🚘 & Driver to DEN … ✔️

Uber. Private driver. One-way car rental. These have always been options for us when past trips required us to get to or from DEN.

Often, the car rental rates have been less than the cost of a car service. Sometimes a few dollars more perhaps. But renting a car was worth it regardless … for not having to rely on someone else to get us to DEN … especially for an early morning departure when an unexpected snag could wreak havoc on the trip.

Our last few trips, however, have seen the rental rates going sky high. Our upcoming trip in September has been no exception in this regard. Believe me … I’ve been checking on and off since January.

I finally gave in and made a reservation with Avis in July … just to have something in our back pocket. I’ve been monitoring the rates since making the booking … even submitting a couple of requests through AutoSlash in the hopes of finding a better rate. No can do.

So, I turned to one of the two private drivers I have in my contacts app to get us to DEN for our evening flight on 8 September.

When I called April, she quoted $90 for the drive … best rate I’ve seen … ever. Definitely a ‘big-chunk-of-change’ savings over the car rental rate.

I have since confirmed the arrangements with April and canceled the Avis rental.

One last logistics ✓ on the to-do list.

Now, to the worst part of travel IMHO … packing. But I have some time before I have to get cracking on that.Read more