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gwendolinemary
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Status: offline |  Posted - 31 Jul 2006 : 13:16:40  
| We had our car hire booked from Budget before I realised I could have booked thru this site at better rates.(How annoying!! I'll know next time!!)
Anyway, my question is do you get to choose your car from all the ones at the airport like with Dollar, or does Budget just allocate you a specific vehicle?
We've booked an suv, does anyone know what kind we might get?
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blott
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Status: offline | Posted - 31 Jul 2006 : 17:57:27
| It's Alamo that allows you to choose a car, not Dollar. Although you can request something specific and cross your fingers with Dollar.
I haven't used Budget for years (since they were off airport) so don't have any up to date knowledge of them but I don't remember then being able to choose a particular car. |
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Tonish
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Status: offline | Posted - 23 Aug 2006 : 14:13:31
| | We're just back and used Budget. They will give you a choice at the desk if you ask, but they don't have a huge selection. We had booked a luxury full size SUV (hoping for a Navigator or similar), but they have a different view of "luxury" from me - the choices were an Expedition (which I like and would have been happy with) or a Dodge Durango (which is a considerably cheaper, inferior and smaller car). They had no Expeditions, only Durangos and so we got stuck with it. I tried several times over the course of 3 weeks to change to an Expedition, but they never seemed to have any available. |
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Sniff
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Status: offline | Posted - 24 Apr 2008 : 10:50:14
| I rented two cars from Budget a couple of weeks ago. I didn't rent via this website, but from the Budget website itself more than 6 months ago (large family trip). Never again...queues absolutely huge, staff very very slow and dis-interested (it took one and a half hours to even get to the front of the queue and then another 40 minutes to process our booking and actually get keys to vehicles). We booked two Expeditions and ended up with a Durango (smaller and not an 8 seater depsite what they say) and a Toyota Selina. At least we got the infant seat we booked, and they did agree to waive the additional driver fee because we didn't get the cars we asked for.
I don't know if it's because Budget are cheaper or what, but at that time (around 11pm on a Wednesday night) Budget were packed and the other companies were virtually empty - so tempting to nip across to Avis next door and ask if they had two Expeditions!
I normally book via Hertz as I'm a Gold member and get airmiles and stuff - the "get in and go" pickup takes about 5 minutes and is wonderful. But this time as we were needing two cars that wasn't possible, but I certainly won't be using Budget again. |
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roger
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Status: offline | Posted - 24 Apr 2008 : 11:56:07
| Next time book thrm through us 
Not only will you be able to pre-register (avoiding the queue) but also if you have a problem with the cars you ask for not being available, we have an emergency number on the voucher. If you call that, then they can arrange for cars to be moved over from Avis.
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Originally posted by Sniff
I rented two cars from Budget a couple of weeks ago. I didn't rent via this website, but from the Budget website itself more than 6 months ago (large family trip). Never again...queues absolutely huge, staff very very slow and dis-interested (it took one and a half hours to even get to the front of the queue and then another 40 minutes to process our booking and actually get keys to vehicles). We booked two Expeditions and ended up with a Durango (smaller and not an 8 seater depsite what they say) and a Toyota Selina. At least we got the infant seat we booked, and they did agree to waive the additional driver fee because we didn't get the cars we asked for.
I don't know if it's because Budget are cheaper or what, but at that time (around 11pm on a Wednesday night) Budget were packed and the other companies were virtually empty - so tempting to nip across to Avis next door and ask if they had two Expeditions!
I normally book via Hertz as I'm a Gold member and get airmiles and stuff - the "get in and go" pickup takes about 5 minutes and is wonderful. But this time as we were needing two cars that wasn't possible, but I certainly won't be using Budget again.
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Sniff
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Status: offline | Posted - 24 Apr 2008 : 12:15:45
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Next time book thrm through us
Not only will you be able to pre-register (avoiding the queue) but also if you have a problem with the cars you ask for not being available, we have an emergency number on the voucher. If you call that, then they can arrange for cars to be moved over from Avis.
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Originally posted by Sniff
I rented two cars from Budget a couple of weeks ago. I didn't rent via this website, but from the Budget website itself more than 6 months ago (large family trip). Never again...queues absolutely huge, staff very very slow and dis-interested (it took one and a half hours to even get to the front of the queue and then another 40 minutes to process our booking and actually get keys to vehicles). We booked two Expeditions and ended up with a Durango (smaller and not an 8 seater depsite what they say) and a Toyota Selina. At least we got the infant seat we booked, and they did agree to waive the additional driver fee because we didn't get the cars we asked for.
I don't know if it's because Budget are cheaper or what, but at that time (around 11pm on a Wednesday night) Budget were packed and the other companies were virtually empty - so tempting to nip across to Avis next door and ask if they had two Expeditions!
I normally book via Hertz as I'm a Gold member and get airmiles and stuff - the "get in and go" pickup takes about 5 minutes and is wonderful. But this time as we were needing two cars that wasn't possible, but I certainly won't be using Budget again.
That's worth knowing - thanks Roger! |
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taylona
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Status: offline | Posted - 24 Apr 2008 : 15:45:55
| We have just come back from Orlando and booked our car (through this site) with Budget. They are onsite at MCO. We couldn't do the pre-register as we needed two drivers. They allocate the car but for some reason they had ours waiting 'on the other side of the airport'. This wasn't a problem and they gave us a free upgrade - we had reserved a mini-van but we were given a large SUV. If the SUV had not been ok they said we could have changed it at any time at Kissimmee. (We booked a mini van for luggage space rather than numbers). We enjoyed the Trailblazer they gave us and didn't want/need to change it. 
This is our second time of using Budget and have not had any problems - would use them again. |
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sammibabe
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Status: offline | Posted - 26 Apr 2008 : 19:51:27
| We have booked our car through you for August so do we pre register 7 days before we go? How will we know about the 2 driver bit being sorted out? We've not used Budget before and I must admit to wondering if we have done the right thing after reading some of the comments | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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sammibabe
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Status: offline | Posted - 26 Apr 2008 : 21:21:34
| Sorry mis read previous post In your earlier post on this thread you said Budget sorting the 2 driver thing 'shortly'. Will you post if this happens? I usually only drive once or twice but it's handy just in case. | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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sammibabe
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Status: offline | Posted - 26 Apr 2008 : 23:59:58
| Thanks for that. Hopefully it will be sorted by August then. We will go to desk if needs be but with 3 grumpy children after the flight shortest time possible waiting is much appreciated by wilting parents! | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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