North America West Coast trip

[The Lukas]

Just a bit of advice needed, but quite general stuff really so hopefully it may well helpful to a few.

I've been to the States/Canada, but only to the East side: Ontario, Quebeck, New York (state), Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and Florida.

Now I really want to experience the other side. A little research involving Google Maps has me thinking of a trip of this sort: Start in Vancouver, BC. Cross the border into Seattle. Then drop into Oregon and it's apparent beauty, finally to top it off, a small tour of California. I'm thinking 3 weeks. I know I won't see an awful lot of each state but I can always go back right?

Anybody done this or similar?

[K50 DEL]

Haven't done the Vancouver / Seattle bit, but have done the West Coast fairly extensively on a 6,000 mile road trip last year.

To save me going through it all again, I'll just point you in the direction of the travel blog that I wrote here:

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/forum/showthread.ph...

[K50 DEL]

euroboy said:

Have you thought about the logistics of taking a hire car across the Canada/USA border? I dont even know if its possible.

I had no problems doing this with an SUV I hired from Budget Manhattan.... told them I wanted to take it into Canada, they gave me an additional piece of paperwork at no charge and there were no issues at either border crossing.

[The Lukas]

euroboy said:

K50 DEL said:

euroboy said:

Have you thought about the logistics of taking a hire car across the Canada/USA border? I dont even know if its possible.

I had no problems doing this with an SUV I hired from Budget Manhattan....

Jolly good!

How about if you're doing a one way trip?

[K50 DEL]

The Lukas said:

euroboy said:

K50 DEL said:

euroboy said:

Have you thought about the logistics of taking a hire car across the Canada/USA border? I dont even know if its possible.

I had no problems doing this with an SUV I hired from Budget Manhattan....

Jolly good!

How about if you're doing a one way trip?

A quick Google seems to indicate that one-way Canada - USA car rentals are not offered (an RV is no problem though!) given that Budget's one-way rental fee within Canada is $400 I think it would also be really expensive.

The one thing I have learnt with Budget though is that the website is often wrong and a quick call to the Vancouver office might net you better luck.

[The Lukas]

Maybe I could hire a car in Washington? May not need a car in Vancouver at all?

[K50 DEL]

The Lukas said:

Maybe I could hire a car in Washington? May not need a car in Vancouver at all?

You can do that with no problems, pickup from Seattle, drop off at LAX would rush you $750 for an Intermediate SUV (the cheapest option)
Running the same dates through with a pickup and return at Seattle gives a rate of $670, so the one way charge is tiny!

These figures are before using any of the myriad of BCD discount codes that are out there.