{"id":1442,"date":"2011-05-09T07:49:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T05:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2011-05-11T22:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T20:00:42","slug":"rental-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"Rental cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was in Dallas in 2005 I saw the then new Mustang. When I started browsing rental cars (about two years ago, because we wanted to go last year already) I saw that Hertz offered the convertible Mustang, and I was in lust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nHertz’ web site made it clear that I’d be lucky to actually get the Mustang, the convertible of choice was the Sebring. I booked one in any case. Well, the new line up is out, and I now have a booking for a Eclipse Spyder for the low price of $413… not bad, but while two adults and two kids will fit in the ‘stang<\/a>,\u00a0 I don’t think I can fit four people in an Eclipse Spyder<\/a>. And because it’s now so much closer to the date, even a Camry will now cost me $860. Bastards.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Fox has a slightly tarnished reputation*, but… they also have the Mustang.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><– Is dit nie fokkin cool nie huh?<\/p>\n

Versus<\/p>\n

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Decisions decisions… although trunk space is a concern<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fox only has a few locations for returning the car — while I can drop of a Hertz rental in the middle of San Francisco I will have to drop the Fox rental at the airport. This is either a pain in the arse or a blessing — if I keep the car while we’re in San Francisco, I have to pay for parking ($20\/24 hours<\/a>), but we won’t need to pay for transport ($8\/head Powell Street to SFO on BART<\/a>, one way) to town after drop-off and back\u00a0 to the airport when we leave — that more than breaks even IMO.<\/p>\n

* Two stars on Yelp<\/a>, while Avis and Hertz have three. National has five starts, but wants $1600 for the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was in Dallas in 2005 I saw the then new Mustang. When I started browsing rental cars (about two years ago, because we wanted to go last year already) I saw that Hertz offered the convertible Mustang, and I was in lust. Hertz’ web site made it clear that I’d be lucky to actually get the Mustang, the convertible of choice was the Sebring. I booked one in any case. Well, the new line up is out, and I now have a booking for a Eclipse Spyder for the low price of $413… not bad, but while two...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}