I have six secrets to help you snag the
best car rental from Hertz budget
thrifty dollar and more hi I'm the
YouTube deal guy Matt granite from
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I'll know you like the content and who
doesn't like saving money I rent a car
at least every month sometimes more I
take one big trip every month usually a
three or four day long weekend with all
of these travel points that I've
accumulated now one program that doesn't
really have a lot of points where
loyalty does not go a long way car
rentals and when I did a video on this
concept last year I heard from a lot of
people who wanted to argue and they had
very strong differing opinions and I
learned that a lot of the people
commenting actually work for major car
rental companies and they weren't happy
with the advice I was dispensing and I
was able to isolate the viewers and the
subscribers and was a really interesting
video if you go and you look back at
that I uploaded that at the end of
October last year but this is a new
video with updated information so first
things first of the six secrets that no
car rental company wants you to know
secret number one most of those
wonderful people at the counter and many
of them are wonderful they make the
basis of their Commission on selling you
add-ons those add-ons could be a GPS
unit it could be a car seat and I want
to remind you if you travel with a young
child like I do the cost to rent a car
seat per rental is around 125 dollars
you can buy a good toddler car seat for
about eighty nine dollars and ship it to
your destination more importantly if you
have a car seat that's about $200 buy a
cover check that at the airport and
you're going to be saving at least 125
bucks per car rental so that's important
to know that was the big takeaway number
one secret number two don't book
directly through any car rental company
and the reason is that is never your
best way to find the least expensive
rate and I'm going to show you a tool
that I've profiled in the past and just
show you how strong and valuable this is
to really lock in the lowest rate let's
look at car rentals calm
to start so with the dates of March 5th
6 p.m. and a march 8 drop-off of 5 p.m.
car rentals calm which is a great
website using basically Expedia but not
the website that I'm going to show you
pulls up rates for an SUV of about one
hundred and fifty six dollars thirty
dollars a day you go to enterprise 169
yeah Alamo 169 alright if you move to
Hotwire with the exact same dates
Chicago March 5th 6 p.m. March 8 5 p.m.
drop off you're pulling off rates of
slightly less with their feature deals
10% off one hundred and fifty four
dollars one hundred and sixty-three here
blah blah blah blah blah for a compact
SUV 154 car rentals calm a compact SUV
156 all right 154 156 the third tool
that I want to show you right now is a
tool called Auto slash and I again with
all of my car rentals swear by this
website they're not paying you to talk
about them I'm not using any type of
Philly links I just happen to love this
website if you were to use this website
they will also track the rental price
drops for you so if your rate drops to a
lower price they will alert you and you
can lock that in we're gonna put in the
same dates here the only reason this
website is a little bit different is
that you need to put in your email
address and then they will email you
their results and I think that's because
a human being works with a computer
algorithm to really find you the best
rates sometimes it's five minutes till
they email you sometimes it's an hour
but you usually get a much better price
so you can put in if you're part of any
membership groups but for this sake
right now we're just gonna go bare-bones
and then you enter your email address
and then within a few minutes I will
have an email from auto slash they don't
sell your information no issue with that
alright let's look at auto slash now now
that I'm now that my results are in auto
slash is giving me four again March
fifth six pm March eighth drop off
ninety eight dollars for a compact SUV
from thrifty and again it's pick up at
the airport rental car center the same
location all of these other companies
are using let's look back so we've got
150
or was our best price at Hotwire and 98
dollars for a compact SUV unlimited
mileage no additional fees you can even
prepay with Auto slash or just use this
with a pay later through Priceline
option that is far superior and on this
trip alone if you use the tool that I've
suggested you're saving 60 bucks just
for one weekend rental secret number
three if you can and your schedule
permits avoid renting from an airport in
most cases I don't know if you guys have
realized this but when you rent from an
airport or you return to an airport you
paying an airport concession fee and
sometimes that can increase the total
value of your rental by thirty forty
even fifty dollars depending on the
dates and how popular the weekend is if
you look at the different rates right
here and now this is per day there are
three different rates that you can see
and usually you have a control over this
there's in terminal 35 on Airport which
means you have to take a shuttle bus and
off Airport which is 36 but let's let's
assume you're not taking an uber or a
taxi somewhere else sometimes taking one
quick shuttle bus which is no more than
a five minute drive from the airport
completely free will save you four or
five dollars per day and trust me over
time
that adds up that would mean that even
just for the course of this rental the
rate would go from 150 for total to 185
total by making that little change so
again it pays sometimes to hop on the
shuttle bus secret number for those low
rates from those companies you've never
heard of exist for very good reason
those companies are sometimes over
selling or just know that if they create
the lowest rate they're going to
dominate on a specific date because
anyone will go to that location an
example which I'm going to pick on them
because every time I fly to Phoenix I
