Travelling to LA - refund help and rebook help!

Well Vegas for a day, maybe a transit location, you can do most of the in Vegas non gambling stuff in a day and go on a lot of the rides (such as on top of Stratosphere). Santa Monica and the beaches in OC maybe? LA itself is a bit of a dump too in most places but I'm guessing the shopping is good! ;)
 
Ive got 4 nights in the centre of LA itself at the end of the trip (the reason for our visit), my eldest daughter is an anime nut, so she's going to the anime expo thats on next to the staples centre, will no doubt get to a few parks and things with my youngest while we are there but the car will have gone by then.
 
Metalface Mark said:
All sorted now, the only problem I had, Hertz have changed their rental cars, as TWFox had recommended, I opted for the Sebring or similar which was £200 for 5 days, but they dont have that option now, its a Mitsubishi eclipse or similar, which had jumped to £900 for 9 days. Fortunately I was able to cancel my booking and Ive got a convertible for $540 which i have to pay at the point of collection.
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You must check this very carefully - I beleive that the pay at collection price does NOT include the essential insurance, which can often DOUBLE the cost of a rental.

The prepay price, in £, includes ALL insurance with zero excess.

Check your small print very carefully or you are in for a whopping bill at the hire desk.
 
[TW]Fox;19121990 said:
You must check this very carefully - I beleive that the pay at collection price does NOT include the essential insurance, which can often DOUBLE the cost of a rental.

The prepay price, in £, includes ALL insurance with zero excess.

Check your small print very carefully or you are in for a whopping bill at the hire desk.
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Cheers, Ill do that, if its not then Ill just cancel it and book with someone else, it would be terrible though if i had to go in a regular saloon car, would take the thrill out of it not being in a convertible.
 
[TW]Fox;19121990 said:
You must check this very carefully - I beleive that the pay at collection price does NOT include the essential insurance, which can often DOUBLE the cost of a rental.

The prepay price, in £, includes ALL insurance with zero excess.

Check your small print very carefully or you are in for a whopping bill at the hire desk.
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Spoke to Hertz this morning, the pre pay price is exactly the same insurances as the pay at collection, it includes unlimited mileage, basic insurance (not personal effects and things like that) no excess.

Was worth calling to put my mind at rest. The only thing is they have changed the cars (previously was a Sebring or equivelant (i had planned to ask for the mustang like you) but now its a mitsubishi eclipse cabriolet or similar, how much boot space was in the mustang? Ive got two kids in tow for the first day with a suitcase each, is that gonna be big enough to carry our stuff? After the second day we lose one kid so theres only two cases.
 
I've used 3 airlines to go transatlantic. Virgin (LHR-ORL and LHR-LAX), BA (LHR-PHL and LGW-ORL) and US Airways (LGW-PHL).

I'd have no hesitation to rank them BA best, Virgin quite a way down, and US right down bottom of the heap. Awful IFE, awful flight crew (not even a uniform?! only way we could tell was because of a little pin), cramped.

I'd heard really good things about Virgin but they were very very dissapointing both times. Ended up with something like 26000 miles in compensation for their constant balls ups and I doubt we'll use them. BA just seem so much more professional and competent.
 
Good to hear its included. Get this in writing (by email) though, print it out and take it with you because they will try and hard sell you insurance anyway at the desk and it gets confusing after a long flight. I simply handed them my printout showing it was included and they shut up.

The Mustang boot was just about big enough for 2 wheeled holdalls and two rucksacks.

The Eclipse Spyder is actually a pretty decent looking car and has a great spec - the only downside is that it's also available with a weedy crappy 4 cylinder engine so you might get the slow one. Other than that though it looks nice. It's also a folding metal hard-top, not a soft-top.
 
[TW]Fox;19126584 said:
Good to hear its included. Get this in writing (by email) though, print it out and take it with you because they will try and hard sell you insurance anyway at the desk and it gets confusing after a long flight. I simply handed them my printout showing it was included and they shut up.

The Mustang boot was just about big enough for 2 wheeled holdalls and two rucksacks.

The Eclipse Spyder is actually a pretty decent looking car and has a great spec - the only downside is that it's also available with a weedy crappy 4 cylinder engine so you might get the slow one. Other than that though it looks nice. It's also a folding metal hard-top, not a soft-top.
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do you know how many different convertibles that they do have?
 
IIRC Hertz have Ford Mustang, Chrysler Sebring, Mitsubishi Eclipse, Volvo C70 and Chevrolet Corvette convertibles.

The Volvo and the Corvette are in a different class so you wont get one of those though you will probably be offered an upgrade to one at the desk.

Mustangs can be a bit irritating because they are also included in the 'Fun' collection - which is a class which allows you to guarantee a particular type of car. This costs more than just booking a standard convertible even though many of the cars in the standard convertible class are Mustangs. This led to confusion at the desk for me because at first the guy said it would cost more for a Mustang until I sucessfully pointed out that it wouldn't :p
 
Rotty said:
That would be some acheivement :eek:
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Notice I said in Vegas, so no Hoover Dam experience and as she's 15 I doubt she is interested in shooting (which we didn't manage to do in our one evening one whole day there. We hit every casino on the strip and went on quite a few rides and into a couple of clubs.

Again admittedly we didn't see any shows, but we weren't interested in that sort of thing. So yeah, I guess we missed a "lot" out but it depends on what you are interested in.
 
Amp34 said:
Notice I said in Vegas, so no Hoover Dam experience and as she's 15 I doubt she is interested in shooting (which we didn't manage to do in our one evening one whole day there. We hit every casino on the strip and went on quite a few rides and into a couple of clubs.

Again admittedly we didn't see any shows, but we weren't interested in that sort of thing. So yeah, I guess we missed a "lot" out but it depends on what you are interested in.
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To be honest I only needed a day to see stuff in Vegas as well. Went up the Stratosphere, had a look around some of the hotels, went to the outlet and wandered up and down the strip.

If you don't want to get plastered, gamble or spend $300 to fire a gun for 30 seconds then its quite easy to exhuast most things in a day.
 
I think the issue with Vegas is it's not like a proper city, it's a one trick pony. It's not like say London/Paris/San fran/Boston etc. that has different things to do, culture and histort that take several days to get round.
 
Amp34 said:
Notice I said in Vegas, so no Hoover Dam experience and as she's 15 I doubt she is interested in shooting (which we didn't manage to do in our one evening one whole day there. We hit every casino on the strip and went on quite a few rides and into a couple of clubs.

Again admittedly we didn't see any shows, but we weren't interested in that sort of thing. So yeah, I guess we missed a "lot" out but it depends on what you are interested in.
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She doesnt really want to goto vegas thinking there wont be anything there, but Id like her to see it, as she's 15 Im amazed that she still wants to go with her uncool 38 year old dad on a road trip, the elder one is not interested at all and just wants to hang with her anime mates the whole time so im hoping it will be something she can look back on in years to come as being a bit special, at the moment she wants to sunbathe but ive been trying to tell her she will get a good tan just by driving about in the car.

The only thing she really is desperate to visit is the heart attack grill in Arizona, I would like to see Arizona myself so im thinking we will head there first, then on towards vegas, up to yosimite, over to San Fran and then back to LA for the last 4 full days before we fly back. Im really glad I took the chance to take the extra 5 days, the only one who's moaning about it is my girlfriend who is not a happy bunny :p
 
Just one thing....*

It's pronounced "Yo-shem-in-e" not "Yo-she-mite".:p

*I made that mistake and was promptly corrected... Don't know how common it is so I thought I'd warn you. :D
 
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