Walt Disney Parks and Resorts has extended its partnership with Alamo Rent A Car. The alliance will see the firm continue to be the official car hire company at Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Orlando. Guests at Disney Parks and Resorts will have the chance to experience Alamo’s award-winning self-service kiosks. The [...]

Avis has agreed to hold off on making a formal offer to acquire Dollar Thrifty so that the two car hire firms can work together to persuade regulators a tie-up will not breach competition rules. The move comes after Hertz failed to secure a positive vote from Dollar shareholders on its takeover bid.
Avis has confirmed [...]

Analysts believe that it is unlikely that another bidder will come to the table with an offer to purchase Dollar Thrifty. Currently, Hertz has put up a $940 million bid for the group, and rivals, Avis are considering putting in a counter offer.
Analyst at Abrams Consulting Group, Neil Abrams, said that he couldn’t see anyone [...]

Car rental giant, Enterprise Holdings, has decided to combine the shuttle bus service offered by its brands at San Antonio International Airport. Enterprise runs Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental at the airport, and said that by merging its shuttle services, it would help the airport to reduce traffic congestion.
The move [...]

Car hire firm Alamo has launched four new rental sites in the United Arab Emirates. The establishment of the new locations is part of the firm’s strategy to increase its presence in the Middle East. As well as the new locations, the company has announced the launch of a standalone reservations centre and a website, [...]

Good news for travellers who are looking for a reasonably priced car hire and who are journeying out of Florida! Several car hire firms are now offering great rental deals. Car hire firms like Hertz, Alamo and Enterprise currently have too many cars ready for hire in Florida.
According to reports, several companies are now giving [...]

AARP is one of America’s most powerful lobbying groups for people over the age of fifty. It used to be an extremely important resource for those who had retired and wished to travel. However critics are saying that the clout it used to have in offering deals and discounts may be on the wane.
Some major [...]

Carrentals.co.uk has cemented its position as the internet’s leading car hire comparison site by coming top of the search rankings for the month of September. Internet analysts Greenlight have just published their Car Hire Sector Report for the third quarter and it shows that Carrentals.co.uk managed to take fifty-four percent of the 1.5 million car [...]

For the sixth consecutive year Enterprise Rent A Car has topped the J.D. Power and Associates Rental Car Satisfaction Study. Every year J.D. Power assesses customer satisfaction across North America’s car hire companies and publishes the results. For 2009 it found that Enterprise was the most highly regarded by customers with National Car Rental coming [...]

An annual survey of customers who utilise car rental firms has placed Enterprise at the number one spot for the sixth year in a row. The J.D. Power and Associates report surveyed 12,718 responses to questions put to customers who had hired rental vehicle at airports. The questions were aimed at gauging customer satisfaction with [...]