Donald - my hero
<font color=blue>Aww yes. The dreaded "mouse hand"
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- Jun 11, 2006
My suggestion is the print off all your paperwork for the rental and stick it in your "OMG don't lose this crap" pile. Last trip we pieced together 2 rentals because it was cheaper than one longer one and when we went in to pick up the second car i discovered i had brought the wrong paper with us. No problem, they had the reservation but the price that appeared on her bottom line was about triple what i expected. She said she had no record of us pre-paying so was charging us full pop, walk-up rate. NOPE, got out of the line, called Airmiles and had them forward an email with the info, got back into line and "suddenly" she was able to find that we had in fact paid for the rental. For our trip to the Soo next month i've got the email tucked into a file on my phone!I redeemed for my car rental. An econo from the 17th to 27th was 2730 miles with earn 100 attached to it and the taxes are $88. This is Alamo which is my preferred company. Very rarely do I not get a free upgrade of one or two categories which I'm also hoping for this time. I had watched the required miles bounce up and down for a couple of weeks. It was fairly static around 3000-3100 most of the time. I was also watching the Alamo site to just do a cash rental. If the price had been under $200(best I've seen was $257) I would have saved my miles and just paid OOP because the taxes on the AM rental were $97. Anyway, as the Alamo prices started to drop so did the AM. Of course (always my luck) a couple of hours after I booked the AM dropped another 150...why I looked again I'll never know. After mentioning it to my DD she said that perhaps it was the tracking cookies. So I think that it might be wise to clear the cookies or use an incognito window before booking.
No matter what I'm happy with getting the rental with my miles. My DD really likes the WDW buses but I reminded her that it's been about 5 years since we were there during the summer and in the heat it will be really nice to have our own ride when ever, where ever. No smelly sticky people to ride with and always a seat. She agreed very quickly.