Alamo Car Hire - fuel.

[newbould4]

Hi Roger,

I've just read that there is now the option of asking to take the car back with a full tank of fuel when you have the Silver package, thereby avoiding paying over the odds for the fuel.
Are you able to 100% confirm this and are you able to re-issue the voucher to avoid any complications at the time of pickup.


Thank you.

[roger]

I did post that this morning on another thread, but the thread seems to have vanished.

This is with Dollar (not Alamo). You can now opt to take the car back with a full tank on the Silver option rather than empty to avoid Dollar's extortionate re-fuelling fee. The voucher will still say to returm empty, and pay for a tank of fuel, so you need to tell the rep on the desk that you prefer the option of returning full.

[newbould4]

yes, it vanished right before my eyes a few moments ago !!.

Is there just no chance of Alamo doing this option ?

thanks again.

[roger]

I very much doubt Alamo will do the same(although I'd have said the same if you asked me about Dollar doing it until recently).

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by newbould4
yes, it vanished right before my eyes a few moments ago !!.

Is there just no chance of Alamo doing this option ?

thanks again.
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[newbould4]

sorry, one more question, you describe Dollar as 'extortionate', what level is this, do you know ? is Alamo the same ?

[roger]

Extortionate was a bit 'tongue in cheek' as it's still less than UK fuel prices, but around $6.50 per gallon. It's current around $3.50 per gallan at the pump so not far off double.

Alamo are around the same price to refuel at around double the pump price.

[newbould4]

thanks very much

[wilfy]

Just as an update to this, we arrived on Saturday and picked up a car from Dollar on the silver option, and asked if we could return the car with a full tank. Not a problem, they hand write a note on the printed agreement "return full".

[thornton]

Roger, when we picked the car up from Dollar on Monday and asked about this option the rep refused to let us do this saying quite categorically that this was not possible with Dollar. We have now paid for the full tank of fuel, is there anything you can do please?

[steph_goodrum]

That's great Roger, that's long been one of my Micks biggest beefs that you either end up giving them a gallon (at least) of gas and then they resell (which if you take the number of cars returned each day is a nice bonus for them) or end up keep topping up at the last minute. I'm sure there must be more than one occasion that we've got to the airport on fumes