Car Hire - Theoretical Question on being strung out

StuieUK34

Hey all,

This is a totally theoretical question...
Although am still fingers crossed we can fly to the US in mid Sep, i got this thought in the back of my mind that a rental firm (broker or renter) may pull a fast 1, maybe....

I booked us an SUV with rentalcars.com , using Thrifty, for a large SUV (expedition or similar)... , and i booked this a while ago....
Cost to us at time of full pay/pre-pay booking = £413
Cost to rent the same now, probably around £1k.....

Part of me thinks, what's there to stop the broker or rental firm just cancelling the booking, so they can demand more money, etc ?   (becoming of a loss of bargain, etc) .....
Just a thought...........

MasonJar

Not very likely. Prices go up and down all the time.

The worse case would be that if they are really busy and they are short on cars you may possibly be at the back of the queue. It happened to us at San Francisco airport when we rented at SUV and showed up to find neither an SUV or any other car available. In that case, they paid for a taxi for us to our hotel and then we had the SUV delivered the next morning.