I decided to put the site to the test for an upcoming rental in Colorado. I needed to pick up a car

On last week's Top 10 Tips for Saving on Car Rentals , one of the commenters suggested checking out a site called Zalyn that aggregates discount coupons for all the major (and some minor) car rental agencies sort of like Autoslash does, though hotels central london Zalyn supports some agencies Autoslash does not, such as Hertz.
The site actually does a few things including collecting car rental coupons, running a coupon analyzer, and comparing the best ones for individual hotels central london customers based on where and when they are renting cards, as well as whatever other possible discounts they might be eligible for based on memberships in clubs like AAA and Costco.
I decided to put the site to the test for an upcoming rental in Colorado. I needed to pick up a car at Denver International Airport next weekend for Friday-Monday, so I ran my dates and times through Zalyn and found coupons (some of them stackable) at the various car rental agencies. Zalyn pulled hotels central london up coupons at Hertz, Avis, Alamo, Budget, hotels central london Dollar, National, Thrifty and more.
For my particular dates and location, the site told me it had found 218 coupons, 113 membership-specific coupons, 20 that weren't applicable at my pickup location and 37 the should hotels central london work for my specific dates.
Zalyn actually pulled up two stackable coupons for Hertz. When I clicked hotels central london on "Use This Coupon," I was automatically redirected hotels central london to Hertz.com with both the Promotional Coupon (PC) and Discount/CDP/Club Code discounts hotels central london already slotted into the appropriate boxes and my same dates and times automatically registered. All I had to do was hit the search button.
First, though, I went directly to Avis's site to see what a rental would cost me and found that I could get a Compact for $50.39 a day and a total of $205.41 hotels central london for all three days including taxes and fees.
Much more valuable, hotels central london however, hotels central london was finding a centralized clearinghouse for car rental coupon and discount codes. I definitely plan on using Zalyn for future rentals. Has anyone else used the site? What was your experience? Any other tips out there for reducing car rental costs?
I ll have to check this one out. This was really the objective for some of the legacy booking agencies, we had created some spreadsheet and scripts to do similar, but it was pretty cumbersome. Let the savings begin!
@Jason: We recently conducted a study comparing rental rates across a few travel websites for the major rental agencies to see how they stack up. We checked the rates at the top 10 airports on Expedia, Priceline, Kayak and Zalyn for a weekly hotels central london rental(7 days), a weekend rental(3 days) a weekday rental (2 days) booked 2-3 weeks in advance.
I think the site sucks. You have to sign up, which means getting a bunch of junk mail from them. If you simply click the coupon link nothing happens after you input the information. Why bother to have those fields? I must be missing something if you can find deals without signing up.
I m looking for a car for Chicago July 9-12 (Midway Airport). hotels central london The lowest I ve found is $58/day for a compact/economy. Every website from Expedia, Hotwire, etc is exactly hotels central london the same price. I m going to try Priceline closer to the date.
1. You do NOT need to signup to use Zalyn.com. Signup is optional and is required only if you re a member of certain groups that provide hotels central london member-only discounts (e.g. AAA, AARP, etc). By signing up and specifying your memberships, you help us find relevant member-only coupons that apply to you.
3. To find coupons hotels central london for your trip, please hotels central london enter your trip details and hit the Search button. This will bring up the coupons that apply to your trip. Click on the coupon description link to see the coupon details. Hit the Use this coupon button and you will be sent to the vendor s website to complete your booking.
I tried Chicago, IL with my dates 3 times and nothing happened. Closed the browser and started new each time, still nothing happened when I clicked hotels central london on SEARCH. That s why I figured I must have to sign up first.
The way I found the site most useful was to enter trip information in a typical travel site AND Zalyn at the same time. I could then glance quickly hotels central london at both sites to see which coupon codes were worth trying. No need to bother trying the 10% coupon on the rental hotels central london company that is more than double everybody else s cost.
I take the least expensive company/companies from the travel site, then click through from Zalyn to see the total cost. The most time consuming part for me is determining which car rental companies allow an additional driver for free, and under what circumstances (membership? hotels central london to what?)
The technique you mentioned is the best way to find the cheapest vendor + coupon combination. It may not have been very clear, but we do have a screen(that pops up right after you hit search) where you can enter the daily rates offered by the vendors. We calculate hotels central london the sub-total (excl. taxes) using the daily rate, your trip duration and the coupon to determine which vendor + coupon combination works the best.
Entering the rates is entirely optional and you can choose to use the default rate for the calculation instead. As you figured out, the most accurate way to find the best vendor hotels central london + coupon combination is by factoring the daily rate into the calculation.
We would love to eliminate the need to manually key-in the daily rates and are working on figuring out a solution. We are also looking into augmenting member coupons with additional member benefits (additional driver, free gps, underage fee waived, etc.) Thanks for bringing this up.
However, if you do have status through a credit card, sometimes it s cheaper to use that than Zalyn s service. Even by stacking together the promotions hotels central london from the website, comparing to Amex s Platinum discount, a Chevy Malibu or similar was $10 cheaper at the Charleston hotels central london airport than going through Zalyn ($53.97 vs. $64) over 3 days (Friday June 22nd noon through Sunday hotels central london June 24th at 2p).
Tried it for my week long trip to Denver at the end of the month. Found a great deal from Budget for literally half the regular price, down to $185 instead of $352. I usually find the best deals on Hotwire, but it beat Hotwire too!