Rental Cars from Rapid City Airport

Rental cars seem to be very expensive from the airport. Any suggestions about getting a dscounted rate? Thanks

Rental Cars from Rapid City Airport

Try Casey%26#39;s Auto Rental, 605-343-2277 or Black Hills 605-342-6696

Due to our short season car%26#39;s can be a little more in Rapid City than in more populated areas.

Good luck and enjoy your stay.

Rental Cars from Rapid City Airport

When we visited three years ago, we found the cars expensive and they were limited to 1500 miles. Eventually, we found that the rates did come down. We rented from Hertz and used our AAA card, and eventually, they offered unlimited mileage. I think I had to wait until about 2 or 3 months out. We visited in late August. If you are a Sam%26#39;s Club Member, they also offer discounts to the various rental companies. I tried to use the coupons in the Entertainment Book, but unfortunately, Rapid City Airport car rental companies don%26#39;t accept the coupons. I had this problem in Jackson Hole also. It seems that some smaller airports don%26#39;t accept them for whatever reason.

Good luck.

If you are flying into rapid city and staying overnight in Rapid City. I would look into taking a shuttle to your hotel and then renting a car from a non-airport location. I flew into Rapid City last October, I was staying at a hotel in town and they offered a shuttle from the airport to the hotel. I rented a car from Enterprise and just as the commercial says, they picked me up from the hotel and took me to their office. I saved about 100$ renting from the non-airport location. The shuttle also picked me up from the rental car office to take me back to the airport after I dropped my car off. If you aren%26#39;t staying in Rapid City, it still might be worth the savings to look into getting a taxi or bus from the airport to the In-town Enterprise location.

I%26#39;m not sure when you trip is but I looked up some rates for this week coming up to give you an idea of what you%26#39;d save if you rented from Enterprise the city location rather than the airport location.

Full Size car at the airport from 3/6-3/11 - 562.76

Full Size car from off airport 3/6-3/11 - 170.49

WOW, dwtraveldude, thanks a LOT!

We%26#39;ve been planning a trip to Rapid City and then plan to drive over to Yellowstone. But when I checked the car rental rates and told dh, he about blew a gasket. I just compared what I found on the web (9/16-9/25 mid-size) and the best rate I found was about $550, but checking the Entr location in town it%26#39;s only $319.

Looks like we%26#39;re back in business,LOL.

Do they give you any grief about flying in? I know in other towns when dh tried this, they wanted to know if we flew in or were residents.

Thanks

Sandy

You can catch the Airport Shuttle to/from Enterprize in town for only $8.00 per person, about a 10 min. ride.

Glad I could offer some good advice. I didn%26#39;t get any grief at all about whether I was local or just visiting, also my car came with a free parking pass into Mt. Rushmore, so that saved me some money as well. It really is astounding the number of taxes and fees that airport locations add to their cars. I will never rent from an airport location again anywhere if I can help it.

Great info on the rental cars - we are looking at almost $200 savings with off-site rental.

Quick question to verify - the airport shuttle will take us to the Enterprise on N. Campbell St.? Do we need to make prior arrangements or is that a regular stop?

Thanks

The shuttle has a booth in baggage claim, no reservation required.

Thanks for all of the response to my question. I decided to go with blackhillsvacation.com. Through them I was able to rent a full size car from Avis for 10 days for 337.50 (without tax and insurance).