But it is a “members only rate”!
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Those are almost always priced like that
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Randomly I just got a lower price on a compact SUV. I was also able to extend the return time to give me extra time.
It is $70 more than the compact I have booked. I am also pretty confident there will not be any compacts available when I get there, so my chances of an upgrade are pretty good.
I just did the math. I have always tried to be under $40 per day, all in. My compact is at $48. The SUV is at $66.50.
What is a realistic target these days?
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This is about where I try to be, as well. I want to be about $300 all in for a week, so that’s like $43 ish or so a day. But I’m also looking for an SUV
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My last two rentals for 6 days both were in the $160-$180 range. Both were Kia Souls
Note that the more recent one was Hertz and I won’t rent from them again. The other was dollar
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I dropped one of my rentals by six whole doll-hairs 
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It was like that one time Southwest gave me a refund of 7 whole points! 
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So I went back to some odd affiliate of a decent website, and I got an Audi Q5 through Alamo for the week for €383.91. Yeah, Euros. That is with gas service included.
I’ll take a stab at it and see what happens. I did check the Alamo site, and they do have the reservation on file.
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Are you an Alamo Insider and can you link the reservation in the app?
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I probably should sign up and check the app out.
I just hate apps that can easily be a website
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I link to the app, complete the direct to car, and then download the barcode to my Apple wallet.
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That makes sense! Funny enough, I don’t use Google Wallet that much 
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Ok, I know that this thread is very specifically 2025, but my parents have requested a car for our April trip. What would you all think is “reasonable,” for 9-days for a minivan? It doesn’t have to be cheap necessarily, but I’m just curious what the going rates are. National/Enterprise are looking like $700-800. Seems reasonable?
I was going to look at 2 intermediate cars but each one was looking like $500-600 on their own!
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I put the date in the title so that future people would know that the information is obsolete, but I have no qualms about you asking about 2026. 
At some point we could make a new thread or just update the thread title if it makes sense to do so.
I paid $600+ for a minivan rental that spanned 11 days (October 3-13). I think about $700-800 is reasonable but if you keep checking you might find a better rate. Look at about 30 days before. I used Autoslash and booked Alamo.
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Thanks! There were a few coupon codes that I found that were only for 2025 so I signed up for emails from National and Enterprise so hopefully I can start looking in the new year. I will check out Alamo. I used to have Autoslash but I think they spammed me so much I unsubscribed.
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You sign up with Autoslash each time you want them to track a trip, it’s not a membership or anything. Just make sure to uncheck the box that says they can email you promotions. 
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This seems to be about the sweet spot. After that, my prices started going up and up and up.
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Well, that’s what I thought, too…but here we are 5 days before and the prices dropped (after going up by 30% last week!)
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Mine went down at day 5 but it was still almost $50 more than the cost on 9/1. I stopped looking at day 4, and I have linked that 9/1 price to my Alamo account.
My cheapest price last month was at 32 days.
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