Mérida Travel Forum

We want to rent a car for one month (beginning mid-February) at Merida airport. We are looking for an all inclusive rental rate. Where should we find the best deal?
Thanks.

WE used econocar in Cancun. THey have office in MErida. I heard...Merida is cheaper than Cancun.
WE had no problems at all. They were profesional and spoke good english.
See mine Puerto Morelos page for review.

Here's a list of the car rental companies in Merida with website links: http://www.yucatantoday.com/transportation/eng-car-rentals.htm

I don't know if you can find an all inclusive rental rate though. I was never able to find that sort of rate. The $30 per day or $40 per day rates that are generally available in downtown Merida cover you for 90% of the value of the car if you get into an accident. So I was budgeting for a $2000 bill if we got into any accident (most of the rental cars we saw were not new, so I thought that valuing them at $20,000 was being generous). Perhaps it is different at the airport, and you will be able to find a totally all-inclusive rate there.

When you have rented your car, please post again to this thread. I'd love to find out what other tourists rented their cars for.

right,
we paid $377 per x-mass week for little Athos. Our deductible on case of the accident would be $1000. We could pay i think $7 a day to lower it to $500 or $14 to have full coverage. We decided not to pay extra. We have been driving in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Poland and never had anything happen to us.
I also think my american Express would be willing to cover that deductible....but I am not sure.
Anyway, I would not recomant Athos, but next time I would get WV Lupo. I would also not recomend car with radio, or any other fancy car for that matter. Although, we never had any problems or suspicious of the problems, I could imagine that if your car is too fancy, it will be a magnet for something to happen.

Here it is I found it.....
HI MR.DI..
THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING ECONOCARRENTAL
YOUR CONFIRMATION NUMBER ITS 2xxxxx-AT
FOR ATOS OR SIMILAR 4 DOORS,MANUAL TRANSMISION,A/C.
FROM DEC-24 TO DEC-31 2007
THE PRICE WILL BE $ 377 USD
ON THAT PRICE INCLUID:

RENT FOR 7 DAY
UNLIMITED MILEAGE
LIABILITY INSURANCE ( ALI )
COLISION DAMAGE WAIVER ( CDW ) WITH $ 1000 USD DEDUCTIBLE
LOSS AND DAMAGE WAIVER ( LDW ) WITH $ 1000 USD DEDUCTIBLE
PERSONAL ACCIDENT INSURANCE ( PAI )
2 DRIVERS
LOCAL AND FEDERAL TAXES
MAPS OF THE ZONE
TRANSFER ON CANCUN AREA


* ADDITIONAL INSURANCE
- IF YOU PAY $ 8 USD PER DAY THE DEDUCITBLE DOWN TO $ 500 USD
- IF YOU PAY $15 USD PER DAY YOU HAVE 0 % DEDUCTIBLE


* WE WILL WAITING FOR YOU OUT SIDE THE AIRPORT WITH A BANNER WITH YOUR
NAME,THEN WE WILL GO TO MY OFFICE 3 MINUTES AWAY FROM THE AIRPORT TO SIGN
THE CONTRACT AND PAY FOR THE RENT.


ANY OTHER QUESTION PLS LET ME KNOW

BRGDS
ISRAEL DOMINGUEZ
ECONOCARRENTAL
01800 282 7875
MOBILE. 044 998 195 55 50

THere you go. That was in Cancun, but they have an office in Merida

Our experience in Merida was a little cheaper. We rented a VW Pointer for 300 pesos per day (one day free if you rent for a week), or 400 pesos per day if the car had A/C. So that rate would be 2400 pesos or $240 US per week for unlimited mileage and two drivers. But that was with 10% of the value of the car (approx $2000US) as a deductable, not $1000US.

We were a little worried about getting into an accident, and drove extra carefully as I assumed no matter what type of accident I could get into, I would be blamed for it as I was a tourist and therefore by definition, I should have money.