Avoiding High Rental Car Prices at McCarran

Although a bit of a hassle, if you are renting for five or six days, you may want to see if the total cost would be lower if you broke it into two smaller rental periods instead one longer one: say one for two days and one for three days instead of one for all five days. Although I was only able to save money doing this about two or three out 10 times, it might be worth trying it when renting all days under one contract is on the expensive side.

Of course you have to weigh any saving to the added time it takes for the additional drop off and pick up and two gas fill ups instead of just one. I think I saved at least thirty dollars before I was enticed into doing it this way.

Unfortunately unlike back to back booking of a room you can't just keep the same car for the two rental periods like you can with a room (I tried and no dice). You've got to return the first one and then pick up the second car which is a different vehicle than the first.


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Just got back from Vegas, Sun - Thur pick up at 4pm drop off at 4pm thru payless $89.57 total. Another key to saving $ is making sure the pick up and drop off times are the same, if not the car rental companies will gauge you.

For first time ever (in well over 100 trips) booked an off-site car. Budget was over $200 less by booking at the Orleans location rather than the airport ($170 for the week/intermediate). Thats worth a cab trip anytime. Only prob is if the plane is late, since landing is at 3:55 and the Orleans location closes at 5:00. But than, I'm flying SWA and they are always early (at least they have only been late once for me). I did book the return at the airport with no increase in price.
Of course, I will keep monitoring the AP prices and maybe get lucky as I get closer to 22 July.