Road Tripping in the USA!

acemastr · 17 Dec 2013 at 15:25

[TW]Fox;25502028 said:
£600 is expensive, for 14 days you should be nearer £400.s

Got an SLK350 for 7 days for £190 last year, was a terrific little car

*Edit* was 24 at the time too

Jez · 17 Dec 2013 at 15:26

megakid said:
In May I drove across the states with a mate, NYC to LA, over 22 days and cost us £600 for a Chevy Tahoe V8 from Hertz. Booked on the Irish Hertz website in euros which was interesting, over £200 cheaper than the same booking on the UK website. Put over 6000 miles on it, ripped a third of the front bumper off and got rear ended by a Porsche in LA on the way to LAX to catch our flights home.

Epic.

That irish trick sounds good, did it include all of the insurance as per the UK one?

Edit: Damn, seems the same price at the moment

UK = £459/week Sept 2-9 2014
Ireland = €544/week Sept 2-9 2014

Identical.

mr tommo · 17 Dec 2013 at 16:41

Jez said:
That irish trick sounds good, did it include all of the insurance as per the UK one?

Edit: Damn, seems the same price at the moment

UK = £459/week Sept 2-9 2014
Ireland = €544/week Sept 2-9 2014

Identical.

Use code '2007052' for 10% off. May be able to go through topcashback for a further 10% off too

[TW]Fox · 17 Dec 2013 at 17:25

acemastr said:
Got an SLK350 for 7 days for £190 last year, was a terrific little car

*Edit* was 24 at the time too

Exceptional and unrepeatable deal. I suspect you booked something rather worse and seriously lucked in when thats all the had left :eek:

[TW]Fox · 17 Dec 2013 at 17:26

Diesel said:
Scenic Byway 12 is utterly fantastic. Being snowed on in a redrock desert it one of the oddest things I've experienced!

I would really like to do this next year, my favoured trip is built around start and finishing in Denver. Second idea is Eastern Canada. Girlfriend wants to do South Africa

Jez · 17 Dec 2013 at 17:42

mr tommo said:
Use code '2007052' for 10% off. May be able to go through topcashback for a further 10% off too

Already there mate, I use Hertz a lot :cool:

[TW]Fox · 17 Dec 2013 at 17:43

To be honest I never use Hertz unless I need to, ie a particularly good deal on a short one way trip, as I find the 'get what you are given' approach far inferior to 'pick your own' at Alamo/National.

Jez · 17 Dec 2013 at 17:45

Oh totally, I only use it for the reserve specific model feature (which I use almost every time

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thedoc46 · 17 Dec 2013 at 19:17

I'm in Monterey at the moment, along with a Chrysler 300.. I think I'll take a trip down the PCH later today.

Put the Chrysler 300 thru its paces on the US17 (Santa Cruz mountains) a couple of hrs ago. It was OK. No tip tronic, so it felt it was coasting down the steep decline, rather than allowing me to keep it in a low gear for better traction. Plenty of power mind. Not sure what engine it is. Just an Avis Premium, that i picked up from SFO last night.

peter · 18 Dec 2013 at 13:42

Hertz rental LAX

Looking now and hertz do not have a luxury sedan class only full size £573 for the three weeks in august. Anyone know of a better deal?

Janesy B · 18 Dec 2013 at 13:50

They do, you have to click 'show all' in the top right, and scroll to the bottom, as you go through the quote it eventually gives you the price.

peter · 18 Dec 2013 at 14:02

Thanks

missed that part!
Premium pcar £658
Luxury lcar £938
SLK 3635$
boxster 8363$

Will see if they have any deals in the new year.

Janesy B · 18 Dec 2013 at 14:25

It's a stupid site. Carhire3000 is generally cheaper.

Howard · 18 Dec 2013 at 15:01

Bloody hell look at that lake :eek:

[TW]Fox;25498930 said:
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Cadillac SRX, Washington Monument
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I should have taken a photo of my Chevrolet HHR when I went to Washington... But then again I'm glad I didn't, what a horrible car, and it was an "upgrade".

peter · 18 Dec 2013 at 15:09

car hire 3000

Do not give an much option of premium cars, they do a chrysler 200 for £667 for the three weeks
same price as hertz premium.

Janesy B · 18 Dec 2013 at 15:55

Howard said:
I should have taken a photo of my Chevrolet HHR when I went to Washington... But then again I'm glad I didn't, what a horrible car, and it was an "upgrade".

An upgrade from what? A horse and cart?

peter said:
Do not give an much option of premium cars, they do a chrysler 200 for £667 for the three weeks
same price as hertz premium.

As fox said in the last page, you've not given the exact car, they have a pool of cars in a class and it's pot luck with Hertz.

hurfdurf · 26 Dec 2013 at 12:50

Just has someone tell me all about their champaign helicopter picnic inside the Grand Canyon, now I'm not going to tell them and spoil their memory of it but that's the scam one right? Has anyone got a link to the info, I'm sure I read it here before. The actual Grand Canyon Vs the fake one? Going to warn the people they were telling this too so they don't fall for the same thing.

[TW]Fox · 26 Dec 2013 at 13:29

Correct, you are not permitted to fly a helicopter below the rim of the Grand Canyon National Park. Any choppers on the floor of Canyons are not in the GC National Park but are probably at the 'West Rim' outside the park.

tlrBeta · 27 Dec 2013 at 15:04

Flight sale as started, looks like I'll have a little extra cash for a motor...all of £50 each

Fr0dders · 1 Jan 2014 at 23:49

Me & the family are currently planning our holiday for August this year.

We got married in Vegas and would love to go back, I'd also love to see San Francisco and Yosemite national park.

As such, it looks as though I'll probably end up doing the exact same route you did fox.

Would you do anything differently if you were going to do it all again ? Also interested in any tips you have about places to stay, looking at the your trip it looks as though you had quite a few stopovers inbetween the major destinations (like San Diego to Vegas for example)