huge drop off for car rental Vancouver to Seattle

My wife and I are flying into the Vancouver airport on a Friday and want to
return the car 8 days later to the Seattle airport. All the car companies
charge around $350 for the week and then tack on a $500 to $700 drop off
fee. Does anyone know of a car rental company that does not hit you with
such a huge fee for a drop off in a city that's about two hours away?
Thanks.
Michael

On Apr 28, 7:15 pm, "Milo" <milo_dh...m> wrote:
> My wife and I are flying into the Vancouver airport on a Friday and want to
> return the car 8 days later to the Seattle airport. All the car companies
> charge around $350 for the week and then tack on a $500 to $700 drop off
> fee. Does anyone know of a car rental company that does not hit you with
> such a huge fee for a drop off in a city that's about two hours away?
> Thanks.
> Michael


Two hours and a whole different country away. Fly into Seattle, rent
a car drive to Vancouver and back. No drop off fee. Be sure to tell
them you are driving to Vancouver. I have done it plenty of times.

The rate is for them to pay for two men to drive the car and a return
car back to Vancouver and return.

The way I would do it is drive to USA crossing, cross over pick up
second car return Canadian car across boarder USA location normally will
bring car to crossing or take a taxi to new car.

drop of car in Seattle and have them return it
it is more work but should only be $100

enjoy your visit

Milo wrote:
> My wife and I are flying into the Vancouver airport on a Friday and want to
> return the car 8 days later to the Seattle airport. All the car companies
> charge around $350 for the week and then tack on a $500 to $700 drop off
> fee. Does anyone know of a car rental company that does not hit you with
> such a huge fee for a drop off in a city that's about two hours away?
> Thanks.
> Michael
>
>

On Apr 29, 6:26 am, Smiles <smile_inspec...@m> wrote:
> The rate is for them to pay for two men to drive the car and a return
> car back to Vancouver and return.
>
> The way I would do it is drive to USA crossing, cross over pick up
> second car return Canadian car across boarder USA location normally will
> bring car to crossing or take a taxi to new car.


Huh?


>
> drop of car in Seattle and have them return it
> it is more work but should only be $100
>
> enjoy your visit
>
>
>
> Milo wrote:
> > My wife and I are flying into the Vancouver airport on a Friday and want to
> > return the car 8 days later to the Seattle airport. All the car companies
> > charge around $350 for the week and then tack on a $500 to $700 drop off
> > fee. Does anyone know of a car rental company that does not hit you with
> > such a huge fee for a drop off in a city that's about two hours away?
> > Thanks.
> > Michael- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

We've decided to rent a car in Vancouver, see that city and Victoria and
environs. We'd return the car in Vancouver and are interested in the ferries
down to Seattle. Any suggestions? We'd like to see the San Juan Islands, for
example. For scenic beauty and a pleasant trip, would you go with a ferry or
the train. And where do we go through security for the train or ferry?

Thanks.

Michael

"PeterL" <po.ning@> wrote in message
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On Apr 28, 7:15 pm, "Milo" <milo_dh...m> wrote:
> My wife and I are flying into the Vancouver airport on a Friday and want
> to
> return the car 8 days later to the Seattle airport. All the car companies
> charge around $350 for the week and then tack on a $500 to $700 drop off
> fee. Does anyone know of a car rental company that does not hit you with
> such a huge fee for a drop off in a city that's about two hours away?
> Thanks.
> Michael


Two hours and a whole different country away. Fly into Seattle, rent
a car drive to Vancouver and back. No drop off fee. Be sure to tell
them you are driving to Vancouver. I have done it plenty of times.

On Apr 29, 3:55 pm, "Milo" <milo_dh...m> wrote:
> Thanks to all of you for your help. I decided to drop the rental car in
> Vancouver and take Pacific Coach to Victoria. I booked 2 nights at the
> Laurel Point Inn plus 2 tickets on the Victoria to Seattle ferry. Full
> package, with a few bells and whistles, was under $500, so we're happy.
> Booked directly with Meghan at Victoria Clipper, the folks who run the
> ferry. She was very helpful with info about Seattle, Vancouver and Victoria.
> Ferry leaves at 6 pm, arriving Seattle at 8:45 so we should still be able to
> see things, for at least the first hour or so.
>

That would be a very wonderful trip in a very beautiful part of the
two countries.

we did consider taking our rental car from Vancouver over on the ferry to
Victoria. However, the rental rate for the car went way up when we tried to
do that. (from around $25 per day to $110 per day for the car). So we're
picking up the car at the airport, using it for a few days, and then
returning it to the agency's downtown Vancouver location, with no drop-off
charged. Rented an intermediate from Dollar for about $75 for the weekend
and we'll use an upgrade coupon to get something a bit larger. We're told
that most of Victoria is easily walkable and that we can purchase tours or
use public transit to get to things like Butchart Gardens. If we need a car,
we'll rent one for the day in Victoria. It does make handling luggage more
difficult but I'm sure my wife will let me carry hers for her.

"Mark Brader" <msb@vex.net> wrote in message
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> "Milo" writes:
>> Thanks to all of you for your help. I decided to drop the rental car in
>> Vancouver and take Pacific Coach to Victoria. I booked 2 nights at the
>> Laurel Point Inn plus 2 tickets on the Victoria to Seattle ferry. ...
>
> Makes sense. I presume you realize that the bus to Victoria will go on
> a ferry. An alternative would be to take the car on the ferry yourself
> and drop it in Victoria, if you'd rather have the use of a car while
> on the island. That ought to be more reasonably priced than the
> international drop that you were originally considering.
> --
> Mark Brader "A healthy nation is as unconscious of its
> Toronto nationality as a healthy man of his bones."
> msb@vex.net -- Shaw

"Milo" <milo_dhueym> wrote in message
news:WHNRj.3632$lc6.2239@trnddc04...
> Thanks to all of you for your help. I decided to drop the rental car in
> Vancouver and take Pacific Coach to Victoria. I booked 2 nights at the
> Laurel Point Inn plus 2 tickets on the Victoria to Seattle ferry. Full
> package, with a few bells and whistles, was under $500, so we're happy.
> Booked directly with Meghan at Victoria Clipper, the folks who run the
> ferry. She was very helpful with info about Seattle, Vancouver and
> Victoria. Ferry leaves at 6 pm, arriving Seattle at 8:45 so we should
> still be able to see things, for at least the first hour or so.
>

Don't what your budget is, but another alternative would be to take a
seaplane from the inner harbor in Victoria to Seattle, landing near downtown
on Lake Union. Now that would be a way to see the San Juans!

Marianne

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:04:16 GMT, MI <quilchenapark@shaw.ca> wrote:


>> The problem is that there aren't many trains.
>
>Yes, there are trains. There are 2 Amtraks a day in each direction.

I repeat, for the reading (or thinking) impaired: "There aren't many trains."

-- Larry

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:45:22 GMT, MI <quilchenapark@shaw.ca> wrote:

>And miss most of the beautiful scenery? Yes it's pretty from the air but you
>miss too much if you take the 20 minute flight. We have spent days driving
>around Puget Sound. Both sides---Port Angeles to Seattle and then up the
>other side to Vancouver. I would take your suggestion only if I were very
>short of time.

My wife and I took a seaplane from Vancouver to Victoria and return last year.
We were fortunate (yes, fortunate!) enough to catch a cloudy, rainy day, so we
were obliged to make the entire flight down at 750 feet, and back at less than a
thousand. At those altitudes, the sights were simply spectacular!

And taxiing into Victoria harbor is also most enjoyable, a great view of the
hotel, etc.

-- Larry