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Alamo offers car rental reservations. You can find rates for car rentals and also make reservations for the same. The site offers hot deals on car rentals, discounts etc. The company also membership services. It also offers for various corporate programs, Federal Military program, state/local programs. It also offers various tools such as finding weather information, City information, travelers cheques, saftery tips and so on. The website also offers e-coupon savings on car rentals. Also it has got various other schemes such as savings on pre-pay and so on. It also offers XM Radio online Free for 14 days.

The website has got support for 3 languages English, Español, Portugues. Almao also support self-service kiosk at all major destinations to make the rental process speedy.

All in all it is decent in service. I give it 5 star rating.

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When taking a vacation, people look forward to the flight and the hotel, but the car rental experience can be a pain. Unless you manage to find the best car rental service right off the bat, you're probably going to be treated to wretched customer service, horrible wait times and sometimes even a loss of reservation, which is why we came to the conclusion that we like to torture ourselves when we scoped out some sites for you. Yes, we went through untold trials and tribulation to provide you with comprehensive car rental service reviews. Here's the 4-1-1 on Alamo.

What's New?
  • New customer kiosk cuts check-in times in half.
  • Get triple NWA WorldPerks, an upgrade and up to 15% off when you reserve a compact through mid-size car.
  • GPS units now available.
Star Reviews' Favorite Feature:

While almost all car rental services offer promotions or discounts, none of them but Alamo reward you for paying in advance. If you pre-pay for your car rental, Alamo will give you a 10-percent discount on top of any other discounts you may be receiving.

The Alamo Website Experience:

The Alamo website is a colorful, no-nonsense Internet resource. The first thing you notice when landing on the homepage is the abundance of deals and special Alamo offers. Unlike some of the other car rental companies that hide their discounts within the pages of their site, Alamo puts everything out in the open for everyone to see.

The car rental form was on the homepage, as it is with most of the car rental services, and filling it out took less than five seconds. We were immediately told that there wasn't an Alamo location where we wanted to pick up the car and they advised us to check with Enterprise. Since it was Alamo we were interested in researching at this point, and not Enterprise, we decided to go ahead and pick another location.

On our second attempt at reservation information, we choose a major city located about 40 miles from our original location. Once again, we were asked to check with Enterprise, but not because they didn't have a location, it was because the location we had selected had been sold out. Third time's a charm right?

We didn't give up hope yet. We tried one more major city located about 50 miles from the original area we had wanted and, low and behold, we struck gold. We were finally able to get a look at the Alamo rental options.

How Alamo Measured Up:

The chart below illustrates how Alamo measured up to the other car rental services in their prices and offerings.

 
Alamo
Avis
Budget
Enterprise
Hertz
National
Thrifty

Compact Rate

$60.90

$41.99

$35.99

$28.79

$49.99

$76.95

$44.99

Standard Rate

$62.90

$49.90

$40.99

$32.39

$53.99

$78.95

$50.39

Full Size Rate

$67.90

$51.99

$45.99

$35.09

$55.99

$81.95

$50.39

Standard SUV Rate

$63.90

$62.99

$88.99

$53.99