alex chiang: web 6.0

Spent some quality time on teh googles today to try and find a car for the upcoming European vacation. After banging about on Expedia, Orbitz, Avis, and the like, I decided to give up my US-centric ways and searched on european car rentals, which brought me to autoeurope.com.

A few clicks later, and we now have reserved this:

Our price? $559 USD for 22 days of pure, European driving bliss (I plan on declining the CDW (collision damage waiver) since I made the reservation with my AmEx, who automatically gives me the equivalent insurance for free). Cheapest on Avis was $775, although it’s not apples to apples, since the Avis car would have been an airport pickup. Lesson: when renting a car, get away from the airport if at all possible.

Schweet, although I hope it turns out to be a better experience than what this guy says. The 78 mpg TDI 3-cylinder engine is way more thrifty than my TDI Golf which gets “only” 42 mpg. All in all, I’m excited to be a car geek and drive it. (Hopefully it fits all of our stuff!) Here’s some more info about the VW Lupo.

Now we just have to figure out how to do this taxi ride to pick it up (19 km) with all of our stuff and without speaking any German.