Toadless car renters

Sometimes rental cars are not available unless you book them ahead of time. The few times we attempted to rent a car, none were available. We ended up hiring a taxi to get us around. Its hard to beat having your own vehicle behind you. Travelling with your own vehicle gives you flexibility to change your schedule if you want or need to.

If ones car insurance doesn’t cover rentals and you rent cars, you have a very poor policy. Find new insurance before paying the exorbitant rates the rental companies charge.
Caveat, if your only insurance is a min limits liability policy on an old junker vehicle, you may not be in the position to upgrade to a policy that does cover rentals.

Deb and Ed M wrote:
We used either Enterprise; or an off-airport rental company that we could pick up the car with the motorhome. Worked great!

We did the same thing last summer. 15 states and 5,000 miles. Used Enterprise in numerous locations. Planned months ahead.
Our motorhome is relatively small, and I have no problem driving it in city traffic. We would drive the motorhome to Enterprise, and pick up the rental car for however many days. Head to the RV park. Then we returned the car to Enterprise when we were ready to move on. Most locations have a 'key drop box' so you can drop off the car before they even open in the morning, which worked great for us. (Snap a couple of pics of the car when you drop it off) Got free upgrades to nicer vehicles several times. Everything worked very smoothly.
When we were in Indiana, there had been a recent hail storm, so they had no vehicles available the day we arrived. We got settled in an RV park. Enterprise sent their privately contracted taxi driver (not an Enterprise employee) to pick us up early the next morning at the RV park and deliver us to Enterprise to pick up the car, free of charge. And again a free upgrade to a better car. He offered to do the return ride for us when we left town also. We thought that was outstanding service.

We used either Enterprise; or an off-airport rental company that we could pick up the car with the motorhome. Worked great!

Last time I rented an Enterprise it was (with insurance) something like 300 bucks for the weekend. I later found my existing vehicle insurance (The RV policy) would NOT have covered it so .... good thing.

Most car insurance policies cover rental insurance. Certain credit card companies such as Capital One also take on the liability. Just ask your agent or look at the CC company's agreement. Enterprise will pick you up/drop you off but be prepared it may take some time as you are not always the only one in the vehicle.

In larger cities like Pensacola, it's probably easier and cheaper to take Lyft and leave the driving to them. This model is becoming very cost effective when you consider all the costs and figure out if you really really need to drive yourself. They just dispatch someone to you via an app.

Many private parks in touristy areas have their own rental cars, or access to a dealer with used and newer to rent a car. We have both, if our rental cars are taken we can connect you with all the offerings in the area. None are chains.
Typically fees for a used sedan for any day are less than the chains and are more available.
Call The Camp Area car dealers.

We quit using a toad in favor of Enterprise. So much easier getting around and finding places to park. No worrying about having to unhook if you have to back up somewhere.

If you just want to get around and you don't care about look or ride or keeping up with the Joneses, a toad is way cheaper then renting.

We tried going without a toad and depending on rental companies. Alas we found areas where there were no rental companies. Rentals also aren’t a lot of help if you break down in the middle of nowhere.