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Old Mar 21, 2021, 6:05 am
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travelmad478
 
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: MSY
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Originally Posted by kale73
Before COVID I would sometimes fly into MSY and take the Jefferson Transit bus to the Enterprise facility near the corner of Tulane and Carrollton and save quite a bit over renting at the airport. I'd also sometimes stay with friends near City Park and take the streetcar to the Enterprise facility on Canal near UMC.
When I was a part-time resident of NOLA a few years ago, before I moved my car down, I’d do something similar with the help of AutoSlash (developed some years ago by a FlyerTalker, and an amazing resource). I would just get a rate from the website for anywhere in the GNO area, take a Lyft from the airport to the rental car location (sometimes in Metairie, sometimes in Harvey, once even in Chalmette) and get my car there. The savings on a two- or three-week rental would always much more than offset the cost of the Lyft ride. I could almost always drop the car back at MSY rather than the original rental location.
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