Articles tagged ‘Avis’
Avis Mobile Car Rental
By Carrie Thompson | September 28th, 2007 |
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Avis Rent A Car System is the latest transportation company to add a new online booking tool to its options. The company would like to “make business travel more productive, and leisure travel more convenient.” And if it makes business travel easier, then I’m a fan. Customers can now make, check or [...]
Avis Rent A Car Hybrid Vehicles
By Carrie Thompson | July 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Avis Rent A Car System has added 500 Nissan Altima Hybrid vehicles to its U.S. fleet of rental cars, available at select locations. This addition gives customers a choice when renting a gas/electric hybrid vehicle, with the option of either the Toyota Prius, a compact hybrid vehicle, or the Nissan Altima, a full-size hybrid vehicle [...]
Avis Chauffer Drive
By Carrie Thompson | June 5th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Avis Rent A Car announced today a new premium service called “Avis Chauffeur Drive” through which Avis customers can rent a car and hire a professional driver at the same time. How cool is that? Chauffeur Drive is the product of a new alliance between Avis and WeDriveU, Inc., a company who provides [...]
Avis Connect from Avis Rent A Car
By Carrie Thompson | May 22nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Avis is finally rolling out the in-car Wi-Fi system I wrote about a few months ago, under the name “Avis Connect.” Avis Connect will allow users to connect to the internet from any location for $10.95 a day. The press release mentions using the service for business meeting and hotel rooms at at [...]
Avis Car Rental Gives Customers $30 Off in Canada
By Carrie Thompson | April 14th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Avis Rent A Car System just announced an internet-only, early-bird promotion for U.S. residents traveling to Canada, don’cha know. Customers who reserve an intermediate vehicle or larger for five days or more will save $30 on their rental. What is that - like $40 Canadian. You could have a little fun with [...]
Avis and Budget Offer GPS Navigation Systems in Canada
By Carrie Thompson | February 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Avis and Budget car rental agencies are now offering GPS navigation system rental to customers in Canada. Thank goodness. I’m basically lost without a navigation system.
The companies will use the Garmin made Where2 systems, which provide turn by turn directions, as well as real-time traffic updates with alternate route information, voice guidance in [...]
Avis Car Rental has WiFi
By Carrie Thompson | January 16th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Avis Rent a Car has announced they, in a partnership with Autonet Mobile, will offer Wi-Fi for the reasonable price of $10.95 per day high speed Internet service in its cars by March. The connection would be via a MOBILE hotspot, rather than parking in some sort of strange Wi-Fi drive in, which was [...]
