Priceline Hotel: Toronto Minivan/SUV rental

[constantine]

Any tips for getting a minivan or standard/full-size SUV rental in Toronto (at the airport) through priceline? Regular advertised rates are about $2500 for 15 days, end of July beginning of August, which is ridiculous. I am willing to pay half that. I've been bidding $55 per day every day for the last week or so (which with taxes comes to about $1250) but no luck...

[thereuare]

Please use the previously requested PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin your future bidding, searches and travel purchases (each time you access the respective sites)

Thank you.

[robteb]

The first weekend in August is a holiday weeked in Ontario, and is also Caribana weekend, so demand for rental cars (and hotels) is probably very high. Hence the high rates. Hope you get lucky, and enjoy Toronto!

[constantine]

Please use the previously requested PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin your future bidding, searches and travel purchases (each time you access the respective sites)

Thank you.

thanks. i will do.

[constantine]

the best i've been able to do so far has been to book a cancel-able 14 day car rental from downtown returning the car to the airport for about $1500 for an SUV. I suppose i can now keep bidding on priceline for an SUV from the airport for less than that... If i don't get it, at least i will have something for a half decent price...

The other alternative is to go with one of those car rental companies you've never heard of such as Fox, Zoom, etc but i'd rather not do that, there are a lot of complaints with all of them...

[constantine]

Standard prices seem to have come down a bit:

15-days:

Standard SUV $1800

Min-Van $2100

Full-size SUV $2200

I am willing to pay up $1200. Perhaps waiting a bit while I have a cancel-able reservation is the right way to go about it...

[thereuare]

Please use the previously requested PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links on the board to begin your future bidding, searches and travel purchases (each time you access the respective sites)

2x

[constantine]

In case anybody is interested, I ended up booking directly through Thrifty.com with an AMEX 15% discount. Thrifty dropped their prices, unexpectedly a week or two before my trip from about $75 per day to about $38 per day. No other rental company lowered prices - most of them were at about $100 per day! Hotwire were at about $75 per day and my repeated bids on PRICELINE for about $55 kept failing...

[thereuare]

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