Josh Davis

Thanks for the info. I have an executive card, so I'll be heading to that area to take my pick

Just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to be a barren wasteland on a friday night, but sounds like that's not the case.

sgallo707

was here last week sat 1/18 @ 1pm. fully stocked mostly sedans altimas, camrys, challengers, and a few priuses as well as several chevy SUVs. ended up with the prius as i had a lot of driving during the week

Rataz27

1/31/14 = Friday @ 10:00 p.m.

EA: Nissan Altimas, VW Jettas, Dodge Chargers, Toyota Corollas
EE: Well-stocked: SUV's; Ford Flex, Chevy Traverse, Jeep Compass
Sedans: Chrylser 300; Ford Fusion, Ford Taurus, Ford Mustang, Chevy Camaro...some of these premium/limited (leather, siriusXM, back-up cams, etc.)

roymustang

I'm not headed out here until April, but being that I'm primarily an East Coast renter, anyone care to give their best guess whether a convertible is hanging out on the EA/ES in mid-April? Ordinarily I'd just chance it, but I've got someone to impress for once so I'll just pony up for the convertible if necessary.

FlightNurse

Highly Doubt it, Mid- April in So-Cal is great top down weather... That is UNLESS they have an over abundance of Chrysler 200 convertibles they want to move. Even if they did, who would want one.

blacke61

If you have to rent at LAX, just go with Silvercar. You won't go back to National afterwards. I recently had my first experience with Silvercar, and everything about it was amazing. Awesome customer service and the car was unbeatable. I'll be renting with them the next time I have to rent at LAX.

roymustang

That's what I was afraid I'd hear. Emerald Reserve it is this time, then!

Nitehawk

I just dropped a q50 at lax that I rented one way from PSP at $66 per day with all taxes/fees included and full ldw/3rd party liability. At silvercar it would have been $140 for the same thing? but no one ways.

IsleOfMan

Last night (3/16), ES and EA were both full of the usual suspects. The only PCARs on ES was Maxima and Impala, along with quite a few Passat and a surprising number of big GM SUVs (didn't check trim). I had a PCAR res, and ER-PREM was empty, so the roaming lot manager gave my choice from ER-LUX... choices were a Q50, MXZ, and ATS 2.0, so I took the ATS.

I had both an ICAR and PCAR res (hoping to get a Lacross, Genesis, Azera, or Cadenza on ES), so after claiming my ATS (before heading to the booth) I canceled the ICAR res. At the booth, they handed me a rental agreement showing Class Reserved as PCAR, Class Rented as LCAR, and Class Paid as ICAR... no idea why they dropped my rate down to the ICAR rate. Did the booth agent just do me a favor, or is there some other explanation?

joeltong2000

Is there possibly any minivan available in EA?

NDDomer86

I believe that one of the resident National employees stated once that if an Elite receives a high mileage car (more than 10k maybe?) that the rate is to be automatically dropped to ICAR...

FlightNurse

If this is true, then national owes me some $$. My last rental had 14K on it and it was a 2014...

dwbf11

20K, actually.

havetimewilltravel

Will be in LAX mid-next week. What are chances of finding mini van or SUV that can accommodate 5 plus luggage at the EA around midnight? Tnx

3Cforme

I would judge that a risky plan, even at an airport location so large and busy as LAX. The promise of EA is a midsize car: Ford Focus, Toyota Corolla and such are so classified. At midnight one can't be sure they will be repopulating the Emerald Aisle and Executive Selection stocks in hopes of waiting a few minutes for the size vehicle you need.

Other than a minivan or full sized SUV (or even larger SUV), suitable 5 adults + luggage vehicles are, IMHO, a Chevy Impala or Ford Taurus (wide back seats and very capacious trucks). Those are classed as Premium vehicles, moving up Midsize, Standard, Full Size, Premium.