Car Hire Orlando, Disney Transfers

Orlando offers a great variety of transport offers. The entire city is full with means of transport and transport agencies which will make your transport easier. This great offer is due to the fact that it is almost impossible to access Disney’s parks on foot and every visitor needs a way to get to them. Unless you decide to drive to Orlando and drive your own car, you should pay careful attention to the following recommendations.

One of the commonest ways to travel to Orlando is by vans. Agencies that provide this service pick you up at the hotel or apartment, and take you to the desired place. Once the day is over, they pick you up at the park and take you to your hotel. The great advantage of this is that you will not have to worry about driving and you will be able to travel comfortably sitting and chatting, or sleeping before entering the park. Besides, using this service if you travel by yourself is a great way to meet people who will spend the day in the same place you are going.

Even though it is true that van services are really used, the favorite means of transport of Orlando’s tourists is car rentals. Without the need of great paperwork, you will be able to rent a car that adjusts to your needs and which takes you to the parks and also will allow you to travel through the city, visit relatives or friends, and it will provide you with a great liberty to move as opposed to the previous service. You can make a reservation and have your car waiting for you at the airport by just paying a little extra. As opposed to what many may think, not all car rentals are expensive and almost all car rental agencies offer discounts if you pay by credit cards, if you have a certain plane ticket, or if you stay at a given hotel. That is to say, if you find an agency that offers discounts with your credit card, or if the airline you fly by gives you one, or you get the benefits from staying at a certain hotel, you will find a rental at a reasonable price.

To rent a car and take advantage of it to the most and avoid annoying troubles, we offer you a series of recommendations which, surely, you will find very interesting.

Price: What has an influence on the car rental is its size —the bigger the car, the more expensive it will be. The luxury on a car is a secondary matter —though important— in the final cost. Usually, agencies charge per day or per week, and you pay half in advance.

Discounts:

• Credit cards: Many agencies offer discounts for the Gold line of credit cards.

• Clubs: Belonging to a car rental club will give you the possibility of taking a much better car at the same price than a regular customer who takes a Standard car.

• Hotels: Staying at a hotel may imply a discount on or benefit from the rental of your car. Find out if the hotel at which you are staying has some contract with any car rental agency.

• Airlines: The same that happens with hotels can be applied to airlines. Therefore, it is important to find out this before the journey.

Classification: You must ask what each category means since every agency uses different parameters. Some agencies consider automatic lift window as something to take the car to a higher category and therefore charge you more for a regular and standard car. Do not rent a car due to its category —ask what does each category offer to know exactly what is the car about.

Taxes: Car rentals are full of taxes. As it would be very annoying to name them all, this is what you have to do when making the reservations: ALWAYS ask for the final price of the car, since agencies tend to give prices separately.

Gasoline: There are three ways to handle gasoline. The first one is to take the car with the tank full and pay for it; the second one is to take the car with the tank as it is —without knowing how much gas it has—; and the third one is to take the car with the tank full and return it in the same conditions. The first option has the disadvantage that you will have to pay the full tank at a gallon price higher than the one you pay at a gas station. The second option has the disadvantage that you can pick up the car with the tank almost empty or completely full, and you will not know this. Then, when going to fill in the tank you will not be sure how much to fill in. The third option seems interesting except for the fact that there are no gas stations near the car rental agencies. Therefore, if you fill the tank before, you will not get there with the tank completely full and the agency will charge you a lot for each missing gallon.

Insurance: It is mandatory to have a Basic insurance and that is why you are always charged for it. Some credit cards take care of the insurance payment though the policy they offer is the most basic one and there are many things they do not cover —such as robbery. If you have your car insured in the USA, you may be able to transfer your insurance from your car to the rented one. This policy may cover many more things than the basic insurance that car rental agencies or credit card agencies offer, and they will not charge you more —since what you pay for this policy is what you should have paid for keeping your own car insured.