Consolidated "Renting at OGG (Maui); What Kind of Cars to Expect?" Thread
Dec 21, 2020, 5:51 pm
#31
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Anyone with recent experience at the 5* area of Hertz? Have a reservation on Dec 26th and this will be my first time in OGG using Hertz.
Jan 22, 2021, 9:11 am
#33
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Even though their website does not have OGG as a Ultimate Choice location I can confirm it is. A couple days ago in the Presidents Club section there was all Midsized SUVs (no cars although there was a few cars in the 5 Star side), Ford, Chevy, Kia. I picked up an Explorer with 11,000 miles on it.
Jan 22, 2021, 9:13 am
#34
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Even though their website does not have OGG as a Ultimate Choice location I can confirm it is. A couple days ago in the Presidents Club section there was all Midsized SUVs (no cars although there was a few cars in the 5 Star side), Ford, Chevy, Kia. I picked up an Explorer with 11,000 miles on it.
Jan 22, 2021, 2:10 pm
#35
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Even though their website does not have OGG as a Ultimate Choice location I can confirm it is. A couple days ago in the Presidents Club section there was all Midsized SUVs (no cars although there was a few cars in the 5 Star side), Ford, Chevy, Kia. I picked up an Explorer with 11,000 miles on it.
Jan 22, 2021, 2:33 pm
#36
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May 26, 2021, 8:51 pm
#37
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What's it like on the ground these days? My understand is Ultimate Choice is gone. Do they preassign vehicles for elite or you wait in line for whatever gets returned?
May 30, 2021, 6:16 pm
#38
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: PHX
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You will have to make sure you have the 2 green check marks from your QR code ready to show them. I went inside to the counter and the wait wasn’t too bad, maybe a couple of other customers.
Presidents Circle
Five Star
May 30, 2021, 8:23 pm
#39
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Thanks. So they check for the QR code at the exit booth? Or you have to show the code before you get into the vehicle and then the normal check at the exit booth for UC locations?
May 31, 2021, 12:25 am
#41
Join Date: Dec 2008
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For reference I reserved a full size, but ended up with a GMC Terrain from the Five Star zone (even though I’m PC - nothing there was interesting).
Side note - the cell reception is bad in the parking garage (at least for AT&T), so be sure to screenshot your QR code with green check marks and the details right below (names, dates, etc.) before proceeding into the lot.
Good catch, I didn’t even notice that. Would make sense given the limited inventory.
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Jun 24, 2021, 12:27 am
#42
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PC today - Infiniti SUV, Lincoln Continental, Chrysler 300, Mercedes SL Roadster (had kids with me otherwise it would have been obvious choice). Altima, minivan.
Five star - mostly sedans as well as another Infiniti SUV. Nothing in Gold.
Five star - mostly sedans as well as another Infiniti SUV. Nothing in Gold.
Jun 24, 2021, 1:28 pm
#43
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Strange that OGG has Ultimate Choice but HNL doesn’t.
Aug 9, 2021, 12:59 pm
#44
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: California
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Arrived Sunday afternoon to OGG.
30 yard walk out from baggage claim, across the street, to the Rental Car Tram patio. Took just a few minutes to get on and get down to the RCC.
If you have gold counter service on our reservation, take an immediate right hand turn off of the tram and walk towards the garage, level 2 (the level you are already on, no need for elevator). Hertz Gold Desk is right inside the actual parking garage. Bit of a wait to go into office, as they had to verify your Hawaii Safe Check Mark. Other folks there must have had more issues or questions, as they were taking 10-15 minutes to get thru and my interaction was: Check ID, Check Safe Travels, Confirm Reservation and PC Status, head out to PC aisle. Maybe 2 minutes tops.
As I walked out of the office, an Infiniti QX50 was parked in PC. We grabbed that, 14K miles and it is pretty clean inside.
There were 5 Chevy Impala's, 1 Ford Taurus, 1 Pickup Truck, and some Mazda full size in PC as well.
And that was that! They were pulling in about 1-2 cars per 5 minutes into PC as I was waiting to walk into the office. Saw a few Ford Explorers in 5* as well, but they looked to be a few years old by body style.
