Car rental mistakes can be avoided. But you need to know what to watch out for.
Before you click the “book” button on your next car rental, consider what happened to Elizabeth Thorp on a recent trip from Washington to Denver.
When William Foy redeems 6,000 rewards points through Samsung Pay, he expects a $20 Visa Rewards Card. Instead, he gets nothing. Or did he?
Yes, you can get a refund on a nonrefundable airline ticket.
Your airline may claim you can’t. Your travel agent may tell you it’s impossible. Your ticket fare rules may instruct you to abandon all hope.
Don’t listen to them.
Sedona, Ariz., calls itself “the most beautiful place on Earth,” and that may be true. But if it is, then it shares the title with several other destinations.
After a flight delay from Portugal, James Tate’s fellow passenger and colleague receives a $700 check from United Airlines. But why doesn’t he get a United refund as well?
Before she boarded her flight from Santiago, Chile, to Buenos Aires, the unthinkable happened to Barbara Rowan: a security screener tried to confiscate her needles.
Rowan, who is a diabetic, needs to carry hypodermic needles with her for medical reasons. So she struck a deal with the Chilean airport officials: The chief purser would hold the packaged needles until the plane landed in Argentina.
Sean Cummings helped put New Orleans back on the map after Hurricane Katrina. As one of the thousands of small business owners in the city, he faced a difficult choice in the storm’s wake: rebuild his hotel, the iconic International House in the financial district, at a price that exceeded its value or leave.
If you think you’ve seen it all when it comes to shady debt collectors, move to Jackson County, Miss. That’s where criminals have been calling residents with fake power bills and threatening to turn off their electricity if they don’t immediately pay them. Talk about a debt collection scam.
What happens when they run out of rental cars? Hyapatia Lee found out when she arrived at a National Car Rental counter in Detroit with her two young sons, and a representative told her they’d run out of sedans.
When the lease on his Nissan Leaf ran out, Paul Evans knew exactly what kind of car he wanted: None.
Instead, Evans downloaded an app called Clutch. He registered his driver’s license and noted his vehicle preference and delivery address. A few hours later, Clutch delivered a late-model Audi A6 to his front door, and he joined an up-and-coming travel trend — car subscriptions.
