Originally Posted by
AutoSlash
Many times National's prepaid leisure rates are within a few dollars of Alamo like
this or
this. Sometimes, you'll find National even lower than Alamo like
this. The nice thing about these deals is that you can still take advantage of all of your EC benefits as they can associate your member number at the exit booth (no need to stop at the counter).
As far as I know, National doesn’t do prepaid leisure rates on their website. All the $15 rates I’ve been booking at LAS lately for this month and January have been with the regular Emerald Club discount. Are you talking about prepaid rates on some of the European sites?
edit: Nevermind, just saw you were referring to rates bookable on Autoslash.
edit#2: The example you posted for Orlando in which National was cheaper than Alamo is only showing as $102.57 for a midsize when booking with the regular Emerald Club discount vs the $132 showing up as the prepaid midsize rate. In fact, in that example, you could also apply a free weekend day or the $20 off 3 day weekend coupon to the Emerald Club rate and get it into the 80s without pre-paying.