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Originally Posted by Phase
im assuming you havent looked at the prices of rental cars and must have family or friends who let you borrow their vehicles when you travel to the east coast. the cost of plane tickets and then rental cars and then the extra gas from the rental guzzlers is much more expensive than driving in an ioniq and staying in cheap motel 6s across the country. i drove to florida on 150 bucks of gas. benefits of ecomodding a hybrid lol
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Car rentals are now $300 a week with my corporate code. We just switched from National to Hertz about 2 months ago - National was $260 a week. In 25 years I've never paid full price for a rental car. Before I worked at a company with a good discount I just searched sites like the one below and used codes I found. I've never once been asked to prove I actually work for the company when I used a corporate discount code.
When we visit family in Michigan we can borrow a car from either of our parents. If we fly into Flint we generally do. If we fly into Detroit we rent a car because the airport is a 2 to 2 1/2 hour drive depending on traffic. It isn't right to expect our parents (who are in their late 70's) to drive 8 to 10 hours just to shuttle us back and forth to the airport.
https://hotelcorporatecodes.com/car-...orporate-codes
More important than saving money - I simply don't have an extra 4 days of vacation to burn for a trip east. Vacation days are rare and precious - except for 2020 I've never had enough. If a trip requires more than 1 day driving each way - I'm flying. I can't see wasting 1/2 my vacation days in a car.