We got a great rate for OGG for the week, so all in all I am happy with how it turned out. Sort of wanted a convertible for RTH trip, but the Inifniti ended up with a huge moonroof thing so that works just as well and we saved $500 compared to the backup resy I had for a convertible.
All good
30 yard walk out from baggage claim, across the street, to the Rental Car Tram patio. Took just a few minutes to get on and get down to the RCC.
If you have gold counter service on our reservation, take an immediate right hand turn off of the tram and walk towards the garage, level 2 (the level you are already on, no need for elevator). Hertz Gold Desk is right inside the actual parking garage. Bit of a wait to go into office, as they had to verify your Hawaii Safe Check Mark. Other folks there must have had more issues or questions, as they were taking 10-15 minutes to get thru and my interaction was: Check ID, Check Safe Travels, Confirm Reservation and PC Status, head out to PC aisle. Maybe 2 minutes tops.
As I walked out of the office, an Infiniti QX50 was parked in PC. We grabbed that, 14K miles and it is pretty clean inside.
There were 5 Chevy Impala's, 1 Ford Taurus, 1 Pickup Truck, and some Mazda full size in PC as well.
And that was that! They were pulling in about 1-2 cars per 5 minutes into PC as I was waiting to walk into the office. Saw a few Ford Explorers in 5* as well, but they looked to be a few years old by body style.
We got a great rate for OGG for the week, so all in all I am happy with how it turned out. Sort of wanted a convertible for RTH trip, but the Inifniti ended up with a huge moonroof thing so that works just as well and we saved $500 compared to the backup resy I had for a convertible.
All good
Aug 9, 2021, 1:28 pm
#45
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: NYC
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Arrived Sunday afternoon to OGG.
30 yard walk out from baggage claim, across the street, to the Rental Car Tram patio. Took just a few minutes to get on and get down to the RCC.
If you have gold counter service on our reservation, take an immediate right hand turn off of the tram and walk towards the garage, level 2 (the level you are already on, no need for elevator). Hertz Gold Desk is right inside the actual parking garage. Bit of a wait to go into office, as they had to verify your Hawaii Safe Check Mark. Other folks there must have had more issues or questions, as they were taking 10-15 minutes to get thru and my interaction was: Check ID, Check Safe Travels, Confirm Reservation and PC Status, head out to PC aisle. Maybe 2 minutes tops.
As I walked out of the office, an Infiniti QX50 was parked in PC. We grabbed that, 14K miles and it is pretty clean inside.
There were 5 Chevy Impala's, 1 Ford Taurus, 1 Pickup Truck, and some Mazda full size in PC as well.
And that was that! They were pulling in about 1-2 cars per 5 minutes into PC as I was waiting to walk into the office. Saw a few Ford Explorers in 5* as well, but they looked to be a few years old by body style.
We got a great rate for OGG for the week, so all in all I am happy with how it turned out. Sort of wanted a convertible for RTH trip, but the Inifniti ended up with a huge moonroof thing so that works just as well and we saved $500 compared to the backup resy I had for a convertible.
All good
30 yard walk out from baggage claim, across the street, to the Rental Car Tram patio. Took just a few minutes to get on and get down to the RCC.
If you have gold counter service on our reservation, take an immediate right hand turn off of the tram and walk towards the garage, level 2 (the level you are already on, no need for elevator). Hertz Gold Desk is right inside the actual parking garage. Bit of a wait to go into office, as they had to verify your Hawaii Safe Check Mark. Other folks there must have had more issues or questions, as they were taking 10-15 minutes to get thru and my interaction was: Check ID, Check Safe Travels, Confirm Reservation and PC Status, head out to PC aisle. Maybe 2 minutes tops.
As I walked out of the office, an Infiniti QX50 was parked in PC. We grabbed that, 14K miles and it is pretty clean inside.
There were 5 Chevy Impala's, 1 Ford Taurus, 1 Pickup Truck, and some Mazda full size in PC as well.
And that was that! They were pulling in about 1-2 cars per 5 minutes into PC as I was waiting to walk into the office. Saw a few Ford Explorers in 5* as well, but they looked to be a few years old by body style.
We got a great rate for OGG for the week, so all in all I am happy with how it turned out. Sort of wanted a convertible for RTH trip, but the Inifniti ended up with a huge moonroof thing so that works just as well and we saved $500 compared to the backup resy I had for a convertible.
All good