12 members of my family and I went on a cruise but stayed in Orlando the night before. I decided to use a few of my free rental days and here is what I discovered:
1) MCO lets you use your free rental days for ANY kind of car. The website says "coupon applied at checkout" and when going to checkout, the whole fare for a 15 passenger van was comped.
2) We rented a few Toyota FJ Cruisers (Mainly for beer runs and luggage), and a 15 Passenger van.
I was pleased that they let me use those free days for any kind of car.
12 members of my family and I went on a cruise but stayed in Orlando the night before. I decided to use a few of my free rental days and here is what I discovered:
1) MCO lets you use your free rental days for ANY kind of car. The website says "coupon applied at checkout" and when going to checkout, the whole fare for a 15 passenger van was comped.
2) We rented a few Toyota FJ Cruisers (Mainly for beer runs and luggage), and a 15 Passenger van.
I was pleased that they let me use those free days for any kind of car.
I love renting out of MCO. I was just there for a full week rental on 6/3 to 6/10. I needed a minivan this trip to drive some friends around, but when I got to the ES/EA, there were no minivans (usually there are a couple). So, I just went to the minivan aisle and grabbed a nice Chrysler T&C (love the "mood lighting" in the passenger cabin! lol) and drove off. No problems.
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Final 2008 EQM: 164,712. Current 2009 EQM: 117,750
I love renting out of MCO. I was just there for a full week rental on 6/3 to 6/10. I needed a minivan this trip to drive some friends around, but when I got to the ES/EA, there were no minivans (usually there are a couple). So, I just went to the minivan aisle and grabbed a nice Chrysler T&C (love the "mood lighting" in the passenger cabin! lol) and drove off. No problems.
Interesting. I am usually fine with any car on the executive aisle but next week, we need a minivan in MCO for a family wedding. Prices are outrageous. I might give this a try. Did they question you at all at the gate?
Interesting. I am usually fine with any car on the executive aisle but next week, we need a minivan in MCO for a family wedding. Prices are outrageous. I might give this a try. Did they question you at all at the gate?
Nope. Maybe I got lucky.
__________________ --J.
Final 2008 EQM: 164,712. Current 2009 EQM: 117,750
One of the reasons I fell in love with National was that nearly every time I used to rent, there were almost always a few new cars to be had, and there were seldom cars with more than 10K miles on the odo. Well, that's a rare occurrence these days! Many cars have higher mileage and I almost never see new anymore.
I rented out of MCO again last week, an old favorite. Picked up on 10/12 for 4 days. There was quite a variety on both the Emerald and Exec. aisles. The EA was full of minivans (quite handy if you need them), and there was even a Sebring convertible (which I have not seen on the EA in ages). The Exec. aisle had several large SUV's (gas is cheap in Orlando so I don't mind). Two of them that caught my eye were nearly brand new!
I was happy to see a pretty new Chevy Tahoe with barely 600mi on it. There was also a sparkling new Ford Edge with only 274 mi on her. Both were white, which I like.
I had taken the Tahoe and moved it by the corner of the lot to load up my luggage when I realized that the XM satradio did not look like it was activated... it only showed the "XM preview" channel and emergency channel on the display...
Well, I need my SirusXM OutQ radio! So I was happy to see that the Ford Edge was Sirius equipped, activated and ready to go.
On a funny note, I had moved the Tahoe back to the Exec aisle and taken the key to the office to confirm that the XM was not activated, and when I came back to the car, there was a guy in it with a silly grin on his face like he just made the score of the century. Apparently he hadn't even noticed there were no keys. lol He noticed me staring at him and was about to shoot me a look like "back off, this baby's mine" but I held up the keys and said "here, these might help". hehe.
Anyway I thoroughly enjoyed the Edge for the next four days. I put a few miles on it too (I had to drive to Tampa). I forgot how much I love that new car smell.
__________________ --J.
Final 2008 EQM: 164,712. Current 2009 EQM: 117,750
Last edited by JonathanIT; Oct 19, 09 at 7:45 pm.
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I don't know what was going on, but I swear Orlando airport A side has the best selection in their executive aisle out of any airport I've ever been to.
Arrived at 11PM Thursday night, October 8. List of cars below:
Several Chevrolet Suburbans, Ford Expeditions
2 Chevrolet Traverse's
3 Brand new redesigned 2010 Buick Century (1 of which i took)
Volkswagen Beetle
Jeep Cherokee w/removable top
Chevrolet Malibus
Definitely a great selection. But from the looks of things this might have been an anomaly. Good luck!
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Originally Posted by TorVegas81
I don't know what was going on, but I swear Orlando airport A side has the best selection in their executive aisle out of any airport I've ever been to.
Arrived at 11PM Thursday night, October 8. List of cars below:
Several Chevrolet Suburbans, Ford Expeditions
2 Chevrolet Traverse's
3 Brand new redesigned 2010 Buick Century (1 of which i took)
Volkswagen Beetle
Jeep Cherokee w/removable top
Chevrolet Malibus
Definitely a great selection. But from the looks of things this might have been an anomaly. Good luck!
Buick Century? I think those were discontinued in 2005.
I don't know what was going on, but I swear Orlando airport A side has the best selection in their executive aisle out of any airport I've ever been to.
I didn't know they had a lot in the Terminal A side. I always go to the Terminal B side coming in on UA. Maybe I should try Terminal A if the selection is that good!
__________________ --J.
Final 2008 EQM: 164,712. Current 2009 EQM: 117,750
I picked up on 10/9 in the Term. A side and the selection was as noted above. It was the first time I have ever seen SUVs in the executive aisle there. There were also alot of Impalas.
I didn't want either and managed to get the only Altima there Usually we're stuck with the Impala or a Mazda. This was at about 9pm.
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