Timeline for Why are round-trip car rentals much cheaper than one-way car rentals?
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| Jan 31, 2019 at 7:44 | answer | added | jackal | timeline score: 22 | |
| Jan 31, 2019 at 7:11 | comment | added | jackal | @LessPop_MoreFizz It's worth mentioning that Francois did mention it was via a broker (they're common in Europe--Car Hire 3000, Argus, etc. and largely powered by the CarTrawler booking engine), and those brokers do tend to have pretty standardized language allowing one-ways without a drop fee within and between the mentioned states. However, the main US-based booking sites simply dynamically quote rates (sometimes a bundled, higher rate for a one-way and sometimes with a separately-itemized drop fee) based on what you enter as the pick-up and drop-off locations, as you indicated. | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 18:05 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @LessPop_MoreFizz he did say between those states, not within 1 state. | |
| Aug 18, 2014 at 23:13 | vote | accept | yuritsuki | ||
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| Aug 8, 2014 at 22:10 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | @Francois there's never a "one-way fee". The base rate itself is simply higher, in the same way a hotel doesn't charge a "weekend fee" but may charge a higher rate on weekends. (Or lower, depending on customer patterns, same as with one-way rentals.) | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 12:51 | comment | added | Francois | It was using a broker. The car rental company was Alamo. I travelled once from San Francisco to Fresno, and once from Las Vegas to Los Angeles with no "one-way" fee. And it was said to be the same with other car rental companies proposed by the broker. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 12:22 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | @FrancoisB. That's not true; I just looked at rentals to pickup and return a car to LAX, and for the same dates, to pick up from LAX and return at SFO. Returning to SFO increases the price of the rental by over 100 dollars. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 11:52 | comment | added | Francois | There are no additionnal fee for one-way car rentals between California, Nevada and Arizona. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 20:57 | history | edited | yuritsuki | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2014 at 13:44 | answer | added | user19106 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 13:33 | answer | added | Ian Ringrose | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 12:03 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | Note that in certain regions and times of the year for certain kind of cars (e.g. RVs) it is the other way round, because they want to get the cars back to where they want to have it because quite some people used the (more expensive) one-way option earlier. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 7:16 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackTravel/status/497280092759130112 | ||
| Aug 7, 2014 at 3:26 | answer | added | Paul | timeline score: 36 | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 2:40 | answer | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | timeline score: 48 | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 2:12 | history | asked | yuritsuki | CC BY-SA 3.0 |