Car Hire Florida - please advise on my options

heatherbelle_3

Hi all,

I have done my research on car hire and have the following options but I am stuck on what is the best option...

Orlando MCO 9/10/09 - Miami MIA 23/10/09 - all budget 2dr as its only the 2 of us

Lastminute (with 6.9% cashback quidco) = £200
what car hire company is this as it isn't stated

USrentacar = £208
With Budget

Holidayautos = £170 (thanks to an MSE link via Virgin Money)
what car hire company is this as it isn't stated?

Netflights = £201 (5% cashback)
with thrifty

Alamo.co.uk = £216 (with 6.5% back with quidco)

Obviously HolidayAutos is cheapest but I have not used them before - I have used usrentacar before and they were fine, but they do offer free extra driver. My OH does all the driving anyway so I guess it isn't a big deal if we miss out on it (i certainely wouldn't pay the additional £100odd for it!)

So does anyone know what company the lastminute/holidayautos would be with?

Are Holiday autos ok?

Many thanks for all the help

Zebrdee

When I went to Lastminute, it redirected to Holidayautos
I just had to make this choice and went with Netflights and Thrifty, if that helps.
Try to avoid Dollar.

eslick

I have copied the below form another thread I commented on might also help. For the last few years we have used fifteen02.com , always search around but for our dates they have been the cheapest.

cheapest isnt always the best, if things go wrong you need a good broker or company that will help you. we had an issue a few years ago and the car rental company wouldnt help, said we didnt have insurance when we had paid for it, needed to pay again or we wouldnt have been covered, tried to get the rental company to help and they didnt even respond to emails. Last year the car rental company didnt have any cars ready when we got there, they sorted us out after an hour they had had a backlog of cleaning them, when we checked a few days later they had given us a lower class car, their central call number told us to take it back but being hundreds of miles from the original depot took it to a local one where we were told it was the correct size.

On both of these occasions it was the broker who got our cash back, looking for next year and been tempted by netflight with thrifty or one through a broker that uses car trawler both are cheaper but googled them and saw the customer service reviews and would rather pay the extra and then if anything goes wrong I know we will be helped

Nordictat2

Zebrdee wrote: »

When I went to Lastminute, it redirected to Holidayautos
I just had to make this choice and went with Netflights and Thrifty, if that helps.
Try to avoid Dollar.

I've used Dollar in the US many times with no issues.

We have also used Holiday Autos in the past as well and we ended up with Hertz. They were... so/so.

neilbond007

Zebrdee wrote: »

When I went to Lastminute, it redirected to Holidayautos
I just had to make this choice and went with Netflights and Thrifty, if that helps.
Try to avoid Dollar.

I've also used netflights / Dollar on at least 30 occasions. Always been spot on for me (and normally the cheapest)!

Jaxt

I used yescarhire.com and we actually picked our car up from Alamo at Lake buena vista. Our friend who has lived in Florida for 6 years told us about them and they were certainly cheaper in the middle of august than anyone else.I booked there actually but found my receipt came from London.We cot an economy 4 door as it only made a couple of quid difference and got a Kia saloon auto.

heatherbelle_3

does anyone have any bad experience of holiday autos then?

wanye

when i booked last year for two weeks from sanford, i used easycar.com (who did quidco cashback) who went via alamo

think it cost me around £180 for two weeks. just watch out for additions to the bill like a $5/day breakdown insurance, which can add a fair whack to the total once you get home.

hth