Help: Kona (KOA) Late Arrival - All Rental Car Counters Closed?
Nov 18, 2007, 2:17 am
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Help: Kona (KOA) Late Arrival - All Rental Car Counters Closed?
Hi all, we have an upcoming trip to Kona (KOA) on AA247. The flight is scheduled to get in at 10:45PM. It seems that all rental car places close by 10:30PM at the latest. Websites like travelocity and Avis.com won't let me reserved a car if I put in a pick up time later than 10:30PM. There must be plane loads of people arriving Kona everyday on this flight, and everyone needs a rental car on Hawaii.
If you have flown on this flight recently, can you please share some wisdom on what I should do? Thanks!
If you have flown on this flight recently, can you please share some wisdom on what I should do? Thanks!
Nov 18, 2007, 3:02 am
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Hi all, we have an upcoming trip to Kona (KOA) on AA247. The flight is scheduled to get in at 10:45PM. It seems that all rental car places close by 10:30PM at the latest. Websites like travelocity and Avis.com won't let me reserved a car if I put in a pick up time later than 10:30PM. There must be plane loads of people arriving Kona everyday on this flight, and everyone needs a rental car on Hawaii.
If you have flown on this flight recently, can you please share some wisdom on what I should do? Thanks!
If you have flown on this flight recently, can you please share some wisdom on what I should do? Thanks!
Nov 18, 2007, 7:59 am
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If your itinerary is not completely fixed, you could also consider just taking a room at a local hotel that will shuttle you, then getting your car the next day. If timimg is right, you offset the cost of the hotel by the cost of a day's rental. This presumes you can get a reasonable local room as well as that you could change your arrival date at whatever hotel you currently have booked.
May not work for you... and as the previous poster indicated, may not be necessary. Also, there may in this case not be any nearby hotel with a shuttle. For me, I often will look for the cheapest place to stay the first night I get to a resort location, just because it galls me to pay a big fee for a night where I don't get to take advantage of the amenities.
May not work for you... and as the previous poster indicated, may not be necessary. Also, there may in this case not be any nearby hotel with a shuttle. For me, I often will look for the cheapest place to stay the first night I get to a resort location, just because it galls me to pay a big fee for a night where I don't get to take advantage of the amenities.
Nov 18, 2007, 8:04 am
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the rental car counters all stay open until all flights are in.
Nov 18, 2007, 8:07 am
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Simply looking at the www.hertz.com web site, I found the counter hours of operation.
Pick-Up/Return Location:
Kona Keahole Airport, 73 104 Aulepe Street, Kona - Hawaii(Kailua Kona), HI, US
Location Type: Corporate
0500-2330 7 Days
I would head there immediately and collect luggage on a drive-by possibly.
Pick-Up/Return Location:
Kona Keahole Airport, 73 104 Aulepe Street, Kona - Hawaii(Kailua Kona), HI, US
Location Type: Corporate
0500-2330 7 Days
I would head there immediately and collect luggage on a drive-by possibly.
Nov 18, 2007, 8:10 am
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Too bad this isn't the policy at all airports for just the regularly scheduled flights. And it would be great if some of the car rental counters would be open even for late flights due to late arrivals. I've done the whole shuttle to close hotel and pickup car in the early morning deal before.