Originally Posted by
BobbySteel
Thus you can have a car for 2 days, 6 hours and wind up paying for the equivalent of four days (since you're paying for the third day but only using 4 hours, plus then getting dinged for two hours at the hourly rate, which are close to another day's cost).
I have never seen this, not from Avis nor any other rental agency. Two days + six hours is charged as three days, whether reserved as 2 + 4 hours and returned two hours late, or booked as 2 + 6 hours.