Alamo Review

Overall 4.20 of 5 (by 10 users)

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Jolie
Chicago, IL

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Alamo Car Rental has cheap prices, a good car fleet & service!

family traveler, appreciative of good service, mom of 2, parent of toddlers, safety conscious, practical

Pros

choose your own car, deals online

MAR

2008

On two recent trips to Florida, we wanted to rent SUVs. My husband and I avoid the family minivans as often as we can! For us, small SUVs give us the room we need with 2 adults, 2 kids and lots of luggage!

We went on to Travelocity and Expedia to compare prices of the various car rental companies. The basic cost for a small minivan was $450 per week in Naples Florida. Ouch!

We then turned to Hotwire to see if we could get a bargain. (For those that know me, you know that I love to get nice things-- but I love to get a deal more!) Hotwire accepted my bid at $250 for a week long SUV. In both cases, we were assigned Alamo Rental Car for our car pick-up. Go Alamo-- thanks for being half price!!

When arriving in Naples, we were pleasantly surprised how closeby the Alamo Rental counter was to the baggage area. It was the first counter just across the street from our luggage pick up. The line was a little long, and a little slow, but the staff was very pleasant and very accomodating.

In our case, United Airlines lost my sons car seat so we needed to rent a car seat last minute. Alamo was great about getting him all set up.

Then, we were assigned our car-- an SUV. We were told we could go out to the lot and pick out any SUV we wanted. They had Saturns, Pontiacs, Chryslers, Toyotas, etc. All seemed reasonable options. The car attendant outside was super helpful. He knew all the cars and suggested the one that we should take--the Equinox. We started loading our luggage into the car when he came zipping around the corner in a different car. He told us we had to switch to this other car because it was nicer, had a better stereo system and was newer. He proceeded to take all our bags out of our car and load us up! How nice!!!

We were off and running with our Alamo Rental Car. At half the price, we definitely got full service and a decent car for our trip. Also, United found my sons car seat mid-way through our trip and Alamo let us return the car seat rental and get our money back for the days we didnt use it.

Overall, I would recommend Alamo Rental Car.

Alamo is recommended by Jolie

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Mars wrote on Mar 30, 2008 at 10:32AM

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i've never tried it, but now I will.

RudiXeno wrote on Mar 21, 2008 at 7:30AM

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Nice review Jolie and nice deal. I've been using Alamo for some time and have always been pleased. I've never understood why someone standing one counter away would be willing to pay twice the price. Rudi

MikeMaroon wrote on Mar 19, 2008 at 7:02PM

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I've rented from Alamo. Good outfit. Nice review!!

Jo wrote on Mar 16, 2008 at 5:20PM

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We check also to make sure we will get to choose a car. I've had places that say they have one car left. I try to avoid those! Nice job:) Jo

jazzybean01 wrote on Mar 15, 2008 at 9:26PM

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Glad to hear that Alamo has better service than Hertz. Unfortunately I don't believe there is one of these where I live. But Enterprise is pretty great. How were Alamo's gas prices?

kid-kansas wrote on Mar 14, 2008 at 7:01PM

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I would say you got a great deal there! I like they let you take your pick, that is way different than any rental I ever did...lol it's been a few years but still way different.