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Car Rental Orlando
Orlando FL

While on your family vacation in Orlando Florida, Island Hideaway provider of lodging also provides discount flights, car rental and airline tickets through our partnership with airdepartment.com
Airdepartment provides Discount car rental agreements with the following cars Orlando firms Hertz, Dollar, Alamo, Avis, Budget, Thrifty, National and Enterprise and many regional car rental companies provide the widest selection of discount car rental Orlando Florida for our travel customers.

Hertz Car Rental Orlando
The largest and best known of Hertz' activities, is conducted from approximately 1,900 locations in the United States and from approximately 5,100 international locations. Hertz offers a wide variety of current-model cars on a short-term rental basis -- daily, weekly or monthly -- at airports, in downtown and suburban business centers, and in residential areas and resort locales.
Today, Hertz' Worldwide Reservations Centers handle approximately 40 million phone calls and delivers approximately 30 million reservations annually.

Hertz, the world's leading vehicle renting organization, is represented in the United States and more than 150 foreign countries, operating from 7,000 locations.

Wholly owned subsidiaries of Hertz include:

Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation (HERC), which rents a full range of construction and industrial equipment to contractors, industrial and government markets and offers quality used equipment for sale.

Hertz Claim Management Corporation is a Third Party Liability Claims Administrator providing services to major corporations, self insured entities and the insurance marketplace.

Hertz Local Edition® (HLE), which specializes in insurance replacement and local car rentals for those customers whose personal cars are being repaired or are otherwise out of service.

Hertz is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company

We are proud to be the largest car rental company in the world, providing quality rental service for 80 years.
We are in your neighborhood, specializing in local car rental at affordable rates. We have hundreds of convenient locations offering the same great services you are used to at the airport.
We are one of the largest suppliers of rented and leased heavy equipment in the world. Our extensive inventory is available, ready for delivery. For more information, visit www.hertzequip.com.
We sell one-year-old vehicles from our rental fleet to make room for new models. With our low fixed prices and our no hassle no haggle guarantee, you have the advantage. For more information, visit www.hertzcarsales.com.
We provide professional claim management services for liability exposures; specializing in automobile and general liability claims. For more information, visit www.hcmclaims.com.
Whether moving across town or making extra large deliveries, we're here to help. Hertz has set the standard for quality, reliability and service worldwide. We bring you that same dependability for all your moving needs.

Dollar Car Rental Orlando
Dollar Rent A Car offers a quality line-up of award winning DaimlerChrysler vehicles, including the Chrysler Concorde, LHS and the Sebring convertible; the Dodge Neon, Stratus, and Intrepid; and the Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Caravan minivans; and the Jeep® Cherokee.


Dollar Rent A Car History: Dollar Rent A Car was founded in 1965 in Los Angeles, where its executive offices remained until August 1994 when Dollar relocated its world car rental headquarters to Tulsa, Oklahoma.

In August 1990, Dollar was acquired by Chrysler, which made it part of its Pentastar Transportation Group., Inc., along with Thrifty Car Rental and Snappy in Tulsa (Snappy sold in 1994.), and General Rent A Car. General was closed in January 1993, and non-duplicating car rental locations merged with Dollar.

In November 1997, DaimlerChrysler Motors Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, successor by merger, Pentastar Transportation Group, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to offer its common stock. Following divestiture, Chrysler no longer owned any of the DTG common stock. Currently, DTG owns Dollar Rent A Car and Thrifty Car Rental which operate separate car rental businesses and license independent car rental franchisees to rent vehicles under their brands.

Today, Dollar Rent A Car has more then 260 suburban and on-airport rental car locations at all major airports throughout the United States. Dollar also has more than 400 car rental locations in 26 countries including those in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America.

The DOLLAR® car rental network is comprised of both corporate-owned and operated locations and Dollar Rent A Car Licensee operations.

In the United States, Dollar offers a quality line-up of award-winning DaimlerChrysler vehicles, including the Chrysler Concorde, LHS and the Sebring convertible; the Dodge Neon, Stratus and Intrepid; Dodge Caravan minivans; and the Jeep® Cherokee.

Alamo Car Rental Orlando
Alamo Rent a Car started in 1974 with four locations in Florida, pioneering the concept of Unlimited Free Mileage. Immediately carving its niche in the leisure car rental industry, Alamo focused its mission on providing a fun, low-cost, high-value rental experience to family and leisure travelers.

Alamo quickly became one of the country's largest vacation rental providers with programs to accommodate and encourage leisure travel. To facilitate the increase in leisure travelers, Alamo constructed state-of-the art rental plazas geared to serve hundreds of customers per hour in a modern, ultra-spacious environment. The first rental plaza opened in Tampa, Fla., in 1982, with more following in other major leisure destinations including Orlando, Fla., home of the world's largest rental facility. In 1985, Alamo introduced a new customized rental agreement the size of an airline ticket, and Instant Alamo, a program that stored a traveler's individual rental information for instant reference.

On April 19, 1990, Alamo set out to revolutionize collision damage waivers with the introduction of the first-ever price and coverage option for all renters. Alamo created three new consumer-driven optional collision damage waiver products in Florida, named Waiver Savers®, which provided customers with three choices of price and coverage options tailored to their needs. To meet the needs of the "Web" consumer, Alamo became the first car rental company with real-time booking capabilities on the Internet in 1995. Customers could visit Alamo.com to find locations, view rates and select their vehicle. Soon, Alamo.com expanded to include a membership-services section and travel tools to find the weather, driving directions and fun activities for children to enjoy on their road trip.

