Rental Cars at YQG + Bridge Times
May 21, 2015, 6:26 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: YUL
Programs: Double Secret Nexus
Posts: 2
Rental Cars at YQG + Bridge Times
I need to get to Grand Rapids, so I'm flying PD return YUL -> YTZ -> YQG and then renting a car from Avis at YQG and driving across 2/3 of Michigan to save $250 and stay off regional jets.
Does anyone have experience renting at YQG? Is it even large enough of an airport to have a dedicated rental desk all day or do they just bring someone around from another branch when they have flights come in?
Also, Windsorites and Metrodetroiters, how bad is the Ambassador Bridge on a Friday around 6pm US-bound and on Sunday around 6pm CAN-bound? Will the Nexus lane help? IIRC it doesn't speed up anything until you're across the span.
Thanks!
Does anyone have experience renting at YQG? Is it even large enough of an airport to have a dedicated rental desk all day or do they just bring someone around from another branch when they have flights come in?
Also, Windsorites and Metrodetroiters, how bad is the Ambassador Bridge on a Friday around 6pm US-bound and on Sunday around 6pm CAN-bound? Will the Nexus lane help? IIRC it doesn't speed up anything until you're across the span.
Thanks!
May 22, 2015, 5:39 am
#2
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 3,665
Welcome to FT. You can find out all you need to know about rental cars at any on-line site. Priceline shows Budget, Avis, and National at the airport in Windsor. But why not go nonstop to DTW from YUL and rent there if you don't want to fly to Grand Rapids, for example. It avoids all of Detroit. If you must use Porter and like to change at YTZ, then MDW would be easier. And going on turbo-props to avoid regional jets? Seems like a strange plan. If you are booked already, consider the D-W tunnel - no trucks.
May 22, 2015, 8:08 am
#3
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: YUL
Programs: Double Secret Nexus
Posts: 2
Already booked (on my own dime, so that's why no direct DL YUL -> DTW, even flying to MDW would cost a few hundred more).
34" seat pitch on a half-full Porter Dash8 >> (31" seat pitch on a packed RJ + getting to YUL an extra hour earlier).
Will do, thanks!
And going on turbo-props to avoid regional jets? Seems like a strange plan.
consider the D-W tunnel - no trucks.