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How to Rent a Car for CHEAP - 13 Tips - YouTube
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13 tips to help you save money on your
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next rental car tip number one book
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early particularly if you're traveling
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this summer in 2021 rental car demand is
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sky high because people don't want to
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fly they think rental cars are a safer
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mode of transportation
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and there's less rental cars because all
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the rental car companies weren't renting
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anything last year they had to sell all
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their rental cars and so there's
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increased demand there is lower
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inventory and so rental car prices right
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now are through the roof if you're
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planning to book a trip this year 2021
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this summer i would say actually look at
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the prices of the rental car first
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because i've seen crazy rates like in
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las vegas you know hyundai elantra's are
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going for like 200 a day crazy things
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we've never seen before so in this video
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in addition to letting you know to book
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early i'm gonna provide you with a whole
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bunch of other tips to help you not
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spend 200 a day on a cheap hyundai now
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some other things related to booking
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early when you do book early book a
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non-prepaid rate there's no skin in the
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game most rental car companies don't
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have any cancellation penalties provided
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that you don't book the prepaid rates
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you're booking those ones that you pay
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at the door you can book them you can
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change them but you can lock in a lesser
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price now and you can check the rates
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later and potentially get a cheaper rate
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later if the rates do go down and pro
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tip if you're too lazy to keep checking
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your rates there's this website called
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auto slash if you go to auto slash and
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you fill in your rental car details it
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will keep checking the rates for you and
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anytime it finds a lower rate it'll send
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you an email so you can book it at a
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cheaper rate i use auto slash all the
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time it's helped me save a lot of money
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this video is not sponsored just a tool
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that i like quite a bit tip number two
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rent your car someplace other than the
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airport why well because airports have
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some of the highest fees for rental cars
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i don't just mean the rate but i mean
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the rate you see like 50 a day and then
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extra fees facility fees convenience
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fees transportation fees city taxes
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there's a whole bunch of these extra
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fees that get tacked onto your rental
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when you book it at the airport so
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consider picking it up in a downtown
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location a city location at the hotel
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you're staying at now you can often book
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rental cars picking them up in the city
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and returning them at the airport for no
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extra charge when we're in japan this is
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what we often do we'll fly in to some
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place like osaka and then we'll go to
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our hotel we'll spend a couple days in
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osaka we'll get a rental car in the city
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with a return to the airport so that
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when we go back to the airport we're
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already good and we don't have to take
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any public transportation back to the
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airport tip number three check the
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aggregators and third parties what i
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mean by aggregators i mean things like
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kayak rentalcars.com expedia they're
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just great places to start looking at a
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whole bunch of different rental car
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companies but also consider
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if there's some programs you might be
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affiliated
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aaa costco is a good one
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costco travels website books rental cars
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for way less than most places so if
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you're a costco member definitely make
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sure you're using that rental car
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benefit and you know one place that
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people often don't think about is
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airline portals and it might not be
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directly on the airline's website but
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many airlines have like an affiliated
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travel agency company for example
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southwest airlines has southwest
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vacations where you can book your rental
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car along with your flight and you can
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often get much cheaper rental cars if
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you package them together with the
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flight tip number four look at all the
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car classes often people think that the
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smallest car class will be the cheapest
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but that's often not the case sometimes
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suvs can be really cheap pickup trucks
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convertibles make sure when you're
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looking at the rental cars you scroll
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all the way down because they're not
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always sorted by price they're typically
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sorted by smallest to largest and most
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exotic but sometimes you can actually
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find really good deals in those exotic
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call cars also some uh rental car
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companies in particular thrifty have
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like wild card deals where you just get
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like a mystery car sometimes you can get
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pretty good rates if you don't care what
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car you're getting tip number five book
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your rental car for a week sometimes the
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weekly rate is cheaper than the daily
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rate i have found sometimes that i can
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book a rental car for seven days for
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less money than i can book a rental car
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for three days yes that's correct
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because these are different prices
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loaded into the rental car system a
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daily rate and a weekly rate now if you
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only need the rental car for four days
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no problem book it for seven and then
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just return it early tip number six try
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different pickup and drop off times yes
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actually a difference between an hour
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two can sometimes make a big deal so if
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your flight arrives at noon and you put
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in noon originally try one o'clock try
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two o'clock try 11 am you might find the
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prices might go down tip number seven
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consider one-way rentals sometimes
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one-way rentals can be really cheap if
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you're going from one place that has an
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over-abundance of rental cars and you're
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taking that rental car to some place
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there's a high demand for rental cars
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and not enough then oftentimes you can
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get that rental car for really cheap you
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probably heard this news earlier this
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year about u-hauls costing you know
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three thousand dollars to go from los
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angeles to texas but only 50 bucks to
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take from texas to california you'll
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often find the same thing for rental
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cars just one side note on long distance
