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Car rental rant and tip

KatieK501KatieK501 member
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I wanted FI to take care of all the honeymoon stuff, but for some reason I ended up researching for car rentals.  We're going to Banff, Canada, flying in to the Calgary airport and driving about an hour to Banff.

I don't rent a lot of cars, but prices seemed outrageous!  I called and asked them if they could explain some of the $150 fees that they charge.  The only explanation they could give was that they're "airport" fees.  I got on the airport's website and found out they have a limited stop bus that runs between the airport and downtown - and one of the stops has tons of car rental places around it.  To rent from the same company at their downtown location is almost half the price - the per day cost is lower as well as only $30 in taxes.  It might be a slight pain to deal with luggage on the bus....but at half price, I think we can deal.  And we can drop off at the airport.

It seems like such a scam that the same company charges so much more because they know people coming off planes will need cars and will probably not check around to see there are cheaper options.

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  • mekiakoomekiakoo member
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    Don't get me started on this. I am still so pissed at ours. Our flight was supposed to land at 10 PM, but it got changed to midnight. The car rental is only open until 11. Damn it- so we contacted them and they said they'll charge us another $100 to keep the rental open until we land. They also said if we wait until the next day (taking a shuttle to our hotel near the airport for the night), we'd be charged another $100 too. WTF!!! 

    I'm just thinking- our plane is already full and there will be a lot of people arriving at midnight- I would assume some of them will need to rent a car too. Whatever! 
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    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_july-2012-weddings_car-rental-rant-and-tip?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:066005ef-215f-48b1-8655-328b41e07c52Discussion:d102ccc4-09fa-4420-9fcb-2381c0c0da15Post:b234c5f7-30fb-45db-94f2-3da943ff16b4">Re: Car rental rant and tip</a>:
    [QUOTE]Don't get me started on this. I am still so pissed at ours. Our flight was supposed to land at 10 PM, but it got changed to midnight. The car rental is only open until 11. Damn it- so we contacted them and they said they'll charge us another $100 to keep the rental open until we land. They also said if we wait until the next day (taking a shuttle to our hotel near the airport for the night), we'd be charged another $100 too. WTF!!!  I'm just thinking- our plane is already full and there will be a lot of people arriving at midnight- I would assume some of them will need to rent a car too. Whatever! 
    Posted by mekiakoo[/QUOTE]

    That sucks!

    I'm a little worried about flight delays and showing up late too, but we have 5 hours between when we should arrive and when the place closes.  With the way the airport locations charged fees, I was worried if we showed up 30 minutes past our reservation time, we'd be paying more $$.
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