[Magdalen] Is the Pub closed?

[Lynn Ronkainen]

I like Dollar, Enterprise and Advantage

I used to rent short term at airports every time I traveled for biz but I'm 
traveling less now.

I belong to Costco and they have a travel element to their business 
discounts and so I can pick my price/model/company through them and get good 
deals also.

Real consistent peeve at site of renting: 80% of the time they never have 
the economy car I specified in the rental agreement (across the board with 
every company I've used). They're always happy to upgrade the car for the 
same price. I used to ask for an additional discount because I knew my gas 
costs would be greater with a mid-size than an economy and would usually get 
some $$ knocked off.

About 3 years ago, renting at the Nashville Airport in February, an SUV was 
all they had to give me for my economy car that was not there, and they 
would not even give me gas credit. I have to admit that all worked out for 
the best as I had the car for 5 days and the worst ice storm and snow storm 
in many years hit in TN while I had the SUV and I felt much safer driving a 
larger, heavier vehicle.  The biggest hassle was cleaning the frozen ice off 
the car when I moved it from my first location at Sewanee to travel to 
several parts of the state - it took me at least an hour to make the car 
drivable. On my way back to Nashville several days later, there was still 
heavy ice on the road cuts where the cold, and several days of total cloud 
cover, had prevented any thawing. It had been a long time since I had to 
deal with icy or snowy roads, I guess I still had deeply buried skills to do 
so : )

Lynn



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From: "ME Michaud" <michaudme at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 2:40 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Is the Pub closed?

> I switch agencies every year.
> Last year it was Avis,
> the year before, National.
> They all kinda suck.
> But every year it's something different.
>
> My fave was the year I paid for a transponder and they forgot to put it in
> and my credit card endured a fine for unpaid tolls.
>
> My second fave was the exploding front tire. Got to spend a second night 
> in
> Santee, SC. Yay! And I got to buy a new tire as a gift for Enterprise (I
> was too far away from a rental agency to get there safely and they decided
> the tire was too expensive to reimburse me).
>
> We drive a Matrix at home, and it's been a great car.
> But I'd rather have something bigger and newer while barreling down Rte. 
> 95.
> -M
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 16, 2019, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hertz? Boyoboy, did we have a terrible experience with them last year!!
>> Never again! We signed on with them for a van...a VAN, mind you, to take 
>> us
>> to the Tennessee gem show so we wouldn't have the hassle of trying to 
>> stuff
>> everything into our Chevy Equinox once again (also, because the Chevy is
>> getting pretty elderly and has beaucoups de kilos on it). They assured us
>> it would be there at 2:30 the afternoon before we were to leave..So that
>> morning the guy from the office calls and says, sorry, no van, but we'll
>> have a Ford SUV for you. So we go there at the appointed time and the
>> office is locked with a note on the door "Gone to assist another customer
>> again." He did fire off some incendiary e-mails to the area manager of
>> Hertz as well as to AAA (since Hertz was *their* choice) but oddly, never
>> heard back from either one. We're going back to Dollar, Enterprise, and
>> Budget, none of whom we've ever had a problem with. ^%$#@! Hertz!
>>
>>