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rentals make sure you're actually
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getting a rental that has unlimited
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mileage sometimes on these one-way
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rentals rental car companies can sneak
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in sneaky fees where the one-way rental
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from california to dallas only includes
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100 miles and then you have to pay extra
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for the mile so make sure if you're
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driving a long way you've got unlimited
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mileage included in that rate tip number
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eight search for discount codes or
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coupon codes i'm sure you've seen it
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when you've booked directly through
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rental car companies they have these
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different codes on there discount codes
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affiliate codes those come from your
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employer organizations your members of
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your university alumni program if you
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have a chase sapphire reserve card
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there's discount codes associated with
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that that'll give you up to 25 off at a
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lot of major rental car companies
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american express platinum card holders
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can use a discount code that'll give
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them four hours extra on rentals so
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let's say you're renting a car for one
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day
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24 hours might not be perfect because
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your flight might come in at 12 and you
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might leave it for the next day well if
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you use the mx platinum code and you get
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four more hours that'll really help out
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and save you the cost of a whole
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additional day and if you are an
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american express platinum card holder
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make sure you activate those rental car
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premium benefits you can get increased
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status in a number of popular rental car
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companies which then you can get
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upgrades and perks so you're getting
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better cars for the same amount of money
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that you were booking a cheaper car tip
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number nine bring your own insurance and
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proof of it the biggest hard sell at
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rental car companies is selling you all
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that extra insurance that you don't need
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and there are some shady rental car
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companies that'll make it really hard
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for you to leave if you don't have proof
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of having insurance so bring a print out
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of it bring it on your phone make sure
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you can show them that you do have
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rental car coverage now if you have a
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premium credit card for example the
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chase sapphire reserve it often comes
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with rental car coverage in
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international locations you can call
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chase up and request that proof of
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coverage so you can bring with you to
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show them at the rental car counter tip
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number 10 check the gas prices on google
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maps before you return your car gas
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prices at airports can be super
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expensive a dollar or two or a euro or
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two more than around the city and google
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maps actually will show you prices at
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gas stations so make sure you're gassing
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up at a gas station that's not going to
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gouge you when you fill up oh and
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definitely make sure to bring your gas
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receipt to the rental car company if
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you're returning at the airport because
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there's also a lot of rental car
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companies that have these sneaky fees
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where they'll say hey if you drove the
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car less than 75 miles then we'll just
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conveniently offer to refill your tank
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for 20 bucks
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when you go well i refilled my tank and
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they're like it doesn't work that way
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you drop it less than 75 miles we're
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gonna charge you 20 unless you can prove
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to us that you actually filled it up so
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make sure you have that receipt so you
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can prove you did it tip number 11
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consider pre-paying for your rental car
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i know i said not to do this in tip
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number one or i said book the rates that
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aren't prepaid
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if you're booking your rental car one or
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two days before you're going and you're
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really really sure that you're gonna go
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and you're not gonna cancel the prepaid
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rates can often be ten to twenty percent
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cheaper than the post paid rates so do
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consider the prepaid rates if you know
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you're going to go tip number 12 if the
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big rental car companies like hertz avis
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alamo are all too expensive then
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consider a smaller rental car company a
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local rental car company although i
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should point out you should only do this
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if you don't really value your time all
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that much because the smaller rental car
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companies often have
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less frequent shuttles have longer lines
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take a long time so just be aware of
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that as a side note there's also a new
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company out there called turo it's a car
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sharing company i've not used them but
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they're like the airbnb for renting cars
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it looks like an intriguing option if
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you find the rental cars are all way too
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expensive and tip number 13 my final tip
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for you it's also about saving time less
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about saving money and that is to make
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sure to sign up for the frequent rental
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programs or the loyalty programs with
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the rental car company that you've
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booked your car with because just having
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that status can actually give you the
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premium line to go to to allow you to
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skip the regular line and sometimes
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skipping the line can be a really big
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deal when oc girl and i were traveling
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to maui the regular line of budget
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rental car was about 80 people long
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because we were budget fast break
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members that we literally just went and
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signed up on the website it took two
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minutes we bypassed that entire line and
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went right up to the counter so make
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sure you sign up for that frequent
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renter program now fellow explorers i'm
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always learning and i actually learn a
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lot from you if you've got some tips
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that i missed please help me out and
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help out your other explorers leave a
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comment with your tips and fellow
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explorers definitely check out that
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comment section below because i'm sure
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your fellow explorers that watch this
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video will have a lot of great tips that
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i missed well if you're looking to book
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cheap flights and cheap hotels i've got
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videos on those two subjects as well you
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can click right here to watch them or
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you'll find links in the description
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below as usual i won't say goodbye
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because i'll see you in one of these
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