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Old Jun 20, 2011 | 1:19 pm
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CrazyOne
 
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Good info about the separate systems jackal. ^ Thanks.

Just want to add that generally if I know I'm going to be into a weekly rate, I book the entire 7 days anyway. As long as my anticipated times meet the criteria for the weekly rate (which you can test by putting in just the 5 days or whatever) then there won't be any change in rate for returning early. And you won't run into this sort of predicament if you need 6 days instead of 5.

This goes under the same theory as booking entire 24-hour periods even if your return is many hours earlier than that (something other FTers taught me several years ago). If I pick up a car at 6pm on Tuesday, I put the res in for return at 6pm on Friday, even if I'm really planning to return it at 8am on Friday. Never know what might come up that I want to keep it longer after all. They're going to bill me the same 3 days either way, so why not say I'm going to keep it all 3 days just in case I actually do? (Sometimes you have to watch this on weekends for tricky rate issues, but most of the time it should work well with full 24-hour periods.)

I know this is too late to help you this time tfung, but for the future....
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