Car Hire

Can anyone tell me what the current vehicles are that Dollar/Alamo hire out for the following: -

1) 8 Seat Minivan
2) 12 Seat Mini Van
3) 15 Seat Mini Van

The reason I ask is that we hired through this site(Florida Car Hire & Dollar) a 12 Seat last year and basically it had no luggage space at all[msncry]. We were downgraded by Dollar to an 8 seat which was basically the same vehicle without the last row of seats so it had a massive amount of luggage space.
When we go this time (Feb 2006) we are getting married, there are 8 adults and 1 child going so an 8 Seat will not be appropriate but I do not want a 12 seat or 15 seat if there is no luggage space, as you can imagine there will be a lot of luggage!!! Three of the party are only going for a week.

Anybody help as we do not want any problems when we get there again with having to change the vehicle?????

can only speak for the 7 seater dodge caravan we had last time and the time before, and there is lots of luggage space,
but there are 5 in our group and we did get panicky cos we were so squashed!!

8 Seater is normally a Astro mini van. We had one last May and got 7 of us in it plus lots of luggauge

Get 2 cars - one 7 or 8 seater minivan for 2 weeks and one regular car for 1 week. You'll have a lot more flexibility that way anyway. It's unlikely all 9 of you will always want to go to the same places at the same time.

Tonish

Hi Guys,
We changed from the usual 7 seater to an 8 seater Ford Van, it seems the 12/15 seaters are the same vans with an extra seat in which as you said takes the luggage space. It turned out we had 9 there, for one of the weeks and ended up getting a Dodge Neon also, so would have been better to take 7 seater and a car!! My irish DL only covers driver+8 so a 15 seater was out for us. It was great to have the two cars to be honest, I could do stuff with the house and Marianne took the inlaws to parks I have had enough of :D

We booked 2 x 8 seaters (Link above/Dollar) for 14 of us, it wasn't until we were loading the luggage at the airport that we realised we had actually been given 2 x 12 seaters. We managed to get everything in by using the last row of seats for a couple of bags. I'm sure its just the same vehicle (Ford E350 I think) but with an extra row of seats, we didn't bother changing the cars because it was an advantage to us as 12 of us went to the parks on a couple of occasions and this meant we could all go in one car and leave the other for the 2 people left at the villa, and it saved us some parking money.

We had extra luggage on the return trip (obviously) and still managed to fit it all in.

Yeah a Ford F350 was what we had, i guess they are still using them now.

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8 Seater is normally a Astro mini van. We had one last May and got 7 of us in it plus lots of luggauge
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Good to hear this, there will be 7 of us and we are having an 8 seater.

We are looking now to hire 2 vehicles. Can we have the main driver on one as a named driver on the other and vice-versa?

Yes, when we hired 2 vehicles we used the link above and took the Dollar Gold option which has unlimited drivers, so all 4 adults were insured for both cars.