Share For the last year or so, my go-to car rental website has been carrentals.com. That is until a couple of weeks ago. I’d seen a few other bloggers mention using AutoSlash, so I decided to give them a try. The biggest extra feature is that once you make a booking, they’ll continue to monitor [...]
Vacationing With Extended Family: Rent Two Cars Or A Van?
July 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Share It’s a little early, but we’re planning a family vacation that is about nine months out. We’ll be vacationing with my parents which is great because there are a lot of advantages to vacationing with extended family. Since we are going to be staying in a condominium, we know that we’ll need our own [...]
Rent A Car For A Family Road trip Or Drive Your Own Car?
May 3, 2010 By 5 Comments
Share I heard about a family who took a road trip last summer. They thought about renting a car, but in the end, they decided it was too expensive. Unfortunately, they had car troubles along the way and ended up being away for home for an extra two days. By the time they had paid [...]
Credit Card Car Rental Insurance
March 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
Share A reader send the following question about credit card rental insurance coverage: I also noticed you had a section on car rental insurance and using a credit card for that. I was under the impression that you have to have a primary insurance first in order to take advantage of the card car insurance. [...]
Hotwire and Priceline: How to Guarantee the Lowest Price
January 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
Share Hotwire.com and Priceline are consistently the cheapest travel options. Hotwire It is important to remember that both of these sites are opaque travel sites (you do not know some exact details when you book) so you must have some flexibility. If you are unfamiliar with the opaque travel websites you should read an introduction [...]
Hotwire Car Rental: Advantages and Disadvantages
November 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Share Hotwire.com is a premier source for all things travel. In fact, Hotwire consistently has some of the best travel deals for airfare, car rental, and hotels. While flight bookings offer a deeper level of inconvenience there is very little inconvenience involved in renting from Hotwire. Hotwire Car Rental Disadvantages You will not know the [...]
Save Money on Ground Transportation
June 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Share When we travel we often look for travel options most familiar to us. For example, people who own cars often rent a car when they fly to a new destination. There are, however, so many alternative forms of transportation that could save you a bundle. Photo by Diego_3336 Most major cities have at least [...]
Ten Ways to Save Money on Your Family Road Trip This Summer
May 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Share I am assuming you are planning on taking a family vacation this summer. I hope your planning on doing it with cash, but I suspect there is not much I can do to change your mind if you not so my ultimate goal is to help you make your summer vacation as cheap as [...]
Should You Prepay for Fuel When You Rent A Car? Final Thoughts
May 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Share Earlier I posted an article addressing the question Should You Prepay for Fuel? While I had the vehicle I had serious doubts if I had done the right thing when I prepaid for fuel. Now that the car is safely back in the hands of Enterprise I thought I would make my final verdict. [...]
Should you Prepay For Fuel when you Rent a Car?
May 3, 2009 By
Share Photo Toy Ferraris by David Masters As I write this post I am on a family vacation in beautiful Saint-Hippolyte in Quebec, Canada. My family rented a car and the experience made me wonder: should you (or in this case I) prepay for fuel? What does it mean to prepay for fuel when [...]
