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Old Oct 1, 2013 | 3:22 pm
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sanjivus
 
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Any help in dealing with high one-way car rental rates?

Me, my wife and 2 year old son wanted to have fun vacation week with the following itinerary
  • Fly from Newark to Phoenix. Pick up rental car and drive to Sedona and stay three nights.
  • Drive from Sedona to Grand Canyon National Park and stay overnite.
  • Drive from Grand Canyon National Park to Las Vegas and stay there for 2 nights.
  • Fly back from Las Vegas to Newark.

I have already booked the flights but not hotels. I got a shock when I saw price for one way rental car from PHX to LAS. It is coming up for more than $1000.00

Actually, original plan was to come back to PHX from Grand Canyon. Right before I was to book the flight, wife came up with *brilliant* idea of driving to Veags instead of PHX because both places were at equal distances from GRand Canyon. So I ended up booking the return flight from LAS to EWR.

In my original research the car rental cost was around $20-$30/day.
I was totally unaware of expensiveness of one way car rentals.
Does anyone have any suggestion other can cancelling my flights.

Last edited by sanjivus; Oct 1, 2013 at 8:34 pm
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