After arriving back in Toronto we headed over to the rental car places to ask about the car rental prices for two weeks. We weren't happy with the answers we got because they all said that it would cost around 1700 - 2300 dollars to rent a car for two weeks and return it in another city. With this information we headed to our hotel to sleep it over.
The next morning we called a car rental company to ask the same questions again, how much would it cost to rent a car for two weeks and bring it back in another city. Her answer was 1700 dollars... This was very odd for us because if we went to the same company's site and booked a rental car, it would only cost us 700 dollars. So we decided to book a car online and see if we could actually get it for this price. After booking a car we went to the car rental place to pick up the car and this is where the drama begins.
Our reservation was valid and they tried giving us a car, but they need to reserve the rental cost on your creditcard at the start even though you pay when you bring the car back. But Berwout's creditcard was at its limit and we couldn't use mine because it had to match the name on the reservation. Berwout did however pay off his creditcard that morning but it would take two days before the limit was actually back to normal. Then we asked if we could rent the car for two days and then get the car for the complete two weeks, just to wait off that two day wait for the creditcard.
This is where the teammanager came in and helped us a bunch! He kept the same reservation and changed it so we could have the car for two days, and then he would extend it himself when the creditcard has its limit again. He gave us a huge Dodge SUV instead of a Ford Fiesta because that car needed to be dropped off in Quebec City, where we are headed. He even said we didn't have to pay the young driver fee because we are Europeans and they are trusted drivers. Normally people younger that 25 need to pay a young driver fee of 35 dollars per day! This saved us 500 dollars and well. So after a lot of trouble we got a huge car for a great price!
So when we finally got the car we headed to a mall in Missisauga to meet Paul, Berwout's cousin. We walked around in the mall and went to see the movie Civil War. After that we got some dinner and headed back to the hotel. In the evening we went to Karan to pick up our luggage that we left with him before Florida. Back in the hotel we rearranged all our clothes so we could just take one bag into our upcoming airbnb nights.
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