Many of Avis's quoted rates for one ways do not have or include a drop off fee, because they simply build it into the higher daily rental rate for one ways. You PROBABLY will not have a problem, and that AWD is particularly known as a good one for one way rentals.

HOWEVER, I would recommend that you do one very simple thing to protect yourself.....call the rez line, give them your confirmation number, and ask them if there are any other charges besides what you have been quoted, specifically are there any drop fees? If they say that there are no other charges, specifically no drop fees, then ask for that information to be written into the comments section of the reservation, or for them to send you an e-mail reflecting that information. In that way, you will both know, and be protected. I do not believe that you will have any problems, but as always YMMV!

Check your confirmation very carefully. If there is a drop charge it will be listed there. If no drop charge is listed there then you may reasonably conclude there is no drop charge.

Now, check your confirmation very carefully, again, for one more item. In my experience this code offers 125 free miles per day. So it would include 750 free miles....if you are taking a 6 day rental. Make sure you have the mileage mapped out (Boston to NYC is ~200 miles assuming NO deviating or driving around for lunch on either end) and that you're renting the car for enough days to cover it. At 25 cents per mile this rate can turn into a bad deal if you are not careful!

Yep.

True, which is why I won't book one of those until I am 100% sure of my plans.

I agree entirely. But there are also cases where the only half-decent rate is from a company where there's no preferred service (Dollar, Thrifty, Advantage, Enterprise, etc.), with whom I have no status so I won't get upgraded anyway, and where I have no coupons and there are no great promos for miles/points (or like Enterprise that don't even offer miles/points), and in those cases, saving an extra $10 or $20 using PL/HW can sometimes still be the best deal.

Just used A972200 for a one-day rental at LAX. Knocked 50% off the base rate, down to $32 / intermediate, but only 125 free miles; after that it's a quarter a mile. Fortunately I'm not driving far, but still, that's pretty stingy.

I just typed that code in by accident, meaning instead to use A972200, and got very similar rates but with UNLIMITED mileage on the basic cars. I did a quick Google search which turned up nothing as far as what the code is for.

As for me, I used A972200 at a neighbourhood Toronto location without a hitch today. I managed to get a subcompact for $27.99/day (rack rate $46.80) and the 150 km per day didn't afect me as I was staying local with this car. I got the keys to a bug-splattered Accent hatchback with a shaky front end at highway speed. Got what I paid for I suppose.

I exchanged it at YYZ for an Elantra and again, no comment thus far.

I tried using the Farmer's code A972200 for a one way rental. Got a great rate quoted, but no free miles.

Has anyone had experience getting any amount of free miles on a one way rental? I need roughly 600 for my trip.

Please excuse this possibly stupid question, but how do you know that no free miles are included?

What dates and what one way city pair were you trying to book?

The confirmation page clearly states:

Mileage: No Miles Included
MILEAGE CHARGE: 0.25 USD per Mile

I'm planning on picking up EWR, and returning to a neighborhood location in Maryland. Total mikes over 5 days (9/3-9/8) is approx 500.

You might try G417900 (Kellsport/Kellwood Travel), B021615 (Walmart), A074800 (Citicorp Leisure Travel), A686200 (Priceline), all of these have been known from time to time to be helpful for one ways.

You might also try MUWA193, which is a coupon code (the above numbers are AWD numbers) that should be good for $25 off one way rentals (exp. 9/30/2010)

Good luck!

You shouldn't drink and drive...

any codes out there for a free car seat or something to use on a short 2-3 day rental?

Does Avis actually charge for car seats? If you google the Avis coupon sites, I would guess that you will find a coupon for something so esoteric as a child car seat. For that matter, rez agents tend to be pretty helpful, if you ASK them specifically what kind of coupon you are looking for, they will tell you if there are any coupons valid during the time you want to rent for. They are willing to do this because the car rental business is so competitive, and they know there are coupons for other companies out there. However, you must call, and you must ask.

Of course they charge for carseats, as a matter of fact they charge a hugh amount for carseats $9/day max. $50 per rental per seat. I know that because we needed 3 car seats for a 10 days rental at DFW. So we decided to fly our car seats over the Atlantic to save $150. I think Avis is trying to earn money on these items in order to bring down the net price so that they can match other car rental companies.

A "hugh" amount? "Hugh" is a name, such as "Hugh Grant," the actor. HUGE is the word for A LOT!

I stand corrected for asking such a stupid question as "Does Avis actually charge for car seats?" I was wrong, sorry.

Avis is trying to earn money for these items just like other companies are trying to earn money for these items. Avis is much cheaper on average than Hertz is, and a bit cheaper on average than National is, and Avis makes more coupons available than just about any rental car company out there, so if you do your research, Avis can also be cheaper on average than Thrifty, Dollar, Payless, Alamo, and others.

I'm a long time lurker on this forum but it's my first post here so please be gentle!

As a surprise for my other half I'm looking to rent a Chevrolet Camaro for a few days at the start of our wedding/honeymoon trip to California in a few weeks. I've booked rentals for other parts of our trip through avis.co.uk as I have an AWD number from my employer that gives a decent discount but the Camaro is only available for bookings through avis.com, and that site doesn't give any discount for my AWD. I'm looking for an alternative but not coming up with much, possibly because it's one of their "cool cars" or because I'm a UK resident rather than US?

Details of the rentals and AWD codes tried so far (none of which have any effect on the price) are as follows:

Location: Pick up & return from/to SFO
Dates: Sat 18 Sep 2010 @ 10am to Tue Sept @ 5pm (4 rental days)
Standard price with no AWD: 266.40 UKL (I assume that's �)
Includes LDW & ALI, unlimited mileage

A074800
A108300
A177232
D454000
B790073
K019300
K817625
K860600
U606753
D900888
K817700
W0911098
W2091198
U704363
K816401
B136099
K444404
TUWA058
G417900
A113400
A972200
A686200
X602000
Z652297
L358190

Oddly I'm 99% sure I tried G417900 earlier today as it's saved in my previous Google search results (was trying to find a bit more info on using this code) and it came up cheaper but excluding LDW and with some other restrictions - now it doesn't seem to work for me at all, and when the price results come up I see that the reservation shows AWD N/A instead of a code. Am I doing something wrong here? Should I just give up on trying to get this any cheaper or is there anything else I could try?

Any help would be much appreciated.