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mrscopeman

January 7th, 2009, 09:44

Holiday Autos have pinged me an email announcing a sale. The Florida prices will be reduced for one day only on Monday 12th January. They claim to be reducing all prices by up to 50% for pickups before end of October.

Holiday Autos Sale (http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p(16988)a(1133411)g(98158))

Bec

January 7th, 2009, 09:51

Thanks for the heads up.

Grace's dad

January 7th, 2009, 10:40

mrscopeman

January 7th, 2009, 11:56

I've just got a quote from 29/09/09 - 19/10/09 with Holiday Autos and their quote came back at £411 for the basic 2dr economy (approx £80 more expensive than budget). Did they give you a voucher code to use or could that be the discounted rate??

Many thanks

The sale is ONLY on 12th Jan, no codes, just try to book on that day.

Mermaid

January 7th, 2009, 12:11

Does payment have to be upfront or just a deposit?

mrscopeman

January 7th, 2009, 14:24

Does payment have to be upfront or just a deposit?

I don't know to be honest. I've always gone direct to the car hire companies before. Just putting this as a heads up. I'll compare their prices with their car hire suppliers to see if its a good deal on the day.

Bec

January 7th, 2009, 14:27

Anyone used Holiday autos? Which car company do they use?

mrscopeman

January 7th, 2009, 14:53

It appears to be Dollar. Just a guess though. Its definately one of the companies who use GMC vehicles.

joanne

January 7th, 2009, 15:00

Please use this link (http://clkuk.tradedoubler.com/click?p(16988)a(1133411)g(98158))if you book.

We've used them a few times before. Can't remember if it was Dollar or Alamo :unsure: Think maybe Alamo.

Bec

January 7th, 2009, 15:07

OK thanks Jo. Is it the same system as us rentacar? Book with them, get a voucher and then go to the relevant desk?

joanne

January 7th, 2009, 15:09

Yes, I think it was a printable e-ticket type of thing :unsure:

Bec

January 7th, 2009, 15:11

Great. I'll take a look at this. Car hire seems more expensive this year so it may be worth taking a look.

adam_goodger

January 7th, 2009, 15:12

It seems that you would have to pay for your car hire at the time. They may change the payment option becuase it is so far in advance but, who knows!! I will certainly take a look on the 12th.

mrscopeman

January 7th, 2009, 16:25

Great. I'll take a look at this. Car hire seems more expensive this year so it may be worth taking a look.

Down to exchange rate and insurance companies being more risk averse.

ruby tuesday

January 7th, 2009, 17:33

I've just got a quote from 29/09/09 - 19/10/09 with Holiday Autos and their quote came back at £411 for the basic 2dr economy (approx £80 more expensive than budget). Did they give you a voucher code to use or could that be the discounted rate??

Many thanks

NOOOOOOOO, go to yes car hire,just booked my 4 door economy with silver insurance and was £200 for 14 days in feb, i surfed EVERY darn website, this is the best i came up with, good luck!

Midnight Storm

January 7th, 2009, 19:42

Unless its currently showing the before rates just now floridacarhire.net just beat them by £200 for a 4x4 for 2 weeks in June - would need to be half price to win my business - although I note the sale is UP TO half price.........

Colin

Bec

January 12th, 2009, 11:12

Am I doing something wrong? I just put in our dates and its more than any other company to hire a car even in todays sale - should I be putting in a code?

mrscopeman

January 12th, 2009, 11:21

Nope its only 12 pounds cheaper across the board for our dates than direct from Alamo. Will wait I think.

Bec

January 12th, 2009, 11:22

What a disappointment.

mrscopeman

January 12th, 2009, 11:23

What a disappointment.

Yes up to 50% off gives them a comeback though... :sigh:

PaulaK

January 12th, 2009, 11:24

They are still more expensive than our quote from USrentacar. We'll stick with them.

Bec

January 12th, 2009, 11:24

They are still more expensive than our quote from USrentacar. We'll stick with them.

Good old USRentacar:thumbs:

mrscopeman

January 12th, 2009, 11:29

Yep, USRentacar definately a lot cheaper. You can take their Platinum and still beat Holiday Autos basic prices. Be wary of the offsite hires though...

PaulaK

January 12th, 2009, 11:31

Yep, USRentacar definately a lot cheaper. You can take their Platinum and still beat Holiday Autos basic prices. Be wary of the offsite hires though...

Yep, just avoid Thrifty, everyone else is onsite.

PaulaK

January 12th, 2009, 11:32

Bec, try getting a quote for your car from the VA site too, they were cheapest for our Vegas trip. :)

Bec

January 12th, 2009, 11:35

Bec, try getting a quote for your car from the VA site too, they were cheapest for our Vegas trip. :)

Ok hun I'll take a look at that.:thumbs:

mrscopeman

January 12th, 2009, 11:44

I've just tried our companies rate for Hertz Hire (which is guaranteed 15% off) and its the same price as Holiday Autos... (Now I know Hertz is expensive, which says a lot for Holiday Autos sale).

AlecK

January 12th, 2009, 11:44

This is the link Bec :thumbs:

http://www.virginatlantictravelplus.com/DefaultCar.aspx

Bec

January 12th, 2009, 12:03

Thanks Al.

Also have you used Budget via USRentacar?

AlecK

January 12th, 2009, 12:13

Once, they had a really long queue and only a couple of staff on when we arrived. It looked OK when we arrived at Xmas though but we booked Alamo to choose the car from the garage.

We had issues with Alamo this trip though - they ran out of cars on Boxing Day and we had to wait an hour for a 4x4 to be brought fom the storage pound. It was a new 'blazer when it arrived with only 5 miles on it but it took a lot of hassle to get it. They were palmiong people people of with all sorts of rubbish to to get them out of there. :nono: