can be confused, scared, or rushed into agreeing to the extra charge, the major renters get…

Rental Car Rates Could Zoom Sky-High Thanks to Lobbyists

Today, the American Car Rental Association (ACRA), a lobbying group for the car rental industry, is wrapping up its annual Washington, D.C. "Legislative Conference," during which it…

British Virgin Islands Flights, LAX Car-Sharing, and Pennsylvania Cheese Tour: Today's Travel Briefing

JUNE 19, 2017 — Good morning, everybody! Here's the latest from the world's islands, parking lots, and culinary tours.NONSTOP FLIGHTS BETWEEN MIAMI AND BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS EXPECTED…

Want to Save a Ton of Money on Your Next Car Rental? We'll Show You How

Unprecedented rates of consolidation in the industry, pricey new centralized airport rental facilities (costs are nearly always billed back to the consumer), and a business model that…

When Travel Vendors Demand Your Home Address, Do You Have to Give it?

How much do they have the right to know about you?Because I travel so much, I use a post office box. It's a simple security trick that I recommend to everyone who…

The Only Rules You Need to Know for Driving a Car in the United Kingdom and Europe

Over on our busy message boards, the Forums, an interesting conversation has popped up in which Frommer's readers are compiling a list of all the rules a foreign driver would…

A New Online Travel Agency Allows Users To Hold Airfares, Without Full Payment, For Up to 21 Days

It was only a matter of time, it seems, before someone applied the rules that have long governed the “art” of Wall Street trading to the highly unstable airfare market. That…

Car Rentals Through Firefly, a New Brand, are Dramatically Cheaper than Others, So What's the Catch?

Firefly, a discount car rental brand, begins arriving at American airports this month. You might think it's a new competitor. As it turns out, everything about it is older than you…

What's New at Breckenridge Ski Resort, Colorado

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Colorado's Breckenridge Ski Resort (www.breckenridge.com) is definitely all grown up, typically running neck and neck with sister resort…

Best Smart Phone Apps for Business and Frequent Travelers

Soldiers may keep America free, but it's our nation's road warriors who keep our nation's economy strong. To help the troops in Operation Economic Rebound, we vetted the most popular…

How to Plan a Volunteer Vacation in 6 Steps

Integrating any amount of volunteer time into your next trip requires some research before you leave. But as countless volunteer veterans will tell you, it's worth the planning. You…

Park of the Week: Harry S Truman National Historic Site

I was a kid when my mother and I went to visit President Harry S Truman at his home in Independence, Missouri. My father, a good Republican, stayed in the car while she and I walked up…

Post-Flu Planning: All-Inclusive Mexico from $389 for 3 Days with Airfare

Travel can be a fickle, unpredictable thing, governed by all kinds of forces, some large, some small ... and some in the form of an internationally spreading strain of the flu that we…

Salt Lake City: A Little Bit Different

"Different by nature" is Salt Lake City's tourism slogan, and that's for sure a phrase that says it all. The capital of Utah is definitely unusual, from its location in a blazing hot…

Earmark Tourism: Your Tax Dollars At Work

Presidential candidate John McCain has made a big deal about government earmarks, those little bits of local color stuck onto federal funding bills. Tourist attractions are only a…

Hog Heaven: Motorcycle Adventures in the Smoky Mountains

The roads around the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina were made for motorcycles. Whether you own one or need to rent, discovering the beauty and majesty of the…

Stepping out of London and Into England's Charming Peak District

Where is the quintessential England? Is it London, is it Stratford? Like the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel, it may be here, it may be there, it may be everywhere. In my case, after a…

7 Strange Surcharges You Could Find on Your Next Trip

When Henry Harteveldt looks to the future of travel, he sees fees. Lots of fees.Take airline tickets, for example."The airlines are up in arms about the fees being charged by the…

Exploring the Forests of Western Arkansas

View Larger MapMention Arkansas to most nature-lovers, and they'll likely picture the Ozarks, the state's celebrated backwoods mountain range. But farther south (and extending into…