Don't give up on rental car prices for Vegas. I had a previous reservation for $148 (compact) including taxes for mid-April. Just for fun I got on a website familiar to most of you and negotiated $8.00 per day for one week. Including taxes etc. it came to $121.72 and was ACCEPTED!
As William Shatner says, don't be a "namby pamby" (I guess).
Are you willing/able to divulge name of the site?
I'm no mamby pamby, but Shatner is actually a part owner of Priceline. He took a chunk of stock rather than a payment for services - then the stock tanked. Wonder how that negotiation thing worked for him....(-;
JW
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Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Rental Car Prices
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Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 1:15 PM
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I'm not sure if I can be a name dropper on this site or not. Let's just say that "WILLIAM's" site ensures that all of its vendors are premium rental agencies. And the agency that gave me the deal (through William) is probably at the top.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "aprvp78748" <roaches@...> wrote:
Are you willing/able to divulge name of the site?
I don't see any problem in saying Priceline is the company that William Shatner advertises.
As for rental car rates, I posted a couple weeks ago showing how my rates changed over the the 2 months before my trip.
I usually grab an initial rate and then check back periodically at rentalcars, travelocity and hotwire. A week before is usually a pretty low rate.
One thing I haven't tried to using the Rental Car Facility Wi Fi and checking my rate right before I pick up my car. I'm usually in a hurry. I might try that next time.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Bob" <bob972@...> wrote:
Don't give up on rental car prices for Vegas. I had a previous reservation for $148 (compact) including taxes for mid-April. Just for fun I got on a website familiar to most of you and negotiated $8.00 per day for one week. Including taxes etc. it came to $121.72 and was ACCEPTED!
As William Shatner says, don't be a "namby pamby" (I guess).
I do this all the time also. The rate at pick up usually either (1) drops to $10-20 (2) jumps to $80-100...depending on whether they have too many or too few cars.
My average car rental is $13/day + taxes = $21/day.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "johnnyzee48127" <greeklandjohnny@...> wrote:
I don't see any problem in saying Priceline is the company that William Shatner advertises.
As for rental car rates, I posted a couple weeks ago showing how my rates changed over the the 2 months before my trip.
I usually grab an initial rate and then check back periodically at rentalcars, travelocity and hotwire. A week before is usually a pretty low rate.
I'm not great on sharing info re video poker, but travel, never have a problem with, although some people are real gurus at this. I hear some of the prices people pay for rental cars, etc in Vega sand I'm floored-I'd never pay THAT.
My advice, even if traveling a couple of times a year, would be to get membership to the frequent renters clubs for Hertz, Avis, Dollar, Thrifty, and Alamo, and look at the current offers.
Fpr example, I have used Southwest RR credit multipliers on Alamo with great success over the last few years, and have gotten some pretty sweet deals through Quicksilver. Those deals have helped facilitate travel to casinos who don't reimburse transportation (mostly everything not owned by Harrahs). Those have tightened up some, but you can still find 3x with most agencies.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "tsaimitch" <tsai@...> wrote:
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "johnnyzee48127" <greeklandjohnny@> wrote:
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> I don't see any problem in saying Priceline is the company that William Shatner advertises.
>
> As for rental car rates, I posted a couple weeks ago showing how my rates changed over the the 2 months before my trip.
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> I usually grab an initial rate and then check back periodically at rentalcars, travelocity and hotwire. A week before is usually a pretty low rate.I do this all the time also. The rate at pick up usually either (1) drops to $10-20 (2) jumps to $80-100...depending on whether they have too many or too few cars.
My average car rental is $13/day + taxes = $21/day.
Has anyone tried using priceline.com for renting a car? I've had great success renting cars there by bidding for them. I got a car in Ft. Lauderdale for $10 a day for a full size car. I was paying more for taxes a day than for the car rental.
All you have to do is scroll down the page to where you bid for cars, hotels and airfare. You can even bid for a vacation package. I got a package for Florida where the price I paid was the same as I would have paid for just the airfare, so I essentially got the rental car and hotel for free. Check it out for your next vacation.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "WP SF" <paladingamingllc@...> wrote:
I'm not great on sharing info re video poker, but travel, never have a problem with, although some people are real gurus at this. I hear some of the prices people pay for rental cars, etc in Vega sand I'm floored-I'd never pay THAT.
My advice, even if traveling a couple of times a year, would be to
Why won't you mention Priceline.com? There's no rule against using names.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Bob" <bob972@...> wrote:
Don't give up on rental car prices for Vegas. I had a previous reservation for $148 (compact) including taxes for mid-April. Just for fun I got on a website familiar to most of you and negotiated $8.00 per day for one week. Including taxes etc. it came to $121.72 and was ACCEPTED!
As William Shatner says, don't be a "namby pamby" (I guess).