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Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:10:13 +0000

[...] Janice Hough put an intriguing blog post on tripso.com | Why pay more? National, Alamo morph brand experienceHere’s a quick excerptNational Car Rental has generally been considered one of the more premium car rental companies, along with Hertz, Avis, and maybe Budget. Whereas Alamo Rent A Car has generally been considered a discount operation. … [...]

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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:36:48 +0000

[...] Janice Hough placed an interesting blog post on tripso.com | Why pay more? National, Alamo morph brand experienceHere’s a brief overviewNational Car Rental has generally been considered one of the more premium car rental companies, along with Hertz, Avis, and maybe Budget. Whereas Alamo Rent A Car has generally been considered a discount operation. … [...]

By: Jaxon

Jaxon — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:33:37 +0000

Great post. But I would like to say I have been really disappointed with Enterprise lately. While I applaud their green efforts, I will not use their abuse of taxpayer money by playing victim for bailouts. The Wall Street Journal did a expose. You can read about it here: http://digg.com/d1l2xh You have to pay to get the full Wall Street Journal article.

By: Jay Troppe

Jay Troppe — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:13:48 +0000

I had a nice car reserved from National Car at Billings Airport for March 30th. When I arrived a few hours early they said it would be fine but they couldn’t find anyone to bring some more cars to the airport from their main lot. After several calls one counter person left and went somewhere in her car to try to get some more cars. At that point I moved over to the Hertz counter and was in a car within five minutes. Poor service by National/Alamo!

By: Lila Davis

Lila Davis — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:59:09 +0000

I use Alamo exclusively unless they do not serve an airport to which I travel. All but one of my experiences over 25 years have been great with friendly, helpful personnel. I chose Alamo over National, Avis, Hertz, Budget for the better price. Enterprise may sometimes beat the price but their attitute has been horid and they’ve tried some tricks thinking I was an unknowing female – pay extra for seatbelt rental was one.

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:06:48 +0000

I took an Alamo car from San Francisco airport to LAX recently. Followed the agent instructions on how to find my car but there was nothing there. Nearest uniform was National and she waived me at National cars and said “take your pick”. Worked for me!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:15:03 +0000

National’s program allows you to earn credits for free days and should you get to the “Executive Elite” status, you can use those credits to rent any car on the lot, including mini-vans or Cadillac’s.

But you need to be a very frequent renter to get to those levels and to start earning the free days.

And at many airports where the rental companies have their own facilities, the Emerald Aisle is typically the first stop followed by the rental facility.