If you have already made up your mind to travel with a rented vehicle, you should carefully inspect several travel web sites such as Travelocity and Orbitz. These web sites offer links to different car rental operators’ web sites. After visiting those, you can usually track down a number for their local office. Keep in mind that if you contact the car rental companies directly by phone, you can negotiate an even lower price than the one being offered for booking by the company web site.

You can ask if the car rental company you have chosen has hybrid cars in store. It might be really tough to reserve one as the gasoline prices caused hybrid car rentals to shoot up. Hertz announced that hybrid car rentals have increased 40 percent this year. Car rental operators have been renovating their fleets with vehicles like the Nissan Altima and the Toyota Prius, but despite these renovations, hybrid cars may need to be requested two months in advance. If you have made up your mind to book such a car, it again is advisable to ring by phone than go online.

It may sound logical that with the increasing gasoline prices hybrid cars are a better choice, but Consumer Reports found that renting a hybrid car might not necessarily save money. The Avis car rental company offered a three-day rental of an Altima hybrid for $253 versus $111 for the Chevy Impala. So you may be able to get a better rate on non-fuel efficient car. Whatever your choice of vehicle, you can always ask for other discounts.

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