The price you see quoted for a fleet rental car is rarely the price you pay, and the problem is that the gap between the two is filled with fees, taxes, and options that only appear at the counter. A price check that stops at the headline number is a price check that will be wrong, because the real cost is the headline plus everything the quote quietly leaves out.The base rate is only the starting point. On top of it come the airport concession fee, the local taxes, the vehicle license fee, and often a facility charge, and these can add thirty percent or more to the daily rate. The optional extras are the next layer, the insurance, the additional driver fee, the toll pass, the GPS, and the fuel pre-purchase, each of which sounds small but compounds over a week into a number that bears little relation to the advertised price.The reliable way to compare is to get the full, all-in quote before you book, and to compare the total cost, not the daily rate, across companies.
A company with a lower base rate but higher fees can end up more expensive than
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