I rent cars several times per year for long-distance trips, usually to visit relatives. Ordinarily I use Enterprise. I used to price-shop until Budget cut my throat one day: they took my reservation, but when it was time for me to depart, they announced that they didn\u2019t have any cars. That can really mess up your travel plans, so I swore off Budget (which is owned by Avis). I used Enterprise exclusively after that, always with good results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We needed a car recently and, because I was shopping within two weeks of departure, the prices were too high. I started price shopping again. I found a bargain at Dollar, but I had to drive twenty miles to the Memphis airport to get it. The tradeoff was worth it. I booked it online and a week or so later, went to pick it up. Time was of the essence. I had to get there, make the transaction, and get gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dollar tacked on about $200 worth of charges for garbage I\u2019d never seen at Enterprise. The price I paid bore little resemblance to the one I\u2019d agreed to when I reserved the car online, except that the new price, like the old one, was written in Arabic numerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll never<\/em> use Dollar Rent A Car again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I rent cars several times per year for long-distance trips, usually to visit relatives. Ordinarily I use Enterprise. I used to price-shop until Budget cut my throat one day: they took my reservation, but when it was time for me to depart, they announced that they didn\u2019t have any cars. That can really mess up … Continue reading “Dollar Rent A Car: Never Again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dxY-5W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}