see this Fox car rentals at Phoenix have
a line that wraps around the corner and
one or two people at the front of the
line that are helping in a line that is
usually a two-hour wait if you look at
all of the concession
stands from Hertz $2 Alamo thrifty all
beside them there's never a line what
happens well Fox rental car will lock
people in with prepaid rates where you
have to go to them and they know there's
no other way for you to turn down that
$10 discount per day there's a reason
they are that cheap please look at the
ratings for car rental companies you can
look at them sometimes on Auto slash or
you can seek them out independently
another example of a company that you
may not want to go to easy rent there in
Florida I just rented from them a few
weeks ago in West Palm Beach
they were almost 80 dollars less
compared to any other company but I was
picked up in an unmarked van taken to a
Hilton Hotel and on the side of the
Hilton Hotel there was something that
looked like a ballroom and there was one
person of what looked like an area where
you would hang your coats they gave us
these numbers one through six written
out on a piece of paper and had us call
our own insurance companies to prove
that we had insurance and I probably
gave out more personal information than
I needed to the car also made some
strange noises now they were very nice
the drop off was okay but in the middle
of the night in West Palm Beach that
might not have been the best experience
for other people and that's again just
one experience I had with this company
called easy rent now speaking of
insurance that brings me to secret
number five all car rental companies
want you to take their insurance now
there's a bit of a debate that I have
internally with this in an unknown city
with an unknown vehicle and directions
that you're trying to get either from
your phone or through someone else we're
a lot less likely to get into an
accident in those situations than we are
in our vehicle which we use and operate
in our own neighborhoods and commutes
with that being said a lot of people say
oh I just use my own insurance if you
use your own insurance company as your
primary insurance company on a car
rental yes they'll cover you but if you
crash that car you use your own
deductible and that counts against your
own insurance rates over time if
anything happens if you take out a
secondary insurance you can smash the
car and walk away
there's no deductible there's nothing
that affects your premiums and you're
using a third party insurance that is
great at fifteen or twenty dollars a day
that's a lot if you're renting for an
entire week one thing to keep in mind
which I like is a third party insurer
that has nothing to do with the car
rental company and in this case if
you're booking through Priceline or Auto
/ or Hotwire you're going to be
presented with an add-on third-party
insurance from Alliance global which is
a major company for about ten dollars
and ninety five cents per day what does
that mean well that means if anything
goes wrong there your third-party
insurance company there's no deductible
and it won't affect your premiums and in
most cases you do not have to go through
your own insurance company now of course
cities rental states and countries have
different terms and conditions but it is
interesting to know that for 1095 per
day versus twenty or twenty five from
the car rental this type of coverage
could be your best bet and secret number
six you can stack coupons but don't book
through the car rental company now with
Airlines loyalty goes a long way hotels
definitely loyalty goes a long way but
for car companies the best bet generally
is just book the lowest car rental
company in whatever city you happen to
be in and whether it's dollar thrifty
alamo hertz budget you're going to get
the same vehicle and yeah it might not
be waiting for you just where you just
walk into it and you're all there for
their elite members but that'll cost you
another five minutes and there's really
nothing to to lose in that respect the
car rental companies will all allow you
to stack Costco membership BJ's AARP
Triple A and if you're using a tool like
Auto slash you can actually tick the
boxes to show where your a membership
and that coupon will work in conjunction
with the discount you're getting so yes
coupon stocking works and then a couple
of tips just to remind you don't take
the full fuel upon return every major
car rental company is near some gas
station sometimes it's a block from
where you're returning your vehicle
sometimes you have to get off the
highway but it is impossible to
calculate how much gas you are going to
use and have that full tank where you
don't need to do anything work to your
advantage when you do return the rental
and finally if there are any remnants of
garbage in your vehicle some companies
will charge you a one hundred and fifty
to three hundred dollar cleaning fee if
you leave a couple of bubble tea cups or
if your baby has a few extra cheerio
remnants in the back seat in fact I
heard from someone on my last video that
have a cleaning fee assess for an empty
water bottle in the couple
in the front the rest of the car was
completely clean so keep in mind that
when you are returning the Car Rental
really there's a garbage beside it when
you take it back take everything out get
them to print a receipt and make sure
there are no additional fees I've seen
car companies make all sorts of mistakes
so there you go I hope this video helped
you if you want to see more content like
this please leave me a comment if you
have any specific trips where Auto slash
or another tool has worked for you
please feel free to leave a comment and
if you are watching this and you're a
member of the car rental industry and
you're angry about any of the
information I've dispensed I have full
support for all of you have rented cars
from every major company you are all
wonderful people but they're sometimes a
cheaper way to do things okay I love you
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