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Old 01-21-2025, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by WiseSpender View Post
I myself am renting a car from Budget Rental for one day from Leesburg location, then returning it to their Fort Lauderdale location the next day (for an April 2025 14-day Trans-Atlantic cruise). That Fort Lauderdale location has free shuttle service to Port Everglades cruise port.

My total cost for the rental, $65.70 (I think I used KAYAK or PRICELINE to do my search). I am not doing a roundtrip car rental because my Cruise ship trip ends in United Kingdom.

This was by far the cheapest choice I came up with in my research.

Perhaps you might want to consider two separate one-way rentals, so you don't need to worry about parking fees or hotel charges?
We did this and it worked out. Only problem was that there was a long line of people at Avis who were getting on the free shuttle. We ended up using Lyft. It was a Saturday and met several people at Avis who did the same