Hire car Canada to USA
#16
Re: Hire car Canada to USA
Seems like a cheap and easy way to do it than having to do a special run for each market though.
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It's 112 and 128, if anyone cares. Even after 4 years I still remember those ...
#19
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We rented a car to go from Indiana to Niagara Falls in Canada in November last year. Granted it was a round trip but we had no problems renting one. Had to show our passports when we rented it but other than that there was nothing else needed. The digital speedo was initially set to MPH but we changed it to Kilometers for the duration of our visit and then back to MPH.
#20
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Seemingly forever the US vehicles were made in Canada to begin with. Forever means since the 80s when Canada was cheaper than Detroit to make "US" vehicles.
I rented from Budget from Syracuse, NY (and all rental companies allowed it, just ask for paperwork stating its a rental car and going to Canada - the folks at the counters well know what that is...) and went all over Ontario and Quebec, back through Vermont. The vehicle was a Buick and had the option for km or miles. Easy peasy.
Now, why Canada won't allow rental cars to go to USA and back is beyond me. So much for NAFTA. Hertz used to not allow rental cars to cross to Mexico; unsure if that is the case still.
It very well can be true that Canada doesn't want their rental cars going over the border. I find that hard to believe, though.
ETA: Do you mean that you want a one-way rental from Canada to USA? I can see why they'd not want to do that!
I rented from Budget from Syracuse, NY (and all rental companies allowed it, just ask for paperwork stating its a rental car and going to Canada - the folks at the counters well know what that is...) and went all over Ontario and Quebec, back through Vermont. The vehicle was a Buick and had the option for km or miles. Easy peasy.
Now, why Canada won't allow rental cars to go to USA and back is beyond me. So much for NAFTA. Hertz used to not allow rental cars to cross to Mexico; unsure if that is the case still.
It very well can be true that Canada doesn't want their rental cars going over the border. I find that hard to believe, though.
ETA: Do you mean that you want a one-way rental from Canada to USA? I can see why they'd not want to do that!
#21
Re: Hire car Canada to USA
Seemingly forever the US vehicles were made in Canada to begin with. Forever means since the 80s when Canada was cheaper than Detroit to make "US" vehicles.
I rented from Budget from Syracuse, NY (and all rental companies allowed it, just ask for paperwork stating its a rental car and going to Canada - the folks at the counters well know what that is...) and went all over Ontario and Quebec, back through Vermont. The vehicle was a Buick and had the option for km or miles. Easy peasy.
Now, why Canada won't allow rental cars to go to USA and back is beyond me. So much for NAFTA. Hertz used to not allow rental cars to cross to Mexico; unsure if that is the case still.
It very well can be true that Canada doesn't want their rental cars going over the border. I find that hard to believe, though.
ETA: Do you mean that you want a one-way rental from Canada to USA? I can see why they'd not want to do that!
I rented from Budget from Syracuse, NY (and all rental companies allowed it, just ask for paperwork stating its a rental car and going to Canada - the folks at the counters well know what that is...) and went all over Ontario and Quebec, back through Vermont. The vehicle was a Buick and had the option for km or miles. Easy peasy.
Now, why Canada won't allow rental cars to go to USA and back is beyond me. So much for NAFTA. Hertz used to not allow rental cars to cross to Mexico; unsure if that is the case still.
It very well can be true that Canada doesn't want their rental cars going over the border. I find that hard to believe, though.
ETA: Do you mean that you want a one-way rental from Canada to USA? I can see why they'd not want to do that!
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Well, as I already said, I know it can be done (or, at least, could be done) because I did it about 8 years ago - all of the flights from Newark to Toronto got canceled because of bad weather and I simply had to be in Toronto the next day so I got a one way rental from Herz, drove up to Toronto that night, arriving at about 4am the next morning and dropped the car off in Toronto later the next day ...