in the interest of fairness, i would like to post a poll listing as many rental companies as i possibly can and giving each a yay or nay choice. that way we can get a perspective on what people really think since car rental threads are really spread throughout the forum.

so, understanding that once i create a poll, i can't make additions to it, i am asking for names of rental places. i will give everyone a week to post in this thread and list all that they know of or have used. this isn't the place to comment on them, just the place to list them.

next week i will create the poll listing as many names as we have. at that point there will be a place to vote and a place to comment.

now let's see how many names you can give me.

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Hi Sherry,
Tropic Car rental, Good rates and Hans is always on time for pick up and delivery. We are arriving tomorrow and won't need a car till Sat, Hans will be bringing the car to the Ren Sat morning.

OT- Bus or Taxi to the Ren from the airport tomorrow?

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i'd splurge and take the taxi. btw, this thread is to list all the places you can think of to rent cars in aruba. the thread i will create from the listing i get will be for comments about those places.

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sorry

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Here are the ones I know: Tropical, American car, Royal, Hertz, Toyota, Economy, Amigo, Econo, Budget, Avis, Thriffty, Ace, Top Drive, Value, Super, Exotic, and 2 Plus. I have only used 4 of these

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January 23 2009, 16th trip to Aruba

I have used Econo Car rental about 5-6 times in the past and have been quite happy with the car and the service.

I guess I can't add anything new to the poll.
In going to Aruba for 20 years, we have used a variety of rental agencies.
Of course, some have been used more than once.

1. Econo...I think we used them the most. Variable fleet, good service.
2. Economy...a few times. Their price for a Corolla was good (when we wanted a little larger car), their price for a Yaris was just so-so.
3. Tropic...just once. Good, but some mix-ups in pick-up and drop-off arrangements just left us going back to Econo.
4. Hertz...only once -- many, many years ago, our first trip.
5. TRAC (Toyota Rentacar)...used them a few times because they have an office kiosk at our timeshare.
6. Optima...next week will be our first "official" time. Chose them because of rates and their off-site services at the airport. I suspect that Hans of Tropic has a working relationship with Optima because when we used Tropic we had a car labeled with the Optima name (for part of the rental time). It was nearly new and worked very well.

Can't think of any others.

From what I have been reading, it would seem that if i was going to try another rental company, besides Econo, it would be Optima.
They seem to get allot of good all round reviews.

I have used Optima for the last several years. Always been happy with their service and cars.

Tom

tom, we now have a thread for this. i created it last night. the great car rental poll and ratings thread

and i am going to close this thread since we have the new thread.

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