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[ 2008 ] $'s Saved renting car to drive to airport

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You usually spend one night at the hotel (either the night before or after your trip - your choice.)

You leave your car in hotel parking for the duration of your trip.

You use the hotel shuttle to get to and from the airport.

Park-Sleep-Fly is a well-known company that provides this service:

http://www.parksleepfly.com
 
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When we have to fly out of a (bigger city- but distant) airport, we have located hotels that offer the stay one night and leave the car service for a week or so. Haven't tried it for much longer trips. Might try the car rental scheme. Fortunately, the home town airport has free unlimited parking, but the flight adds $100 or so to a trip. One just has to do the math to see which is the bigger value.
 
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We do the park, sleep, fly and all the ones we did give you two weeks free
Parking. When we went to Hawaii for three weeks, they only charged us an extra
$20 for the third week. It works nice and we can sleep about two hours longer
Because we're right there. That makes a big difference for our Hawaii trips from
Wisconsin.
 
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HEY! It works!

We have an upcoming trip from a city where we have lodging but don't want to pay to park for several weeks.

So after reading this thread, I brought it up to my (extra smart and thrifty) DW. So today, she pre-booked rental car (happens to be from Dollar, but mox nix) to pick up the day before departure and be able to turn in at the airport, in preferred parking for $15.05 ALL IN! It will be a full retail taxi ride home on return, but worst case is a small fraction of what airport parking even at a 'stay -n- park' hotel.

Thanks for the tip!

Jim
 
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Passepartout said:
Fortunately, the home town airport has free unlimited parking, but the flight adds $100 or so to a trip.
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There's free parking near our hometown airport, too...
It's at the county jail's parking lot, just a short walk away.
They don't seem to care how long your car is there; like you're an inmate. ;)
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Passepartout said:
We have an upcoming trip from a city where we have lodging but don't want to pay to park for several weeks.

So after reading this thread, I brought it up to my (extra smart and thrifty) DW. So today, she pre-booked rental car (happens to be from Dollar, but mox nix) to pick up the day before departure and be able to turn in at the airport, in preferred parking for $15.05 ALL IN! It will be a full retail taxi ride home on return, but worst case is a small fraction of what airport parking even at a 'stay -n- park' hotel.

Thanks for the tip!

Jim
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That is a nice win for you! But, why not do the reverse on the way home instead of the taxi ride?

After reading this thread last month I decided to do the same for an upcoming trip. We leave out of Boston because of the flight choice, but return to Providence. Leaving a car at the airport isn't even an option. Also asking someone to bring us to Boston is a huge favor (providence not at all).

I have reserved a car to go the airport. (about $60). Cheaper than anything else I can think of!
 
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mdurette said:
That is a nice win for you! But, why not do the reverse on the way home instead of the taxi ride?
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This particular trip, we need to be 120+ miles away early the morning after arrival and just don't have time to do the 'rental car shuffle'. Adding to that, our return coincides with President's Day holiday and car rentals were 5X higher than when we will use it going to the airport. It's not above me to ask the shuttle bus drivers if they'll drop us on the way to the downtown hotels. Prolly won't work, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
 
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