Car rental upgrades
Rudy,
In your April 15 show you mentioned that you can sometimes get lucky
with free car rental upgrades when the car you reserved isn't
available. Recently I had an experience that indicates you can
combine "savvyness" with luck and sometimes come out on top.
I was in Hawaii and the agent at the car rental desk told me they had
a "special" on upgrades from a compact to a convertible, for only
$10 extra. I was tempted but declined. Only then did he tell me that
there were no compacts available so I was getting a free upgrade
anyway to a nicer car. What I learned from this is that if the agency
tries to woo you into an upgrade, they might be hiding the fact that
you're about to get a free upgrade anyway.
Randal
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