So - better to hire a great big truck thing (expensive for two weeks) or can you rent some kind of bike rack?
Probably quite cheap to buy a rack? Or do the hire companies do them? Better service than UK companies.
It did occur to me just now that for two weeks purchase might be a good idea. Fairly obvious really 🙂
Just take the wheels off and stick them on the back seat - I can get 3 bikes in my Golf like that - and you'll have way more space in an American Sedan.
Just take the wheels off and stick them on the back seat - I can get 3 bikes in my Golf like that - and you'll have way more space in an American Sedan.
Cept the back seats will be required for a passenger.
I'm not totally daft 🙂
Minivan? Try asking for a crew cab truck (has 4-5 seats in the front) and a bed, hang a blanket over the bed edge and remove front wheels on bikes, hang them over the side/back of the bed. Some places (whoever carries Ford) might have a transit connect available as those have just started selling over here. A lot will depend on where you are flying into.
STL.
We managed to rent a big double cab Dodge RAM pick-up with Alamo at Vegas airport
Didn't a pickup cost you a ton to rent?
Didn't a pickup cost you a ton to rent?
Can't remember the exact cost but it was in the same group as a full size SUV
Right.. sounds fairly pricey then.
EDIT: having checked a nearby location (expedia doesn't do the exact place) it's £260 for an economy car and £422 for a minivan. That's a shedload cheaper than I thought... also a load less than we paid last time, but then that was an airport.
We rented a people carrier few years back. Two rows of seats and we still managed to get bike boxes and all our gear in lengths ways. Americans just dont do compact cars.
don't forget all the extras they pile on so the actual bill ends up being twice as much
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don't forget all the extras they pile on so the actual bill ends up being twice as muchinnit
Not if you sort it out beforehand it doesn't
The insurance is the thing - it'll probably include some kind of compulsory insurance, but to get fully comp cover they sting you. So I found a uk insurance company that you pay £100/year and they cover you fully comp for hire cars in the USA.. any number of drivers or miles. Called world insure, iirc.