Booked a trip to Alaska, but cant find a rental vehicle WTF? Claim covid caused rental companies to sell off vehicles? Hope they have UBER?

Someone in another thread said to rent u-haul truck ( pickup. Not the box truck 🤣)

Good luck finding a rental car up here and if you do, it will be spendy. As for the U-Hauls, I've been seeing them a lot lately traveling up and down the Parks and Seward highways so those are getting rented out pretty regularly.

It's true. The Great Covidiocy ended travel for almost a year. Rental car companies sold off the bulk of their fleets to survive. Now that travel is back, there's a shortage of cars of all kinds (the computer chip shortage has tens of thousands of cars and pickups sitting incomplete.) Nowhere near enough to meet demand.

If you did find one, you'd need a second mortgage to afford a rental. They're going for over $500 a day in many places.

Damn

Check out Turo. Should be able to find one on there.

Turo Anchorage

Awesome thanks

Rent-A-Wreck might still be in business.

Heard of folks flying in to tour Yellowstone, 2 weeks, $3000.


Helena to Billings, one day one way, over $500. Been under $40.


Clusterfuuck.

My wife is in CA for the week.

Rental car was $1400.

She shoulda just bought a KIA.

Needed one last fall in Hatteras to get home after a cluster fugk trip. They wouldn’t let me drop it off at a different location so has to wait on a ride from home.

I’ve owned a few cars that cost less than that

Billings MT too. Denver wasn't cheap either, but it wasn't a U-haul. But I have no problem with a U-haul PU.... even that was expensive.

News was showing Hawaii, Maui i think, $700/day for a chitbox. Couldn't believe it.

Used to be a rent a wreck did a helluva business in Spenard where the float planes moored. The one I used wasn't rent a wreck...something else but same business model.

I had to go this route recently (not in AK). Cheapest I could find was $150/day, but I needed a car.

Rental car companies had zero availability.

Crazy times.

15 years ago we did a 1 week whirlwind tour of Seward to Denali. We did it on the cheap. I found an independent car rental place in Anchorage called Levi Car Rentals (probably not in business now) and told him we wanted the cheapest reliable car he had. Size was no object as long as it held our camping gear. When we got there, he had a 2 door Daiwoo hatchback. I wouldn't buy one but it worked very well for what we were doing and it got 40 mpg.

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Just for grins, I looked at this site. A seven passenger minivan ought to be convenient for vacation transportation and they are reasonably priced. SUVs and pickups are pricey.

Enterprise Rental Anchorage

Are they maybe advertising something that's not really available?

We had clients cancel charters last summer once they realized they couldn't just fly up and get a car. Not even booked way out ahead of time often.

In the end it never hurt us but I know lots of folks cancelled.

Check Enterprise truck rentals.

When are you booked to come up and for how long? I could be talked into renting our 2010 Ford Escape. We rented it out last year for a couple weeks to help some folks out. Runs good. PM me if you don’t come up with something.

Thanks Mart, already been up there. Found a person to rent a car from. Rentals were all booked.

I should have looked at the date stamp on your original post. I’m a maroon.

No worries, happens to the best of us! 🙂

When the COVID boosheit first started and everyone canceled their vacations/flights there were a bunch of rental cars that were parked in a grass field in SoCal. Turns out jooish lightning hit it and destroyed the entire lot, and now after looking it up another 3500 cars in FL had the same thing happen. They like to force insurance, but they are the biggest crooks when it comes to claims.

Wife and I went to Idaho in October and rented a car in Spokane for ten days. I about chit as the total was $880. Looks as if things have gotten far worse.