The major travel sites like Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz are often the best places to start your search for a luxury SUV. Since these sites update their inventories frequently, you can easily compare the rates and the range of vehicles that you can rent. Yahoo and Orbitz have expanded search options that let you select SUV as your preferred vehicle type. Use the Smarter Travel website to compare rental rates results from several travel portals.
Once you know which luxury vehicles are available in various markets, you can also set up alerts with any of the three major travel sites. You can receive an email that informs you about luxury SUV specials or discounts in any rental location that you have identified in your member profile.
You can and should shop around for SUVs at major vehicle rental companies by phone or online. Customer service agents can look up the inventory at airport and downtown rental locations in major cities. All but a few of the major rental companies have one or two choices of luxury SUVs. The selections depend on your rental location. Alamo has Cadillac Escalades in their fleet. The Avis Cool Cars choice includes Hummer rentals. Hertz offers the Infinity in its Prestige Collection.
In some of the nation's largest cities, there are thriving businesses that rent only luxury vehicles, including limos. You can search their inventory at Find Exotic.com. Here you can also check by model desired and rental locations such as New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Chicago. Your results will include both nationwide vehicle rental car companies, like Hertz, along with luxury vehicle rental companies that have rental fleets in these cities.
If you belong to an airline frequent flyer club, you may receive special rates and coupons good for intermediate and luxury vehicles. These coupons and discounts can be a great value; some can bring the cost of a luxury SUV rental down to little more than the cost for a midsize of full size car.
Before you contact a national rental company, check your auto club and senior citizen organizations for discount rates, where applicable. Travel agencies can also unearth bargains on SUVs in rental vehicle fleets. Saving time and money is often well worth the small booking fee that they charge you.
