I found myself needing a car from an in-town rental car location. I don’t remember the last time I rented a car that I didn’t pick up at an airport. The good news is I would be saving on airport taxes, at least.
I turned to Orbitz first for a quick search, to get an order of magnitude sense of what I would be looking at. They give a nice grid of different rental companies and vehicle types.
Wow, great price jumped out at me. My quest was pretty much over, just as it started!
So I went ahead and made the booking, from a National Car Rental in-town location I didn’t even know existed.
Glad I checked the confirmation. I wanted to figure out just where I’d be picking up the car. I searched near zip code “22314” and the zip code appeared to be “22320” — couldn’t be too far!
Except…
I had rented a car in Mexico. Orbitz had deported me…
…even though I used to live in L.A., man! (like 20 years ago).
That internet thing, I just don’t think it’s reliable. It’ll never catch on. At least not for something like travel.
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Mr. Leff- Meet Globalization which frankly is the way of the future. This is obviously a hiccup but the old practice of OTA’s dealing primarily or only solely in domestic hops is moving on. Airlines now operate without borders. Multinationals operate without borders. Now Orbitz does. The future struggle may not be Us vs the Chinese it may be ” I like the way America plays football us vs the way the world plays football us”.
Haha, too funny.
Lucky – did you hijack Gary’s blog?
So what kind of vehicle do you get in MX for <$50 a week.
one of these? http://s3.hubimg.com/u/3246362_f520.jpg
sir, remove the racist and offensive movie poster