Most won’t let you go past the mississippi river. I need one because i want to go from Maryland to California. Are there any car rental companies that allow one way, coast to coast rental?
Cite, please?
I checked the website of one of the major car rental companies in the States, and nowhere do they say you can’t cross the Mississippi. Why would they restrict their rentals like that? You have an option to book online and choose a different departure and arrival city to drop the car off. It’s like renting vans to move across the country.
If you’re serious about making the trip, call them and ask. Because you’ll have to call them anyway to confirm what we tell you.
I just went to Hertz. They have no problem letting me pick up a car at BWI and dropping it at Seatac.
Based on my experience, the only one-ways you can rent are cars that belong to large rental companies such as Hertz and Avis (maybe only Hertz and Avis). Most other car rental places (including, I think, some out-of-the-way Hertz and Avis shops) own their cars and want them back.
Enterprise doesn’t allow nationwide rental, or so they told me today. I just spoke with Thrifty (which I forgot all about) and they DO allow it.
Not only will Avis do one-way rentals that cross the Mississippi, but their rates for those things are sometimes very reasonable.
Try National. I just did a test reservation online and they let me pick up from JFK in New York and drop off on San Francisco, no problems. I’ve never heard of a car rental company with the limitation you speak of here, and I’ve been renting cars and making reservations both in-state and across the country for years.
Enterprise won’t even let you take the car out of state - yet. I just tried to reserve something like that a month ago.
Hertz might, as others have said. I second the recommendation to call them!
I went with Avis, the best rate yet, plus they don’t do credit checks when you use a debit card ! It’s getting more and more difficult to rent a car everyday.
Strange. When I had my old car which I never trusted to make the journey, I used to rent from Enterprise all the time to drive from Chicago to Indianapolis and back.
They wouldn’t let me get a car from New York to New Jersey. I wonder if it’s a regional thing.