Alamo's commitment to the leisure travel market has fostered longstanding partnerships with the airline industry, travel destinations, travel agents and tour operators around the world. In 1998, Alamo launched E-Process 2000, a group of technologically enhanced initiatives for tour operators, including electronic reservation links on the company's web site, voucher-less rental processing and electronic billing. In 2002, Alamo announced a partnership with Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort, making Alamo the official rental car company of the most frequented tourist attractions in North America.

In its nearly 30 year history, the Alamo Rent A Car brand has continued to serve family and leisure travelers with fun, friendly service and low-cost, high value vehicles. Today, Alamo operates through a network of more than 1200 locations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.


AVIS CAR RENTAL ORLANDO
Founded in 1946 by Warren Avis (who sold his interest in 1954), Avis was the first company to rent cars from airport locations. The company grew rapidly during the 1950’s through franchised and corporate-owned expansion. In 1963, Avis introduced the award winning “We try harder®” campaign and the tagline remains the company’s rallying cry even today. Ten years later, Avis launched its innovative Wizard reservation system, the company’s cornerstone technology. On the corporate front, Avis changed ownership multiple times in the 70’s and 80’s, becoming employee-owned in 1987. That same year, Avis introduced the Roving Rapid Return, a handheld computer terminal allowing customers to bypass the Avis counter. Two years later, the company launched Avis Cares® to increase renter and employee safety. In 1996, HFS Incorporated acquired Avis and then spun off as a separate public company all but the franchising rights, Wizard system, and reservation operations. Over the next four years, Avis Group Holdings purchased several franchised regions and acquired PHH Vehicle Management and Wright Express. In 2000, the company introduced Avis Interactive, the first Internet-based reporting system in the car rental industry. In March 2001, Cendant purchased all of the outstanding shares of Avis Group Holdings and later that year moved its world headquarters to Parsippany, NJ. In August 2002, Avis became the first rental car company to offer seamless connectivity with all four major GDS systems.

Budget Car Rental Orlando
Budget Rent A Car System, Inc. is the owner and franchiser of one of the world's best-known car rental brands with nearly 2,000 car rental locations in the US, Canada, Latin America, Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cendant Corporation (NYSE: CD), a diversified global provider of business and consumer services primarily within the travel and real estate sectors.
Budget Rent A Car was founded in 1958 as a car rental company for the "budget-minded" renter. Today, Budget is a leading car rental company that continues to focus on appealing to value-minded renters by offering quality vehicles and a rewarding rental experience.

Thrifty Car Rental Orlando
Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma and has approximately 6,000 worldwide employees. Focused on being the low-cost provider in the car rental industry, the company's brands, Dollar Rent A Car and Thrifty Car Rental, serve value conscious leisure travelers in more than 70 countries. With operations at most major airports, Dollar and Thrifty have approximately 800 corporate and franchised locations in the United States and Canada. Thrifty Car Sales is another brand that compliments the activities of DTG. The company's common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DTG.

National Car Rental Orlando
National Car Rental has been an industry pacesetter throughout its 56-year history. National was formed on August 27, 1947, as a group of 24 independent car rental operators with 60 locations and 800 cars Orlando. They incorporated as a for-profit corporation in 1959 and quickly established an identity as "the best in localized, personal service."

Over the years, National would go on to pioneer many industry features to improve the rental experience for their customers. In 1954, they became the first car rental brand to offer one-way rentals for those wishing to rent cars in one town and leave them in another. In 1966, National equipped its regional reservation offices with the "Telemax" computer system, officially becoming the first cars Orlando rental company to bring computers into daily reservation operations. After airline industry deregulation in 1976, National opened its doors to the new wave of leisure travelers when it became the first to offer flat rates to car renters.

As National continued to grow and evolve, so too did its identity. While being one of the earliest companies to initiate corporate account business in the late '70s, the 1980s and beyond for National can be characterized by its commitment to the corporate traveler. In 1987, National introduced the industry's first, comprehensive frequent-renter program, "Emerald Club", along with the "Paperless Express Rental Agreement," which made car rental faster by using information stored in the computer to process the whole transaction in seconds. National continued to develop ways to make the car rental process more efficient to time-sensitive business travelers. Innovations such as the "Emerald Aisle," where members select their own cars and are on their way without filling out any paperwork, allowed members to completely bypass the rental counter. Later, the "Choice Rental Process" would give all National customers the ability to choose their own vehicle. Keeping in tune with the needs of the growing population of small business owners, National started "QuickRent" service in 2002, which offered customers, who were not enrolled in Emerald Club, the ability to bypass the counter when they complete their rental transaction online.

Through tremendous growth, organizational changes and new travel industry innovations, National has remained a leader in both business and leisure rentals. Today, the National Car Rental brand is one of the world's largest rental car companies and serves the most popular domestic and international travel destinations through a network of more than 2,000 locations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia-Pacific, Africa and Australia.

Enterprise Car Rental Orlando
It all started in the lower level of a car dealership. My father, Enterprise founder Jack Taylor, looked around his small office one day and saw a handful of co-workers fielding phone calls, calculating rates and washing cars. But he saw something else, too: people doing ordinary, everyday things with extraordinary passion and focus, going well beyond their own jobs to get the whole job done right.


Those people believed in Jack’s vision and made it their own, and that day was the start of something big. All of our phenomenal growth and success over the ensuing decades is based on Jack’s simple philosophy: “Take care of your customers and employees first…and profits will follow.”


This philosophy and our unique business model have made Enterprise the largest rental car company in North America - but our goal has never been to be the biggest car rental company, just the best.


No matter how large or successful we become, our success will always depend on the individual managers and employees with the will and drive to be the best. Their stories define who we are, and each begins with the vision of one man and the unique team of entrepreneurs who wrote the first chapter.

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